CornerJob gets $19M. HolaLuz to reach €130m in sales. Plug and Play changes focus.

June 22, 2019 • Issue #66

Startup funding news 💸

CornerJob raised $19 million to keep growing its blue-collar hiring platform. The company has raised more than $54 million to date
DocPlanner raised €15 million. Although the company is based in Poland, it merged with Barcelona-based Doctoralia a couple of years ago
Trendier, a mobile marketplace to buy and sell second hand clothes, raised €1 million from Antai, Bonsai Venture Capital and Pedralbes Partners
Firstvision raised €100,000
Parking startup Valeet raised €600,000

eSports analytics startup Stream Hatchet got acquired by Milennial ESports. Stream Hatchet had previously raised funding from Plug and Play Spain

Plug and Play Spain to stop running its startup accelerator program in Spain, will focus in the future on working with corporates and more mature startups
Enisa’s grants for startups are now harder to get than before
Sixto Arias and Ismael El-Qudsi to lead Conector Accelerator in Madrid
ASCRI published an analysis of VC activity in Spain in the first few months of 2017
SaaS investors for Spanish startups
La Voz de Galicia interviewed Carlos Blanco
Where and how Spanish business angels invest

El Español looked into the financials of Social Point, as the company now operates under the Take Two umbrella after a $275 million exit. Social Point will account this year for 6% of Take Two’s bottom line
Energy startup HolaLuz expects to reach €130 million in gross revenue this year
El Español profiled Nextail, a Madrid-based SaaS startup that operates in the retail and logistics space. The company says that it’s nearing €3 million in annual recurring revenue
Comprea launched Comprea PRO, a new service that will deliver groceries to businesses for a monthly flat fee
Zed Worldwide has filed for bankruptcy
7 awesome travel tech companies based in Barcelona
10 Barcelona-based startups to watch in 2017 and beyond
El Pais interviewed Juan de Antonio, CEO of Cabify
Startup profiles: MyChoice2Pay (fintech), Organizados.es (eCommerce)

Telefonica to start selling Spanish Slack clone Noisy along with Tokbox, its communications solution for the enterprise
Telefonica’s Wayra has a new board of directors
Telefonica and Barcelona Tech City signed an agreement to promote Barcelona as a technology hub
BBVA launches an open API marketplace for developers and startups
El Corte Ingles doesn’t like that Amazon doesn’t pay much taxes in Spain
MasMovil to launch an Android-based TV set-top-box from Huawei. The telco is also considering to float on the Spanish stock market
For the first time ever, almost half of all revenues of El Pais and El Mundo come from their digital editions

El Confidencial wrote an interesting article on the methods used by a Madrid-based VTC company to avoid being caught by police. The VTC startup provides services to both Uber and Cabify
The EU to allow Spanish authorities to charge Netflix a fee to subsidise RTVE. Netflix, on the other hand, is growing quite fast in Spain

The mechanics of growth with ex-Gmail product manager Itamar Gilad
El Confidencial talked to a handful of employees at startups, and wrote a somewhat sensasionalist article about the labour situation at Spanish tech companies
From security guard to programmer: how to reinvent oneself thanks to technology
The Spanish idea that will make your smartphone think faster
The hidden story of PC Futbol
Juan Macias: SaaS and the right segment of clients