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July 23, 2021

Spanish startups and scaleups to watch

Here are eight of Spain's most dynamic startups so far this year


Riddhi Kanetkar

7 min read

Andrea Oliver Garcia founded Emjoy in 2018.

For startups from Spain, 2021 is proving to be a much better year than 2020. So far this year, they’ve raised a record €1.9bn from VC firms across 230 deals, according to Dealroom — double the €950m raised in all of 2020 (an especially bad year for investment). 

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Sacha Michaud, cofounder of Glovo
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The cofounders of alternative meat startup Heüra
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