Tech Barcelona says that Barcelona has triumphed over Madrid as Spain's startup capital because of the deal flow. The presence of international companies is one of the factors that attracts international talent.
The number of startup in Catalonia has grown by 75 percent since the beginning of the year. The city has a strong tradition of health-tech startups fueled by university and regional government collaboration, but successful founders have been funding, supporting, and starting other companies, as well as diversify into construction, mobility, and sustainable. Good weather, a lower cost of living, and a beach are some of the benefits of living in London.
There are two people, Lucas Carné and José Manual Villanueva. The photograph was taken by Gregori Civera.
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Privalia was sold in 2016 by Lucas and José. In 2020 they committed 2 million and in July they raised 25 million in Series A funding. The wood used to build homes in the factory is carbon neutral. Carné says that they are bringing the factory systems from automotive to construction to reduce costs. 40% of global CO 2 emissions come from buildings. The project with Renta Corporacin reduced embodied carbon of the building by more than 90 percent and construction timelines were reduced by 35 percent. The company is working on a digital platform to run the design and building process for the project. Next year, global expansion will begin. There is a website called 012h.com.
AcceXible.
The CEO of acceXible calls it maths-based linguistic medicine. The company uses artificial intelligence to analyze a patient's speech patterns and detect early signs of dementia, Parkinson's, and even coronary disease. AcceXible is supported in the early stages by grants and has a new funding round at the end of the year. The company is testing the service with the UK National Health Service in rural Cornwall, where it is hard for older people to reach doctors, and it is also testing a 60-second voice test to detect the signs of depression and anxiety in other countries.
Both Carmen Rios and Frederic Lachlords work for Doctomatic. The photograph was taken by Gregori Civera.
It's called doctomatic.
In Spain, Frederic Llordachs is called the grand pa of digital health. He secured 415,000 in seed funding for Doctomatic with Carmen Rios. Doctors can check in on patients with chronic disease using the remote patient-monitoring app. subjects are assisted in taking their measurements while doctors receive notifications if the results are not normal The data is fed into Doctomatic, which uses artificial intelligence to help doctors see if a patient is getting worse. According to Llordachs, Covid has made it harder for sufferers of chronic disease to attend surgeries. Health care workers are in short supply in Europe. We don't want to disrupt health care He told doctomatic.com that they wanted to improve.
There is a person named VOTTUN.
Luis Carbajo, Amazon's former Spanish director, co-founded the platform with his friend and co-worker, Marta Valles, who is also the founder of VOTTUN. The World Bank, for example, can use a template from VOTTUN to trace data, certify identity, and launch NFT. VOTTUN received government support for its R&D stage in 2020 and 2021, and then raised 1.1 million in two seed rounds from the likes of the Draper Venture Network and Proteum X, with plans for a 20 million initial coin offering. The company made a profit in the year 2022. Expansion into the US and Mexico is predicted by Valles.
It's called Nuclia.
Eudald Camprub says that Neclia makes the unsearchable searchable. Ramon Navarro Bosch has built an artificial intelligence-powered search engine that can index data from any type of document and can also be used to translate videos. Unstructured data in a lot of different data sources is what companies have to contend with. When a user makes a search query, Nuclia offers relevant paragraphs and specific moments from audio and video recordings, all based on the user's words and meanings. The company received a seed round of 5 million and will use it to target developers.
Lupa, that's right.
Combining the second oldest human activity (running) with one of the newest (deeptech), Lupa combines audio coaching, wearables,GPS maps, and sightseeing to take runners on new routes. Lupa hosts weekly run clubs and has a Sweat and Smile podcasts that builds a community feel. Lupa.run is a mobile app company founded in 2020 by a Salomon sponsored mountain runner and his partner.
It's called HUBUC.
Any company can use Hubuc's platform to add financial services to its product. HUBUC was launched in May 2020. Financial services can be embedded into business offerings with their singleAPI. HUBUC is between financial partners and the company. The seed round raised $10 million. The number of card transactions has increased by 1,600 since the start of the year.
The last app.
Who supported the food providers when the world ordered food by app? The Last.app is a B2B on-demand service for the restaurant industry founded in 2019. Eric says that technology has made things harder for restaurants. The company has deals with a number of local chains. January's 2.5 million funding round was led by All Iron Venture, a Spanish financier, and supported by Bynd.
There is virtue.
"Insurance is not a sector that has demonstrated much innovation so far." It should contribute to people's lives. To overcome consumer perception that insurance is boring, Vitaance gamifies financial, social, mental, and physical improvements for a company's employees by offering rewards for individuals and teams that hit healthy physical, emotional, and financial goals The Catalan company closed the year with a pre-seed funding round from SoftBank and other investors to fund a research and innovation lab.
There is payflow.
Catalonia respects civil society. The startup charges companies a commission if staff withdraw a portion of their salary early, instead of the staff being charged a fee. Benot Menardo, one of the co-founding partners of the company, says that the company will not charge employees. It has an average download rate of 40 percent among users and 90 percent for some of them. It has raised 12 million since it was launched in 2020, with an 8 million round in January.