News | Communities | 18 Feb What you need to know about Tech Spirit Barcelona – MWC’s replacement event Details have been published for the replacement event for Mobile World Congress.
News | Events | 13 Feb MWC might be off — but there’s a guerrilla event in the works Mobile World Conference was cancelled last night due to coronavirus causing travel fears, but Barcelona's startup ecosystem won’t take no for an answer.
News | Mobility | 10 Feb Cooltra must move 1,200 of its mopeds out of Barcelona — and it’s not happy Barcelona’s City Hall has become the first European city authority to limit the number of licences for shared e-mopeds.
Interview | Hardware | 6 Feb Meet Neuroelectrics, the company helping Facebook read your brainwaves This healthtech startup sells its brainwave skullcap to big clients like Facebook and Warner Bros — it’s also taking on illnesses like epilepsy and Alzheimer’s.
Analysis | Startup Life | 29 Jan Do Spanish startups have a macho problem? The hispanic world is stereotyped for having its own brand of misogyny — Machismo — but is it a real problem in Spanish startups?
News | Hospitality | 21 Jan Hotel room-by-the-hour startup ByHours raises €8m: Just don’t mention “love hotels” Travel startup ByHours is disrupting the hotel industry by allowing weary travellers to book rooms in 3, 6 and 12 hour blocks.
Analysis | Venture Capital | 15 Jan Will 2020 be the year that Spanish venture capital lifts off? The vast majority of funding for Spanish startups still comes from international funds, but investment experts believe that may be about to change
Places | Cities | 3 Jan Why startups are relocating to Lisbon and what they’re finding behind the hype Three founders tell us why they moved their companies to the Portuguese capital, and how they feel about it now.
News | Fintech | 18 Dec Spanish Fintech Twinco raises €2.5m to make our products more ethical Supply chain finance is nothing new, but Twinco's pitch is that it can help companies behave more ethically and provide workers, many of which are in Bangladesh, with better conditions.
Analysis | Environment | 17 Dec Bluetech: Portugal looks to the high seas for high growth Self-driving ships, submarine drones and algae biofuels are just a few of the activities that make up the so-called “Blue Economy” — a €1.5tn industry that Portugal hopes to dominate in the coming years.
Interview | Corporate Innovation | 26 Nov “Better to partner than start from scratch” — Luca de Meo on SEAT’s micromobility ambitions SEAT is bringing out new scooters, mopeds and even a weird-looking quadricycle, but believes cars still have a role to play, too.
News | Energy | 22 Nov Spanish solar startup Holaluz to go public Spanish green energy startup Holaluz will list on the public market, looking to take advantage of the “huge opportunity” in Spain’s solar market.
Interview | Branding | 21 Nov From Fyre Festival to Fintech – Spanish startup SamyRoad on the boom of influencer marketing Fyre Festival showed the danger of influencer marketing. But it also gave an opportunity for marketing startups looking to approach this sector differently.
Interview | Investment | 13 Nov Miguel Vicente from Barcelona Tech City on the exhaustion of founder addiction The cofounder of Barcelona Tech City and Antai Venture Builders sits down with Sifted to talk founder addiction and managing your startup’s ‘ego system’
Analysis | Environment | 30 Sep Jeanologia’s tech makes a third of all the world’s denim A third of all the world's denim is being produced with tech from this Spanish company. That's a lot of jeans.
Analysis | Finance | 11 Sep Barcelona is the gateway to Latin America for Europe’s startups Fintech companies based in Barcelona are making use of linguistic and cultural ties to break into the Latin American market.
