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Startup funding news 💸

• Spotahome raised €13.6M to let you view and book mid to long-term accommodation online. Local VCs Seaya Ventures and Samaipata Ventures are investors in the company
• Banking-as-a-service startup Unnax raised €1.5 million. The round was led by Swanlaab Venture Factory
• Travel startup Exoticca raised €500,000, led by Sabadell Venture Capital
• Consuting firm FUSS raised €400,000
• Ecommerce SaaS Converfit raised €75,000

Startup exits 🎊

• ’How to sell your startup twice’: an interview with Diego Ballesteros and Evaristo Babé (SinDelantal)

Investor & accelerator news 🚀

• Santander InnoVentures leads $6 million round in Mexican startup ePesos to advance financial inclusion
• Interview with Pere Mayol, who’s backed Wallapop, Glovo and Wuaki, among others, as a business angel
• An analysis of CDTI’s activity over the past few years
• Susana de Antonio, who represents Euronext in Spain, says that Spanish tech companies such as Wallapop or Cabify could float on their stock market
• Carlos Domingo, co-founder of SPiCE VC, was interviewed at Futurizable. Topics include blockchain, crypto and ICOs
• Neinor launches a new startup accelerator aimed at the proptech sector
• El Referente interviewed the managing director of Izertis Ventures, the venture arm of Izertis
• Atelier by ISEM is a new accelerator for fashion tech

Startup news 💡

• Jobandtalent is back on track: the company, which now operates a model very similar to ETTs (Temporary Employment Agencies), has reached sales of €5 million per month
• London-based Delivery service Jinn has shut down. The company was founded by two Spaniards and had also received backing from Madrid-based VC Samaipata Ventures
• Syndicate investment platform Startupxplore has launched a new version of its product
• Profile of Madrid-based language learning startup Lingokids: €300,000 in MRR, 25,000 paying clients, China as biggest market
• Chicfy has had to put on hold its new round of financing. Laura González-Estéfani’s new fund is supposed to lead the round. The company expects to reach €4 million in revenue this year
• Glovo has launched in Portugal
• Ironhack is now live in Mexico City
• Legal startup Easyoffer has signed a partnership with Airbnb to help hosts who are affected by Barcelona’s new legislation that regulates short-term rental
• One of Hawker’s investors, Alejandro Betancourt, wants to“profesionalise” the company
• Startup profiles: Nerlim (security), Chopit (mobile commerce)

Big (local) company news 🏢

• Inditex online sales increased by 35% year-on-year, topping €1.1 billion
• More than 70 companies, including some big Spanish multinationals, have launched their own blockchain, called Alastria
• BBVA launches Tuyyo, a global mobile money transfer service
• Telefonica spent more than €70 million this year in original content

Big (foreign) company news 🏦

• Amazon and Facebook in negotiations with Spain’s La Liga to broadcast football matches
• Amazon Logistics: El Español has a breakdown of the small last mile delivery companies that are collaborating with Amazon in Spain
• Amazon inaugurated its new headquarters in downtown Madrid
• Tesla continues to poach talent from Desigual to lead its Spanish operations. The company will soon open its first two retail stores in Madrid and Barcelona
• Gaming company Gameloft reached sales of €16 million in Spain in 2016

Tech and policy 💂🏼

• Barcelona’s city government is said to be working on laws that would regulate the car sharing market

Interesting reads 🤓

• Spanish digital advertising to surpass TV advertising in 2020
• Javier Escribano (OnTruck): ’Go faster by investing time on Research and Scope’
• Alex Barrera launched a new publication: ’Introducing The Aleph’

Podcasts of the week 🎧

• K Fund interviewed Ander Michelena, co-founder of Ticketbis
• MasQueStartups interviewed David Pombar, co-founder of SetPay
• SoySilicio interviewed Rosa Jimenez Cano, journalist at El Pais