
GoHub partners with The Water Tower to invest in America's best digital water start-up companies
The Water Tower, the new water innovation center in the United States, located in Georgia, announces a partnership with GoHub, Global Omnium’s corporate venturing, with the aim of investing in the best water technology companies. With technology playing an increasingly critical role in the water industry, the acceleration of the development of novel technologies is […]

Nubentos closes its first round of investment led by Encomenda Smart Capital
Nubentos is a Spanish startup founded in late 2018. Since then it has been working internationally to bring together a complete catalog of the most advanced APIs for healthcare from around the world on its cloud platform, and has users in more than 60 countries.

Ironhack secures $20M in funding round led by Lumos Capital Group
Ironhack is an internationally renowned global tech school, offering intensive bootcamps and immersive courses in Web Development, UX/UI Design, Data Analytics and Cybersecurity.

Capchase raises $60 million led by i80 Group to provide growth financing for early stage and growing SaaS companies in the US
Capchase, a Boston-headquartered SaaS and recurring revenue financing platform, today announced it raised $60M in additional funds. Founded in early 2020, Capchase established itself as an attractive alternative to dilutive venture capital and traditional venture debt for SaaS and recurring revenue companies. The new funds will be used to deliver larger advances to rapidly growing […]

Meep closes a 4 million euro financing round led by Liil Ventures
Meep is a mobile application that integrates all modes of transport available in a city, public and private, in a single platform. Users can plan, book and pay for trips in a single transaction, eliminating the need for multiple applications or tools.

Global urology leader Advanced Medtech leads Devicare’s USD$3 million Series A fundraising
Devicare is a specialty biotech company dedicated to developing pathbreaking medical treatments in Urology combining the most recent scientific advances in nutritional therapy with digital technologies.

2020 ends with €1.101M invested in Spanish startups
Glovo and Flywire were the only investment rounds to exceed €100 million. The accumulated total for the year was 1,101,786 million Euro invested in a total of 338 public operations, the second best figure in the history of Spain.

Landbot secures €6.5M series A to help more businesses design smarter automated conversations with customers
Landbot enables any business to manage and automate conversations with their customers across their website, WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger. Enabling businesses to convert smarter, every time.

ALiCE Biometrics closes a €1.5 million investment round led by Mundi Ventures
ALiCE Biometrics expands its shareholding to the international arena with the entry of Mundi Ventures, which has operational offices in London, New York, Seattle, Barcelona and Madrid. The investment fund makes its network, with presence in more than 50 cities worldwide, available to the Galician spin-off.

Clarity AI Raises $15m to Fuel Expansion of Platform lead by Deutsche Börse
Clarity AI is a global fintech company that empowers investors to manage the impact of their portfolios through a proprietary technology platform that leverages big data and machine learning to assess sustainability for all societal stakeholders. Founded in 2017 by Rebeca Minguela.

Seaya Ventures launches its third fund with an initial closing of €85 million, reaching €250 million in assets under management
Based in Madrid, Seaya Ventures has been backing the best entrepreneurs and teams in Southern Europe since 2013. Seaya focuses on supporting founders in scaling their businesses, enabling them to become global leaders.

Kasaz Closes €1.1 Million in Pre-Seed Funding
The Real Estate Portal is one of the few Spanish startups to have raised this amount in a pre-seed round.

UNWTO launches 4 new challenges to help re-start tourism
The Hospitality Challenge in collaboration with Sommet Education is a global call aiming to receive projects that can help hospitality sector reboot. This competition is designed to identify ideas and individuals capable of accelerating recovery while promoting inclusivity and sustainability in the sector to invent the hospitality of tomorrow.
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2020 ends with €1.101M invested in Spanish startups
Glovo and Flywire were the only investment rounds to exceed €100 million. The accumulated total for the year was 1,101,786 million Euro invested in a total of 338 public operations, the second best figure in the history of Spain.
August ends with 48 million Euro invested in Spanish startups
The month of August ended with an accumulated investment of €48 million, distributed in a total of 18 public investment rounds in Spain. An optimistic figure given the current crisis in Spain due to the coronavirus. The accumulated investment figure is almost identical to that of 2019 at the end of August (€606.124M) and is slightly lower than that obtained at the end of the eighth month of 2020: €607.314M.
Acceleration calls focused on startups and entrepreneurs during the month of October 2019
Many corporations such as Abanca, Acciona, Iberdrola, Banco Sabadell, Bankia as well as specialized accelerators have decided to launch their acceleration calls after summer and all of them will coincide with the celebration of the South Summit in Madrid from 2 to 4 October, an important time of the year as the Spanish ecosystem is concentrated throughout the week in Madrid.
El Referente launches its fourth Investment Guide for Startups
The newspaper El Referente today released the fourth edition of the Investment Guide for Startups, now on sale on our online channels. After three years of growth in the number of guides sold, the magazine has once again opted for a 226-page edition in which it reviews all the agents in the ecosystem.
Reports
The evolution of investment in startups in Spain. 2018/19
StartupsReal launches the evolution of investment in Spain over the last three years (2016 to 2018). In this 120-page report, the magazine analyzes the evolution of investment in the Spanish startup ecosystem in recent years, identifying important milestones in the ecosystem and analyzing the Spanish startups with the greatest potential.
The Evolution of Investment in Spain 2019/2020
StartupsReal is launching its second report on Investment in Spain of startups and the 100 most active venture capital funds in the country after 2019’s edition.
Report on Initiatives to Assist Startups in Spain 2019
StartupsReal presents a report analysing all the startup support initiatives in Spain, detailing each one on an individual basis while also analysing the overall regional impact of these initiatives in the country’s different Autonomous Regions.