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?
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.
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.
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.
News | Mobility | 27 Nov The week in mobility: how “green” are Tier’s scooters? Our roundup of Europe's top mobility news this week: Uber loses its London licence, e-moped rental service Coup quits Europe and we look at how "green" Tier's e-scooters are.
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’
News | Mobility | 13 Nov The week in mobility: Big raises for Voi and Frontier Car Group Our roundup of Europe's top mobility news this week: Voi raises $85m, Frontier Car Group raises $400m and Cowboy launches e-bikes in three new markets.
