Sateliot receives €30M EIB financing for IoT rollout

Biomed startup Genomcore gets €5M as Barça’s latest investment 

Restaurant order & pay solution honei gets €1.45M 

Robo advisor inbestME closes crowdfunding at over €788K, surpassing its target by 112% 

Wildfire solution Vallfirest gets investment from Suma Capital

Glovo bends to Spain’s riders’ law & will hire thousands of couriers

Tech Barcelona named Startup Ecosystem Star 2024 at global awards ceremony

Typeform got a new CEO

YC alum Rever chosen by TikTok Shop to handle its online returns in Europe & the US

Apparent controversy at Freshly Cosmetics with 52 laid off under 'difficult' circumstances

PLD Space secures €11M loan to develop its MIURA 5 launch site

Madrid cloud services startup Jotelulu secures €6.8M

Valencia-based Tugesto acquired by Norwegian firm Visma; Juan Roig's investment company Angels sold its entire stake

Up to €51M granted through ENISA to promote female digital entrepreneurship

GVC Gaesco & Next Tier Ventures joint launch a €50M fund exclusively for AI startups

Mistral AI has launched its first Startup Program: the Mistralship. Get credits, support, early model access, etc; open now

ICEX’s eMerge Americas Boston immersion program is open for biotech startups

Op-ed about Glovo’s journey and the effects on the Barcelona & broader ecosystem 

TalX by 3Dthinks: The first inclusive WhatsApp for people with disabilities

Banco Sabadell opens its first hub focused on the entrepreneurial ecosystem; BCN will get another BStartup Hub in 2025

3000 Catalan startups in 2030? The ambitious government goal to be the best hub in Europe

Eugin, at the Barcelona Science Park, leads a €3.5M project to develop pioneering embryo implantation treatment 

Catalan jewelry brand PDPAOLA lands in the US

Revolut chooses Spain as the first country to launch its ATMs in January; cash is still the most-used payment here 

TikTok’s new e-commerce platform launches in Spain

€550M lawsuit against Meta by Spanish media publications set to begin Oct 2025

Sifted’s annual 250 fastest-growing startups by revenue; 8 from BCN including beautytech Olistic #13 

The FT’s Weekend Essay: Can Europe build its first trillion-dollar startup?

WSJ: Six Months, Thousands of GPTs and Some Big Unknowns: Inside OpenAI’s Deal With BBVA

Open source, open heart: Ghost’s John O’Nolan secret (spicy) sauce (Life on Mars, EN edition)

George Arison, Grindr CEO: How Grindr Built a Free Flow Cash Machine (20VC)

Mon, 9 Dec: AI engineers weekly networking meetup

Tue, 10 Dec @11:00: Open Source AI in Finance @ BHH

Wed, 11 Dec @17:00: Growth for SaaS: Strategies for growth in digital products

Wed, 11 & Thu, 12 Dec: Tech Spirit Barcelona 2024

Wed, 18 Dec @ 19:00: BCN FinTech Vermut & Networking, Winter Edition ❄️

Thu, 3 Jan @18:30: LinkedIn + ChatGPT: The Secret Formula to Break Through in the Professional Network

Thu, 30 Jan @18:30: Entrepreneurship through science: the new opportunity of the deeptech ecosystem

Serviceform is hiring in Sales B2B SaaS, Spanish Market

INBRAIN Neuroelectronics needs a Grants & Tenders Management PM

Honest Greens is looking for a Creative Producer

+771 Current Barcelona-based job openings in the fintech sector (per 4 Dec on LinkedIn)