• The agreement aims to jointly promote and support disruptive projects in the edutech and culture sectors

• The cooperative will invest in edutech’s entrepreneurial projects under the Abacus Next investment plan

Barcelona, 22 November 2022. – The cooperative Abacus has joined Tech Barcelona as a new Corporate Partner. With this agreement, the cooperative is committed to participating in initiatives aimed at promoting business development and digital talent in the fields of content creation and distribution for education and culture, and to identifying investment opportunities in start-ups in these fields.

This collaboration will allow the cooperative nature of Abacus, with the participation of nearly one million consumer members and more than 700 working members, to be incorporated as a way to innovate and add value in the digital environment of the Tech Barcelona ecosystem, based on a set of initiatives that facilitate the transfer of knowledge between the two organisations.

Salva Garcia, co-director of Abacus, values this alliance very positively and considers that “for the cooperative it is a great learning opportunity due to the leadership that Tech Barcelona exercises in the European digital entrepreneurial ecosystem. This agreement will provide us with experience and knowledge to advance and consolidate the Abacus Next investment and strategic plan, especially in edutech and culture, two pillars of our commitment to digitalisation”.

According to Miquel Martí, CEO of Tech Barcelona, “Abacus is a leading organisation with a long experience and a benchmark in the education sector. Its incorporation into Tech Barcelona is an example of how a model of innovation in constant evolution can have a social and economic impact, as well as a reference for many of the industries that have the challenge of facing the digital transformation”.

• The agreement illustrates the commitment of the venture builder with the creation of tech-based startups

Barcelona, October 26th 2022. – Farside Ventures, a venture builder specialised in creating ‘deep tech’ startups, joins Tech Barcelona as a Corporate Partner. The alliance will clearly illustrate the commitment Farside Ventures has to the creation of projects based on tech transfer, as well as reinforcing its connection with the rest of tech agents of the entrepreneurial and innovative tech ecosystem.

Farside Ventures brings together the verticals 101 Ventures, 5G Ventures, The Data Venture, Fintech Ventures and Sustainability Ventures, specialised in markets such as smartphone, 5G, blockchain, metaverse and financial technology, which already have 18 startups in their portfolio and €20.5M in funding. The venture builder, founded by the entrepreneurs Rafael García-Escarré, Marc Borrell, Jordi Priu, Oriol Relats and Guillemro Briones in Barcelona in 2020, aims to promote a hundred startups in the next four years, with a value raging between €75M and €100M.

Tech Barcelona, a non-profit association that promotes Barcelona’s technological and digital ecosystem, represents more than 1,200 innovative companies from all sectors who share a common commitment to technology.

Rafael García Escarré, co-founder and CEO of Farside Ventures, stated that “joining Tech Barcelona means working hand in hand with an entity that shares our spirit of creating an advanced entrepreneurial ecosystem. Without a doubt, this collaboration will allow us to continue working to contribute to barcelona’s leadership and thus position the city as a benchmark on the international technology scene”.

For his part, Miquel Martí, CEO de Tech Barcelona, assures that “the commitment of a group of investors to promote technology transfer through the creation of startups is a good example of the evolution and maturity of the ecosystem. From Tech Barcelona, we want to support all initiatives that contribute to add value and encourage more and more technology-based startups”.

• El acuerdo conecta la innovación y las soluciones de transformación digital de GFT con las startups y corporaciones de Barcelona
• La compañía alemana, especializada en soluciones tecnológicas para el sector financiero, asegurador e industrial, cuenta con un laboratorio de innovación digital ubicado en Sant Cugat

Barcelona, 20 de octubre de 2022. – Tech Barcelona, la asociación sin ánimo de lucro que vertebra el ecosistema digital y tecnológico de Barcelona, incorpora a la tecnológica alemana GFT como nuevo Corporate Partner. La compañía alemana, que cuenta con una larga experiencia en el mercado español, hace una apuesta decidida para implicarse más con el talento e innovación de startups y corporaciones de Barcelona.

GFT, fundada en 1987 y ubicada en 16 países, desarrolla soluciones tecnológicas y ofrece asesoramiento especializado a empresas del sector financiero y asegurador, así como de la industria manufacturera. Además, dispone desde el 2014 de un laboratorio de innovación digital ubicado en Sant Cugat, un espacio seguro que ofrece la posibilidad de simular escenarios reales a través de demos y prototipos tecnológicos. Adoptando las últimas tendencias tecnológicas e investigando sobre los nuevos hábitos y comportamientos sociales que derivan de ellas, este LAB desarrolla nuevos modelos actuando como puente entre las startups, las pymes y las grandes corporaciones.

Manuel Lavín, CEO de GFT en España, valora muy positivamente esta alianza. “Tech Barcelona es a día de hoy uno de los principales pilares del ecosistema de startups europeo y no ha parado de sumar partners en todos estos años. GFT quiere formar parte de esta gran familia de la innovación tecnológica y el emprendimiento para seguir apostando por la cocreación”.

Por su parte, Miquel Martí, CEO de Tech Barcelona, destaca que “grandes empresas internacionales y con experiencia como GFT hagan una apuesta decidida por Barcelona y su talento, hecho que sin duda beneficia al ecosistema de startups y corporaciones de la ciudad. Desde Tech Barcelona compartimos además su espíritu colaborativo, que permite trabajar de forma conjunta para alcanzar soluciones innovadoras e impactar positivamente en la sociedad”.

La multinacional GFT lleva dos décadas operando en España, periodo en el que ha realizado más de 2.500 proyectos para más de 100 clientes de todo el mundo, con un equipo de 2.000 personas repartidas entre sus sedes de Alicante, Lleida, Madrid, Sant Cugat, Valencia y Zaragoza.

• Both entities sign a collaboration agreement that connects them as “Strategic Partners” for the next four years

Barcelona, 14 October 2022. – Avançsa and Tech Barcelona signed a collaboration agreement on Tuesday for the next four years with the aim of promoting initiatives to encourage and promote the activity of the business ecosystem of the technology and digital sector in Catalonia, with Barcelona as a city of reference.

ech Barcelona is the independent non-profit private association that works together with entrepreneurs, startups, large corporations and other entities and agents of the ecosystem to position the city of Barcelona as one of the main technological and digital hubs at an international level.

In this sense, Avançsa will be able to count on the support of Tech Barcelona in its general initiatives to promote economic activity in Barcelona, attract talent and generate social impact, including identifying needs and proposing general proposals and measures.

For its part, Avançsa will support Tech Barcelona in the association’s promotion and representation activities in the field of entrepreneurship and the technology and digital sector, which aims to position Barcelona as a global hub of reference, as well as to attract investment, companies and talent in these areas.

In this way, Avançsa and Tech Barcelona become Strategic Partners to collaborate on strategic projects and organise activities together.