
Galgus raises 4 million euros to address the high demand for WiFi projects in its international expansion.
Galgus, a Sevillian company specialised in the development of intelligent WiFi technology that optimises network performance and provides advanced geolocation analytics, is accelerating its growth by raising 4 million euros in funding. Galgus technology is present in different scenarios all over the world. From planes and trains, to football stadiums, shopping malls, hotels, schools, convention […]

Barbara IoT raises 2.5 M€ in funding from Caixa Capital Risc and Iberdrola
Caixa Capital Risc, the venture capital arm of CriteriaCaixa and lead investor through its Criteria Venture Tech fund, and Iberdrola, through Perseo, its start-ups program for start-ups to promote the development of technology-based companies, have joined forces to accelerate the digitization of smart grids and cybersecurity with a €2.5 million ($2.6M) investment round in Barbara IoT. […]

Seaya launches Andromeda, a €300M Venture Capital fund to address the global sustainability challenges through technology
Seaya Ventures, leading European Venture Capital manager behind unicorns such as Wallbox, Glovo and Cabify, has partnered with Iberdrola and Nortia to launch the sustainability-focused Venture Capital fund Seaya Andromeda. The fund, with a first closing of €130 million, has a target size of €300 million and will remain open to new investors for the […]

Spanish insurtech Getlife raises €6 million in seed funding round
Getlife, the Madrid-based life insurance startup, funded by Guillermo Alén and Yago Montenegro, has announced today that it has raised a €6 million Seed round led by VC firm Singular, with participation of business angels from the industry like Gokul Dhringa, former VP of Product of Ethos, or Chris Adelsbach. Getlife, the Madrid-based life insurance […]

Managing Composites closes 1,5M€ funding round by Bouwen, to accelerate growth
Managing Composites, the engineering company specialized in composite materials projects, today announced the close of a 1,5M€ financing round by Bouwen Sistemas Industriales, holding of Itera Mobility Engineering, Hidragrup and Sinfiny.

"Spain is a strategic market for the expansion of Eco Wave Power operations"
Eco Wave Power’s technology uses floats that extract energy from waves and converts their upward and downward movements into a clean energy generation process. Specifically, the movement of the floats compresses and decompresses the hydraulic pistons that transmit biodegradable hydraulic fluid to the accumulators located on land. Pressure is stored in the accumulators that turns […]

ShopFully and Tiendeo join forces to create a leading international player in Drive To Store
ShopFully and Tiendeo, two of Europe’s most innovative technology companies in the Drive to Store sector, have today announced a transaction that has created a new, leading international player to further reinvent local shopping. ShopFully has acquired 100% of Tiendeo — a Spanish company specialising in the digitisation of catalogues and brochures — to create […]

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.

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.

Medicsen creates a non-invasive device that makes life easier for diabetes patients
Medicsen is a startup that works in an artificial, non-invasive pancreas for those suffering from diabetes. It is capable of predicting future glucose values for the patient an hour ahead of time with a margin of error of less than 10 glucose units, while at the same time providing practical lifestyle advice to control illness.
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Highlights
There are currently 9 unicorns in Spain and there are 20 other companies that could become unicorns in the next two years
2021 ended with a cumulative investment in tech companies in excess of €4 billion and it was partly thanks to the mega rounds that took place over the past year. The 25 largest rounds of 2021 (over €60M) achieved more than 85% of the cumulative investment in Spain and led to two new companies, Jobandtalent […]
2021 exceeds €4 billion invested in Spanish startups
The year 2021 ends with the highest investment figure ever obtained in Spanish history: €4,207 billion in a total of 400 operations. Madrid and Barcelona are consolidating their position as national entrepreneurial hubs, accounting for 85% of the country’s investment. Jobandtalent becomes a new unicorn, after raising €628M in 2021 alone. The fastest-growing sectors in Spain in terms of startups and innovation are healthcare and Fintech.
Investment in Spanish startups reaches €1,767,271 million in the first four months of 2021
The 11 largest investment rounds of 2021 accumulate a total of €1,520.50M, which represents 86% of the total investment of the year. Glovo, one of the Spanish unicorns, leads the largest round of the year with €450 million.
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.
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.