Tech Barcelona announces that Cloudflare, Inc. (NYSE: NET), the security, performance, and reliability company helping to build a better Internet, has become a corporate partner. Cloudflare will work with the regional technology ecosystem of the Tech Barcelona incubator to improve the security, performance, and reliability of their digital applications.

For Tech Barcelona, a private non-profit association that supports and drives the digital and technological ecosystem of Barcelona, having a company such as Cloudflare with its innovative and comprehensive solutions joining the association will contribute to the expansion of Cloud based technologies. It will help organisations to innovate and explore new disruptive online services to meet the growing needs of consumers in the way they use and expect a secure, fast, privacy-focused, and a fundamentally reliable, Internet.

In the words of Paloma Cano, Channel Manager for Southern Europe, “the agreement with Tech Barcelona is an opportunity that allows us to collaborate technologically and integrate new businesses focused on large companies and SMEs, and continue to support the startup ecosystem in the Barcelona region and internationally. Cloudflare’s goal is to develop operations that allow us to offer secure and cost-effective Cloud solutions”.

“We are very pleased about this new partnership with Cloudflare. It will contribute to increase technological expertise and offer performant, reliable and secure services available to all types of companies that are part of our ecosystem. In addition, it strengthens our position as an attractive technological hub for global companies”, explains Miquel Martí, CEO of Tech Barcelona.

RocaSalvatella, a consultancy firm specialising in digital transformation, joins Tech Barcelona as a Corporate Partner. The alliance consolidates the collaboration maintained since the beginning of the association and will add value to the ecosystem at a time when the entrepreneurial sector is consolidated as a driver of innovation of large corporations for the new market scenario.

RocaSalvatella, a business consultancy born in 2008 in Barcelona, through its Digital Ventures business unit, aims to accompany promoters, whether corporations or investors, to co-create the businesses of the future. From the detection of the opportunity to the incubation, validation, launch and market growth of the new business.

Tech Barcelona is a private non-profit association created in 2013 that supports Barcelona’s digital and technological ecosystem and promotes the city as a hub of international reference. It has more than a thousand members and more than seventy partner companies, leaders in their sector, committed to the project.

For Gerard Vélez, Executive Partner of RocaSalvatella Ventures, the alliance with Tech Barcelona means being closer to the innovative agents of the city and adding to this value proposition as well as having a window to the world to understand and connect with the main disruptors that are appearing.

In the words of Miquel Martí, CEO of Tech Barcelona, “the agreement with RocaSalvatella consolidates a trend that is central to the development of the ecosystem: the collaboration of corporations with startups to generate open innovation dynamics and the integration of new technologies into their value proposition. We are sure that this is the start of great projects for the ecosystem”.

• The international group has its headquarters in Sant Cugat and Barcelona, where it has just inaugurated its global technology hub

Barcelona, 25 October 2021 – The Knot Worldwide, the world’s leading technology group in the digital bridal sector, joins Tech Barcelona as a Global Partner. The Knot Worldwide has just announced that its new international technology hub will be located in Barcelona, from where it will also centralise the business of fourteen markets in Europe, Asia and Latin America.

For the company, which manages a structure of more than 850 employees from its offices in Sant Cugat and Barcelona, the collaboration with Tech Barcelona will allow it to be in contact with the best talent in the Barcelona ecosystem. The alliance also reinforces the city’s position as an enclave from which to build strategies of international scope and consolidates it as a hub for attracting technological talent.

The Knot Worldwide, headquartered in New York, operates in 16 countries around the world and in Spain with the renowned Bodas.net brand. The international team, based in Barcelona and Sant Cugat, has increased its global relevance and taken on a leading role in the group, both for the international management of 14 of its markets on several continents and as a global technology hub for all its portals. They are currently the leading global player in digital wedding planning, with special relevance in markets such as the United States, United Kingdom, Spain, Italy, France and Mexico, among others. Since the end of 2020, the International President of the company is Ángel Llull, who for 8 years led Booking’s strategy and growth in Europe, Latin America, North America, Asia and the Pacific.

Ángel Llull, International President of The Knot Worldwide, assures that “joining Tech Barcelona as a Global Partner confirms our company’s commitment to the area as a key market for innovative and technological talent. We want to continue attracting the best professionals in this new stage of growth that we are starting and this agreement allows us to access them”.

For Miquel Martí, CEO of Tech Barcelona, “The Knot Worldwide’s decision to locate its international hub in Barcelona is great news for the ecosystem and the incorporation of the company into Tech Barcelona strengthens us as a hub with global reach. Accompanying The Knot Worldwide in its digital growth strategy is a challenge that excites us and a learning experience for the agents of the ecosystem”.

Tech Barcelona adds Wallbox, a leading provider of charging solutions for electric vehicles and energy management worldwide, as a Corporate Partner. Through this alliance, Wallbox will strengthen its presence in the technology ecosystem and share knowledge in the development of sustainable mobility and the visibility of talent. For Tech Barcelona, this alliance strengthens the positioning of the ecosystem as a generator of technology and a driving force for the transformation of the production model from the industry, in which there are other thousand of members and seventy organizations partners. Wallbox’s trajectory reinforces Barcelona as a city of reference for creating business projects with a global vision and impact.

The Barcelona-based company, founded by Enric Asunción and Eduard Castañeda in 2015, is a pioneer in electric vehicle charging, offering a complete portfolio of charging and energy management solutions for residential, semi-public and public use. Today, Wallbox, an example of sustainable innovation in the industrial sector, has a presence in more than 80 countries on 6 continents to achieve its goal of promoting electromobility and a cleaner and more affordable energy management.

In the words of Miquel Martí, CEO of Tech Barcelona, “Wallbox is a local hero that has managed to innovate in a sector dominated by industrial giants. Their corporate journey and global vision are an example for the ecosystem and further proof of Barcelona’s potential for the technology and industrial sectors”.

According to Enric Asunción, CEO and co-founder of Wallbox, “At Wallbox we are always willing to collaborate to raise awareness of the entrepreneurial spirit that exists in Barcelona and to highlight the region’s profile as a leader in innovation and business. We are glad to be part of such a dynamic association”.