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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Talent Arena 2026
Developer-first event aligned with MWC week, featuring coding sessions, architecture deep dives, and hackathon-style programs around AI, cloud, and cybersecurity. Useful for startup engineering recruiting and employer branding with senior technical talent.
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The Venture City
The Venture City is a hybrid accelerator and venture capital firm founded in 2017 by Laura Gonzalez-Estafani (ex-Facebook) with offices in Madrid, Miami, and San Francisco. The firm invests from seed to Series A in product-led startups across Europe and the Americas, with typical tickets of $500K-2M. The Venture City differentiates through its in-house growth team offering data analytics, product optimization, and go-to-market support. Portfolio companies include Cabify, Lingokids, and Internxt. The firm manages over $150M and focuses on fintech, SaaS, and mobile-first businesses.
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Tourism Innovation Summit 2026
A leading global travel-tech summit with around 7,000 attendees, 400+ speakers, and 200 exhibitors at FIBES Seville, covering AI applications, intelligent destinations, distribution models, and sustainable operations. For traveltech founders it is the main Iberian stage to reach hospitality buyers, destinations, and travel investors.
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Transfiere (European Forum for Science, Technology and Innovation) 2026
Deep-tech transfer forum connecting research, startups, investors, and public sector partners. Price: about EUR 22 (visitor) to EUR 190 (full networking pass). Ideal for university spin-offs seeking tech transfer partners, grants, and R&D pilots.
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Transfiere 2027
Transfiere 2027, the European Forum for Science, Technology and Innovation, runs 10-12 March in Malaga. Now in its 16th edition, the forum is a leading platform of Spain's R&D&I system, connecting scientific, technological, business and institutional stakeholders across five specialised forums, including the IV Premio Empresa Innovadora awards.
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TravelPerk
TravelPerk is a Barcelona-based corporate travel platform that replaces fragmented business-trip booking and policy management with a software-first system designed for both employees and finance teams. Its product combines broad travel inventory with a consumer-grade booking flow, while also giving companies the controls they need around approvals, budget visibility, invoicing, and reporting. That mix matters because corporate travel historically sat in an awkward space between employee convenience and finance oversight, with legacy travel management tools serving neither side particularly well. TravelPerk's software approach turns travel into a manageable operating workflow rather than a disconnected administrative burden. It has also expanded its moat through flexibility, policy automation, and integrations into the wider HR and finance stack, which makes it attractive to fast-growing international teams. In the European ecosystem, TravelPerk is one of the clearest examples of a category-defining B2B SaaS company emerging from Southern Europe and selling into the operational backbone of modern companies. It is especially relevant for startups and scale-ups managing distributed teams, customer travel, and cross-border expansion.
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TRIBBU
TRIBBU (formerly Hoop Carpool, legally Hoop Solutions S.L.) is a Madrid-based carpooling platform for daily commutes to work or university across Spain. Drivers publish routes and are paid per shared trip through the BBono Energetico, a government-backed energy-savings certificate scheme worth 1 euro per 25 km per passenger, while passengers split fuel costs directly with drivers with no platform commission. The app verifies user identity with ID, phone, and email, and also offers a corporate and university product to organise shared commuting for employees and students.
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Typeform
Typeform is a Barcelona-based no-code SaaS platform for building conversational forms, surveys, quizzes, and data-capture experiences with a distinctive one-question-at-a-time UX that consistently outperforms traditional forms on completion rates. Founded in 2012 by David Okuniev and Robert Muñoz, it serves 130,000+ customers and generates over $141M in annual revenue. The platform integrates with Slack, Salesforce, HubSpot, and 500+ tools. Backed by General Atlantic, Sofina, Connect Ventures, and Index Ventures with 720+ employees globally, Typeform is valued at ~€935M and continues operating as an independent product with active development in 2026.
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Valencia Digital Summit 2026
9th edition of Startup Valencia's flagship summit at the City of Arts and Sciences, themed 'Origin of What's Next', expecting 12,000+ attendees from 120 countries, 3,000 startups, 1,500 corporates and 800 investors managing €300B+ in assets.
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Vincent Rosso
Vincent Rosso is a French-Spanish entrepreneur who co-founded and led BlaBlaCar's expansion across Spain and Latin America, and later co-founded the carsharing platform Consentido/CONSENTIO. He is a recurring voice on mobility, marketplaces and European startup scaling.
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Wallapop
Wallapop is a Barcelona-based mobile-first marketplace for buying and selling second-hand goods, designed as a hyper-local consumer-to-consumer platform for used items. Launched in 2013, it grew into one of Spain's leading second-hand marketplaces and a key player in the circular economy. South Korean internet group Naver, an investor since 2021, agreed to acquire full ownership in a deal announced in August 2025 and completed in early 2026, while the company remained headquartered in Barcelona.
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Wallbox
Wallbox designs and manufactures smart EV charging hardware and energy management software, selling chargers in 100+ countries. Co-founded in 2015 by ex-Tesla engineer Enric Asunción and Eduard Castañeda, the company listed on the NYSE in 2021. Its Barcelona factory produces up to 1 million chargers annually. Q1 2026 revenue reached €29.7M with a 37.3% gross margin. A major Iberdrola contract for 10,000 Hypernova ultrafast public chargers is set to double ultrafast public charging in Spain, cementing Wallbox as the European leader in home and commercial EV charging.
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Wayra
Founded 2011. Telefonica's open innovation hub connecting startups to telecom, IoT, and cybersecurity opportunities; typically invests around EUR 150K for equity and provides partnerships. Supports 500+ startups across 10 countries; notable alum Carto. Scope: International.
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WindEurope Annual Event 2026
Europe's flagship wind energy event, drawing 8,000+ attendees from utilities, turbine OEMs, and policymakers. Features an Innovation Park where startups exhibit and pitch. Passes EUR 900-1200. Key for founders in grid integration, offshore wind, blade inspection drones, predictive maintenance, and green hydrogen from wind power.
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WordCamp Europe 2027
WordCamp Europe 2027 moves to Malaga, running 27-29 May at the FYCMA Trade Fair and Congress Center, after being held in Krakow in 2026. The community-run WordPress conference is organised by volunteers and draws contributors, developers and agencies from across the WordPress ecosystem.
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Zazume
Proptech that digitises the full residential rental lifecycle for landlords and property managers, offering guaranteed rent, AI-powered tenant matching, non-payment insurance and rent advances. Manages 3,500 properties across Spain.
