The seventh edition of VDS has succeeded in gathering investors with a collective portfolio of over €250 billion in private equity dedicated to startups. The international tech gathering, held on October 23 and 24 at Valencia’s City of Arts and Sciences, featured top investment funds like Softbank’s VisionFund, with over €100 billion under management and […]

EIT Urban Mobility, an initiative of the European Institute of Technology and Innovation (EIT), a body of the European Union, has today unveiled its latest study, “Cost and Benefit of the Urban Mobility Transition.” This extensive research explores how European cities can navigate the complex journey towards achieving the EU Green Deal objectives for the […]

Lanzadera, the business accelerator forming part of the Marina de Empresas, led by Juan Roig (president and owner of the Mercadona supermarket chain), today begins its September acceleration programme with more than 150 startups, making it the biggest selection round in its history. The companies are innovating in sectors such as health, sports, fashion, training […]

The Southern European startup ecosystem is growing with a new Venture Capital fund, Plus Partners, launched by co-founders Enrique Linares and Oriol Juncosa, two prominent figures of the startup space — a unicorn founder and a top investor in over 75 start-ups. They have joined forces to support startups in their earliest stages. The Spanish […]

Ecosistema Startup, the largest database in Spain for startups and investors created by El Referente, has published the 2024 report on the ecosystem of technology and innovative companies in Spain. The aforementioned reveals that the country has more than 7,000 active technology companies, of which 3,640 are startups and 1,185 are scaleups. The annual economic […]

New EU regulations state that by 2030, all packaging on the EU market must be reusable or recyclable in an economically viable manner.  They also stipulate the percentages of plastic that different packaging must contain, while banning plastic carrier bags. These measures have provoked various reactions, including protests from the food industry. This is why, […]

2022 begins with promising figures for Spanish startup investment. 2021 ended with more than €4.2 billion invested in startups and with eight Spanish technology companies valued at more than €1 billion, and it seems that 2022 is picking up where 2021 left off. At the end of January, the cumulative investment exceeds €686M invested in […]

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 […]

ACCIONA has announced the fifth round of I’MNOVATION #Startups, its open innovation programme in which entrepreneurs from around the world can submit ideas to address the main technology challenges that the Group faces in its business areas.   Selected companies will enter a six-month accelerator programme in which, with Group funding, they will work with […]