ecosystem

The European Commission has included two Spaniards in the exclusive group of 22 experts who will lead the strategy of the recently created European Innovation Council (EIC). This body, which was born in 2017, has a current budget of 3 billion and aims to finance the innovations with the greatest impact in Europe.

Grupo Next is a platform for end users, supported by companies offering services or those companies interested in using the information generated by large vehicle connection (big data) to improve their business processes exponentially.

WONOWO is the first sharing economy search engine created with the goal of bringing together all transport, accommodation and leisure options.

Sacyr has announced the launch of a new edition of Sacyr iChallenges 2019. Is an open innovation and co-creation program aimed at solving four business challenges along with operators of the innovative ecosystem.

Milingual is a social learning startup that breaks with the conventional way of learning languages taught at schools and academies, founded by brothers Andrés and Gabriel Pazos in 2015.

Juan A. Baños Martín founded On&Off, a Public Relations and Communications agency specialized in Technology, Startups and E-commerce at the end of 2009 to respond to a demand for public relations in the technology sector.

Quadram Mobile Ventures is an initiative launched by Quadram with the objective of helping startups, during their early stages, with capital, technology development and fundraising. It is not an acceleration program. It is a Tech Angel, a figure halfway between a business angel and a CTO, which provides startups with technological investment.

Europe’s technology ecosystem is increasingly rivalling the might of US and Asian tech with Spotify and Adyen on track to become Europe’s first $50bn tech businesses by 2021, according to a new report to be released next week by technology advisory and investment firm GP Bullhound.

Fellow Funders is a professional equity crowdfunding platform that enables investors, both institutional and individuals, to invest in early stage companies. Every project liable for investment is submitted to a thorough process of scoring and assessment, developed by Fellow Funders.

Talentoo is an employment web platform created in 2017 by the entrepreneur Javier Puebla. The startup has a B2B model that is completely different from the existing ones, since they cover a new market niche called recruitment crowdsourcing.