Big funding: €25M for Exoticca, Nina Capital’s €50M fund for healthtechs & the EU’s €200B AI and gigafactory push

Initiatives for women entrepreneurs: The Sheblooms community launches in Barcelona & Time to Raise opens its latest female-focused fundraising cohort

Tech & work culture shifts: Ubisoft BCN workers lead Spain’s first video game industry strike, while CaixaBank commits to a €5B digital transformation push

Exoticca secures €25M venture debt from BBVA Spark, following its €60M Series D last year

Robotics startup Theker raises €3M led by JME & with public financing

Proptech Psquared, which transforms office spaces, generated €3.5M in 2024 & expects 20% more this year

Spyware startup Variston shuts down, per filing

Green hydrogen startup Jolt Solutions selected for Japanese accelerator

Qalea & Steryon selected for 2025’s Google for Startups Growth Academy: AI for Cybersecurity cohort

Madrid-based Libeen, a rent-to-buy smarthousing model for young people, secures €25M

Nido secures €5M to drive the energy transition through residential heat pumps

Vigo-based vanlife startup Vancubic raises €500K

BCN-based Nina Capital launches €50M fund for early-stage healthtechs

Banco Sabadell & Antai Ventures create Necta Ventures, a fund of funds with a target size of €100M

EU launches €200B initiative to back AI and gigafactories

Time to Raise’s spring cohort is open, focusing on fundraising for female-led startups; deadline 28 Feb

ONCE Foundation Growth Program: Promoting startups or companies in the field of disability or senior citizens; deadline 7 March

Sheblooms community emerges in Barcelona to boost female entrepreneurship

Ubisoft Barcelona workers carry out Spain’s first strike in the video game industry, over returning to the office

CaixaBank accelerates its digital transformation, allocating €5B to AI etc over the next 3 years

Silk launches first digital rent payment platform in Europe

Superapp Jeff’s CEO & executives face court proceedings after €48M+ debt against companies, loans & workers

FS6: 100 top AI companies & startups in Spain in February 2025 (many from BCN)

A list of 15 websites for remote work that aren’t LinkedIn

5 absorbing books to read this February to help you escape the chaos

MIT: Meta has an AI for brain typing, but it’s stuck in the lab

K Fund interviews Ryan Foutty, VP of Business @Perplexity (EN)

ICYMI: Itnig talked to Glovo’s Óscar Pierre (ES)

Tue, 18 Feb @17:30: Crafting Your Investment Thesis: Identifying Startups Worth Investing In

Wed, 19 Feb @16:00: Free "Form Fiesta" workshop for startups, solopreneurs, marketers, etc by Typeform & Notion + free coworking 

Wed, 19 Feb @20:00: Angels & Beers (For Investors)

Thu, 20 Feb @09:00: Tech Spirit Barcelona Health Edition

Wed, 26 Feb @17:00: Dost free Webinar: Process invoices 10x faster with AI

Mon, 3 Mar: BCN Fintech: Fintech Networking Event - Presented by Draivi (link includes 50% Barcinno discount)

Thu, 6 Mar @18:30: Corporate Innovation Summit 2025

Tue, 11 Mar @17:00: Webinar: How to create a financial roadmap for scaleups

Seabots is hiring a COO, devs & more

THEKER Robotics needs various types of engineers 

EU-Startups is hiring for a Design & Social Media Internship