I’MNOVATION Startups is ACCIONA’s open innovation program with startups, and the first specific ecosystem for infrastructures and renewable energies in Spain

I’MNOVATION Startups is ACCIONA’s open innovation program with startups, and the first specific ecosystem for infrastructures and renewable energies in Spain, a pioneer in Europe.

Indra Kishinchand

ACCIONA is a leading international company in sustainable infrastructure and renewable energy solutions.  The company is a benchmark in the creation of an innovative ecosystem that provides room for startups to solve the great challenges of the future of infrastructures, electricity generation and mobility, based on sustainability and the circular economy.  Its collaboration program with startups seeks co-innovation to promote disruptive technologies and new businesses that help develop transformative infrastructures aligned with Sustainable Development Goals.

I’MNOVATION Startups is ACCIONA’s open innovation program with startups, and the first specific ecosystem for infrastructures and renewable energies in Spain, a pioneer in Europe.  Launched in 2017, in 2019 it extended its scope to Latin America with several challenges led from Chile.

This program is a collaboration model with startups that combines the experience of the multinational with the agility of companies in the entrepreneurial ecosystem.  Currently, up to two calls a year are made, offering startups the opportunity to test their solutions in real environments linked to one of ACCIONA’s businesses around the world, and access to financing, operational, technical and business support with the advice of experts and professionals from ACCIONA.

The program is backed by the success achieved over the last three years, in which more than 1,000 startups from all over the world have presented technological solutions and 40 have developed pilots with the company.

Depending on the result of the pilot project and in a personalized way, the Startups will have the possibility to access new opportunities, close agreements to continue the scaling of the proposed solution or receive funding from ACCIONA. So far, 2 out of 3 of those that have developed pilots with ACCIONA have signed agreements to continue working with the company.

With I’MNOVATION Startups, the ACCIONA group seeks to incorporate passionate entrepreneurs and creative minds into its ecosystem that will provide viable solutions with the potential for scalability and global expansion to meet the challenges posed by the company. With I’MNOVATION, ACCIONA places itself at the core of the innovation ecosystem of its business sectors, making it the main agent of its future.

I’MNOVATION #Startups has been recognized by Startup Europe Partnership (SEP) as the most innovative program with startups in Europe in the last two years.  In the last edition of Startup Olé, the organization recognized ACCIONA with the award for “Best Corporation”.

Indexa Capital is the leading independent investment manager in Spain, with more than €500 million managed from more than 26 thousand clients, growing by +110% in 2020.

Indra Kishinchand

Indexa Capital is the leading independent investment manager in Spain, with more than €500 million managed from more than 26 thousand clients, growing by +110% in 2020. It offers its clients portfolio management services for indexed funds, indexed pension plans and EPSV (Basque pension plans) with global diversification and costs that are on average 80% lower than those of banks (and lower costs means higher profitability). Indexa also offers life insurance, in collaboration with Caser, with probably the cheapest premium on the market.

Indexa was also created in 2015 by Unai Ansejo, François Derbaix and Ramón Blanco. Currently, its activity is limited to Spain and it has closed three investment rounds with which it has obtained €2.6 million, which have been invested by Cabiedes & Partners, Viriditas, Fides Capital, All Iron, Pedro Luis Uriarte, Manuel Conthe and Luis M Viceira, among others, as well as by the 3 founders.

Last Mile Team

Last Mile Team

Last Mile Team is a tech-based innovative startup in the goods road transport space, a $ 2.3 Trillion global market.

Indra Kishinchand

Last Mile is a tech-based innovative startup in the goods road transport space, a $ 2.3 Trillion global market.

Founded in 2016, launched in January 2020 its inclusive digital solutions to urban distribution problems, that consistently reduce congestion and emissions over 30% and costs over 25%, with current vehicle fleets.

When the state of alarm was declared, they continued working on the design and development of solutions to alleviate the effects of the health crisis, respond to the new demands for the management of transport capacity and social distancing in supply chains, help transporters to resume their activity safely, and cities to improve the provision of services that society needs, reducing their cost, supporting their work and protecting field staff from contagion

They have received several awards for innovation. Recognized by the European Institute of Innovation and Technology Urban Mobility, it is part of the select Scale-up Hub group.

They offer a hyper-scalable certified SaaS platform, validated as a corporate and enterprise line-of-business application by Microsoft and Honeywell.

Based on an IP registered proprietary combination of algorithms and processes, optimizes routes considering multiple criteria (environmental, traffic, labor and other city or zone-specific regulations). Integrates and orchestrates over a dozen different additional technologies to manage, follow and share status of all pick-up, transport and delivery operations in real time.

Partners in several H2020 Research and Innovation Actions. Members of Madrid Livig Lab, responsible to build and evaluate disruptive urban goods distribution models Digital Twins.

Last Mile Team wants to be a global company, its founders are based in Madrid although they are exploring entering the US market.

Enel Innovation Hub

Enel Innovation Hub Europe

Enel Innovation Hub Europe is part of the network of ten collaborative spaces for startups that the Enel Group, parent company of the Spanish electricity company Endesa, has created to develop its relationship with the entrepreneurial ecosystem and identify startups and SMEs capable of solving the innovation challenges of their business.

Blanca Capitán

Enel Innovation Hub Europe is part of the network of ten collaborative spaces for startups that the Enel Group has created to develop its relationship with the entrepreneurial ecosystem and identify startups and SMEs able to solve the innovation challenges of its business.

The initiative is not an accelerator and does not invest in the capital of startups, but rather offers a mutually beneficial collaboration model in which Enel acts as an industrial partner. In this way, the final objective is for the startup to develop its business and grow through its relationship with Enel.

Among the services it offers to startups are its know-how, the various infrastructures and laboratories for testing, as well as scalability through access to its operations and its base of 70 million customers in more than 30 countries.

The collaboration (proof of concept, pilot, project, commercial relationship, etc.) and its duration are defined according to the degree of development of the solution and its fit with the business need. In this sense, and with reference to the financing received by the startups that belong to the Enel initiative, this depends on the collaboration that is established. In some cases, the business line can enter into co-development of the solution and make an economic contribution, without entering into the capital of the startup.

Some of the startups that are part of Enel’s portfolio of collaborations are Athonet (Italy), Envelio (Germany), Form Energy (USA), Nido Robotics (Spain), Nozomi Networks (Italy) and Percepto (Israel), as well as other international ones. In the last four years the startups with which Enel has collaborated have received forty million Euro in revenues from the company.

Youandlaw Team 2020

Youandlaw, the firm that provides legal needs to companies

Youandlaw is a firm that provides friendly, rigorous and flexible advice to meet the legal needs of companies, entrepreneurs and investors, in all their phases of development.

Blanca Capitán

Youandlaw is a Madrid law firm, created in 2011 by Gonzalo de Ulloa and Pablo Casado. It is a firm that provides friendly, rigorous and flexible advice to meet the legal needs of companies, entrepreneurs and investors, in all their phases of development.

The firm stands out most for its legal advice in the financing rounds, advising both startups and investors. In recent years, it has been ranked among the top firms by number of operations in the TTR ranking published by Expansión.

Early stage business projects must have rigorous legal services that adapt to the reality of new technologies and the consequent growth and flexibility that startups need. Youandlaw wants to be an active protagonist in the promotion of the business network at a national and international level in the creation of new companies taking advantage of these new technologies.

For the professional investors, it is a reference office in operations advice, experts in contract negotiation and knowledgeable of the ecosystem and the spirit of the relationship between companies and investors in its different stages. The services have a range of complexity and usually coincide with the different stages of a company’s life.

Among these services, the following stand out:

      • Incorporation of a company.
      • Partners’ agreement between founders and more complex partners’ agreement.
      • Registration of industrial property rights.
      • Advice on privacy matters.
      • General terms and conditions of the website.
      • Investment rounds and incentive plans.
      • Mediation in conflicts between partners.
      • Advice on authorization procedures before the CNMV (Venture Capital, Participatory Financing Platforms).
      • Advice on contractual real estate operations (including due diligence) and dissolution and liquidation processes
      • Bankruptcy proceedings.

 

The profile to which they are directed is digital sector projects with growth potential, or projects that are already consolidated (startups/entrepreneurs), and investors whose investment profile corresponds to projects of these characteristics. Some of their clients include AUARA, La Bolsa Social, Aplázame, Paack, Wetaca and Big Sur Ventures.

Wegow team startups

Wegow team startups

Wegow is the first social marketplace for live music, where users, artists, promoters and brands are immersed in the territory of concerts and festivals in a totally new way.

Indra Kishinchand

Wegow is the first social marketplace for live music, where users, artists, promoters and brands are immersed in the territory of concerts and festivals in a totally new way.

The Spanish platform began its activity in 2015, and has experienced constant growth since then, both in terms of users and turnover. Today, Wegow has 5 million monthly visits, 4.5 million unique users per month and over 2.2 million registered users. The company is present in 19 countries: Germany, Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Mexico, Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom and United States.

In the last quarter of 2019 Wegow reached the break even in operations and estimates that it will close 2020 with positive EBITDA thanks to the growth of its different business lines and the internationalization of the business.

The company had a turnover of €24.9 million in 2019, which is 131% more than the previous year (€10.8 million). The platform was born to revolutionize the way people enjoy live music and has quickly become the benchmark app for concert and festival lovers.

Impulsa Vision RTVE

Impulsa Vision RTVE

Impulsa Visión RTVE is the Spanish Radio and Television Corporation accelerator.

Indra Kishinchand

Impulsa Visión RTVE is the Spanish Radio and Television Corporation accelerator. An initiative to support innovative entrepreneurship in the audiovisual sector. The program for startups is directed by Esteban Mayoral Campos, Javier Sánchez Pérez and Óscar Baza Moreno, and is aimed at freelancers and recently created micro-SMEs with practical and innovative ideas. So far, the program has held five editions and soon will begin the sixth. Some of the startups that have participated are Teltoo, FilmMarket Hub, Zapiens and Golumi.

Impulsa Visión was created in 2015 in response to the need detected by the RTVE Corporation to incorporate talent, promote the exchange of knowledge and boost entrepreneurship and innovation in emerging business projects in the Spanish audiovisual sector.  It is a program that breaks the logic of the classic supplier-customer relationship, as well as the participation in the capital of the startup, and goes beyond the mere action aimed at CSR.

The platform offers all its support, means and the more than 60 years of experience of RTVE to the selected projects. These projects receive economic funding, working spaces and resources, institutional support, tutoring and training by RTVE professionals to accelerate and promote their startup. The program includes all the communication sections. From the audiovisual sector, Radio, Television, such as RTVE Digital, through the WEB and Networks.

Impulsa Visión RTVE Startups is an initiative with a vertical design aimed at investing in innovative and disruptive proposals in the fields of technology, content and/or business organization and management applied to the audiovisual sector. The proposal is based on a “win-win” model whereby both parties benefit from working together.

Samaipata is a European venture capital fund specializing in marketplaces and platforms in pre-seed and seed phases, investing in Southern Europe, France, UK from its offices in Madrid, Paris and London.

Indra Kishinchand

Samaipata is a pan-European founders fund specialized in digital platforms and market places in seed stages, investing in Southern Europe(Spain, Italy and Portugal), France, UK and Germany from its offices in Madrid, Paris and London. It was created in 2016 by José del Barrio, founder and ex-CEO of La Nevera Roja and Eduardo Díez-Hochleitner, executive and investor with more than 30 years of experience and president of MásMóvil.

The fund’s DNA is made up of high specialization, in terms of business model, geographical focus and growth phase. Therefore, Samaipata only invests in digitalplatformsand marketplaces. After raising a first fund of €30M in 2016, Samaipata has closed17 investments in 4 European countries and has made its first exit, following the acquisition of FoodChéri by the Sodexo group. Its second fund, already operating,has a target size of€100M, with an average entry ticket of €1-1.2M and follow-on capacity up to a maximum of €10M invested in the same company.

Samaipata’s vision is for Europe to become the global techleader by supporting company founders to build techprojects that make the world a better placeto live in. It offers founders comprehensive support thanks to its hands-on philosophy and specialized know-how.

Differentiating values:

  • Specializationin terms of business model(digital platforms & marketplaces), stage (pre-seed and seed phases)and geography.
  • Support in fundraising. Samaipata has helped its portfolio to raise more than 250 million Euro fromglobal tier 1 VCfunds: Kleiner Perkins, Index, Atomico, Northzone, Idinvest Partners, Cathay Capital, etc.
  • Support in attracting talent: Samaipata works with a wide network of specialized headhunters and freelancersin order to find the best profiles for its portfolio
  • Community: Samaipata is a platform per se connecting portfolio companies between them as well as with its LPs and network of stakeholders in the European tech ecosystem.
  • Continuous advice and supportfrom a wide network of external advisorsin differentbusiness areas: scaling tech teams, B2B sales, product development, data, etc.
Sacyr iChallenges

Sacyr has been working with startups on a regular basis, although without a formal program. During all this time, the company has had relationships with more than 100 startups with potential to apply their solutions to their business processes. That is why in 2018 it launched  Sacyr iChallenges  a program that offers a world of […]

Raquel Utrera

Sacyr has been working with startups on a regular basis, although without a formal program. During all this time, the company has had relationships with more than 100 startups with potential to apply their solutions to their business processes. That is why in 2018 it launched  Sacyr iChallenges  a program that offers a world of collaboration opportunities for agents of the innovative ecosystem, with an approach based on flexibility and the capacity to adapt to the proposals of the different innovative agents.

The outcome of challenges is usually associated with the creation of value and, in this sense, Sacyr is very open to exploring different schemes of monetization and collaboration together with other agents, with a win-win approach. The company offers ad hoc monetization schemes for each case of collaboration, ranging from the creation of joint ventures for joint marketing or the customer-supplier contractual relationship to co-investment, direct investment and other alternatives.

iChallenges is an open innovation program, key to Sacyr’s strategy for digital transformation and collaboration with the innovative ecosystem. Collaborations with entrepreneurs are always focused on solving specific business challenges. In addition, the multinational focuses its open innovation towards the resolution of specific challenges, seeking solutions together with other agents of the innovative ecosystem. The program is aimed at achieving, increasingly, a high quality of life for citizens, based on better infrastructure and better urban services.

In addition to the iChallenges program, Sacyr annually organizes the Sacyr Startups Innovation Awards, which recognize the best proposals developed by the innovative community for the urban infrastructure and services sector. These awards reach their ninth edition in 2019 and have identified some of the most innovative and disruptive startups on the market. This prize is awarded with a contribution of 50,000 Euro.

Sacyr offers innovative agents a wide variety of benefits, such as collaborating in the resolution of challenges with one of the main Spanish corporations in the infrastructure sector and with a presence in more than 20 countries or working with experts in the sector and with senior management. In addition, startups will have access to Sacyr’s sales and contact network, will be able to establish strategic relationships with the company, will have validation of the business model, as well as its acceleration, escalation and growth.

Influencity is a software development company specialising in digital marketing, and specifically, in influencer marketing.

José Torrego

Influencity is a software development company specialising in digital marketing, and specifically, in influencer marketing. We help brands and agencies to obtain greater visibility on the Internet, as well as increase their sales, through influential people called influencers.

We are a SaaS. We have a technological platform capable of: identifying influencers, measuring their influence, managing campaigns and measuring results. A software that we are evolutionarily developing according to our knowhow and the needs of the market. Our clients are final brands, advertising agencies and influencer representation agencies. Our goal is to create a successful company at a level and that can only be achieved with a great team. We believe in the potential of the people that form Influencity, the capacity for development and continuous learning, as well as the ambition, proactivity and the enthusiasm of all the members.