WeWork to open in Barcelona. Easy Payment Gateway raises €6M. Telefonica's new COO.

June 25, 2019 • Issue #75

Startup funding news 💸

Horbito raised €1 million from family office Attitude
Catalan customer engagement startup Whisbi Technologies raises€1 million
Healthcare marketplace Cuideo raised €500,000 from various investors
Proptech startup Inveslar raised €330,000
Last mile delivery startup HappyBox raised €250,000 on Crowdcube
Pricing intelligence startup Boardfy raised €230,000, led by Banco Sabadell
Badi closed its third round of funding. Since no amount or investors were disclosed, this was probably an internal round with current investors

Hotel chain Grupo Hotusa acquired Barcelona-based apartment rental startup Waytostay

Nauta Capital explained how they’re increasingly using technology to find more companies: ’The Data Driven VC’
Javier Placer, who’s led Telefonica’s Open Future for the past several years, could soon leave the company. If this happens, it’s good news for Wayra and Telefonica’s relationship with startups
Is there an equity crowdfunding bubble in Spain? The CNMV has given permission to more than 20 companies to operate in the market
The Crowd Angel facilitated a total of €1.5 million in investments in the first half of 2017
Mahou San Miguel announced the name of five new companies that will participate in its startup accelerator program

Cabify reached €18 million in revenue in 2016 in Spain
El Español published an analysis of Jobandtalent’s cap table. Very interesting to see who owns what at the company
Wazypark was a startup that promised to fix parking in large Spanish cities. However, the company went bust in a matter of months. El Español has the story
Mobile payments startup Verse is looking for three directors to tackle the British, Italian and French markets. Kippel01 published an interview with the company’s CEO
Mobile marketplace Vibbo (owned by Schibsted) has decided to stop allowing listings of second hand tickets on its platform
On-demand delivery startup Jinn pulls out of ‘other markets outside London’
On the heels of its own success, Spain’s Politibot is opening up a chatbot builder for other outlets
Carto: what online retailers can learn by mapping sales data. El Pais published a profile of the Madrid-based location intelligence startup
Hawkers to start selling glasses on Twitter
Spotahome claims to have generated more than €45 million to hosts on its platform
E-commerce News interviewed Fernando Cabello, co-founder and CEO of fintech startup Aplazame
Cinco Dias profiled football streaming platform Footters

WeWork to open a coworking space in Barcelona, its first in Spain
Angel Vila is Telefonica’s new COO. El Español published a profile of Vila. El Confidencial looked at who Pallete has chosen to lead Telefonica’s future
How Spanish big companies, from the LFP to Mercadone, are embracing technology. Here’s another analysis of who is leading tech initiatives at some of Spain’s largest companies
Spanish professional football team Betis has launched its own mobile network, in partnership with MasMovil
Android Pay is now live in Spain
Telepizza disclosed several interesting metrics associated with its ecommerce activity

Madrid’s regional government has asked the CNMC to determine if Uber subsidising trips to the airport is legal
Thousands of taxis went on strike in Madrid and Barcelona last week. Nothing new when it comes to what they want the government to do
Barcelona’s mayor Ada Colau says there are more than 1,000 ilegal apartments on Airbnb

Kippel01 profiled Gustavo G. Brusilovsky, co-founder of BuyVip (acquired by Amazon) and other startups
El Español published a very interesting profile of Alejandro Martinez Peon, CEO of Telecable: “The man who could have changed the Spanish telco market”
Expansion interviewed Jon Uriarte, co-founder of Ticketbis, acquired by eBay for $165 million
Analia Plaza (Citymapper): ’Apple Maps vs. Google Maps - the case of Madrid’
The Next Web: Barcelona isn’t the new Silicon Valley – and that’s a good thing
Top 10 Barcelona travel tech companies
6 Barcelona startups that kids – and parents – will love