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Learn about the PAPIs --> Predictive APIs Event in Barcelona

Great upcoming event on PAPI's in Barcelona.

"Attending PAPIs is the best way to learn how to give predictive capabilities to your business and to your apps, to discover what others are doing and how, and to find out about the latest tools and developments.

Sessions are BS-free and they were chosen rigorously by a Program Committee consisting of experts and thought leaders in machine learning, data mining and predictive analytics. As a consequence, there won't be any sales pitches, marketing speeches or buzzword cover-ups — you can instead expect an exciting learning experience full of very practical, technical talks on how to build predictive APIs and predictive apps.”

ALSO for Barcelona.io readers there is a 40% discount if you wish to attend.

ProductHunt Barcelona Meetup

Welcome back from the summer holidays people. We hope you either hand a great break or productive summer progress on your company.

To celebrate the return, we thought it was time to have some beers and talk tech. In this case we are hosting ProductHunt Barcelona meet-up, having some drinks at The Top (bar of the Gallet Hotel), bringing together some of the local community of founders and tech types that love to talk product.

For those not familiar with ProductHunt, it is a great tool & community to get initial exposure and feedback around your product. So also great if you are looking for new product managers, or wanting feedback around your latest product.

We will be having a few pitches from people with newly created product as well. So a great chance for you to get people in BCN aware of what you have been working on.

Also - there is a pool there if you with to pitch in your swimming costume, that can be accommodated.

More info and RSVP.

There will be some more events organised by APIUX, JobFluent and Barcelona.io as the year progresses.

Highly recommended event: WeNode! in Barcelona

The following event is happening in Barcelona in October if you are into Node.js.

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Node.js® is a platform, built on Chrome's JavaScript runtime, for easily building fast, scalable network applications. Node.js is a great platform for boostrapping products or scaling existing ones. WeNode is a one-day, not-for-profit conference in Barcelona about node.js, server-side and embedded JavaScript technologies. The event is organised by BarcelonaJS, the local JavaScript community. Node.js is the latest trend in web technologies and the fastest growing developer ecosystem right now. No matter if you're already an expert or if you are completely new to the topic, "we node" and we'd like to invite you to node with us. WeNode will run on two tracks, covering topics from beginner to expert levels, accompanied by workshops to consolidate knowledge and experience with node.js. From the MEAN stack to serving 50.000 requests per seconds, we'll take a dive into node.js. We invite you to join us at WeNode and learn, network and share experience with fellow node.js developers and enthusiasts.

#node.js barcelona

Startup Volleyball 2014 wrap-up

The 2nd ever Startup Volleyball has a winner: Barcinno, for the second year in a row! Check them out celebrating, plus more photos of the event here.

This is an event that wouldn’t be possible in any other startup hub. It’s very Barcelona, and we’re psyched that we had such a great turnout during August, even after having to change the original date.

Barcinno took the 3scale Cup again after a very tight final with Bax & Willems (some of whom played last year as Barcinno, which kind of explains it). 3rd and 4th went to newcomers myTaste and Devex respectively. Congratulations to all the teams for giving it their all and keeping it fun!

The event wouldn't have been possible without the sponsorship of 3scale and the help of Diane Strutner. And of course without all the players and spectators who left their office early to have an afternoon of volleyball and drinks at the beach. Thank you for being part of our little startup tournament and see you next year!

#barcelona #volleyball #bcnstartupvolley #startup events

Remember meeting Icebergs back at TechCrunch Barcelona in 2013? Well they just go acquired by pinterest.

Pinterest has acquired Icebergs, a "Pinterest for creative types," which offered an online collaboration service that allowed users to organize their..

BARCELONA, Spain, July 22, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Social Point, a leading developer of mobile games, raised a $30M round led by Highland Capital Partners Europe. Existing investor, France-based Idinvest, also participated in the round. Social Point began as a developer of games for the Facebook platform, and has successfully transitioned over the last few years into a leading player of mobile games on both iOS and Android platforms with such titles as Dragon City and Monster Legends.

First it was Microsoft and now SAP. Funds related to both technology multinationals have invested three months apart in the Catalan company Scytl electronic voting.

SAP Ventures has injected 15 million euros in the company and with this investment Scytl already accumulated 45 million euros of private funding so far this year, in April after entering its shareholders Vulcan Capital, fund Paul Allen, co-founder of Microsoft.

Primero fue Microsoft y ahora SAP. Fondos vinculados a ambas multinacionales de tecnologa han invertido con tres meses de diferencia en la compaa catalana de voto electrnico Scytl.

Whilst plenty of attention has been put on the Priceline Group's acquisition last week of OpenTable - another deal has also been secured quietly behind the scenes.

Well done to Christian, Avi and team.

$32M Acquisition of Kigo, who were based in Barcelona.

Congrats to Shawn, Vedad and the team.

"RealPage, Inc. (NASDAQ: RP ), a leading provider of on-demand property management software, announces the acquisition of Kigo , a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) vacation rental booking and channel management system headquartered in Barcelona, Spain. In January, RealPage acquired InstaManager, a similar vacation rental booking system headquartered in the U.S. With the acquisition of Kigo, RealPage further extends its vacation rental booking system internationally."

Pirates on Shore - Barcelona Edition - June 19th

Come if ye dare to be part of the most rebellious pirate event in Europe, and its voyage to Barcelona.

Agenda: - Panel Discussion with top-VCs (announced soon) - Pitch competition (Message Robbie, if you’d like to pitch your startup) - Mix & Mingle – Networking + Drinks

Only 100 tickets available – get yours now here.

TOMORROW: Barcelona Startup Job Fair #5 with JobFluent

We are excited to be having the largest Startup Job Fair in Barcelona again tomorrow with JobFluent.

Companies - SOLD OUT. We have no more space for companies wishing to attend! All full. We have over 32 companies in attendance.

Talent - We have a few slots left for talent searching for their next dream role in a startup or high growth company.

The event is aimed at Software development, Data Scientists, Engineers, QA/Testing, Design, Product, Marketing talent.

So come along if you fit those roles. To grab some of the last tickets (and free beer from Moritz).... sign up here.

We hope to see you there.

Monthly Wrap - 7th Edition - April 2014

We hope you have time to read this Monthly Wrap in between all of the amazing events happening this week as part of Fest-Up! Barcelona Startup Festival. 45 events in 12 venues. Great work guys. More info here>

And as if that wasnt enough, Jobfluent are back with the 5th Edition of the amazeballs Barcelona Startup Job Fair on 21 May. More info here>

AND BarcelonaJS are having a one day conference on the JavaScript mobile revolution. There will be talks, workshops and test devices. Registration is free though they are looking for another sponsor. More info here>

As always send your news to [email protected]

FINANCING AND NEWS

€30m votes for Scytl

Scytl have been quietly enhancing their reputation for bringing serious, secure technology to voting and election reporting and have received a significant vote of confidence from Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen who has invested €30m via Vulcan Capital. Back in October we reported that Scytl would be providing official election night reporting for the European Parliamentary elections coming up later this month. More info here>

€2.6m per hour!

One of the strongest aspects of the startup scene here in Barcelona is the Travel and Tourism sector. The latest addition to this proud pantheon is ByHours.com - an app that rents out hotel rooms - you guessed it - by the hour! With 30 employees and 30,000 users they are already a serious operation and have secured €2.6m from Mediaset España, Labogar and Axon Partners amongst others. More info here (spanish)>

Uber scared

Last month we reported that Uber is coming to Barcelona. Sadly the backlash has begun. Lets see how the European Capital of Innovation responds. More info here>

A loraah walla’s!

Back in October we introduced you to Wallapop - the geolocalized flea market. Their community is now 1 million strong and growing. its addictive to scroll through the list of stuff available - I just bought a teenage mutant ninja turtles tshirt! Also they have a cool new advert. More info here>

Akamon rolls the dice Akamon got in touch to tell us about their investment in a games studio in Israel and the appointment of Alex Cohen as their new Chief Product Officer. They have also reorganised themselves a bit with the Barcelona office remaining as the HQ, dedicated to developing social casino games. More info here>

NEW STARTUPS

Busy bees

Beeplay is a clever little app that gives companies looking for market research access to an instant, geolocalized crowd. Companies pay between €1 and €25 for users to perform tasks such as completing surveys or handing out flyers. They send a report on what they have done to Beeplay who then inform the company. More info here>

Stop licking the screen!

Everyone loves to see great chefs explain how they make their delicious creations. Split between Barcelona and London, Cookbooth aims to make it easier for chefs to create and share visual recipes giving all of us access to a tastier world. Now where did I put that lemongrass?! More info here>

Special Spaces

Like Airbnb except for spaces, PopPlaces is a nifty new initiative that connects people looking for exciting, interesting or different spaces with people looking to host events. Counting on the support of Akamon Executive Chairman Carlos Blanco, PopPlaces already has a range of amazing places available for your next big press conference! More info here>

Dear Agnes... Our very own Hermes Pique has launched a new iOS notes app called Agnes. Its very swish, featuring to-do lists, in-line photos and lots more. More info here> We haven't featured a Barcelona Kickstarter project in quite a while so we were delighted to see that Modulo from IDAPT has already blasted past its stretch goal. Its a very clever take on the external battery that won prizes at CES. Get backing! More info here>

The Monthly Wrap

Previous Editions

Edition 1 - September 2013 featuring Marfeel, Typeform, 3scale and Similify, among others!

Edition 2 - October 2013 featuring Teambox, Restalo, Passwordbank, Scytl and many more!

Edition 3 - November 2013 featuring Trip4Real, Treevo, Silicon Barri, Wallapop, Honest and Smile and more!

Edition 4 - December 2013 and January 2014 featuring Audiosnaps, Kantox, Redbooth, iSegurosdeSalud, Wuaki, Instaroom, Bidaway and more!

Edition 5 - February 2014 featuring Lodgify, Infantium, Medprive, UppTalk, Voz.io, Vilynx and more!

Edition 6 - March 2014 featuring eDreams, Onmidrone, Socialpoint, Knok, Brandcrumb, Rock Your Meal, Ohlalapps, and others.

Credits:

The Monthly Wrap is brought to you by Barcelona IO and is written by@QuinnDonal

Largest Startup job Fair in southern Europe is Back. We are partnering with JobFluent again to put on the best and biggest startups job fair in Southern Europe here in Barcelona.

We are helping bring together the community to match talent and opportunity with the support of Universitat de Barcelona, facultat d’Economia i Empresa, Moritz and Barcelona Activa.

There will be over 30 companies with more than 200 hundred jobs on show. The companies will be looking for;

Development/Engineering: Web Developers, Mobile Developers, Software Engineers, QA/Testing

Design: Web Designers, UX Designers, Creative Directors

Product: Product Managers, Project Managers, Analysts

Marketing: Marketing Directors, Functional Specialists (SEO, SEM, Social media, PR)

Sales: Sales Directors, Business Development, Account Executives, Account Managers

When: Wednesday May 21st, 6:00PM – 10:00PM

Where: Universitat de Barcelona, facultat d’Economia i Empresa, Avinguda Diagonal, 690, Barcelona

If you are talent looking to attend (For FREE + Beer) —> Go here.

There are already 15 companies signed up including, Akamon, Devex, eDreams, Typform,3Scale, billy, UppTalk, Dexma, Localler, Trovit, Lodgify, WorldCoo, GetApp Mobile Jazz and ExoClick. We will be adding many more in the coming few days.

If you are a company looking to recruit —> Go here.

Over tech 200 jobs from more than 30 companies all in one night in #Barcelona. We are delighted to announce the 5th Barcelona Startup Job Fair. cc: Moritz Barcelona Barcelona.IO

Not only is this hopefully a sign of recovery, however broader awareness of long term viable tech companies emerging from Spain.

This is the first listing of a company that has been a vital part of the startup eco-system in Spain. Many of people bringing together the next batch of technology companies in Barcelona came through off the back of experience at eDreams and being on that growth path.

We hope this is that start of something much bigger for Spain and the Barcelona tech sector.

Spain passed a fresh milestone on Tuesday in its campaign to regain market trust and advertise a nascent economic recovery, with the first initial public offering of a Spanish company on the Madrid stock market since the country emerged from

Startup dodgeball is back in BCN. If you missed it last time, you missed a great day of teams across Barcelona, fiercely competing and enjoying the sun. An event not to be missed!

Signup here!

Scytl have raised a sizeable round of 40 M dollars. They are growing extremely quickly and strongly.

Microsoft’s co-founder’s investment firm backs the global leader in election modernization

Monthly Wrap - 6th Edition - March 2014

A steady stream of news this month. Barcelona continues to make make waves on the tourism and social gaming markets. Go us!

As always please send news and gossip to [email protected] - Let the community know what’s going on.

Sadly, its worth reading the Tech.eu piece on the new crowdfunding regulations in Spain

FINANCE

O Did you knOw about ODIGEO?

We are sure you have all heard, but we are fit to burst at the news that Barcelona’s very own eDreams has become the first Spanish IPO since 2011. The amazing team down in the harbour have been spreading to new markets and growing like crazy. This also marks the first time that the Monthly Wrap has linked to a story on Reuters!! *sniffle* More info here>

Omni-talented!

The wealth of social gaming companies in Barcelona is creating a virtuous circle with talent from Digital Chocolate, Social Point and others combining to create Omnidrone. This cauldron of talent has raised €1.5 million in funding from top notch VC’s Nokia Growth Partners (NGP), London Venture Partners (LVP) and Kibo Ventures. All of this before they even launch their first product. We like their style!

More info here>(spanish) or here> (english)

Putting the Y in Ysios

From our friends in Barcinno we hear that Barcelona based VC Ysios Capital is putting together a €100m fund to invest in up to 15 companies in the life sciences and medical technology fields. They will be hoping to build on their big success from 2011 when Biovex was sold to Amgen for up to €1bn. More info here>

STARTUP NEWS

Que coño es Uber?

An eagle eyed birdie has spotted job listings for Barcelona on the website of the uber-innovator. Enemy of taxistas and friend of drunken hookups, could Uber’s next target be our fair city? See our jobs links below.

Social Money!

Social Point are continuing their impressive growth registering a cool 168% increase in revenue in 2013, hitting an amazing €43 million. This and the four new games that are coming on stream in 2013 promises a healthy return for their investors who include Greylock Partners, Idinvest and Nauta Capital. More info here> (Spanish)

Opportunity Knoks!

We have mentioned Knok on the Monthly Wrap several times and here we go again! They brought something new and fresh to the home-swapping market and now they have honed their product further by focusing their efforts on the family segment of the home swap market. They are also taking out the pain points by verifying identities and properties. Knoktastic! More info here>

Everyone get voting!

The Next Web are running a vote on who gets to represent Spain at the prestigious TNW conference in Amsterdam on April 24. Four out of the five on the list are Barcelona based and they all kick ass. Of course here at Barcelona IO we are strictly neutral, the important thing is to have your say! More info here>

NEW STARTUPS

A Trail of Brands

Brandcrumb is a neat idea that focuses on bring brands and content producers together. For content producers it automates the linking of the names of brand in content directly to that brand’s site. Brands only pay per click, keeping everyone happy! More info here>

Rock my Quiche

Rock Your Meal is bringing innovation to your kitchen. Dust down that spice rack and input the food you have available into their clever system and it will suggest meals for you to try out. Same food, new menus, brilliant. More info here>

Oh la la Monsieur!

Complete with one of the grooviest startup names we have heard in a while, Ohlalapps are here to help non-techies build apps for their businesses. Its a white label services that offers video tutorials, a knowledge base and professional help for more ambitious projects. Magnifique! More info here>

ACCELERATORS

Seeding Barcelona

Seedrocket will be running their “XI CAMPUS DE EMPRENDEDORES PARA STARTUPS” in Barcelona from 26 to 30 May 2014. The event offers training and access to sources of funding. Places are limited and the deadline for applications is 6 May. More info here>

Google googling the next Google

The application deadline has just closed for NEXT, a pre-accelerator program supported by Google Entrepreneurs and hosted by the epic team at itnig. Over the next 5 weeks the chosen entrants will get weekly coaching sessions and the best team will be invited to a global demo day event. More info here>

JOBS

Here it is folks - those Barcelona based jobs on Uber. Don’t all rush at once!

Meanwhile on Jobfluent

Bibulu are looking for Part-time Customer Support / Account Management

Knok are looking for Sales and Customer Care, French Market

Redbooth are looking for UX/UI Designer