Tagged: spain

February 3, 2017 @ 7:47 am By JD Alois  |  

Just as Funding Circle is pulling out of Spain, peer to peer lender Lendix is moving in and announcing its first Spanish project. Following approval by the Comisión Nacional del Mercado de Valores (CNMV), Lendix has posted an opportunity to lend to JIZ Operaciones SL,… Read More

February 1, 2017 @ 10:55 am By JD Alois  |  

Spanish Off-grid Eco-Complex Mar de Fulles Voted Best Contributor to Sustainable Energy Future Community energy portal Citizenergy announced its 2016 Project of the Year Award to Spanish crowdfunding platform ECrowd! and the Mar de Fulles eco-complex during an event in Brussels. Citizenergy lauded the two company’s outstanding… Read More

January 31, 2017 @ 4:55 am By Erin Hobey  |  

Zank you very much for banking online.  With one day remaining on its Crowdcube Spain crowdfunding campaign, Spanish crowdlender Zank has surpassed its 300K€ goal by 118%, raising over 356,199€ from over 153 investors for 7.62% equity offered.  The largest investment was to date has been 30,000€. Zank offers… Read More

January 28, 2017 @ 1:50 pm By Erin Hobey  |  

“We are convinced that the moment has come for Spanish banks and insurance companies to recognize the great opportunity that the whole country and financial sector have thanks to the impulse and promotion of Fintech. It is also the time to begin to promote strategies… Read More

January 21, 2017 @ 2:07 pm By JD Alois  |  

Following big news of a $100 million funding round, Funding Circle has announced it will stop issuing new loans in Spain. The announcement was posted on the Spanish version site of the SME peer to peer lender noting that it has not offered new loans… Read More

January 20, 2017 @ 7:46 am By JD Alois  |  

Barcelona-based clean energy startup Smalle Technologies, a company that wants to market a wave-powered electricity generator for buoys, has closed a €240,550 investment round on Crowdcube Spain. This is the third funding round for the University of Barcelona spin-off. In total, 157 people invested with… Read More

January 17, 2017 @ 8:39 am By JD Alois  |  

Marketplace lending platform Lendix has landed in Italy. The Paris-based operation has announced the appointment of Sergio Zocchi as CEO.  Lendix said that Zocchi has over 20 years experience in high-tech and finance as he leads the local Lendix team based in Milan. Lendix said… Read More

January 10, 2017 @ 7:20 am By Erin Hobey  |  

Clínica Dialibre, the first clinic in Spain to specialize in diabetes for children, opened in March 2016 with the mission of setting a milestone in the treatment of diabetes and improving the young patients’ quality of life by personalizing the treatment for each patient. The Clinica… Read More

January 5, 2017 @ 4:25 pm By Erin Hobey  |  

Smalle Technologies has developed the eForcis, an electricity generator especially designed for buoys that culls electricity from the ocean and sea waves. especially designed for buoys. eForcis aims to deliver constant and reliable energy supply leveraging simple electromagnetic principles, studied and tested under challenging marine conditions… Read More

January 3, 2017 @ 2:58 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Era7 Bioinformatics, a Spanish company that focuses on the revolution of the Microbiome and providing new solutions to address the problem of antibiotic resistance, announced this week it closed its Capital Cell campaign, which raised nearly €600,000 in funding. As previously reported, Era7 Bioinformatics was… Read More

November 29, 2016 @ 9:59 am By Erin Hobey  |  

ING plans to discontinue its P2P mobile payments app Twyp in the Netherlands after it failed to gain traction with customers, according to a release. Twyp CEO Mohamed de Booij indicated the decision to close down the service in the Netherlands was made following feedback from Dutch… Read More

November 25, 2016 @ 10:35 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Debt-based crowdfunding platform ECrowd! announced this week it has secured €307,900 from 135 investors during its second Crowdcube Spain campaign. The funding portal raised €154,000 from 48 individual investors during its first Crowdcube Spain initiative in September 2015.  Matthieu van Haperen, CEO and co-founder of ECrowd!, stated:… Read More

November 7, 2016 @ 9:30 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Barcelona-based designer shoe brand, Les Chausseurs, has closed its equity crowdfunding campaign on Crowdcube Spain. The company secured over €110,000 from more than 70 investors. Les Chausseurs was founded in 2014 with a mission to distribute a limited series (comprised of 12 units) of designer shoes… Read More

October 18, 2016 @ 9:45 am By Erin Hobey  |  

This Capital Cell crowfunding campaign is a unique opportunity to co-invest with an undisclosed VC firm in Era7 Bioinformatics, a Spanish company focused on the revolution of the Microbiome and providing new solutions to address the problem of antibiotic resistance. Era7 Bioinformatics uses its own algorithms… Read More

October 11, 2016 @ 5:12 am By Erin Hobey  |  

Barcelona-based cobblers Les Chausseurs launched their crowdfunding campaign on Crowdcube Spain earlier last week and have already taken in more than 50,600€ of its 90K€ objective from over 27 investors. 20% equity is being offered. “I chose Crowdcube for several reasons; first, because its team explained the… Read More

October 7, 2016 @ 7:38 am By JD Alois  |  

Finstar backed peer to peer lender Viventor has released a statement saying it is experiencing 60% average monthly growth during its first year of operation. The online lender launched in October 2015.  The company also shared that initial results after launch in 2015 were disappointing but said… Read More

October 4, 2016 @ 3:54 pm By JD Alois  |  

In 2015 a small Spanish company named Hawkers was looking to enter the North American market for sunglasses.  They decided to utilize Kickstarter to help cross the Atlantic and expand their brand. Jump forward to today and this company has just raised $56 million to… Read More

September 29, 2016 @ 7:46 am By Erin Hobey  |  

This month the Spanish financial regulator Securities Exchange Commission (CNMV)  authorized MytripleA as a Platform for Participatory Financing, the formal name for a crowdlending platform. This is one of the first actions to implement Law 5/2015 Promotion of Corporate Financing. “Alternative financing is growing rapidly in… Read More

September 6, 2016 @ 1:53 pm By Erin Hobey  |  

When Finnovista first covered Spanish fintech in 2013, the site recorded only 50 startups in the sector; now, three years later, in its first edition of Fintech Radar Spain, the site identified 207 Spanish fintech startups, indicating the sector had quadrupled in three years, stats largely in line with fintech’s global trend. Cofounded… Read More

August 22, 2016 @ 10:20 am By JD Alois  |  

The Comisión Nacional del Mercado de Valores  (CNMV) in Spain has approved Arboribus to operate as a Participatory Financing Platform (PFP) joining a growing list of regulated platforms. Arboribus is an online lender providing access to capital for SMEs. A PFP is a new type of… Read More