The financial advisory and wealth planning firm DiverInvest has joined Tech Barcelona as a Corporate Partner. This alliance aims to jointly face the new challenges brought about by the digital transformation in the investment and financial sector.

DiverInvest, which has a long and consolidated track record in wealth and investment management, reinforces its commitment to growth with this approach to the Association, whose function is to represent the main players in the technological and digital framework.

For Tech Barcelona, a private non-profit association that works with the aim of developing the digital and technology sector, the agreement with the financial advisory firm allows the incorporation of an important source of knowledge about the industry, a sector with a great commitment to technological transformation and with an important future projection on the ecosystem of Barcelona.

David Levy, founder and CEO of DiverInvest, states that “this alliance is a great opportunity that allows us to collaborate with the technology and entrepreneurial hub of international reference. From DiverInvest we want to be part of the innovation process and contribute to its development”.

Miquel Martí, CEO of Tech Barcelona, believes that this incorporation is “a sign of the maturity of the ecosystem. DiverInvest is a good example of an investment services company that evolves together with technology to respond with greater agility and analytical capacity to the challenges of the future”.

Tech Barcelona incorporates Bip&Drive, the digital platform for driver payment services, as a Corporate Partner. The agreement will allow them to work together in the development of Tech Barcelona’s future mobility hub, which will bring together startups, corporations and other agents in the ecosystem to find innovative and sustainable solutions in the sector.

The Bip&Drive platform, a company owned by Abertis, Cintra, Itínere and CaixaBank, aims to provide innovative solutions through the use of technology and new means of payment to simplify and facilitate the mobility of its customers: drivers. The application concentrates services such as electronic tolls, booking and payment of the MOT, refuelling at petrol stations, on-road catering and parking at car parks and parking meters. Its marketplace aims to revolutionise the driver’s overall experience, placing all services related to mobility and driving in the same place.

In the words of Josep Jové, CEO of Bip&Drive, “with the integration of Bip&Drive in Tech Barcelona we want to connect with the talent of the city, create synergies and advance in the mobility of the future: more connected and intelligent which, in turn, will also be more sustainable, efficient and safe. Moreover, if we want to be at the forefront of innovation with the best startups to develop the mobility of the future and car connectivity, we cannot afford not to be present in the Tech Barcelona ecosystem”.

According to Miquel Martí, CEO of Tech Barcelona, the agreement with Bip&Drive “visualises the transversality of technological solutions to solve major challenges, which is one of Tech Barcelona’s motivations. Crossing innovations in mobility with payment services and the new needs of drivers, as Bip&Drive does, opens up a great field of play for many companies in our ecosystem”.