Not just Sand, Sea and Sangria
More good news in the Spanish start-up scene, as a major funding result has been announced by the shopping community start-up Chicisimo to the tune of 600,000 Euros. The investment has been made by various parties, including Vitamina K and CCH. Since...
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...
I’m going to write brief descriptions of key players in the Spanish startup scene – these are well-known within the country but sometimes not so famous outside of Iberia. Today I will start the series with Jesus Encinar. Jesus Encinar is the founder and...
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...
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...
At a time of high unemployment, there are still sectors that are crying out for people with the right skills and indeed there are job profiles with an effective zero unemployment rate. Floqq aims to address this issue, by finding real world experts to...
Intel's first investment in Spain arrived when they led a $5 million funding round with Indisys in late 2012. Indisys, short for "Intelligent Dialogue Systems", are world leaders in providing natural language virtual assistants and telephone operators....
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...
Saluspot, an online community that brings sufferers and medical advisors together, has just closed a funding round of 1 million Euros, financed by investors such as Cabiedes & Partners, the Fundación José Manuel Entrecanales and Vitamin K. The platform...
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...
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....
The year's impressive amount of investment in Spanish start-ups has continued into July, and we've now recently heard of a €3 million funding round with ReviewPro that will enable them to continue their international expansion. The investment is headed...
As the demand for apps mushrooms, we are seeing more and more App building tools made available, that are suitable for non-programmers. One of these comes from the Valencian start-up Mobincube, that creates apps that adapt to different platforms - and...
Their aim is to prepare children for a future global, competitive workplace via the creation of interactive, engaging products that are connected to the real world. They are Funbox, a women-led start-up based in Barcelona that produces edutainment products...
An engineer from Gijon, Asturias, Lola Palacio, has helped create a re-design of the blackboard in Pontevedra, Galicia, that is being used both in Spain and abroad. The project, called The Glass Project, has designed and manufactured glass boards with...
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...
Mallorcan-based Enrique Dubois is a serial entrepreneur who is now heavily involved in the start-up incubator and accelerator Mola.com . Mola is one of the most important Spanish start-up incubators today, yet is not restricted to the Balearics, having...
The number of companies and start-ups that Elena is involved with, is staggering. Womenalia, teleciguena , encesta , secretariaplus , directivosplus... the list doesn’t appear to end. Perhaps her most famous and ambitious project has been with Womenalia...
Marek Fodor is known as the founder of Atrapalo one of the leading B2C online Spanish agencies. It provides deals and promotions for leisure activities such as concerts, flights, theatre tickets etc. They continue to expand and have invested over a million...
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...
A Spanish company that operates from California and Madrid, and that has gained 800,000 registered users in just a year of operation, has closed a funding round from investors such as Horizon Ventures, BDMI, SeedCamp and 500 Startups. Traity offers free...
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...
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...
The growth of eCommerce worldwide has been dramatic, and Spain has shown to be no exception, despite its previous reputation for an aversion to items delivered by post. Indeed according to this Europapress article, eCommerce sales increased by 20% in...
Way back in 2009, Daniel Bezares and Lourdes Ferrer, after becoming parents of twin daughters, launched a web store for parents of twins called TOT-a-LOT It seems as though the success of that venture, encouraged them to undertake greater things, and...
