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☆ Top Spanish VC firm Seaya just closed a $320 million fund. Here are the types of growth-stage climate startups it's looking to back.
  + stars: | 2024-07-02 | by ( Riddhi Kanetkar | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +1 min
Seaya's new $320 million fund makes it the largest VC firm in Spain, managing €650 million. The Seaya Andromeda fund will back startups across four key sub-sectors. Founder Beatriz González told Business Insider what Seaya is looking for in startups and founders. Launched in 2013 by former private equity veteran Beatriz González, Seaya is among a handful of female-founded European venture capital firms. This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers.
Persons: Beatriz González, — Organizations: Service, Business Locations: Spain, Madrid, Seaya
☆ Smaller valuations and a lack of ego helped Spain's startup scene avoid some of Europe's shocking collapse in VC funding, investors say
  + stars: | 2023-06-29 | by ( Tasmin Lockwood | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +8 min
Spain's startup scene has evaded some of the collapse in VC funding that has rocked Europe in 2023. Smaller check sizes and a lack of "ego" has somewhat protected the ecosystem, investors say. Smaller valuations, check sizes, and a distinct lack of ego helped Spain's startup scene evade some of the shocking collapse in venture capital funding that has rocked Europe so far this year. Smaller rounds give Spain's startups an edge in the downturnWhat correction was felt was eased by the fact there is less "ego" in Spain's ecosystem, according to Max Bray, an investor at early-stage firm K Fund. As well as the birth of local growth funds, investors see corporations playing a role in closing the funding gap.
Persons: SoftBank, Catalyst, Pablo Pedrejón, Max Bray, Dalia Silberstein, Pedro Arribas Gridilla, Juliette Simonin, Margarita Albors, Tasmin Lockwood, Bray, Marc Sabas, Fund's Bray, Wallbox cofounders Enric Asunción, Eduard Castañeda, Glovo, Wallbox, Oscar Pierre, Ship2B's Sabas, Danae Vara, Danae Vara Ship2B, hasn't, Sabas, CVCs, There's, Félix Ortega, K Fund's Bray, Sérgio Massano Organizations: Accel, Pedrejón, Venture, Fund, Esade Center, Social, Foundation, Spanish, K Fund, Investors, Danae Vara Ship2B Ventures, Investment, Corporations, Barcelona Activa, Telefónica, BBVA, Proeduca Locations: Europe, Spain, Madrid, France, Germany, Switzerland, Netherlands, Seaya, Bray, Vara, Barcelona, Silicon, London
☆ Construction is bad for the planet. This startup's solution is to assemble buildings like they're flatpack furniture.
  + stars: | 2023-04-13 | by ( Tasmin Lockwood | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +9 min
Spanish startup 011h is betting on timber as a humble hero to ease the climate and housing crises. Now, a Spanish construction company is hoping to spearhead the adoption of flat-pack buildings. When it is cut down for timber, carbon remains stored in the wood until it burns or decays. For Brennan, cost remains a big "but" — even if sustainable buildings are a no-brainer. If it's not affordable, if people cannot pay for it, then it's not sustainable," Carné said.
☆ Spain's startup scene has gone from a desert crossing to a $4 billion burgeoning industry. Now, it plans to cut red tape to birth a new batch of unicorns.
  + stars: | 2022-10-11 | by ( Tasmin Lockwood | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +8 min
Spanish startups lured a record $4.1 billion from investors in 2021, according to PitchBook. The government hopes its new Startup Law will help birth an array of new unicorns. In 2016, Lucas Carné sold his fashion marketplace startup Privalia for around 500 million euros (around $495 million) in a landmark deal for the Spanish tech ecosystem. Privalia's sale to its enlarged French counterpart Ventee-Privee – since rebranded as VeePee – illustrated just how far the Spanish startup scene had changed in the space of 10 years. Spanish startups secured a record $4.1 billion in 2021 – more than double that of 2020 –, according to PitchBook data.
☆ This startup enables companies to launch their own embedded finance products. Check out the 16-slide pitch deck Toqio used to raise $19.2 million.
  + stars: | 2022-09-29 | by ( Callum Burroughs | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +2 min
Toqio, a London-based fintech SaaS startup, has raised $19.2 million in Series A funding. The startup's platform enables companies to launch their own fintech products. London-based fintech startup Toqio has raised $19.2 million in fresh funding. Companies can access a range of different banking and embedded finance products from the startup's platform. The startup believes its platform and marketplace offer a more cost-efficient way for companies to launch their own financial products.
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