August 9, 2019 @ 10:07 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Life Length, a Spain-based telomere diagnostics and analyses company, has successfully secured £1.97 million in funding through its equity crowdfunding campaign on Crowdcube. The round was launched last month and quickly surpassed its £650,000 funding target. It has also attracted nearly 700 investors. Founded in… Read More

August 6, 2019 @ 2:43 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Celsius Network, a cryptocurrency lending and borrowing platform, announced on Tuesday it started offering cash and stablecoin loans to users in Spain. Accoridng to the platform, the loans are starting at just 4.95% per year and are claimed to represent the lowest cost available anywhere… Read More

June 18, 2019 @ 11:33 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

BBVA announced on Monday it has teamed up with Dufry to launched the first WeChat Pay facilities in Spain in travel retail operator’s World Duty Free stores at the Adolfo Suarez Madrid-Barajas airport. According to BBVA, the move is a “hugely significant shift” within the… Read More

May 29, 2019 @ 7:34 am By JD Alois  |  

Nanotech firm Nanusens has closed on a crowdfunding round of €600,000 via Crowdcube. The offering was hosted via Crowdcube’s Spain facing platform. Nanusens raised approximately 3X its initial goal. The pre-money valuation was pegged at £4.9 million pounds with investors looking to purchase a 10.4%… Read More

May 8, 2019 @ 10:44 pm By Cali Haan  |  

Officers of the Spanish Civil Guard in Spain assisted by Europol have arrested eight people and charged eight more for allegedly, “…providing large-scale crypto money laundering services to other criminal organizations.” Europol says the bust of this “cryptocurrency laundering as a service business” comes follows operation… Read More

May 5, 2019 @ 9:15 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Less than six months after securing €1 million through its previous Crowdcube round, Spanish nanotechnology company Nanusens has returned to the equity crowdfunding platform and has surpassed its £200,000 initial funding target. The funding round is now nearing £350,000 from more than 400 investors. As… Read More

April 2, 2019 @ 5:34 am By Erin Hobey  |  

Fintech startup GeoDB aims to provide a big data marketplace that includes an encrypted, safe, transparent, verified, accurate and decentralized datapool and also to solve the existing problems of the growing big data industry. The platform has recently begun £750,000 crowdfunding campaign on Crowdcube for… Read More

March 29, 2019 @ 2:31 am By Cali Haan  |  

Spain’s Comision Nacional Del Mercado de Valores (National Securities Market Commission or CNMV) has issued a statement clarifying that, to date, it has not approved any ICOs fundraising within its jurisdiction. According to a release from the Commission processed [Google Translate]: “The CNMV has not… Read More

February 21, 2019 @ 2:23 pm By Cali Haan  |  

CryptoSolarTech, a Spanish cryptocurrency mining company that raised $68 million USD (60 million euros) in an ICO fundraise last spring has sent a letter to investors announcing that the company will cease operations and return the money collected in the ICO, Cointelegraph reports. A copy… Read More

February 19, 2019 @ 1:55 am By JD Alois  |  

In a release, equity crowdfunding platform Startupxplore stakes a claim as being “Spain’s largest online startup investors network.” The statement is based on Startupxplore having  14,703 registered individual investors. The site was launched in 2016 and reports having funded €6.5 million in 28 different deals.  Startupxplore is regulated by… Read More

February 15, 2019 @ 9:57 am By JD Alois  |  

The Clubs DiR gym chain has closed a funding round of €550,000 via Crowdcube. The funding will provide needed capital to finance its twenty-fourth club, BDiR Calvet, which is expected to open its doors in 2019. Crowdcube reports that, in total, 142 people invested with… Read More

February 14, 2019 @ 9:56 am By JD Alois  |  

Nomo Banking, an App based banking service targeting freelancers, has added Raisin’s service to its platform. The bank will now offer its customers multiple options for overnight accounts and fixed-term deposits via Europe’s #1 deposit marketplace. Raisin currently provides access to over 65 different products… Read More

January 30, 2019 @ 8:41 am By JD Alois  |  

Fintech Raisin has announced a new partnership with Santander Spain with an “Open Banking Agreement” which allows customers to authorize the bank to share with Raisin defined data for the registration process, including a customer’s name, date of birth, ID or contact details. Thus, registration… Read More

January 23, 2019 @ 1:13 pm By Cali Haan  |  

Spain’s finance regulator, The Comision Nacional del Mercado de Valores (CNMV), has blacklisted a purported crypto and Forex brokerage called FX Trading corporation after the CNMV determined the company was facilitating “asset” trades for Spanish investors without being licensed to do so in the country,… Read More

January 22, 2019 @ 3:41 am By Erin Hobey  |  

Barcelona-based Santafixie Group, a brand and e-commerce of bicycles and components,  has released its own brand of bicycles, with nearly 90K orders and counting. Aiming to be the go-to global brand for bicycles, Santafixie is seeking an investment injection in order to release new models… Read More

January 10, 2019 @ 6:33 am By Erin Hobey  |  

This week UK based crowdfunding platform Crowdcube touted its best year to date when measured by multiple metrics; Q4 was said to be the most successful quarter in the history of the platform. Crowdcube channelled 166 million euros in 198 capital campaigns for European companies this… Read More

December 28, 2018 @ 11:33 am By JD Alois  |  

Netherlands based crypto firm Libereum has acquired the Spanish football club Elche CF, according to a note from the company. Libereum said the purchase was conditioned on a bank guarantee of € 4.3 million as a 1st downpayment.  Libereum believes there is the potential for Elche CF to return to… Read More

November 22, 2018 @ 7:27 am By Erin Hobey  |  

Barcelona-based Nanusens nanotechnology company has closed a €1,073,800 financing round through the Crowdcube investment marketplace, aided by a Inveready seed capital fund and 785 private investors. This campaign marked the fifth capital increase carried out by Nanusens.  Caixa Capital Risc Dieco Capital and its shareholders…. Read More

October 25, 2018 @ 12:12 pm By JD Alois  |  

Fintech unicorn Revolut is taking some heat for what appears to be a clumsy recruitment tactic that may backfire. First reported in Spanish news site ElDiario, the digital bank has apparently requested applicants for a open position to work for free and provide 200 bank… Read More

October 24, 2018 @ 8:09 am By Cali Haan  |  

As part of its efforts to capture tax dollars and curtail fraud and tax amnesties, the government of Spain has passed new anti-fraud laws requiring the mandatory declaration of cryptocurrency holdings and the documentation of all “operations” involving them, ABC Economy reports. Minister of Finance,… Read More