Not just Sand, Sea and Sangria
On the 7th-8th of June, the Spain Startup & Investor Summit took place in Madrid, organised by http://spain-startup.com/. A great number of impressive start-ups took the opportunity to present themselves to prospective investors, and a video was made...
The last batch from Day 1 of the Startup & Investor summit in Madrid June 2012. The organisors claimed this last batch are the best bunch, but are they right? Look at the presentations and find out! As per the previous entry I've noted the approximate...
The Spanish start-up uSpeak, that builds game-based language learning apps for the iPhone and iPad, has recently raised 500,000 euros in seed funding in order to attack the language learning market. Currently the languages involved are Spanish and English,...
Around this time of year, the Spanish paper El Mundo publishes a list of the 500 most powerful people in Spain. From this list, various commentators have produced a list of the 25 most influential people in Spanish technology today. This list contains...
It's always gratifying to see an innovative web start-up that has a positive and laudable mission. Sangakoo fits this category and is a new social site that helps its users to either learn, or indeed teach mathematics. They have already gained thousands...
Hello, this is the first of what I hope will be a regular series of articles on Spain, specifically on growing industries, opportunities and jobs within Spain. I also hope to publicise news about Spain that doesn't normally reach the English language...
News has come in today that Sezion, a start-up that distributes an app that allows the creation and sharing of music, has been funded to the sum of 50,000 Euros by La Caixa. Sezion, founded by Josiah De La Espada, is described as the Instagram for beginner...
Matthew Key talking about Telefonica Digital
First an apology for neglecting this blog. Hopefully changes are coming soon.