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 | Mobility | 7 Feb Cracking the code to European expansion, Virtuo’s way With 70% of its sales coming from returning clients, Paris-based startup Virtuo is looking to build on customer loyalty to expand into Germany and Italy next.
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?
Analysis | Hiring | 28 Jan Europe’s fastest growing startups with female founders Women to watch in 2020.
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
Analysis | Food | 14 Jan 3D-printed steaks are starting to actually look like meat Thanks to these European 3D printing startups, vegetarian meat is moving up from burger patties to actual steaks.
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 | Food | 19 Dec On-demand delivery startup Glovo raises €150m and becomes Spain’s second unicorn The Spanish competitor to Uber Eats and Deliveroo claims it will do what its rivals seem unable or unwilling to do: hit profitability in 2021. We catch up with chief executive Oscar Pierre on wooing investors, dark kitchens and acquisitions.
Analysis | Investment | 19 Dec Lisbon pulls in historic foreign tech investment Online luxury fashion platform Farfetch, coding software provider Outsystems and cloud-based contact centre Talkdesk have put Portugal on the technology map
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.
Analysis | Other | 16 Dec 2020 Vision: predictions from 28 big-hitters in Europe’s startup scene What will 2020 bring for European startups? We hear from startup experts such as Jan Hammer at Index Ventures, Taavet Hinrikus at Transferwise and Roxanne Varza at Station F.
