Category Archives: Spain-Startups

Social communication app: Yuilop raises €1 million

Posted on March 22, 2011 by Thomas Ohr

The Barcelona based startup Yuilop informed us today, that they have secured 1 million Euro in seed funding from Nauta Capital. The young company is led by the German CEO Jochen Doppelhammer and has recently launched its innovative mobile communication service in Germany. … Continue reading →

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Chicisimo just launched a Polish and German version

Posted on March 10, 2011 by admin

The Spain based community for fashion lovers “Chicisimo” just launched chicisimo.pl and chicisimo.de. This means that the fashion-startup, wich was founded in 2010, now is available in a total of 6 languages (English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Polish). Chicisimo enables its mostly … Continue reading →

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busuu.com-campaign: Let’s save the busuu language

Posted on November 25, 2010 by admin

Right before our interview with busuu co-founder Bernhard Niesner the young company launched a video campaign to save the busuu language with music. The language is spoken in Cameroon – based on an ethnological study conducted in the 80ies, apparently only … Continue reading →

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Interview with Bernhard Niesner (busuu.com)

Posted on November 17, 2010 by admin

Today we made an interview with Bernhard Niesner. He is the co-founder and CEO of the language learning community busuu.com. The website can be used completely for free! However, you have the option to pay a minimal monthly fee to become a … Continue reading →

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Weblogs SL is integrating an Q&A-platform

Posted on November 3, 2010 by admin

Weblogs SL, the leading spanish blog network has just entered the Q&A-space. With the new service called Respuestas the spanish internet company continues to embrace more of a community aspect. The blog network is publishing very specialized blogs on many … Continue reading →

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Language learning: Busuu partners with publishers

Posted on October 28, 2010 by admin

The language learning community busuu.com is partnering with the British publisher Collins and other publishers like the german PONS Group. The cooperations help busuu to offer grammar guides to its over 1 million users. The new grammar guides will be available to busuu’s 1 million users priced … Continue reading →

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Barcelona: First Startup Weekend

Posted on October 25, 2010 by admin

Ellas 2.0, an initiative dedicated to technological entrepreneurship among women in Spain, and Barcelona Activa just kicked off it’s first Startup Weekend in Barcelona. On last Friday the participants pitched a 20 projects. That number quickly slimmed down to a … Continue reading →

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Group buying site Groupalia just raised 5 million Euro

Posted on October 21, 2010 by admin

The spanish groupon-clone Groupalia just raised 5 million Euro in it’s second round. In May of this year the group buying site allready raised 2.5 million Euro within the first round. Beside of angel investors the funding comes from Nauta Capital, … Continue reading →

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Seed money for private travel club “Santa Monica”

Posted on October 14, 2010 by admin

A private travel club called “Club Santa Monica“, wich is based in Spain just, received a round of seed investments. According to TechCrunch the startup has 500.000 Euro. The investors are renown Spanish names like serial investor Alejandro Suarez and Alvaro Arbeloa (a football … Continue reading →

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Amazon announces the aquisition of BuyVip

Posted on October 7, 2010 by admin

Now it’s official: BuyVip, the spanish shopping community, was bought by Amazon. Accourding to Greg Greeley, (Vice President European Retail at Amazon) the site is an excellent addition to the existing european business from Amazon. The purchase price was not announced … Continue reading →

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