Kantox raised £4.6M. Typeform's booming business (+$10M ARR). The story of Acumbamail.

June 25, 2019 • Issue #76

Startup funding news 💸

Airbnb acquired Barcelona-based Trip4real about a year ago. However, the price of the acquisition was disclosed last week: €5 million

Encomenda, the €20 million venture fund managed by Oriol Juncosa, Carlos Blanco and Miguel Sanz is ready to start making investments. The firm aims to close between 40 and 50 deals in the next 3 to 4 years
Oarsis and Telefonica Open Future teamed up to power VR and AR projects

El Español published an interesting profile of Typeform, the Barcelona-based SaaS startup, which includes relevant business figures such as +$10M in ARR and 30K paying clients
The story of Chicfy, the mobile marketplace that has conquered the Spanish market
Nuclio Venture Builder launched Brocoli Seguros, a mobile broker for insurance policies
What has happened in the Spanish fintech sector in the first half of 2017? Kippel01 has a good summary
Familyescool is a new Spanish startup that aims to build a BlaBlaCar for school transportation
Meet the Barcelona-based startup which aims to change the way we sign documents – interview with Signaturit founder Juan Zamora
TicBeat profiled eSports startup GamersWalk
El Pais profiled Uvinum, the Spanish wine marketplace that currently has more than 150,000 clients. The newspaper also profiled Woom, a Madrid-based app that helps women get pregnant
El Mundo profiled dog sitting platform Gudog

The start of Telefonica Innovacion Alpha, the new subsidiary that hosts the company’s most innovative projects, focused for now on the health sector
Zara launches same-day delivery service in Madrid for e-commerce purchases
El Español interviewed Fuencisla Cremades, Google’s country manager in Spain
Amazon to open a new logistics centre in Toledo, where it plans to employ up to 900 people
Spanish company Fractus has sued ZTE in the US for patent infringement
Aleix Valls, former director of Mobile World Capital, has joined Colonial to manage its innovation department

If you haven’t been following the LexNet scandal in Spain, you should. It’s an important matter that affects many people. El Confidencial published a list of the companies that are involved in the fiasco. David Bonilla also wrote about the topic
Jaime Rodriguez (BlaBlaCar’s country manager in Spain) published an op-ed comparing the way France and Spain are currently approaching the tech sector

4 years of Acumbamail: how to grow a Spanish tech startup without outside investment
What is it like to work at some of Spain’s larger tech consulting firms?
Kippel01 has a good article about the worker conditions of gig economy participants in Spain, especially those that work for Deliveroo, Glovo or Uber
The Spanish 23 year old physicist that has built a big audience on YouTube thanks to its explanatory and scientific videos
From Pyro Studios to Tequila Works: the ups and downs of the Spanish videogame industry
How Barcelona’s health becomes digital

K Fund interviewed Iñigo Juantegui, co-founder of OnTruck and former CEO of La Nevera Roja