funding

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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Social fashion e-Shop TheFabShoes gains funding deal

start-ups, funding, barcelona, fashion

By Mark Nessfield

It's not often that a new eCommerce venture gets to be successful so soon, but it appears to be the case with The Fab shoes, who launched a curated social fashion e-shop earlier in 2012, and have now gained major funding. The eFashion site The Fab Shoes...

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Barcelona start-up addFleet raises $3 million funding deal

start-ups, funding, barcelona

By Mark Nessfield

addFleet has recently announced a 3 million funding deal that will allow it to expand worldwide - the backers include Telefonica Ventures and Caixa Capital TIC. The Barcelona start-up provides intelligent systems for transportation using a cloud-based...

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BDMI (Bertelsmann) invests in the Spanish videoconferencing start-up Whisbi

start-ups, funding, Madrid, Whisbi, comms

By Mark Nessfield

Bertelsmann group, via its investment fund BDMI, has announced it is investing directly in the Spanish start-up Whisbi. It brings the total of capital raised by the Madrid based start-up to $2.5 million. Whisbi uses communications technology and video...

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Malaga IT company VirusTotal bought up by Google

Spain, start-ups, funding, Malaga

By Mark Nessfield

The Malaga online virus and malware scanner outfit, has this month been bought up by Google. In contrast to other virus checkers, VirusTotal aggregates the checks carried out by other website scanners and antivirus checkers. In doing so they can detect...

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PlaySpace - social games start-up, gains $1.9 million in funding

start-ups, funding, Mallorca

By Mark Nessfield

From the moment I read that this start-up was founded by Alfonso Villar and Enrique Dubois (at the end of 2011) I realised that it probably had a bright future. Perhaps I didn't realise how soon it would become successful, but a few months later it has...

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ArtTroop – art marketplace, gains funding

ecommerce, spain, start-ups, funding

By Mark Nessfield

ArtTroop is a web marketplace for artworks, founded in October 2011 by Aitziber Irisarri and Raquel Bernal. The aim was to democratize the buying and selling of art, and within a few months the idea has gained traction - with 400 vendors and more than...

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theEtailers.com - eCommerce services, gain funding

eCommerce, Spain, funding, start-ups, Barcelona

By Mark Nessfield

Running an internet shop nowadays is not just finding the right product and displaying them on a website. There are a multitude of factors to consider, including marketing, SEO and customer services. theEtailers.com aim to provide professional services...

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Red Karaoke rocks the world

Start-ups, music, funding, silicon valley, USA, overseas

By Mark Nessfield

One of the major world successes in the Spanish start-up scene in recent years has been Miguel Angel Díez with his venture Red Karaoke. It's claimed to be the largest online karaoke search engine, and has built up millions of users internationally. It's...

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Ibercheck gains funding

start-ups, funding

By Mark Nessfield

One of many funding investments this Spring on the Spanish start-up scene was for a venture called Ibercheck. Their service will not find favour with every entrepreneur, as they provide the facility to retrieve people's credit history, particularly their...

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