Coronavirus

Ecosystem | Open calls
Positive Energy+ receives almost 400 innovative projects to alleviate the economic and social impact of Covid19

The Positive Energy+ platform has received 396 projects in just 13 days to help alleviate the economic and social effects of COVID-19. This urgent call, aimed at startups and scale-ups and promoted by companies of the energy sector, closed the proposals’ submission period on Sunday April 19.

Ecosystem | Biotech
Fundación Universidad Carlos III de Madrid raises 62,000 euros in three days to manufacture ICU ventilator

The Fundación Universidad Carlos III de Madrid has raised in just over two days around 62,000 euros thanks to a fundraising campaign, to finance a project to design and manufacture two prototype ventilators for the ICU.

Ecosystem | Open calls
Energy companies promote the Positive Energy+ initiative to alleviate the impact of coronavirus through innovation

Positive Energy+ is a pioneering initiative in Spain, created by several companies, that uses innovation as the main tool to offer effective responses to help alleviate the economic and social impact of COVID-19.

Startups | marketplace
Fabber will produce 10,000 LibreGuard masks for health personnel as a solidarity crowdfunding campaign

Fabber, a Barcelonan start-up specialised in 3D printing has created LibreGuard, a crowdfunding campaign with the aim of producing 10,000 masks that meet the material needs for health professionals in over ten countries.

Startups | Future Technologies
Erudit, the web platform that improves your team’s well-being through Artificial Intelligence

Erudit AI Inc., a startup based in Miami, Madrid and Mexico City, has developed a web platform capable of evaluating the risk of burnout, anxiety, depression or level of engagement produced by home seclusiondue to Covid-19 and that came from the communications of the workers in corporate tools.

Investments | investments
Pruvo raises over $1.1M in seed funding round and launches “Pruvo Revenue Maker”

Pruvo closed over $1.1M in its seed funding round despite the tremendous impact Coronavirus has had on the travel industry. This round was led by SeedRocket 4Founders Capital from Spain, along with business Angels from Spain, UK, Netherlands and Israel.

Investments | Accelerators
Bridge for Billions makes possible to start a business without leaving home

Bridge for Billions is one of the companies that is taking a greater role these days due to one of its early-stage entrepreneur support free programs: The Leap-Solutions for Humanity.

Ecosystem | future technologies
CARTO develops ‘AsistenciaCovid19’ App against Coronavirus

In order to combat the spread of Civid -19, CARTO has developed Asistencia Covid19 which is a new web and mobile application recently released by the Community of Madrid.

News | accelerators
GoHub Technologies: solutions for emergency situations at the service of society

GoHub wants to share real use cases of our startups that are currently working within different areas to help reduce the effects of this crisis. Mainly because Technology is becoming essential for the economy to function, especially during adverse situations such as the one we are living in.