Spain startup ecosystem
Spain's startup scene centres on Barcelona and Madrid, both offering vibrant international communities, favourable climate, and increasingly strong investor networks. Barcelona has become a southern European tech hub known for mobile, e-commerce, and health innovation, while Madrid's proximity to corporates and government creates opportunities in fintech and enterprise software. The directory currently lists 176 organisations across 20 cities.
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BNEW — Barcelona New Economy Week 2026
A hybrid B2B event connecting strategic new-economy sectors with around 320 international experts and 100+ hours of programming, organised around cross-sector verticals at DFactory Barcelona. Useful for founders wanting cross-industry corporate connections and exposure beyond a single vertical.
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Cabify
Cabify is a ride-hailing and urban mobility platform founded in Madrid in 2011, connecting passengers with professional licensed drivers via its app. Operating in Spain and 11 Latin American countries across 40+ cities, it serves both consumers and enterprises with ride, taxi, and delivery services. Backed by Rakuten Capital, Seaya, and Amadeus with $517M raised, Cabify became a unicorn in 2018 at a $1.4B valuation. As of early 2026 the company employs over 4,400 people and differentiates itself from ride-sharing peers through a regulated, professional-driver-only model.
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Canarias Destino Startup 2026
The Canary Islands' largest entrepreneurship and innovation event, in its 4th edition with a three-day format, 2,000+ attendees, 50+ startups, and a €10,000 pitch competition. Strong for early-stage founders connecting with the fast-rising Canarian ecosystem and its digital-nomad-adjacent community.
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Caravelo
Caravelo is a travel-tech SaaS company that lets airlines create and manage flight-subscription programmes ('all you can fly') to generate recurring revenue, smooth seasonal demand and improve loyalty, with airline clients including Volaris, Wizz Air and Alaska Airlines.
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Carlos Blanco
Carlos Blanco is a Spanish serial entrepreneur and one of the country's best-known angel investors, based in Barcelona. He founded Akamon Entertainment, a social gaming company that he sold in one of Spain's most notable exits of 2015, and he co-founded the Nuclio Venture Builder and the Conector startup accelerator. He is Managing Partner at Encomenda Smart Capital and has been recognised with Spain's Best Business Angel award by AEBAN.
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Carlos Moro
Carlos Moro is a Spanish entrepreneur and founder of Bodegas Familiares Matarromera, one of Spain’s leading wine groups, known for combining viticulture with innovation, R&D and sustainability across food, cosmetics and biotechnology ventures.
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Carlota Pi
Co-founder and executive president of Holaluz, the Barcelona green-energy retailer she co-founded in 2010 and took public on BME Growth in 2019. She is a prominent advocate for Spain's renewable-energy 'rooftop revolution.'
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Clarity AI
Clarity AI is a sustainability-technology platform that uses machine learning and big data to measure the environmental, social and governance (ESG) impact of companies, funds and governments. It serves financial institutions and regulators, covering 70,000+ companies and 400,000+ funds.
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Cobee
Cobee is a Madrid-based digital employee benefits and flexible compensation platform that lets companies offer and employees manage benefits such as meal vouchers, training, health and life insurance, wellbeing and discounts through a single app and card. The company expanded beyond Spain into Portugal and Mexico, serving over 1,500 clients. In 2024 global employee-benefits company Pluxee acquired Cobee, which continues to operate as part of the Pluxee group.
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Colvin
Colvin is a direct-to-consumer flowers and plants marketplace that sources fresh-cut flowers directly from growers and ships them to customers across Spain, Germany and Italy, offering curated bouquets and gifting with shorter supply chains than traditional florists.
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Commit Conf 2026
One of Spain's largest community-driven developer conferences, with around 70 talks backed by 40 tech communities spanning web, mobile, cloud, architecture, and AI. Strong fit for technical founders and engineering teams wanting to recruit, learn current practice, and plug into Madrid's developer community.
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Conector Startup Accelerator
Founded 2013 by prominent Spanish entrepreneurs. Runs 5-month batches for early-stage digital startups in media, gaming, and mobile; mentors take equity and support Demo Day. Notable alumni include Glovo and Meller. Scope: Regional (Barcelona & Madrid).
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Cooltra
Cooltra is Europe's leading sustainable two-wheel mobility platform, operating fleets of 30,000+ electric mopeds and e-bikes for rental and B2B fleet management across 9 cities in Spain, France, Italy, and Portugal. Founded in Barcelona in 2006 by Timo Buetefisch, Holger Sprengel, and Henrik Sprengel, it has scaled to €60M+ in annual revenue with positive EBITDA and 3M+ registered users. In October 2025 Cooltra acquired rival Kleta after its insolvency, consolidating Spain's e-moped market. The company partners with BMW Motorrad for fleet supply and operates its own charging & maintenance infrastructure.
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David Okuniev
Co-founder and former co-CEO of Typeform, the Barcelona-based online form and survey platform. A designer by background, he co-created Typeform's conversational form experience that grew into a global SaaS product.
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Dcycle
Dcycle (legally The Wake Up Movement, S.L.) is a Madrid-based ESG and sustainability data platform that helps companies collect, manage and report non-financial information in compliance with frameworks such as CSRD, CDP, EcoVadis, ISO 14001/14064, VSME, and the EU Taxonomy. Its platform automates data collection from ERPs, invoices and spreadsheets, tracks Scope 1, 2, and 3 carbon footprint under the GHG Protocol, supports supplier engagement to reduce Scope 3 emissions, and includes a built-in AI assistant, Leia, that helps draft sustainability plans and reports.
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Delfos Energy
AI-powered asset performance management ('virtual engineer') platform for wind, solar, hydro and battery storage assets. Global HQ in Barcelona. Raised about EUR 6.3M in 2024.
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Demium
Founded 2013. Talent incubator that forms teams and builds startups from idea stage in a 6-month program, with up to EUR 100K pre-seed from its fund. Expanded to multiple European cities; reports 78% survival across 40+ companies. Scope: International.
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DES - Digital Enterprise Show 2026
Leading international B2B event on AI and exponential technologies at FYCMA Málaga, bringing 400+ companies presenting 700+ innovations across AI, data, cybersecurity, cloud, IoT, retail tech, and startups to 15,000 C-level professionals.
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Devo
Devo is a cloud-native security data platform that replaces legacy SIEM with real-time analytics, SOAR, and AI-driven behavioral analytics. Founded in Madrid in 2011 as Logtrust, it rebranded to Devo and expanded globally with headquarters now in Cambridge, Massachusetts and its European hub in Madrid. The platform serves enterprise security operations centers with ThreatLink automated alert triage and Behavior Analytics AI models. Devo has raised $481M in total funding, including a $100M Series D from Georgian, Bessemer, and Insight Partners, and holds a US Air Force SIEM contract worth $9.5M.
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DoinGud
DoinGud is a Web3 community organization and NFT platform founded by Manu Alzuru, built around social impact applications of blockchain technology and the Ethereum ecosystem. It is the founding organization behind ETHBarcelona, Spain's largest Ethereum festival, which it has produced since the inaugural 2022 edition in Barcelona. DoinGud operates as a community-driven initiative supporting DAOs, creators, builders, and activists working at the intersection of decentralization and positive social change.
