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.

BerriUp is the first Startup Accelerator with private initiative in the Basque Country. It was founded in 2015, by local entrepreneurs to encourage the development of new businesses.

Blanca Capitán

Berriup is the first Startup Accelerator with private initiative in the Basque Country. It was founded in 2015, by local entrepreneurs to encourage the development of new businesses.

Through its calls, twice a year, Berriup chooses different projects to be part of its acceleration program. Indifferently of the sector or the typology of the team, Berriup is committed to innovative and revolutionary initiatives with a passionate team behind and eager to turn their idea into a reality.

They have already made 10 calls, where the winners receive:

  • 50K in exchange for 10% of the company
  • Training and advice for entrepreneurial teams in charge of our network of mentors.
  • A Coworking space
  • Belonging to the BerriUp community with more than 100 outstanding members: entrepreneurs, company managers, mentors, etc.

The selected teams in each call are settled for 16 weeks in the Berriup coworking space in San Sebastián, with the aim of working on the validation of their business model, demonstrating its viability and its place in the market.

In this period, the Berriup team helps startups in secondary matters and advisory efforts so that they can focus on those tasks that do add value to the project.

The teams have to be personally in the coworking space, which help them training as well as contacting more often with the network of mentors. Also, this allows accelerated companies to share experiences in the same work environment from which new proposals for collaboration and mutual support usually arise.

Berriup offers its experience in innovation development and entrepreneurship to SMEs, as an external consultant, performing personalized services to each company: either with internal development programs (intrapreneurship), or with external programs (open innovation). In this way they collaborate with companies to achieve new business lines, promote their digital transformation and the development of the business fabric. Berriup has already analysed more than 700 projects.

Nowadays through this method, it has more than 20 accelerated companies, a network of more than 30 professional mentors with a relevant trajectory, and a space of more than 500mts2 located in San Sebastián.

TECNALIA Ventures is the venture builder of the TECNALIA Research and Technological Development Centre, the leading centre in Spain and one of the most important in Europe.

Sofia Shahabi

TECNALIA Ventures is the armed wing of TECNALIA to draw value out of technology. We build new ventures giving rise to high potential deep-tech business opportunities attractive for investments.

We team up with the entrepreneurial ecosystem, bringing together Minds, Management and Money to obtain IMPACT:

Talent and technologies to realize competitive advantage Well-rounded entrepreneurial teams Investors that bring value to ventures
 

+ 180 patent families.

+ 700 patents.

+ 30 patent applications in 2019

 + 20 deep tech spin-offs launched.

 

 + 100M€  investment attracted.
+ €3M in Industrial Property Sales in 2019 (+ 3% TECNALIA’s total turnover)

DIFFERENTIAL VALUES

  • Impact driven: We are motivated by the achievement of results. We have a demonstrable track record in terms of impact delivered.
  • Deep-tech ventures: In our ventures, competitive advantage is based on genuine technological innovations, with protected IP leading to high potential B2B opportunities involving market disruptions.
  • Practitioner experience: We are a team of practitioners and our strength is our experience in transforming technologies that solve market problems into ready-to-invest business opportunities.

 

COLLABORATIONS

We work with… by offering….
Innovative companieslooking for business opportunities to diversify and renew their offerings as part of their corporate venture strategy. An open corporate innovation initiative to bridge the gap between scouting and growth by matching corporate needs with high potential deep-tech business opportunities and startups.
Public and private organisationsseeking to launch deep-tech ventures acceleration programmes

 

 Designing and deploying your deep-tech venture acceleration programme connecting entrepreneurial teams with technological capabilities and smart money.
Research and technology institutionsthat want to transform their R&D expenditure into impact.

 

 Setting up your ventures team to transform technological assets into business opportunities, building individual, organizational and relational capability.
Billage Team

Billage Team

Billage it’s a platform that allows to organize the management of SMEs in a unified way, from customer management to billing and project task management. 

Indra Kishinchand

Billage it’s a platform that allows to organize the management of SMEs in a unified way, from customer management to billing and project task management. This is an all-in-one solution created to help small businesses and self-employed people run their businesses better. It was founded in 2013 by Antoni Guitart, Pau Buixeda and Francisco Philip. It is possible to carry out all the operations related to the business from a computer or a tablet with internet access.

Users can use Billage for free up to a limit of 60 invoices per year. Billage also supports the integration of external management systems.

In its full version, this web tool includes a CRM, an invoicing system, a document management system, a project manager and online alert and analysis services and collaboration with work teams. The startup operates mainly in Spain, where it has more than 20,000 users.

Billage has been in the Bbooster, Bstartup and Wayra acceleration programs, and has received help from Enisa, a public organization that helps business development. Bbooster, through SCR Sinensis Capital, is one of its most relevant investors. To date, they have launched two investment rounds worth €450,000. In addition, Billage has been recognized with the TOP 100 Red Herring Europe and Best Business Model Initiator awards.  Furthermore, in December 2019 it was the winner of Banco Santander’s open innovation program “The Call”.

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.

Airbus Bizlab

Airbus Bizlab is the accelerator and incubator from Airbus, the French civil aircraft construction company.

Raquel Utrera

Airbus Bizlab is the accelerator and incubator from Airbus, the French civil aircraft construction company. Startups, small technology-based companies, and company employees with innovative ideas (intra-entrepreneurs) can participate to develop their projects and transform them into profitable businesses, both for themselves and for the company.

The accelerator offers a safe space, where entrepreneurs can develop their projects and ideas thanks to the support of dedicated coaches and mentors, weekly learning sessions, access to a space for creating prototypes and, also, a Demo Day with professionals from the company, partners, and venture capitalists. The accelerator also provides access to tools and knowledge and access to the entire Airbus network (experts, mentors and contacts), to create startups that generate business with the company so that internal projects are incorporated into the structure of the company.

In addition to the program, BizLab also offers €50,000 to implement a proof of concept, and payment is subject to the successful delivery of a prototype, according to a specific use case defined with Airbus, with a business success rate of 42%. This program has a duration of 6 months, and is divided into 3 phases:

  • First phase: analysis of business interest and market, with the consequent search for the largest possible customer acquisition.
  • Second phase: analysis of proposals.
  • Third phase: analysis of the business model and set up for startups and intra-entrepreneurs to work effectively.

In the last 3 years, the accelerator has incubated 50 startups and 40 internal Airbus projects within the Bizlabs based in Toulouse (France), Hamburg (Germany) and Bangalore (India). During the first season in Madrid, they have incubated 5 startups (Recogn.ai, Daisho, Urban Data Eye, Botslovers and Unblur) and 3 internal projects (Fly-up, Back to Fly and Chainbus).

PARTICIPATE IN BIZLAB

The registration period starts on May 7, 2019 and ends on July 7.

Applications can be submitted through its website or through the specific campaign. The Bootcamp Selection of the Madrid Campus will take place on 4 and 5 of September.

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.