The Hottest Startups in Barcelona
Wired“Barcelona has triumphed over Madrid as Spain’s startup capital because of the deal flow and the talent,” explains Miquel Martí, Tech Barcelona’s CEO. doctomatic.com VOTTUN VOTTUN is “the WordPress for Web3, selling shovels for the blockchain gold rush,” says Marta Valles, who cofounded the platform with CEO Luis Carbajo, Amazon’s former Spanish director, in 2018. January’s €2.5 million funding round, led by All Iron Ventures, a Spanish financier, with support from Bynd, is aimed at driving international expansion over 2022 for the currently Spanish language-only app. “We’re providing a true employee benefit for blue-collar workers and will never charge employees,” says Benoît Menardo, who cofounded the company in 2020 with Avinash Sukhwani.