Dealflow.es #355: €40b in Bizum payments in 2022. Fever raised $70m. One more Glovo fine.
Summary
The company offers working capital and supply chain financing Madrid-based Argilla, an open source platform for data-centric NLP, raised 1.5m co-led by Caixa Capital Risc and Zetta Venture Partners According to the Observatorio de Fundacion Bankinter, in 2022 there were 78 M&A transactions in Spain (up from 68 the year before), for a combined 1.2b. Also on Wayra, heres a recent interview with Luisa Rubio Arribas, Head of Wayra X, on the ongoing corporate investment scenario in 2023 Delfin Rueda has been appointed general partner and CFO of early and growth stage VC Mundi Ventures At K Fund we announced that Juanjo Mostazo, co-founder of Homa Games and several other companies, has joined us as venture partner and will be our main point of contact with Malagas startup ecosystem, where hes now based Javier de Toro, investment manager at Angels Capital, published "How to reach out to investors: build your own network and generate allies" David Miranda, lawyer and partner at Osborne Clarke, published a very interesting Twitter thread on the changes implemented in the new Spanish Startup Law in relation to stock option plans. More info on the history of fines received by the company here, as well as the impact this might have on Delivery Hero Bicycle marketplace Santafixie recently surpassed 3m in annual sales, with more 80% coming from outside Spain. Chronoexpert is a K Fund portfolio company El Espa\xf1ol published a long profile of bound4blue and its co-founder Cristina Aleixendri. The city council has chosen three operators for the next three years Dott, Lime and Tier Alberto Bonhomme, co-founder of Instamaki, sold to Glovo, launched a new project in the foodtech space: Bertos Milanesa, a offline + online business