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Online Pet Products company Miscota excel and gain a million Euros in funding.

barcelona, start-ups, ecommerce, funding

By Mark Nessfield

The surge in eCommerce in countries, including Spain, has opened up various marketing niches, and the supply of pet products (food, collars, cat flaps etc) has been the successful route for Miscota. Founded by two young entrepreneurs, Albert Costa and...

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Social shopping site Moodyo close funding deal of 450,000 euros

Seville, start-ups, entrepreneur, funding

By Mark Nessfield

Moodyo the social shopping start-up from Seville has just closed a funding round that will enable further development of their platform and increase worldwide coverage. The funding has come from diverse sources such as the IDEA agency, 3dsignia, and the...

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Spanish invention to ease suitcase load.

Madrid, Innovation

By Mark Nessfield

Imagine you travel a lot especially through airports. Would a 'robotic' suitcase that requires no carrying ease your load? Spanish inventor Rodrigo Garcia Gonzalez has come up with this novel idea. The suitcase uses 3 sensors that are contained within...

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Software development venture BiiCode gain 300,000 Euros in Investment

start-ups, madrid, Spain, cloud

By Mark Nessfield

BiiCode is a spin-off from the Technical University of Madrid, and is dedicated to building software tools and platforms for programmmers that are located in the cloud. Some of the investors in this venture include the Jose Manual Entrecanales foundation,...

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Mundo Reader - A Spanish leader in tablets and e-readers

start-ups, madrid, tablets, exports

By Mark Nessfield

Mundo Reader, better known through their bq reader range , is a Spanish enterprise that produces tablets and e-readers (supplying Fnac, Casa del Libro and Movistar/Telefonica among others). In just two years, from 2010 they have grown their sales figures...

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Tourist Eye travel guide wins 250,000 Euro investment

start-ups, funding, travel

By Mark Nessfield

Tourist Eye which provides an app orientated at travellers, has just announced a funding round of 250,000 Euros. The service has over 200,000 registered users, and over 5,000 travellers access the app each day, Parties that have participated in the funding...

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Gusteu - Innovative Meal Menu creator using stock market algorithms!

spain, start-ups, Canarias

By Mark Nessfield

Eugenio Mendoza from Las Palmas has come up with a storker of an idea, that will enable restaurants and bistros to put together menu combinations that extract the most profit. It's claimed that the site Gusteu is unique, as all other competitors treat...

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Key Players in Start-ups vii) Luis Martín Cabiedes

start-ups, entrepreneur, madrid

By Mark Nessfield

It’s been said that anyone who is involved in start-ups in Spain can’t fail to know who Luis Martín Cabiedes is – suffice it to say he’s one of the country’s most influential business angels and entrepreneurs. He started out in the big time as the Ceo...

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Just Eat swallows up Spanish start-up SinDelantal.

start-ups, acquisitions, ecommerce

By Mark Nessfield

We heard today that the online food ordering and delivery company SinDelantal has been bought up for several million dollars by its multinational rival Just Eat. Not that operating in an international venue has been a novelty to Sindelantal - they have...

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Kantox - the cost effective way to hedge corporate FX risk

barcelona, start-ups, funding, finance

By Mark Nessfield

One of the many innovative start-ups to receive funding in September (in this case €1 million) was Kantox - a venture that provides a company-to-company FX solution. Kantox originates from Barcelona, but has since moved its headquarters to London to be...

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