Startup funding news

• Gamelearn raised €2 million from Kibo Ventures
• Fintech startup Finizens raised €700,000
• Mobile marketplace 500Markets raised €500,000 from PDG Invest
• Foodie&Tours raised €250,000
• Ecohortum raised €135,000 on equity crowdfunding platform SociosInversores.com

Startup exits

• Spanish startup exits (2005–2017): from emptiness to a decade of relative abundance

Investor & accelerator news

• BBVA invested €34 million in Atom Bank, maintaining its position as the startup’s biggest shareholder
• Pere Valles (Scytl) and other executives to launch a €1 to €2 million investment fund with the help of Intelectium
• CDTI’s mess: two weeks to provide companies with €240 million
• Kippel01 looked into the investment activity of media and TV companies in Spain
• EGI Group and Conector to launch a new startup accelerator focused on the e-commerce sector
• Mahou San Miguel is looking for startups to join its second acceleration batch
• Interview with Luis Cabiedes of Cabiedes & Partners
• Interview with Iñaki Arrola of K Fund
• Interview with Jorge Dobón of Demium Startups

Startup news

• eDreams Odigeo closed Q3 with almost €20 million in profit, a 78% YoY increase
• Daniel Tallón, formerly of Just Eat, is Spotahome’s new CMO
• The main players in Spain’s food delivery market
• Hawkers and El Ganso joined a partnership to launch four exclusive glasses
• Fintonic to start offering more insurance products
• ExoClick launches fully customizable native advertising format
• El Referente profiled FoundSpot, a company that helps people find lost objects
• Food delivery startup Lola Market launched Lola Fresh with the help of Organizados
• Interview with Javier Echaleku (Kuombo) about the e-commerce industry
• Interview with Alejandro Artacho, co-founder and CEO of Spotahome
• Interview with Javier Sánchez-Marco, co-founder of delivery startup Furgo

Big company news

• Chema Alonso (Telefonica’s CDO) published an in-depth article explaining Aura, the telco’s last project
• Amazon changed the conditions of its affiliate program: how could this affect startups that rely on the e-commerce giant to generate revenue
• Christian Berté is Amazon’s new logistics director in Spain
• Seat to launch a competitor to Car2go and Emov in Barcelona
• Julio Faura (Banco Santander) speaks about the importance of blockchain in the banking industry
• ImaginBank launched imaginBoard, a service to allow users to send money using IM products
• Leroy Merlin about Amazon: “They have lower prices? But we pay taxes”
• Inditex starts selling some products on Zalando
• 70% of Spanish companies use Samsung mobile phones
• 4YFN to launch a new conference in San Francisco

Interesting reads

• Life after an exit: Cinco Dias talks to Jose del Barrio (La Nevera Roja), Luis Sanz (Olapic) and others about life after selling their companies
• David Bonilla: when an employee decides to leave your company, does it make sense to counter-offer?
• 4YFN 2017 review: bigger and more corporate than ever before
• Jordi Romero (Factorial): Finding someone to risk it all together with
• Itnig: Demystifying the product manager, and how to become one

Podcasts

• Masquestartups interviewed Mireia Badia, CEO of Growly
• K Fund interviewed Justo Hidalgo (24 Symbols) and Jordi Miró (former CTO of Wuaki.tv)