• Tech Barcelona and ESTEVE share their desire to promote technological innovation in their ultimate goal of improving people’s lives through healthcare.

• The agreement allows the pharmaceutical company to establish greater connections with Barcelona’s technological and digital ecosystem.

Barcelona, 25 de octubre de 2023. – Pharmaceutical company ESTEVE has joined the Tech Barcelona as a Corporate Partner with the aim of promoting its new innovation model, based on establishing solid collaborative relationships with platforms specialising in innovation and health sciences. Tech Barcelona represents Barcelona’s technological and digital ecosystem in a transversal way and has a strategic focus on the health sector, where it already brings together more than ten large companies from the pharmaceutical industry, numerous startups and public and private institutions.

Since ESTEVE was founded more than 90 years ago, its purpose has been to improve people’s lives. The pharmaceutical company’s joining Tech Barcelona as a Corporate Partner is a significant step in the realisation of this commitment. This partnership provides ESTEVE with unrivalled access to an advanced healthcare innovation ecosystem, as well as a network of specialised and diverse talent and initiatives. By joining Tech Barcelona, ESTEVE strengthens its transformational project, supporting its position as a leader in biomedical innovation.

José María Giménez Arnau, Chief Scientific & Medical Officer of ESTEVE: ” Joining Tech Barcelona will boost our innovation model, bringing us together with an innovative, diverse and specialised ecosystem in healthcare. It is also a commitment to talent in biomedical research. This collaboration strengthens our founding raison d’être, as leaders in health innovation, promoting advances that will contribute significantly to improving people’s quality of life”.

“Tech Barcelona shares with ESTEVE the historic desire to improve people’s lives through innovation and technology, from Barcelona and with a global outlook. This alliance will allow us to build greater relationships in the health and life sciences sector with one main objective: accelerate its impact on citizens, the health system and its professionals,” says Miquel Martí, CEO of Tech Barcelona.

Tech Barcelona’s commitment to the health sector is structured around Pier07, a hub of reference in business innovation in the health and life sciences sector. Located at Via Laietana 26, the building houses startups, pharmaceutical companies, investors, institutions, universities, research centres and the public health system, all of which are represented and actively participate in Tech Barcelona’s content and activities. The space is part of the Urban Tech Campus project, a network of connected buildings for innovation and technology to be integrated into the city.