Barcelona Startups Guide 2022

A healthy ecosystem of investors, development entities and local talent has given rise to Barcelona earning its place among Europe’s leading startup hubs.

The city is famous for it’s good weather, beautiful architecture and vibrant culture. A lower cost of living compared to cities such as London and Paris and being the location of the Mobile World Congress also adds to Barcelona’s allure.

In the startup world, Barcelona has emerged as being particularly strong in the areas of Logistics, Fintech and E-Commerce.

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E-Commerce

21 Buttons

21 Buttons

21 Buttons is a fashion social network where users can easily shop the looks of their friends and favorite influencers or upload their own outfits and earn money. The platform is designed to be a dynamic space where users can discover new trends and brands, buy with a single click and share their own style.

  • Headquarters: Barcelona
  • Founded: 2015
  • Number of employees: 51-200
  • Total Funding: $30.7M
  • Categories: Fashion, E-Commerce, Apps
  • Website: 21buttons.com
Colvin

Colvin

The Colvin Co aims to change the way people buy flowers online by offering intermediary-free bouquets through an optimised platform that delivers best-in-class user experience. Colvin currently operates in 4 countries and has offices in Barcelona, but with a remote-first culture.

Wallapop

Wallapop

Wallapop is a hyper-local mobile marketplace for buying and selling secondhand goods, primarily via a mobile app. It uses geo-localized technology that connects a community of 15 million users.

  • Headquarters: Barcelona
  • Founded: 2013
  • Number of employees: 201-500
  • Total Funding: $191.2M
  • Categories: E-Commerce, Apps, Marketplace, Online Classifieds
  • Website: wallapop.com
  • Jobs: apply.workable.com/wallapop/
Letgo

Letgo

Platform for buying and selling second hand goods. Letgo makes it easy to sell what you don’t need and find great deals on what you do. Posting something for sale is as simple as taking a photo, as letgo automatically creates a title and assigns a category to your ad, using artificial intelligence and image recognition. Letgo was acquired by OfferUp in 2020.

Privalia

Privalia

Privalia is an online-fashion outlet offering daily sales of products from top brands at exceptional prices. The company was aquired by vente-privee Group in 2016, a worldwide leader in flash sales.

Worldcoo

Worldcoo

Worldcoo aims to fund NGO solidarity projects through committed retailers, who offer their customers the option to round up the total amount of their purchase and donate the cents to a social cause when paying with a card. Its goal is to help people in need and make a better world together. See also: Interview with Worldcoo

  • Headquarters: Barcelona
  • Founded: 2012
  • Number of employees: 11-50
  • Total Funding: €2.6M
  • Categories: Corporate Social Responsibility, E-Commerce, Crowdfunding
  • Website: worldcoo.com
Deporvillage

Deporvillage

Deporvillage is an online sports retailer specialized in selling cycling, running and outdoor goods at competitive prices.

Deliberry

Deliberry

Deliberry is an online food marketplace that allows users to shop from a variety of supermarkets and stores including such as Caprabo, Veritas and Ametller Origen.

Shopery

Shopery


Shopery offers brands and corporations the possibility to create and scale their marketplaces through a SaaS solution.

  • Headquarters: Barcelona
  • Founded: 2015
  • Number of employees: 11-50
  • Total Funding: €3.1M
  • Categories: E-Commerce, Marketplace, SaaS, Retail
  • Website: shopery.com
Clintu

Clintu

Clintu is a platform where users can order home or office cleaning, home renovations, moving, painting and more.

  • Headquarters: Barcelona
  • Founded: 2014
  • Number of employees: 11-50
  • Total Funding: €1.5M
  • Categories: Domestic Services, Business Services, Cleaning, Marketplace
  • Website: clintu.es
Ubeo

Ubeo

Ubeo is a gamified shopping app where customer can bid on products and services.

  • Headquarters: Barcelona
  • Founded: 2013
  • Number of employees: 51-100
  • Total Funding: €4.1M
  • Categories: E-Commerce, Discounts, Travel, Leisure
  • Website: ubeo.app
Vasquiat

Vasquiat

The fashion platform for creative luxury and emerging brands.

  • Headquarters: Barcelona
  • Founded: 2019
  • Number of employees: 11-50
  • Total Funding: €250K
  • Categories: Fashion, E-Commerce, Marketplace
  • Website: vasquiat.com
Biboss

Biboss

Biboss is a platform that allows users to publish a task such as fixing things around your house, cleaning or even doing taxes. They can then select the offer to complete the task that suits them.

  • Headquarters: Barcelona
  • Founded: 2020
  • Number of employees: 2-10
  • Total Funding: €250K
  • Categories: Services, E-Commerce, Marketplace
  • Website: bibossapp.com
Spathios

Spathios

Spathios is a short-term space reservations marketplace that allows users to book the best places in the city by the hour, whether it be for photography, filming, parties or events.

  • Headquarters: Barcelona
  • Founded: 2020
  • Number of employees: 11-50
  • Total Funding: €360K
  • Categories: Marketplace, E-Commerce, Events, Real Estate
  • Website: spathios.com
Laagam

Laagam

The first stockless fashion brand in the world: exclusive fashion made in Europe with minimal environmental impact and affordable prices.

  • Headquarters: Barcelona
  • Founded: 2016
  • Number of employees: 2-10
  • Total Funding: €764K
  • Categories: Marketplace, E-Commerce, Fashion
  • Website: laagam.com
Consentio

Consentio

Consentio is a leading B2B digital platform for fruits and vegetables trading between producers, wholesalers and supermarkets.

Tiendeo

Tiendeo

Browse the latest catalogues, discover deals, locate shops and share with friends.

BLAINE Box

BLAINE Box

A subscription service for high quality artificial flower bouquets.

  • Headquarters: Barcelona
  • Founded: 2019
  • Number of employees: 1-10
  • Total Funding: €1M
  • Categories: E-Commerce, Artificial Flowers
  • Website: blainebox.com

Fintech

Payflow

Payflow

Payflow gives employees control over their salaries by enabling them to instantly access wages already earned through a mobile app. In other words, employees can collect the part of their salary that they have already earned whenever they want, without having to wait for for a fixed payday. Over 100 companies are already using the service.

  • Headquarters: Barcelona
  • Founded: 2020
  • Number of employees: 11-50
  • Total Funding: €4.6M
  • Categories: Fintech, Financial Services
  • Website: payflow.es
ID Finance

ID Finance

ID Finance is a data-driven financing platform that is pioneering fintech innovation in emerging markets with a range of convenient, competitive and transparent finance services available over the internet.

  • Headquarters: Barcelona
  • Founded: 2012
  • Number of employees: 251-500
  • Total Funding: $62.4M
  • Categories: Fintech, Financial Services
  • Website: idfinance.com
Verse

Verse

Verse offers a peer-to-peer payments platform that allows users to share payments easily, instantly, and with no hidden fees. Verse was acquired by Square in 2020.

  • Headquarters: Barcelona
  • Founded: 2015
  • Number of employees: 51-200
  • Total Funding: $37.6M
  • Categories: Fintech, Mobile Payments, Blockchain, Apps
  • Website: verse.me
Mitto

Mitto

Mitto is a debit card and app designed for “Generation Z” teens. The app helps users keep track of their deposits and expenses and offers discounts on sustainable brands and services.

  • Headquarters: Barcelona
  • Founded: 2019
  • Number of employees: 11-50
  • Total Funding: $3.5M
  • Categories: Fintech, Payments, Financial Services
  • Website: getmitto.com
NEO

NEO

B2B corporate bank providing a SaaS solution for FX hedging and international payments. Neo Group’s ambition is to re-invent the corporate bank account from the ground up, 100% digitally. Their mission is to democratize cash management and FX risk hedging solutions by simplifying their implementation and making them accessible to any corporate, regardless of size.

  • Headquarters: Barcelona
  • Founded: 2017
  • Number of employees: 11-50
  • Total Funding: €5.8M
  • Categories: Fintech, SaaS, Forex, Hedging, International Payments
  • Website: getneo.com
NoviCap

NoviCap

NoviCap helps companies unlock cash stuck in outstanding invoices and improve their cash flow.

  • Headquarters: Barcelona
  • Founded: 2015
  • Number of employees: 51-200
  • Total Funding: $2.9M
  • Categories: Fintech, Invoice Factoring, Financial Services
  • Website: novicap.com
  • Jobs: novicap.com/en/work-with-us/
Belvo

Belvo

Belvo is powering the next generation of fintechs in Latin America through a financial data aggregation API. Backed by Founders Fund, Kaszek Ventures and Y Combinator. Belvo has offices in Mexico City, São Paulo and Barcelona.

  • Headquarters: Mexico City
  • Founded: 2019
  • Number of employees: 51-200
  • Total Funding: $13M
  • Categories: Developer APIs, Fintech, Banking
  • Website: belvo.com
  • Jobs: belvo.com/careers/
Goin

Goin

Goin enables users to get the most out of their money without the need for prior knowledge in the field of finance. The platform is designed for millennials to manage and invest their money with maximum ease and thereby achieve their goals.

  • Headquarters: Barcelona
  • Founded: 2017
  • Number of employees: 11-50
  • Total Funding: €7.2M
  • Categories: Apps, Fintech, Machine Learning
  • Website: goin.app
Coverfy

Coverfy

Coverfy allows you to manage all your insurance from your mobile device, save on policies, get free advice from an expert and declare claims.

Quipu

Quipu

Quipu is an online financial management and billing program that allows you to have all financial information in one place. It is specially designed for freelancers and startups.

  • Headquarters: Barcelona
  • Founded: 2013
  • Number of employees: 11-50
  • Total Funding: €3.3M
  • Categories: SaaS, Finance, Billing
  • Website: getquipu.com
Unnax

Unnax

Unnax enables businesses to access financial-related data from their customers in a simple and secure way. The only open banking provider that offers bank aggregation, payments, onboarding, and e-money services through a single API.

Balio

Balio

A place without taboos to talk and learn about money. Balio offers courses such as ´’optimize your money in 5 steps’ and a forum area including categories such as investment and real estate.

  • Headquarters: Barcelona
  • Founded: 2019
  • Number of employees: 2-10
  • Total Funding: €276K
  • Categories: FinTech, Investing, Education
  • Website: balio.app
Gocleer

Gocleer

Gocleer aims to help people get their insurance in a fair, easy and transparent way by combining amazing tech, behavioral science, tons of data and breathtaking design.

  • Headquarters: Barcelona
  • Founded: 2020
  • Number of employees: 2-10
  • Total Funding: €1.7M
  • Categories: Insurtech, Auto Insurance, Property Insurance, Bcorp
  • Website: gocleer.com
  • Jobs: gocleer.jobsoid.com
TRIOTECA

TRIOTECA

Trioteca is a digital advisor that helps you to search for the best mortgage in Spain.

Polaroo

Polaroo

Polaroo is an app that enables users to keep track of subscriptions, save on expenses and manage personal finances.

  • Headquarters: Barcelona
  • Founded: 2017
  • Number of employees: 11-50
  • Total Funding: €1.6M
  • Categories: Fintech, Apps, Mobile Payments, Big Data
  • Website: polaroo.com
Reloadly

Reloadly

Reloadly is a technology company that builds airtime APIs for developers and their brands. Businesses of every size in a wide variety of industries use Reloadly to enable the transfer of digital mobile payments, digital goods and mobile top-ups.

Vitaance

Vitaance

Vitaance is a new insurtech start-up in the life insurance industry. The company aims to improve people’s quality of life through financial, emotional and physical wellbeing, by creating smart, fair and responsible insurance products enabled by technology.

TradEAsy

TradEAsy

TradEAsy is a tool that allows you to easily create trading strategies, validate them with historical data, and put them to work with your broker.

  • Headquarters: Barcelona
  • Founded: 2019
  • Number of employees: 1-10
  • Total Funding: $328K
  • Categories: Trading, Trading Algorithm, Auto Trading, Forex, MetaTrader
  • Website: tradeasy.tech
Finteca

Finteca

Finteca makes it easy to plan, apply and coordinate a mortgage, all from your phone.

  • Headquarters: Barcelona
  • Founded: 2017
  • Number of employees: 2-10
  • Total Funding: €750K
  • Categories: Fintech, Mortgages, Apps, Mobile
  • Website: finteca.es

Events

Sharify

Sharify

Sharify is an IRL social app that lets people find nearby events and share them with friends. Local events can be discovered quickly and easily through the live city map.

  • Headquarters: Barcelona
  • Founded: 2017
  • Number of employees: 2-10
  • Total Funding: €500K
  • Categories: Events, Apps, Communities
  • Website: sharifyapp.com

Medical & Biotech

Mediquo

Mediquo

MediQuo is an app that allows users to chat with doctors and specialists 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. The app is GDPR and health data compliant, gives professionals time control and incorporates patient medical history and phone privacy. It is a place for discussion, appointments or medical consultation with your doctor or any new health professional.

  • Headquarters: Barcelona
  • Founded: 2018
  • Number of employees: 51-200
  • Total Funding: €4M
  • Categories: Health, Apps, Medical
  • Website: mediquo.com
Anaconda Biomed

Anaconda Biomed

Anaconda Biomed is a medical device start-up that develops the next generation of catheters to perform efficient mechanical thrombectomies.

  • Headquarters: Sant Cugat del Vallès
  • Founded: 2015
  • Number of employees: 11-50
  • Total Funding: €35M
  • Categories: Health, Medical Devices
  • Website: anaconda.bio
Mediktor

Mediktor

Mediktor is a clinically validated AI-based medical assistant for triage, prediagnosis and decision-making support. Users can access Mediktor or via the web or an app.

  • Headquarters: Barcelona
  • Founded: 2011
  • Number of employees: 11-50
  • Total Funding: $3M
  • Categories: Healthcare, Artificial Intelligence, Apps
  • Website: mediktor.com
Capital Cell

Capital Cell

Capital Cell is a pan-European crowdinvesting platform for biotech and life sciences companies.

  • Headquarters: Barcelona
  • Founded: 2014
  • Number of employees: 11-50
  • Total Funding: €1M
  • Categories: Biotechnology, Pharmaceutical, Crowdfunding
  • Website: capitalcell.net

Top Doctors

Top Doctors provides trustworthy and up to date data to help users in choosing the best medical professionals.

  • Headquarters: Barcelona
  • Founded: 2013
  • Number of employees: 51-200
  • Total Funding: €15.6M
  • Categories: Healthcare, Medical
  • Website: topdoctors.com
Elma

Elma

Elma aims to make healthcare access a patient-centric and totally personalized experience.

INBRAIN Neuroelectronics

INBRAIN Neuroelectronics

INBRAIN Neuroelectronics builds neuroelectronic interfaces to cure brain disorders. The company uses graphene, the thinnest material known to man, to build a new generation of neural interfaces for brain restoration. 

Minoryx Therapeutics

Minoryx Therapeutics

Minoryx is focused on the discovery and development of novel treatments for severe, orphan diseases of the central nervous system (CNS) with high unmet medical need.

  • Headquarters: Barcelona
  • Founded: 2011
  • Number of employees: 11-50
  • Total Funding: €76.3M
  • Categories: Biotechnology, Pharmaceutical, Medical
  • Website: minoryx.com
  • Jobs: minoryx.com/careers/
STAT-Dx

STAT-Dx

The mission of STAT-Dx is support timely, efficient patient care, while optimizing laboratory and hospital processes and operations. Acquired by Qiagen.

  • Headquarters: Barcelona
  • Founded: 2010
  • Number of employees: 51-200
  • Total Funding: €49.1M
  • Categories: Biotechnology, Healthcare, Molecular Diagnostics
  • Website: stat-dx.com
ABLE Human Motion

ABLE Human Motion

The first lightweight, easy-to-use and affordable exoskeleton that restores the ability to walk of people with lower-limb paralysis.

Neuroelectrics

Neuroelectrics

Neuroelectrics is pioneering a new therapeutic platform to treat neurological and psychiatric disorders. Starstim combines safe and proven brain stimulation technology with a controlled digital delivery mechanism and a range of personalized treatment protocols.

SOM Biotech

SOM Biotech

SOM Biotech is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on the accelerated development of drugs for orphan indications through AI-technology.

  • Headquarters: Barcelona
  • Founded: 2009
  • Number of employees: 11-50
  • Total Funding: €9M
  • Categories: Biotechnology, Artificial Intelligence, Pharmaceuticals, Life Science
  • Website: sombiotech.com
Senolytic Therapeutics

Senolytic Therapeutics

Senolytic Therapeutics (STX) is a discovery-stage biotech developing novel medicines that target senescent cells. STX´s discovery programs serve as launchpads for developing innovative drugs that improve and extend healthy lives by the elimination of senescent cells.

  • Headquarters: Barcelona
  • Founded: 2017
  • Number of employees: 2-10
  • Total Funding: $583.3K
  • Categories: Pharmaceuticals, Biotechnology, Biopharma, Medical
  • Website: senolytx.com
VEnvirotech Biotechnology

VEnvirotech Biotechnology

VEnvirotech is a biotechnology start up that produces bioplastics, biodegradable in the environment and compatible with the human body.

IMIDomics

IMIDomics

IMIDomics is committed to improving the lives of patients with immune-mediated inflammatory diseases.

FrontWave Imaging

FrontWave Imaging

FrontWave Imaging develops 3D ultrasound supercomputing software that helps with diagnosis of breast cancer.

  • Headquarters: Barcelona
  • Founded: 2020
  • Number of employees: 2-10
  • Total Funding: €750K
  • Categories: Medical, Software, Breast Cancer, Ultrasound
  • Website: frontwave.io

Health

Aire Fresco

Aire Fresco

Spanish language meditation and mindfulness app. Aire Fresco can help users sleep better, lower blood pressure, reduce stress and cortisol levels, improve concentration, improve interpersonal relationships and strengthen the immune system. The app offers 8 forever free meditations.

  • Headquarters: Barcelona
  • Founded: 2018
  • Number of employees: 11-50
  • Categories: Meditation, Health Care, SaaS
  • Website: airefresco.co
Bsport

Bsport solution

An all-in-one platform helping studios and boutique fitness manage their activities while creating new revenue streams. The platform covers marketing, live classes, group class & appointment management, invoicing & teacher management.

  • Headquarters: Paris
  • Founded: 2019
  • Number of employees: 11-50
  • Total Funding: €860K
  • Categories: Health, Fitness, Apps, SaaS
  • Website: pro.bsport.io
Emjoy

Emjoy

An app of audio sessions personalized for you, based on science and psychology from real sex therapists, to guide you toward a more fulfilling sex life. New guided sessions and sexy stories every week.

  • Headquarters: Barcelona
  • Founded: 2018
  • Number of employees: 11-50
  • Total Funding: €3.5M
  • Categories: Health, Wellness & Fitness, Apps
  • Website: letsemjoy.com
Psious

Psious

Psious develops a mobile based technology that uses hyper-realistic virtual environments to treat anxiety disorders by means of virtual exposure therapy. The platform has a suite of mobile applications with virtual environments to provide treatment for phobias including fear of flying, acrophobia, claustrophobia and agoraphobia. It also offers relaxation and mindfulness environments.

  • Headquarters: Barcelona
  • Founded: 2014
  • Number of employees: 51-200
  • Total Funding: $10.1M
  • Categories: Mental Health, Virtual Reality, Health Care
  • Website: psious.com
PromoFarma

PromoFarma

PromoFarma is an e-commerce marketplace that connects consumers directly with pharmacies and providers of health, beauty and personal care products.

  • Headquarters: Barcelona
  • Founded: 2012
  • Number of employees: 51-200
  • Total Funding: €5.6M
  • Categories: E-Commerce, Healthcare, Beauty, Pharma
  • Website: promofarma.com
B-wom

B-wom

B-wom is an app that creates personalized care plans to prevent and address women’s health issues and boost their well-being. The app guides and mentors users with exercises, knowledge and healthy habits.

  • Headquarters: Barcelona
  • Founded: 2015
  • Number of employees: 2-10
  • Total Funding: $1.1M
  • Categories: Apps, Fitness, Health Care, Women’s Health
  • Website: b-wom.com
Durcal

Durcal

Durcal is a free app to track your relatives, children, elders and friends with an intelligent geolocation system. The app notifies you when they leave home, when they arrive at school, work or if they run out of battery or coverage on their phones.

  • Headquarters: Barcelona
  • Founded: 2013
  • Number of employees: 11-50
  • Total Funding: €6M
  • Categories: Apps, Elderly Care, Family, Security
  • Website: durcal.com
Andjoy

Andjoy

Andjoy is a wellness platform. With a single subscription, it allows you to access more than 2,000 centers and more than 40,000 monthly activities. Online classes are also available.

Impress

Impress

Impress provides invisible orthodontic treatments at competitive prices.

Moonoa

Moonoa

Program for better sleep, featuring real-time sleep analysis and monitoring.

  • Headquarters: Barcelona
  • Founded: 2021
  • Number of employees: 11-50
  • Total Funding: €1.5M
  • Categories: Sleep, Health Care, Apps
  • Website: moonoa.fr

Volava

Volava is a European interactive fitness platform that brings the energy and benefits of studio-style workouts to the convenience and comfort of your home.

  • Headquarters: Barcelona
  • Founded: 2017
  • Number of employees: 11-50
  • Total Funding: €4.5M
  • Categories: Fitness, Sports, Wellness, Content
  • Website: volava.com
Koa Health

Koa Health

Koa Health offers mental health solutions for various common mental disorders. It uses technology and research to enable people to change their behaviors with effective and accessible support that adapts to their unique circumstances.

SocialDiabetes

SocialDiabetes

SocialDiabetes is a digital health company specialized in the digitalization of Diabetes Care Management.

  • Headquarters: Barcelona
  • Founded: 2012
  • Number of employees: 11-50
  • Total Funding: €1.9M
  • Categories: Diabetes, Health Care, eHealth, Apps, Social Media
  • Website: socialdiabetes.com

Travel and Leisure

TravelPerk

TravelPerk

TravelPerk is a business travel platform that revolutionizes the way that organizations budget, book, and manage business travel. All aspects of booking and management are streamlined into one easy-to-use, affordable platform that can be rolled out in minutes. TravelPerk is backed by investors such as Spark Capital, investors in Slack, Trello, and Twitter.

  • Headquarters: Barcelona
  • Founded: 2015
  • Number of employees: 201-500
  • Total Funding: $293.2M
  • Categories: Business Travel, SaaS
  • Website: travelperk.com
Exoticca

Exoticca

Exoticca’s mission is to make people’s dream trips come true. A team of over 50 product crafters and curators have travelled extensively to the destinations they cover to create travel packages.

  • Headquarters: Barcelona
  • Founded: 2013
  • Number of employees: 51-200
  • Total Funding: $54.5M
  • Categories: Adventure Travel, Travel Packages
  • Website: exoticca.com
Nautal

Nautal

Nautal is an online platform where all types of boats can be rented, either for a half day, day or a week. From sailboats, motor boats, yachts, catamarans and even pontoons. Nautal is the largest boat rental platform in Spain, and the second in Europe. Its mission is to connect people who want to sail with boat owners.

Tropicfeel

Tropicfeel

Tropicfeel creates travel gear that is extremely versatile, lightweight, and sustainable, while also spreading the word and promoting conscious, responsible and respectful travel around the world.

Aervio

Aervio

Aervio is a travel management platform, integrating artificial intelligence technology to provide an intuitive and streamlined travel management system.

  • Headquarters: Barcelona
  • Founded: 2016
  • Number of employees: 11-50
  • Total Funding: €1.7M
  • Categories: Business Travel, Travel Management, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
  • Website: aervio.com
Atravo

Atravo

The atravo tCommerce platform provides online travel businesses with the tools to build their site, take bookings and grow their business.

  • Headquarters: Barcelona
  • Founded: 2020
  • Number of employees: 2-10
  • Total Funding: €100K
  • Categories: SAAS, Tourism, E-Commerce, Booking System, Website Builder
  • Website: atravo.io
Immfly

Immfly

Immfly is a digital services and inflight entertainment platform that passengers access using their personal electronic devices.

eDreams

eDreams

eDreams is an independent European online travel agency, offering a selection of flights, hotels and vacation packages.

tripUniq

tripUniq

Customized travel planning. Via tripUniq, local experts personalize travelers trips according to their preferences.

  • Headquarters: Barcelona
  • Founded: 2014
  • Number of employees: 11-50
  • Total Funding: €225.1K
  • Categories: Tourism, Travel, Leisure, Itineraries
  • Website: tripuniq.com
FlyKube

FlyKube

FlyKube offers surprise travel trips. Users select the dates and two days before the trip they find out where they will go.

  • Headquarters: Barcelona
  • Founded: 2017
  • Number of employees: 11-50
  • Total Funding: €400K
  • Categories: Tourism, Travel, Adventure Travel, Surprise
  • Website: flykube.com

Housing & Real Estate

Badi

Badi

Badi is an AI-powered online room rental platform that allows anyone to publish, find, and securely book rooms from anywhere in the world. Barcelona, Madrid, London, and Rome are Badi’s most active cities. Both bookings and payments can be made through the platform.

  • Headquarters: Barcelona
  • Founded: 2015
  • Number of employees: 101-250
  • Total Funding: $46.9M
  • Categories: Artificial Intelligence, Mobile, Real Estate
  • Website: badi.com
  • Jobs: jobs.badi.com
Housfy

Housfy


Housfy provides a digital alternative to real estate agencies, eliminating commissions and broker fees. It is a peer to peer platform where sellers and buyers can connect directly online. Housfy combines local experience with digitization and Big Data so owners can sell their property quickly, saving an average of €12,000.

  • Headquarters: Barcelona
  • Founded: 2016
  • Number of employees: 51-200
  • Total Funding: €12.7M
  • Categories: Real Estate, E-Commerce
  • Website: housfy.com
Amenitiz

Amenitiz

The mission of Amenitiz is to build an all-in-one platform to help owners grow and manage their vacation properties by making attracting guests, managing bookings and crafting exceptional experiences, simple and easy.

  • Headquarters: Barcelona
  • Founded: 2017
  • Number of employees: 51-200
  • Total Funding: €820K
  • Categories: E-Commerce, SaaS, Hospitality, B2B
  • Website: amenitiz.io
Lodgify

Lodgify

Lodgify is a software platform that simplifies vacation rental marketing. The software includes a centralized property management system to manage calendars, bookings, rates and payments for properties. The website builder helps vacation rental professionals increase their direct bookings, free from commissions. The channel manager allows users to automatically sync calendars, rates and reservations across sites like Booking.com and Airbnb.

  • Headquarters: Barcelona
  • Founded: 2012
  • Number of employees: 51-200
  • Total Funding: $7.3M
  • Categories: Vacation Rental, SaaS, Software
  • Website: lodgify.com
  • Jobs: lodgify.com/careers/
ProntoPiso

ProntoPiso

ProntoPiso has developed their own technology to connect to a large network of real estate agents and thereby streamline the process of selling homes.

  • Headquarters: Barcelona
  • Founded: 2017
  • Number of employees: 11-50
  • Total Funding: €22.8M
  • Categories: Real Estate, E-Commerce
  • Website: prontopiso.com
PSquared

PSquared

Psquared provides coworking spaces to companies on flexible terms for a monthly fee. Clients include Heura and Youplanet.

  • Headquarters: Barcelona
  • Founded: 2018
  • Number of employees: 11-50
  • Total Funding: €42M
  • Categories: PropTech, Coworking, Commercial Real Estate
  • Website: psquared.es
011H

011H

011h is a new-generation construction company, using technology to create intelligent, high quality, healthy and sustainable buildings.

  • Headquarters: Barcelona
  • Founded: 2020
  • Number of employees: 11-50
  • Categories: Contruction, Property Development, Sustainability
  • Website: 011h.com
Rentals United

Rentals United

Advanced distribution platform for professional short-term rental property managers (with 10+ rentals) looking to advertise on worldwide booking channels.

Circles House

Circles

Circles is a global boutique co-living platform for entrepreneurial and conscious digital nomads.

  • Headquarters: Barcelona
  • Founded: 2021
  • Number of employees: 2-10
  • Categories: Coliving, Travel, Digital Nomads
  • Website: circles.house
Ukio

Ukio

Ukio disrups the traditional residential real estate market by providing furnished and serviced apartments for stays of one month or more.

  • Headquarters: Barcelona
  • Founded: 2020
  • Number of employees: 11-50
  • Total Funding: $9M
  • Categories: Apartments, Rentals, Digital Nomads, Hospitality
  • Website: www.ukio.com

Logistics and Last Mile

Kubbo

Kubbo

Kubbo operates a network of urban warehouses to bring your inventory closer to your customers. Technology allows them to connect your store in seconds, to be super efficient in fulfillment and ultra fast in deliveries. Kubbo enables brands and their customers to access same-day deliveries.

  • Headquarters: Barcelona
  • Founded: 2019
  • Number of employees: 11-50
  • Total Funding: €1.3M
  • Categories: Logistics & Supply Chain, E-Commerce
  • Website: kubbo.io
Glovo

Glovo

Barcelona-based Glovo is the fastest-growing delivery player in Europe, Western Asia, and Africa. With food at the core of its business, Glovo is transforming the way consumers access local goods, enabling anyone to get nearly any product delivered in less than 60 minutes.

  • Headquarters: Barcelona
  • Founded: 2015
  • Number of employees: 1,001-5,000
  • Total Funding: $1.2B
  • Categories: Delivery, Logistics, Apps
  • Website: glovoapp.com
Paack

Paack

Paack is an e-commerce scheduled delivery service. Paack’s proprietary technology stack is built specifically to service time slot deliveries, controlled entirely by the end customer. Paack provides a delivery platform for companies including Amazon, Decathlon and MediaMarkt.

  • Headquarters: Barcelona
  • Founded: 2015
  • Number of employees: 201-500
  • Total Funding: $82.5M
  • Categories: Delivery, Logistics, Last Mile, E-Commerce
  • Website: paack.co
Stuart

Stuart

Stuart is a leading last mile delivery platform that connects businesses to a fleet of geolocalised independent couriers providing same-day delivery, next-day delivery and return solutions. The platform serves multiple verticals, including retailers, grocery stores, restaurants and ecommerce merchants.

  • Headquarters: Paris
  • Founded: 2015
  • Number of employees: 201-500
  • Total Funding: €23.5M
  • Categories: Logistics, Supply Chain Management, Last Mile, E-Commerce, Apps
  • Website: stuart.com
Wind Mobility

Wind Mobility

Wind Mobility offers convenient, inexpensive and fast as well as easy access to short-distance transportation in urban areas.

  • Headquarters: Barcelona
  • Founded: 2017
  • Number of employees: 51-200
  • Total Funding: $72M
  • Categories: Transportation, Last Mile, Apps
  • Website: wind.co
iContainers

iContainers

iContainers offers an easy platform to quote, book and manage ocean shipments. As an importer or exporter, users can access over 500,000 rates and maritime transport routes with the platform. It compares, books, manages and keeps track of commercial shipments from the web without intermediaries.

Freightol

Freightol

Freightol allows companies to quickly receive quotes and book their shipments via air, sea, land or courier.

  • Headquarters: Barcelona
  • Founded: 2019
  • Number of employees: 2-10
  • Total Funding: €625K
  • Categories: Logistics, Supply Chain, Shipping, SaaS, Software
  • Website: freightol.com
Beeasy

Beeasy

Last yard deliveries scheduled in 1 hour slots in Barcelona and Madrid. Beeasy was born to reinvent delivery service providing a disruptive, ecological, sustainable and social solution for e-commerce shipments.

  • Headquarters: Sant Joan Despi
  • Founded: 2020
  • Number of employees: 2-10
  • Categories: Last Yard, Shipping, Logistics, Ecological
  • Website: beeasy.app
Boxmotions

Boxmotions

Boxmotions offers logistics and storage: from on-demand storage rooms for individuals to comprehensive logistics for companies.

Advertising

Marfeel

Marfeel

Marfeel is an ad tech platform that revolutionizes the way publishers create, optimize and monetize mobile websites. From acquisition to engagement, and retention to revenue, Marfeel helps publishers create valuable mobile experiences.

  • Headquarters: Barcelona
  • Founded: 2011
  • Number of employees: 201-500
  • Total Funding: $5.6M
  • Categories: Ad Tech, Mobile
  • Website: marfeel.com
Adsmurai

Adsmurai

Adsmurai is a service and product solution for automating and scaling social media advertising across different platforms.

  • Headquarters: Barcelona
  • Founded: 2014
  • Number of employees: 101-250
  • Total Funding: €4.8M
  • Categories: Advertising, Adtech, Machine Learning
  • Website: adsmurai.com
Linkvids

Linkvids

Linkvids creates videos for brands, helping them to optimize their presence on social networks.

  • Headquarters: Barcelona
  • Founded: 2021
  • Number of employees: 2-10
  • Funding: €240,000
  • Categories: Video, Marketing, Advertising
  • Website: linkvids.io

Business

Landbot

Landbot

Landbot is an intuitive conversational chatbot builder. The platform allows users to create conversational landing pages, conversational websites, interactive surveys, lead generation bots and more, without having to touch code.

  • Headquarters: Barcelona
  • Founded: 2017
  • Number of employees: 11-50
  • Total Funding: $10.2M
  • Categories: Messaging, SaaS
  • Website: landbot.io
Typeform

Typeform

Typeform allows users to build real, human connections with people-friendly forms and surveys. Create forms, surveys, quizzes and more to grow your audience, improve just about anything, and validate (or invalidate) your best ideas. Typeform turns average forms and surveys into a powerful brand communication tool.

  • Headquarters: Barcelona
  • Founded: 2012
  • Number of employees: 201-500
  • Total Funding: $52.3M
  • Categories: SaaS, Forms, Surveys
  • Website: typeform.com
Red Points

Red Points

Red Points protects brands and content in the digital environment. Their proprietary technology employs machine learning algorithms to scan the internet and identify all violations and infringements. In addition, Red Points has the technical and legal expertise to ensure that all infringing data is removed or deindexed.

  • Headquarters: Barcelona
  • Founded: 2011
  • Number of employees: 201-500
  • Total Funding: $86M
  • Categories: Intellectual Property, Security
  • Website: redpoints.com
Holded

Holded

Holded provides cloud based business management software designed to simplify task management.

  • Headquarters: Barcelona
  • Founded: 2016
  • Number of employees: 51-200
  • Total Funding: $26.6M
  • Categories: CRM, Accounting, Invoicing, Software
  • Website: holded.com
Onna

Onna

Onna is a data integration platform that enables companies to unify their workplace knowledge-based apps into one centralized, secure place.

  • Headquarters: New York
  • Founded: 2015
  • Number of employees: 51-200
  • Total Funding: $43M
  • Categories: SaaS, Enterprise Software, Knowledge Management
  • Website: onna.com
  • Jobs: boards.greenhouse.io/onna
ForceManager

ForceManager

A leading mobile CRM with a full service WebApp created for a range of work styles including home, office or the field. User friendly interface, built in geolocation features, and high user adoption rates.

Signaturit

Signaturit

Signaturit provides a simple and secure way of signing documents with legal validity, without installing any additional applications. It offers eSignatures, eDelivery & eID services, in accordance with Regulation EU 910/2014 (eIDAS).

  • Headquarters: Barcelona
  • Founded: 2013
  • Number of employees: 51-200
  • Total Funding: €10.3M
  • Categories: Security, Software, eSignature, Digital Transaction Management
  • Website: signaturit.com
  • Jobs: jobs.signaturit.com
Whisbi

Whisbi

Whisbi is a global provider of a video-first conversation sales platform which combines live video, chat, voice, web/content sharing, and chatbot.

  • Headquarters: Barcelona
  • Founded: 2008
  • Number of employees: 51-200
  • Total Funding: €17.4M
  • Categories: SaaS, Customer Service, Sales, E-Commerce
  • Website: whisbi.com
  • Jobs: careers.whisbi.com
Validated ID

Validated ID

Secure and user-friendly Digital Identity solutions, to legally ensure the validity of electronic documents and transactions.

  • Headquarters: Barcelona
  • Founded: 2012
  • Number of employees: 11-50
  • Total Funding: €5.9M
  • Categories: E-Signature, SaaS, Blockchain, Productivity, Security
  • Website: validatedid.com
Woffu

Woffu

Woffu is a cloud based platform for time-management with the purpose of maximizing communication, dedication and transparency between all departments within a company.

  • Headquarters: Barcelona
  • Founded: 2015
  • Number of employees: 51-200
  • Total Funding: €540K
  • Categories: SaaS, Human Resources
  • Website: woffu.com
  • Jobs: jobs.woffu.com
MailTrack

MailTrack

Mailtrack allows its users to know if their emails have been opened, and how many times, either on desktop or mobile. The #1 free email tracking and productivity tool for Gmail, with over 1.5 million active users on the Google Chrome Web Store, G Suite, iOS and Android.

RepScan

RepScan

RepScan monitors, provides alerts and removes unwanted content. Elimination of negative content in less than 72 hours.

Blueliv

Blueliv

Blueliv reduces cyber-risk by providing targeted, dynamic and actionable threat intelligence. Services cover cyber threat intelligence, data and credential theft, malware and APTs, fraud detection and more.

GetApp

GetApp

GetApp is a software recommendation engine for small businesses. GetApp helps SMBs by delivering tailored, data-driven recommendations and insights so they can make informed software purchasing decisions.

Factorial HR

Factorial HR

Factorial HR helps small and medium-sized businesses streamline their HR processes.

DEXMA

DEXMA Energy Intelligence

DEXMA is a leading Energy Management Software for commercial and industrial buildings. DEXMA Platform is a cloud-based AI software that combines Big Data Analytics with Energy Efficiency to help thousands of facility managers, energy auditors and building owners around the world to detect, analyse and optimise energy consumption and costs, while becoming more sustainable.

Qbeast Analytics

Qbeast Analytics

Qbeast aims to simplify the lives of the Engineers and make Analysts more agile with fast interactive queries and visualizations. Qbeast is a spin-off of the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC).

  • Headquarters: Barcelona
  • Founded: 2020
  • Number of employees: 2-10
  • Total Funding: €520K
  • Categories: Big Data, AI, Analytics, Blockchain, FinTech
  • Website: qbeast.io
Agroptima

Agroptima

Agroptima is a software platform and mobile app that helps farmers manage their farms easily and on-the-go.

Hubtype

Hubtype

Hubtype provides the tools to build conversational strategies through conversational apps that go beyond chatbots.

Doist

Doist

Doist specializes in productivity software, creating tools that simplify and organize the workday.

  • Headquarters: Barcelona
  • Founded: 2007
  • Number of employees: 51-100
  • Total Funding: $40K
  • Categories: Productivity, Software, Task Management, Apps
  • Website: doist.com
  • Jobs: doist.com/careers

Flaps

For companies with files in different languages, formats and data sources willing to overcome information chaos. Flaps enables users to turn files into findable knowledge and videos into searchable knowledge.

CL3VER

CL3VER

CL3VER is a platform for interactive 3D presentations for the AEC, design and manufacturing industries.

  • Headquarters: Barcelona
  • Founded: 2011
  • Number of employees: 11-50
  • Total Funding: €2.7M
  • Categories: 3D Presentations, SaaS, 3D Technology
  • Website: cl3ver.com
Tradler

Tradler

Tradler is a SaaS for improving employee engagement, experience and provides leaders and managers with valuable insights. Employees instantly receive points for their work and contributions, which they can later exchange for a gift of their choosing. Pulse surveys and productivity metrics provide leaders with data that allows them to give the right attention to the right person at the right moment.

  • Headquarters: Barcelona
  • Founded: 2017
  • Number of employees: 11-50
  • Total Funding: $270K
  • Categories: HR, Loyalty, Big Data, Productivity
  • Website: tradler.co
Copernic

Copernic

Copernic is a cloud-based web platform where you can build your virtual community to host virtual and hybrid events, turn your event into a perennial community, increase user engagement and to earn a profit.

  • Headquarters: Barcelona
  • Founded: 2017
  • Number of employees: 11-50
  • Total Funding: €350K
  • Categories: Events, Apps, Community
  • Website: copernic.tech
Deale

Deale

Deal is a marketplace that helps SMEs connect with investors and advisors.

  • Headquarters: Barcelona
  • Founded: 2021
  • Number of employees: 2-10
  • Total Funding: €300K
  • Categories: Marketplace, SMEs, Investment
  • Website: deale.es
Leanspots

Leanspots

Leanspots is an online platform to create StartUps. They offer you a safe environment where you can assess your StartUp, develop it and find funding.

  • Headquarters: Sallent
  • Founded: 2017
  • Number of employees: 11-50
  • Categories: Marketplace, Startups, Investment, Funding, Software
  • Website: leanspots.com

Food & Drink

Huera Foods

Heura Foods

Heura is a plant-based startup that brings a solution that will leave the current food system obsolete and accelerate the shift to a world where the animals are out of the meat production equation.

  • Headquarters: Barcelona
  • Founded: 2017
  • Number of employees: 11-50
  • Total Funding: $5.2M
  • Categories: Vegan, Foodtech
  • Website: heurafoods.com
Mr. Noow

Mr. Noow

Mr. Noow is a mobile app that allows users to discover nearby restaurants, view the menu, pre-order either to pick-up or eat-in, and seamlessly pay for their order. Mr. Noow adds value in the discovery phase (before arriving to the restaurant), in the ordering phase (pre-ordering for take-away or eat-in) and finally in the payment phase. Mr Noow also offers a automatized loyalty program everytime a user makes an order.

  • Headquarters: Barcelona
  • Founded: 2017
  • Number of employees: 11-50
  • Total Funding: $3M
  • Categories: Apps, Foodtech, B2C
  • Website: mrnoow.com
Incapto Coffee

Incapto Coffee

Incapto Coffee offers the sale of an automatic coffee machine and a subscription for coffee beans. The machine does not use aluminum or capsules and the coffee is sourced without intermediaries from fair trade producers.

  • Headquarters: Barcelona
  • Founded: 2020
  • Number of employees: 10-50
  • Total Funding: €1.8M
  • Categories: Food and Beverage, Coffee, E-Commerce
  • Website: incapto.com
Tapp Water

TAPP Water

Tapp water empowers people to easily get clean and healthy water from tap, with a minimum environmental impact. Their mission is to create comfortable, sustainable, and affordable products that eliminate the need for bottled water consumption.

  • Headquarters: Barcelona
  • Founded: 2016
  • Number of employees: 11-50
  • Total Funding: $4.1M
  • Categories: Water, Health
  • Website: tappwater.co
Refruiting

Refruiting

Fruit for offices, healthy habits and good vibes for thousands of employees throughout Spain.

  • Headquarters: Barcelona
  • Founded: 2015
  • Number of employees: 11-50
  • Total Funding: $445K
  • Categories: E-Commerce, Health, Fruit, Delivery
  • Website: refruiting.com
NOVAMEAT

NOVAMEAT

Plant-Based Meat, Reinvented.

  • Headquarters: Barcelona
  • Founded: 2018
  • Number of employees: 1-10
  • Total Funding: $308.5K
  • Categories: Foodtech, Vegan, Plant Based
  • Website: novameat.com
Catevering

Catevering

Catevering is a free platform where companies can compare, customize and book the ideal catering for their team breakfasts, meetings, afterworks, teambuilding and special events.

  • Headquarters: Barcelona
  • Founded: 2018
  • Number of employees: 1-10
  • Total Funding: €600K
  • Categories: Catering, Marketplace, Events, Foodtech
  • Website: catevering.com
Bûmerang

Bûmerang

Bumerang is reusable container solution in Spain for takeaway food.

Gaming

Social Point

Social Point

Socialpoint is a game developer and publisher, specializing in mobile gaming. Dragon City, Monster Legends and Tasty Town are among their popular titles.

  • Headquarters: Barcelona
  • Founded: 2008
  • Number of employees: 201-500
  • Total Funding: $44.7M
  • Categories: Gaming, Video Games, Social Gaming, Mobile Gaming
  • Website: socialpoint.es
  • Jobs: socialpoint.es/join-us
Gamestry

Gamestry

A video platform and community for gamers to watch, learn and talk about video games.

  • Headquarters: Barcelona
  • Founded: 2018
  • Number of employees: 11-50
  • Total Funding: $5.3M
  • Categories: Gaming, Video Games, eSports, E-Learning
  • Website: gamestry.com
The Breach Studios

The Breach Studios

Video Game developer and publisher pushing the boundaries of already established genres with new and innovative ideas that provide exciting experiences.

Jobs

Corner Job

CornerJob

CornerJob is a job matching platform that enables users to find geolocated job offers, apply to them, chat directly with the recruiters and quickly get an answer. CornerJob was acquired by Eurofirms in 2019.

Mockmate

Mockmate

Mockmate’s AI Job Interview helps job seekers practice interviewing, and companies screen candidates faster with natural language processing (NLP).

  • Headquarters: Barcelona
  • Founded: 2020
  • Number of employees: 2-10
  • Total Funding: $120K
  • Categories: Jobs, Recruiting, Interviewing, Artificial Intelligence, Natural Language Processing
  • Website: mockmate.com
  • Jobs: mockmate.com/careers/
Outvise

Outvise

Outvise is a leading online talent marketplace for Digital and TMT (technology, media, and telecom) freelance experts.

TalentFY

TalentFY

TalentFY is a markeplace matching companies and freelance IT recruiters using an Artificial Intelligence algorithm.

Renewables & Environment

Holaluz

Holaluz

Holaluz is the first energy company with 100% renewable energy. It now brings energy to almost 300,000 families in Spain and is the market leader in solar panels. The company aims to turn ten million roofs into solar power generators and to achieve it by offering savings to all their customers.

Bamboo Energy

Bamboo Energy

Bamboo Energy aims to accelerate the energy transition, democratize the access to cleaner and cheaper energy. Their software platform provides ways to monetize flexibility of energy assets and the integration of increasingly renewable energy sources.

X1 Wind

X1 Wind

A disruptive floating wind system to change the paradigm of the wind energy industry.

  • Headquarters: Barcelona
  • Founded: 2017
  • Number of employees: 11-50
  • Total Funding: €4.5M
  • Categories: Renewable Energy, Wind Energy, CleanTech
  • Website: x1wind.com

Media and Entertainment

Xceed

Xceed

Xceed exists to create a world where everyone can live extraordinary experiences by joining authentic music events and connecting with inspiring people. The startup provides a cloud solution for consumers to browse and join events and for businesses to better manage and promote them.

  • Headquarters: Barcelona
  • Founded: 2013
  • Number of employees: 11-50
  • Total Funding: €3.1M
  • Categories: Events, Apps, Nightlife, Live Music
  • Website: xceed.me
Acqustic

Acqustic

A platform to connect musicians and individuals. Acqustic brings music to the garden of your house, to the living room of your new apartment, to the attic of your home … and also to an afterwork party, to bars, venues and stages.

  • Headquarters: Barcelona
  • Founded: 2016
  • Number of employees: 11-50
  • Total Funding: €1.2M
  • Categories: Events, Apps, Live Music, Concerts
  • Website: acqustic.com
Watchity

Watchity

Watchity helps marketing, communication and brand teams to easily create amazing live video and great viewing experiences to boost their events.

  • Headquarters: Barcelona
  • Founded: 2015
  • Number of employees: 11-50
  • Total Funding: €1.1M
  • Categories: Video, Broadcasting, Streaming
  • Website: watchity.com

Transport and Automotive

YEGO

YEGO

Self-driven vehicle-sharing platform, providing electric scooters. YEGO’s mission is to empower citizens to move with ease and style by sharing sustainable vehicles. Insurance and helmets are included, vehicles are 100% electric and available 24/7. Scooters can easily be located via smartphone.

  • Headquarters: Barcelona
  • Founded: 2016
  • Number of employees: 11-50
  • Total Funding: €2.4M
  • Categories: Mobility, Sharing Economy, Apps, Transportation
  • Website: rideyego.com
  • Jobs: yego.teamtailor.com/jobs
Cooltra

Cooltra

Cooltra provides efficient and sustainable electric mobility on two wheels, whatever the needs of the final customer. Scooters can be rented for a few minutes, days or months.

Wallbox Chargers

Wallbox Chargers

Wallbox is a company whose main goal is to design, manufacture and distribute innovative charging systems to support the advent of sustainable transport.

  • Headquarters: Barcelona
  • Founded: 2015
  • Number of employees: 201-500 
  • Total Funding: €56M
  • Categories: Electric Vehicles, Chargers, Renewable Energy
  • Website: wallbox.com
  • Jobs: apply.workable.com/wallbox/
Iomob

Iomob

Iomob is a software solution that creates marketplaces for mobility. The platform lets cities and large transport companies create Mobility-as-a-Service solutions connecting buses, trains, cars, bikes, scooters and more. Travellers can find any service, see how it will take them to their destination, compare and combine options, and pay in any connected app.

  • Headquarters: Barcelona
  • Founded: 2017
  • Number of employees: 11-50
  • Total Funding: $700K
  • Categories: Mobility as a Service, Transport, Smart Cities
  • Website: iomob.net
BusUp

BusUp

BusUp is a mobility service provider that specializes in efficient and flexible corporate commuting services, and is the first company in the world to offer shared corporate shuttle services.

  • Headquarters: Barcelona
  • Founded: 2016
  • Number of employees: 51-100
  • Total Funding: $9.1M
  • Categories: Ride Sharing, Transportation, Commuting
  • Website: busup.com
Cabify

Cabify

Cabify is a ridesharing company operating in Spain, Portugal and Latin America. Rides can be hailed via smartphone mobile app and vehicles are driven by self-employed individuals.

  • Headquarters: Madrid
  • Founded: 2011
  • Number of employees: 1,001-5,000
  • Total Funding: $477M
  • Categories: Ride Sharing, Transportation, Commuting, Logistics
  • Website: cabify.com
  • Jobs: cabify.careers/es/
GOMEEP

GOMEEP

GOMEEP provides a monthly electric kick-scooter subscription service. Customers receive their own private scooter with maintenance and replacements included in the subscription.

  • Headquarters: Barcelona
  • Founded: 2019
  • Number of employees: 2-10
  • Categories: Transportation, E-Commerce, Commuting, Electric Scooters
  • Website: gomeep.com
Carnovo

Carnovo

Carnovo allows users to compare the best offers from official dealers within 24 hours.

Kleta

Kleta

Bicycle subscription service. You can choose the colour, basket and other accessories. An anti-theft guarantee and full maintenance are included.

  • Headquarters: Barcelona
  • Founded: 2020
  • Number of employees: 2-10
  • Total Funding: €400K
  • Categories: Bikes, eBikes, Transportation
  • Website: kleta.com
  • Jobs: kleta.com/opportunities
Shotl

Shotl

Shotl On-demand Buses is a mobility platform that matches multiple passengers headed in the same direction with a moving fleet of vans and minibuses.

  • Headquarters: Sant Cugat del Valles
  • Founded: 2017
  • Number of employees: 11-50
  • Total Funding: $1.1M
  • Categories: Transport, Apps, Buses, Ridesharing, Smart City
  • Website: shotl.com
  • Jobs: shotl.com/careers
Cafler

Cafler

Cafler is a digital automotive platform which provides vehicle mobility solutions.

Hospitality

BYHOURS

BYHOURS

The first platform for the management and distribution of hotel rooms and meeting rooms sold by the hour.

ReviewPro

ReviewPro

ReviewPro is a tool enabling hotels to manage their online reputation and social media. The company’s cloud-based Guest Experience Improvement Suite includes Online Reputation Management, Guest Satisfaction Surveys, and Auto Case Management.

Stayforlong

Stayforlong

Stayforlong is a website for booking accommodation that offers discounts for stays from 3 nights.

Education

Nannyfy

Nannyfy

Online activities with safe and quality content for kids from 4 to 12 years old.

  • Headquarters: Barcelona
  • Founded: 2019
  • Number of employees: 11-50
  • Total Funding: Unknown
  • Categories: EdTech, Edutainment, Child Care
  • Website: nannyfy.com
ABA English

ABA English

ABA English is a leading digital academy for learning the English language. Its unique methodology combines technology, pedagogy and interactions with real certified teachers.

Preply

Preply

Preply is a global language learning marketplace, connecting 30,000+ tutors with hundreds of thousands of students from all over the world. Preply now has 190 employees of over 25 nationalities based between Barcelona and Kyiv.

  • Headquarters: Kyiv
  • Founded: 2012
  • Number of employees: 51-200
  • Total Funding: $50.3M
  • Categories: EdTech, E-Learning, Languages, Tutoring
  • Website: preply.com
  • Jobs: preply.com/en/careers
Learnlife

Learnlife

An open ecosystem for a new lifelong learning paradigm to positively change education worldwide.

  • Headquarters: Barcelona
  • Founded: 2017
  • Number of employees: 51-100
  • Total Funding: €3.1M
  • Categories: Education, Learning, School
  • Website: learnlife.com

World Mastery

World Mastery records and distributes e-learning content from celebrities in the Sports and Arts sector targeted to professionals.

  • Headquarters: Barcelona
  • Founded: 2015
  • Number of employees: 51-200
  • Total Funding: €3M
  • Categories: EdTech, E-Learning, B2B, Arts, Sport
  • Website: world-mastery.com
Domestika

Domestika

Domestika is an online community for creatives with courses from leading industry professionals.

Cambly

Cambly

Cambly gives English learners instant 1-on-1 access to friendly native speakers over video chat 24/7. Students get an affordable and convenient way to practice their English and gain confidence. Tutors get to make money helping people from around the world practice English.

  • Headquarters: San Francisco, USA
  • Founded: 2012
  • Number of employees: 51-200
  • Categories: E-learning, Languages, Edtech, Video Chat, Tutoring
  • Website: cambly.com
  • Jobs: jobs.cambly.com
CodeOp

CodeOp

An international tech school for women, trans, non-binary, and gender non-conforming people. CodeOp teaches data analytics, product management & full stack development.

  • Headquarters: Barcelona
  • Founded: 2018
  • Number of employees: 2-10
  • Total Funding: €1.6M
  • Categories: Data Science, Data Analytics, Full Stack Development, Product Management, Career Hacking
  • Website: codeop.tech
  • Jobs: www.linkedin.com/school/codeop/jobs/

Internet of Things (IoT)

Worldsensing

Worldsensing

Worldsensing is a global IoT pioneer and industrial monitoring expert.

  • Headquarters: Barcelona
  • Founded: 2008
  • Number of employees: 51-200
  • Total Funding: €9.9M
  • Categories: Cloud Computing, Smart Cities, Industrial Internet, Wireless
  • Website: worldsensing.com
  • Jobs: worldsensing.com/careers/

Alella Green Tech

Family Oriented Product Show Case & IOT Innovation Center.

  • Headquarters: Alella
  • Categories: Wine, Farming Robotics, Water Management, IoT
  • Website: alellagreentech.com

Marketing and Advertising

Beabloo

Beabloo

Beabloo develops innovative solutions to personalize the customer experience in retail spaces and improve the impact of marketing campaigns.

Spaceboost

Spaceboost

Spaceboost helps advertisers around the world turn their data into autonomous, powerful, and profitable ad campaigns on Google and Bing.

  • Headquarters: Barcelona
  • Founded: 2014
  • Number of employees: 11-50
  • Total Funding: €4M
  • Categories: Digital Marketing, Advertising, SEM, PPC Automation
  • Website: spaceboost.com
Photoslurp

Photoslurp

Photoslurp’s visual commerce platform enables brands to integrate user generated content across the shopping journey, to help increase e-commerce sales.

Linkvids

Linkvids

Linkvids creates videos for brands, helping them to optimize their presence on social networks.

  • Headquarters: Barcelona
  • Founded: 2021
  • Number of employees: 2-10
  • Funding: €240,000
  • Categories: Video, Marketing, Advertising
  • Website: linkvids.io

Artificial Intelligence

Gestoos

Gestoos

Gestoos is an AI platform that opens a world of powerful possibilities for how people engage with spaces and devices.

  • Headquarters: Barcelona
  • Founded: 2016
  • Number of employees: 11-50
  • Total Funding: €2.6M
  • Categories: Interaction Design, Software, AI, Machine Learning
  • Website: gestoos.com
  • Jobs: gestoos.com/jobs/

Verbio

For 20 years, Verbio Technologies has been on the cutting-edge of voice technologies to simplify human-machine communication.

  • Headquarters: Barcelona
  • Founded: 1999
  • Number of employees: 51-200
  • Total Funding: €917.7K
  • Categories: Speech Recognition, Machine Learning, IoT, Artificial Intelligence
  • Website: verbio.com
  • Jobs: verbio.com/company/#careers
Insikt Intelligence

Insikt Intelligence

Insikt Intelligence builds Artificial Intelligence tools for understanding and combating complex problems like crime, human trafficking and terrorism.

  • Headquarters: Barcelona
  • Founded: 2015
  • Number of employees: 2-10
  • Total Funding: €1.5M
  • Categories: Deeptech, Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, Machine Learning, Law Enforcement
  • Website: insiktintelligence.com
Wide Eyes Technologies

Wide Eyes Technologies

Visual artificial intelligence solutions for the fashion industry to maximize sales conversion and improve customer engagement.

  • Headquarters: Barcelona
  • Founded: 2013
  • Number of employees: 11-50
  • Total Funding: $300K
  • Categories: Artificial Intelligence, Fashion, Visual Search, E-Commerce, Image Recognition, Retail
  • Website: wideeyes.ai
  • Jobs: wideeyes.ai/careers/
BitMetrics

BitMetrics

An AI-first company, working in the automation of a variety of business and manufacturing processes to increase operational efficiency and empower workers.

  • Headquarters: Barcelona
  • Founded: 2017
  • Number of employees: 2-10
  • Total Funding: €246.4K
  • Categories: Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Robotics
  • Website: bitmetrics.es
Catchoom

Catchoom

AI-powered image recognition solutions for retail. Catchoom uses computervision and deep learning to automatically tag product images.

  • Headquarters: Barcelona
  • Founded: 2011
  • Number of employees: 11-50
  • Total Funding: €600K
  • Categories: Artificial Intelligence, Deep Learning, Image Recognition
  • Website: catchoom.com
REMY Robotics

REMY Robotics

Robotics solutions that take the routine and inefficiency out of cooking.

  • Headquarters: Barcelona
  • Founded: 2018
  • Number of employees: 11-50
  • Categories: Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, Cooking
  • Website: remyrobotics.com
Abzu

Abzu

Abzu is an applied research startup whose technology is inspired by self-organizing systems, resulting in a transparent and trustworthy AI.

  • Headquarters: Kongens Lyngby, Hovedstaden, Denmark
  • Founded: 2018
  • Number of employees: 11-50
  • Total Funding: $9.5M
  • Categories: Artificial Intelligence, Data, Deep Learning, Machine Learning
  • Website: abzu.ai

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FAQ

Which are the top startups in Barcelona?

Currently, the largest startups in terms of funding are Glovo, Travelperk, Wallapop and Redpoints.

What is the Barcelona Activa?

Barcelona Activa is a local development agency that helps people to find a job and provides advice, training and resources to individuals and small businesses.

How many startups are in Barcelona?

Barcelona is home to over 1,300 startups.

Which are the top cities for startups in Europe?

London and Berlin commonly feature in the top spots, while Barcelona frequently gets a mention in the top 5 or 10 cities.

💡 See also: Resources for Barcelona Startups