• The agreement will allow the Catalan energy and telecommunications company to connect with startups in Barcelona’s entrepreneurial and innovation ecosystem.

• ERIA has a budget of 600,000 euros for 2024 and has already launched an equity-free acceleration programme for energy, telecommunications and Smart Home startups.

Barcelona, 10 April 2024. – Estabanell, a historic Catalan energy and telecommunications company, has joined Tech Barcelona as a Corporate Partner through ERIA, its new corporate venturing company created to foster collaboration with the entrepreneurial ecosystem, promote projects with third parties and, beyond internal innovation, reduce the development and time to market of new solutions to a minimum. The agreement will allow Estabanell to connect with startups in Barcelona’s technological and digital ecosystem represented by the association.

ERIA, which has a budget of 600,000 euros for 2024, promotes an equity-free acceleration programme aimed at pre-seed and seed startups in the energy, telecommunications and Smart Home sectors. During the six-month programme, the selected startups will receive business and sector-specific support from professionals from the Estabanell Group and AtticoLab’s network of mentors. In addition, the startups will receive direct support of up to €10,000 non-refundable and access to the infrastructure of the different companies of the Estabanell Group to test concepts and technology aimed at the customer and the responsible and sustainable development of society.

The three challenges posed in the first edition of Eria’s acceleration programme are linked to renewable energy generation, energy distribution and the commercialisation of energy and telecommunications services. The call for startups is open until 29 April.

Josep Solé, director of ERIA, assures that “ERIA is another step forward in Estabanell’s historical commitment to innovation. We want to work side by side with innovation agents, which is why the alliance with Tech Barcelona is fundamental for us to get even more involved with the tech and entrepreneurial ecosystem. We want to be a benchmark platform for startups linked to the energy, telecommunications and Smart Home sectors, which will find a strategic partner in ERIA”.

For Miquel Martí, CEO of Tech Barcelona, “Estabanell is a clear example of how a company with a heritage of more than 100 years is capable of betting on the present and looking to the future. Its open innovation model involves startups to create new disruptive technological solutions and ultimately fosters the growth of the entrepreneurial ecosystem”.

• MongoDBempowers innovators to create, transform, and disrupt industries by unleashing the power of software and data.

• The addition of MongoDB to Tech Barcelona reinforces the company’s commitment to Barcelona’s technological ecosystem.

Barcelona, 22 February 2024.- MongoDB has joined Tech Barcelona as a Corporate Partner, reinforcing its commitment to Barcelona’s growing technology ecosystem. MongoDB’s developer data platform is a globally distributed operational database with an integrated set of services that allow development teams to address the growing requirement for today’s wide variety of modern applications in a unified, consistent user experience.

Headquartered in New York and listed on NASDAQ, MongoDB has been downloaded hundreds of millions of times worldwide since its creation in 2007, and the company currently works with tens of thousands of customers in more than 100 countries, including Lidl, Wolt and Vodafone.

MongoDB has a large presence across Europe, with 17 offices and its international headquarters in Dublin. In Barcelona, MongoDB has grown its industry-focused team to support the needs of financial services, retail, healthcare, and automotive manufacturing organizations. MongoDB’s Barcelona office also has members of the engineering, customer service and marketing intelligence teams based there.

“For the last ten years, Tech Barcelona has worked to foster entrepreneurship and economic impact in the city, helping to grow its footprint of startups and encourage innovations,” said Boris Bialek, Field CTO, Industry Solutions, MongoDB. “These values are what drive us forward at MongoDB as well, empowering innovators to create, transform, and disrupt. As a new member of the Tech Barcelona community, we are excited to meet with like-minded organizations, to collaborate with entrepreneurs, and to participate in this active community.”

“The ability to leverage data to build cutting edge applications is key to generating differentiating value for businesses,” said Miquel Martí, CEO of Tech Barcelona. “The incorporation of MongoDB, with its outstanding experience and global reputation, represents a valuable opportunity for our technological and digital ecosystem, as well as the addition of a very relevant international player to continue consolidating Barcelona as a global benchmark,” concluded Miquel Martí.

• The technical consultancy specialising in R&D&I joins the association through Magna Business Consultants, a newly created branch dedicated to advising entrepreneurs.

Barcelona, 24 January 2023. – INCOTEC, the technical consultancy specialising in R&D&I, industrial environment and incentive management, has joined Tech Barcelona as a Corporate Partner. The agreement has been made through Magna Business Consultants, the new branch of INCOTEC dedicated to entrepreneurship consultancy, with the aim of becoming directly involved in the development of innovation, providing solutions that promote the growth of the technological and digital ecosystem of Barcelona.

With more than 20 years of experience, INCOTEC works in the main areas of industrial and technological activity and has offices in Barcelona, Madrid, Valencia, Zaragoza, Seville, Vigo, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Bilbao and Cologne (Germany), as well as international representation in Brussels for the management of European aid and financing.

For Jaime Astiz Alonso, founding partner and director of INCOTEC and sole director of Magna Business Consultants, “the strategic partnership with Tech Barcelona represents an important milestone in our goal of being present in the world of innovation. The collaboration with Tech Barcelona will allow us, through Magna Business Consultants, to collaborate with entrepreneurs to give shape to their projects, providing support in the organisation and management throughout the process, both in terms of documentation and organisational management, as well as in the search for collaborations with third parties interested in contributions and/or technical collaborations. In addition, it will enable the connection of these projects with other innovative initiatives at national and international level”.

For his part, Miquel Martí, CEO of Tech Barcelona, pointed out the importance of “involving agents such as INCOTEC, specialised in innovation in industrial sectors, in the dynamics of startups and corporations”. “The entrepreneurial ecosystem of Barcelona will benefit from the extensive knowledge and experience of INCOTEC through Magna Business Consultants”.

• The innovation studio will implement digital solutions that will improve the association’s database management, which is representative of the technological and digital ecosystem of Barcelona.

Barcelona, 28 November 2023. – The innovation and digital business development studio Artefacto E2E, based at Pier01, has signed a collaboration agreement with Tech Barcelona to become the association’s new technology partner. As a result, the studio will implement digital solutions to improve the management of Tech Barcelona’s database, with information on more than 6,500 companies, and achieve more personalised communication between its members and partners.

“Information management is fundamental in an association like ours. We are well-versed in how Artefacto E2E operates, as members of Tech Barcelona since 2020. We understand that the implementation of their digital solutions is key during this period of expansion we’re currently experiencing: with over 1,300 members, 90 partners, and an increasingly diversified and international technological and digital environment, these management solutions help us maintain greater control over information for the benefit of the entire ecosystem,” said Miquel Martí, CEO of Tech Barcelona.

According to Frederic Dalmau and Ana Galindo, partners and co-CEOs of Artefacto E2E, “Artefacto E2E brings digital solutions to Tech Barcelona with a commitment to innovation and continuous improvement, aiming for a more robust and connected technological future”.

• L’acord de col·laboració facilita l’accés al finançament al teixit empresarial de Barcelona, a fi de contribuir en el creixement de l’emprenedoria actuant com a complement del finançament privat

Barcelona, 27 de novembre de 2023.- L’Institut Català de Finances, l’entitat financera pública de Catalunya, ha signat un acord de col·laboració amb l’associació Tech Barcelona per incrementar el coneixement de les solucions de finançament existents i impulsar el finançament de l’ecosistema tecnològic i digital de Barcelona. L’acord consolida la relació de la banca pública de promoció de Catalunya amb el teixit empresarial de la ciutat.

En aquest sentit, l’ICF té productes com l’ICF Venture Tech, fons de capital risc destinats a invertir en projectes tecnològics i/o d’innovació en les seves etapes inicials i amb models de negoci innovadors, o IFEM Innovació, un finançament en coinversió amb inversors privats i fons de capital risc en forma de préstec participatius per a empreses en fases inicials o en les primeres etapes de creixement.

Vanessa Servera, consellera delegada de l’ICF: “Per a l’ICF, aquest conveni amb Tech Barcelona és una aliança estratègica per fer més sòlida la relació de la banca pública de promoció de Catalunya amb l’ecosistema tecnològic i digital. L’ICF és un agent de finançament rellevant en el sector tecnològic i d’start-ups i aquest acord contribueix a materialitzar encara més la seva posició i a incrementar el coneixement de les solucions de finançament que ofereix.”

Miquel Martí, CEO de Tech Barcelona: “L’Institut Català de finances ha estat i és un agent clau en el desenvolupament de l’ecosistema tecnològic català, per la seva implicació com a inversor directe i col·laborant amb el venture capital. Formalitzar aquest rol a través de la seva incorporació com a partner de Tech Barcelona reforça la visió compartida de que la col·laboració publicoprivada és clau per a l’impuls de l’ecosistema”.

El conveni signat preveu la col·laboració entre Tech Barcelona i l’ICF en la promoció d’iniciatives, programes i esdeveniments de l’àmbit tecnològic i digital, l’organització de tallers i grups de treball, i la participació a actes com el Tech Spirit Barcelona o el 4YFN.

Tech Barcelona, associació independent i sense ànim de lucre que treballa per a consolidar Barcelona com un hub tecnològic i digital de referència internacional, representa a més de 1.300 socis i compta amb el suport més de 90 organitzacions partners, líders en el seu sector, compromeses amb el projecte.