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PeerTransfer gains 5 Million Euro investment

funding, finance, overseas, USA

By Mark Nessfield

PeerTransfer, the American start-up that facilitates international education payments, and founded by Iker Marcaide from Spain, has secured a 5 million euro investment round. Investors in this round include QED Investors, FIDES, KIBO Ventures and Spark...

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Inspiration Day June 2013

women, womenalia, entrepreneur

By Mark Nessfield

María Gómez del Pozuelo, CEO of Womenalia was the first speaker on Inspiration Day 2013 a conference held for 1,200 female and male professionals, entrepreneurs and managers, and hosted by journalist María Escario. The event took place on June 13, and...

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CoquetaMe - Could a Personal Shopper online change how you shop for clothes?

fashion, Valencia, Wayra

By Mark Nessfield

The growth of fashion sites, both in eShop terms and in social networks, has been quite striking. Coquetame is a new site that introduces a new concept to the sector - it offers a cyber personal shopper free for the fashion addict and casual browser alike....

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Social games provider Akamon continues to expand and gain funding

funding, gaming, barcelona, Carlos Blanco

By Mark Nessfield

Akamon, a fast growing start-up from Barcelona and co-founded by Carlos Blanco, offers social games online and has been admired for its expansionary success across markets in southern Europe and Latin America. This expansion has meant it's been able to...

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TheMadVideo - Video will never be the same

Madrid, USA, funding, awards, overseas

By Mark Nessfield

Spanish company TheMadVideo has had an excellent start to summer 2013 - earlier it was announced they'd gained $585,000 in funding, and it's now won an award as the hottest showcase at Tech Cocktail's Mixer Event, thanks to its easy tagging and promotion...

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Etece, the platform for solution-providers, gains 450,000 euro funding deal

madrid, funding, start-ups, Francois Derbaix, Jesus Encinar, Carlos Munoz

By Mark Nessfield

Billed as the Spanish equivalent to the American Taskrabbit, Etece has raised € 450,000 to expand to 4 more cities - it already operates in Madrid, Barcelona and Valencia. The Madrid start-up, originally backed by Jesús Encinar (idealista.com), Carlos...

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Ticketea gains $4million funding deal.

start-ups, madrid, funding, Seaya Ventures

By Mark Nessfield

In the last couple of weeks there have been several funding deals for Madrid start-ups - a couple of them being "We Are Knitters" and Etece (article to follow). One of these funding deals has been for Ticketea, the leading social ticketing platform in...

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CoverTimes - display the world's front pages

start-ups, Malaga

By Mark Nessfield

Sometimes a start-up does not have the most original idea, yet its implementation of that idea is so good that users rave about it. This is a fascinating site that allows you to look at Newspaper front pages around the world. It's not the first aggregator...

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Another Spanish Fashion success story - El Ganso opening new stores

Madrid, fashion

By Mark Nessfield

The fashion company El Ganso (described by some as having a British style with a Spanish twist) has consolidated its expansion in Spain with the opening of stores in Gijón and Pamplona in May. It has also opened its fourth store in Paris. Created in 2004...

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Spanish eCommerce giant Privalia closes €25M funding deal

funding, barcelona, ecommerce

By Mark Nessfield

Privalia, the Spanish eCommerce giant that sells fashion brands in flash sales, has recently raised €25M from Sofina Belgium, Highland Capital, Insight partners, Index Ventures & others. Founded in 2006 by José Manuel Villanueva and Lucas Carné, the company...

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