start-ups

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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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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Key players in Start-ups vi) Didac Lee

start-ups, entrepreneur, spain, barcelona

By Mark Nessfield

Serial founder and keen Barcelona FC supporter (he’s their director for New Technologies ) Didac Lee is a famous Catalan with Taiwanese parents, in the Spanish start-up scene. He started his work career in humble origins as a washer-up at his parents’...

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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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Key players in Start-ups v) Carlos Blanco Vazquez

spain, start-ups, entrepreneur, Carlos Blanco

By Mark Nessfield

Carlos Blanco has been a serial entrepreneur in the Spanish internet sector since the 1990s. Just a few of the enterprises he has founded include Grupo ITnet, OcioMedia, Descargas Online, and OcioDigital. One of his most recent ventures, in 2011, was...

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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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