Novobrief #159: Red Points raised $38m Series C, Nauta launched €55m sidecar fund, Accenture buys Droga5, Spotahome hires new CTO, Netflix opens Madrid Production Hub
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Existing investors Northzone, Mangrove, Eight Roads Ventures and Banco Sabadell also participated in the funding round which follows a $12 million Series B last year ○ Mr Noow, a Barcelona-based startup that has built a solution to make ordering easier in restaurants, raised €900,000 from Lanzame CapitalGermán Loewe, Iñaki Ecenarro and Andreas Mihalovits ○ Health startups RheoDX and Derma Innovate raised €350,000 and €367,000, respectively, on equity crowdfunding platform Capital Cell ○ Nauta Capital launched a €55 million ‘sidecar’ fund to double-down on its later-stage portfolio ○ ENISA to approve new grants and loans before the general elections of April ○ Portuguese dog food subscription startup Barkyn raised €1.7 million. Bilbao-based VC firm All Iron Ventures participated in the round ○ Pablo Ventura of K Fund published a long piece explaining the rationale behind the firm’s investment in ghost kitchen company Keatz ○ Spain’s Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office requested 18 years in prison for former Gowex CEO and co-founder Jenaro Garcia. A great exercise of transparency ○ El Referente published an in-depth profile and interview with Sevilla-based hardware and AI startup Smart IoT Labs ○ Motorbike sharing company Ecooltra presented its financials for 2017. El Español looked into Iglesias’ suggestion and the current situation of broadband in Spain ○ US escooter giant Bird received 797 licenses from Madrid’s local government to operate in the city. Bolt (Taxify) also received 750 licenses to operate in Madrid; El Confidencial published a short profile of the Estonian company and its co-founder ○ El Confidencial published two long pieces about the escooter situation in Madrid, looking into how the local government is assigning licenses to the different players Want to promote your products and services to more than 4,600 relevant thinkers and doers in the Spanish tech ecosystem?