NUMA BARCELONA DEMO DAY - CAMPUS MADRID - MARCH 29th 17h After screening +900 application from 37 countries, 10 promising start-ups joined the 1st batch of NUMA Barcelona in November, and now, after 4 months of hard work, they are ready to showcase their products and solutions. The event will be rounded up with a fireside chat with José del Barrio, CEO & Founding Partner at Samaipata Ventures, and Pep Gómez, and a networking cocktail for all the participants. Come and join us at Campus Madrid on March 29th for a networking experience and meet the startups of our program! Register here.

Startup funding news

• Fintech startup Loanbook Capital raised €1.75 million
• DNA lab startup Imegen raised funding from Q-Growth Fund and Biolty
• Vicente Rodero, the former BBVA executive, has acquired a 10% stake in Sellers n’ Bloggers

Startup exits

• Spain’s regulator approves Indra’s takeover bid to acquire Tecnocom for €345 million in cash and stock
• On-demand cleaning startups Clintu and GetYourHero to merge
• Euskaltel in negotiations with Zegona to acquire Telecable

Investor & accelerator news

• Athos Capital Fund is a new €10 million fund from Sputnik
• Samaipata Ventures held a special event in Madrid to present its framework for marketplace companies
• K Fund’s Iñaki Arrola: How does a Venture Capital firm work?
• Javier Torremocha published an overview of Kibo Ventures’ activity over the past few months
• Plug and Play Spain announced the name of the startups in its sixth batch

Startup news

• Kantox in negotiations with 5 banks to become a technology provider
• UK-based but Spanish-founded fintech startup Ebury could move most of its London employees to Madrid as a consequence of Brexit
• Deporvillage’s CFO is leaving the company
• OnTruck has surpassed 1,000 deliveries in Catalunya in its first active quarter in the region
• Typeform Chat debuts on Facebook Messenger
• Flywire lands in the B2B payments market
• CornerJob could soon launch in the US and Germany
• Profile of Funidelia, the e-commerce company that last year reached€11 million in gross sales selling costumes
• Spanish space exploration company Zero 2 Infinity successfully launched its first rocket from the edge of space
• Dato Capital announces first tool for extracting company information from documents
• El Confidencial profiled Badi and Spotahome, two Spanish companies in the real estate business
• Meller signed a business agreement with Volkswagen
• eDreams to open its third office in Barcelona
• Thiago Monteiro wrote an article explaining why he’s launched Saveboost
• Interview with Typeform’s director of marketing, Sançar Sahin
• Interview with Josep Navajo, lawyer at Delvy
• Interview with Barcelona-based company Sheltair
• Interview with shoe company Pompeii. They expect to double or triple their sales of €2 million achieved in 2016
• Interview with Sacha Michaud (Glovo)
• Interview with Vicente Arias (Coverfy, SeedRocket)

Big company news

• HBO to open an office in Madrid’s Gran Via
• Kippel01 has a good overview of the people behind Tesla’s operations in Spain
• Vodafone signed a historic agreement with Telefonica to use the company’s fibre infrastructure
• Banco Santander, BBVA and CaixaBank have 44 million digital clients
• Inditex says that its e-commerce business is profitable

Tech and policy

• Spanish fintech companies want new regulation that allows them to launch products and services faster to market
• Taxi drivers striked in Madrid and Barcelona to protest against Uber and Cabify

Interesting reads

• Kippel01 has some interesting numbers on the Spanish digital economy
• Jorge Barroso (Karumi) wrote about gender inequality in the Spanish tech sector
• SumaCRM: ‘our online marketing strategy, how we were able to increase our website traffic by 20%’
• Miguel Caballero (Tutellus): 'a framework to scale your sales operations’
• El Confidencial profiled Rebeca Minguela, the only Spaniard in this year’s 'young global leaders’ ranking
• Xataka published an interesting article about Politibot, the politics-focused bot
• Itamar Gilad on Itnig’s blog: ’optimize your project for learning’

Podcasts of the week

• StartupLeon interviewed Adrian Moreno of Pocket Media
• MasQueStartups interviewed Victor Rodado of Upplications
• K Fund interviewed Carina Szpilka of K Fund