Hello and happy Monday, | Q2 2025: Barcelona startup funding recap 💰 | July’s already here, so it’s time for our quarterly funding analysis. In Q2 2025, we tracked over 30 rounds by BCN startups, raising just under €400M — €100M less than Q1, but a healthy quarter with maturity across multiple sectors. The peak month was June, thanks to hefty biotech and fintech deals. | Trends & insights: | 🧬 Biotech & related industries dominate: | €216M+ poured into life sciences across 7 rounds Top round: SpliceBio with its record-breaking €119M Other major raises: Deepull (€50M), Oryzon Genomics (€30M), Seqera (€23M)
| 🏦 Fintech’s still on fire: | Abacum (€52.5M) and Belvo (€14.8M) led the pack Total fintech funding exceeded €77M, showing continued investor faith in the sector
| 🌱 Early-stage activity: A pipeline of sub-€3M rounds from startups like Ratio, Tether, and Staryon points to strong pre-seed and seed-stage support. | ⚖️ Diverse mix of verticals: Barcelona’s Q2 dealflow featured AI, cleantech, foodtech, proptech, spacetech, and mobility, showing its increasing sector diversity. | 🇪🇸 Rest-of-Spain firms raised a weighty €936M+, thanks to megarounds by Room00 (€400M) and Multiverse Computing (€189M) – without those, the Q2 total would have been a fairly similar €347M. | Let’s see next quarter if this momentum can translate into even broader, more inclusive growth. | Have a great week! | Startup & Investment News | Barcelona investment news | | Barcelona startup news | | Spanish investment news | | VC, investment & crowdfunding news | | Barcelona startup & entrepreneur profiles & interviews | | Tech & Business News | Tech news in Barcelona | | Tech & big company news in Spain | | Good Reads & Watches | | Great Events | This week: | | Upcoming: | | Got news or an event to share? Fill out this form. | Startup Jobs | |
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