Happy New Year! Let’s talk about new great things like the new Pitch to Investors at Itnig, the biggest investment rounds of the decade, and other very important and exciting news in the startup world. Read all about it in this post:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Let’s take a look at\u00a0the biggest investment rounds of the decade<\/a>\u00a0that is coming to an end. Is the\u00a0$14 billion record<\/a>\u00a0of the Chinese Ant Financial going to be beaten by any company this last year of the decade?<\/p>\n\n\n\n We’ve launched a new weekly event in our space called “Pitch to investors<\/a>“. Every Thursday we organize a pitch session for entrepreneurs to explain their businesses to investors like Bernat Farrero (CEO @ Itnig), Jordi Romero (CEO @ Factorial), Albert Domingo (CEO @ Nextret) or Juan Rodr\u00edguez (CEO @ Camaloon). You can either attend as a regular attendee or pitch your idea to us! We also hosted awesome events:<\/p>\n\n\n\n In this week’s podcast<\/a>, Octavi Uy\u00e0, CEO at Nautal explains to us how e left the corporate live to launch Nautal. The startup was born in 2013 and pivoted targeting professionals. Bernat Farrero interviews him to learn how a boat rengint company works.<\/p>\n\n\n\n We had a special podcast with Jordi Romero<\/a>, CEO of Factorial, <\/a>and partner at Itnig. He explained the origins of Factorial.<\/p>\n\n\n\n We had an interview with Luis D\u00edaz del Dedo<\/a>, CEO of Product Hackers<\/a>, an agency that boosts the growth of businesses. Luis talks about everything he has learned about Growth Hacking these years and how he applies it in growing the products of his clients. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Francesc Font, entrepreneur and co-founder of Nubelo visited us<\/a>. He talked about his journey as an entrepreneur and all his learning through different projects in different areas; from a talent acquisition platform to matcha tea. Francesc can’t resist joining new projects, he calls it an “entrepreneurship virus”. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Pitch to Investors at Itnig and biggest rounds of the decade are just the beginning, here are other important news in the startup world:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Barcelona doubles Madrid’s investment in startups!<\/a>\u00a0The Catalan ecosystem has captured more than 2,700 million in the last four years.\u00a0There’s hope for 2020 becoming\u00a0the year that Spanish startups will stop needing to go abroad to raise money, as the country\u2019s venture capital sector grows.\u00a0Will this be the year that Spanish venture capital lifts off?<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Santander Consumer Finance has acquired 93.8% of Autodescuento S.L<\/a>., owner of the coches.com portal, launched in 2009 by I\u00f1aki Arrola. We want to congratulate I\u00f1aki, friend, and investor at Factorial and previous guest of Itnig’s podcast<\/a>. We would also like to congratulate Christian Rodr\u00edguez on the \u20ac8M round for ByHours, its story is covered on our podcast <\/a>channel. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Also, Microsoft President Brad Smith, CFO Amy Hood, and CEO Satya Nadella announced\u00a0Microsoft\u2019s\u00a0plan to be carbon negative by 2030<\/a>.\u00a0Exciting isn’t it?<\/p>\n\n\n\n It’s an exciting month! The Pitch to Investors at Itnig and the biggest investment rounds of the decade are a great way to start 2020!<\/p>\n\n\n\n At Itnig, we write a weekly newsletter<\/a> where we keep our community updated on everything related to startups, tech news, fundings, and we share our weekly podcast<\/a>! Happy New Year! Let’s talk about new great things like the new Pitch to Investors at Itnig, the biggest investment rounds of the decade, and other very important and exciting news in the startup world. Read all about it in this post:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[200,201,205,206,247,322],"class_list":["post-8075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newsletter","tag-itnig","tag-itnig-blog","tag-itnig-news","tag-itnig-podcast","tag-newsletter","tag-startup-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/itnig.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8075","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/itnig.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/itnig.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itnig.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itnig.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8075"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/itnig.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8075\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12446,"href":"https:\/\/itnig.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8075\/revisions\/12446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/itnig.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itnig.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itnig.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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