Barcelona

Lloret de Mar

Sitges

Tarragona

Cervera

Badalona

Sant Cugat del Vall?s

San Adrian de Besos

LHospitalet de Llobregat

Gava

Teià

Rubi

Girona

Calafell

Alella

Reus

Sant Cugat del Valles

El Prat de Llobregat

Sant Pere de Ribes

Sabadell

Cerdanyola

Vulpellac

Cerdanyola del Vallès

Gandesa

Castelldefels

Terrassa

Palafrugell

Garcia, Tarragona

Sant Pau de Segúries

La Floresta

Mataró

Cornellà de Llobregat

Villanueva y Geltrú

Lleida

Sant Just Desvern

Calaf

Moià

Tordera

Catalonia

Vilanova i la Geltrú

Sant Feliu de Llobregat

Besalú

Manresa

Sant Quirze Safaja

Juncosa

Cardona, Spain

Arenys de Munt

Sant Ramon

Sant Joan les Fonts

Granollers

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 The Spanish startup ecosystem, while younger compared to other European counterparts, offers entrepreneurs a relatively affordable cost of living and abundant sunshine to attract remote talent. With two strong ecosystems in Barcelona and Madrid, smaller cities like Valencia are also contributing to innovation and talent. Barcelona has given rise to notable companies and unicorns like Glovo, Wallbox, and Letgo, with recent additions like Factorial and TravelPerk joining the unicorn list in 2022. Madrid hosts globally influential IT companies like Telefonica and Amadeus IT Group, showcasing the strength of the ecosystem. 

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 Despite long-term high unemployment rates in Spain, the difficulty in finding quality corporate jobs has pushed more individuals towards entrepreneurship, especially during times of crisis. Programs like the startup visa and the digital nomad visa have been launched to boost local entrepreneurship and attract foreign talent. However, challenges like red tape, high taxes, and a strong bureaucracy need to be addressed to allow startups to thrive. 

 

 The Spanish government's Spain Entrepreneurial Nation Strategy, including the New Startup Law passed in November 2022, aims to position Spain as a hub for innovation and entrepreneurship. Support organizations like ACCIÓ and Barcelona Activa provide coaching, training, and incubation programs to help local startups succeed. Other regions in Spain, including Madrid, the Canary Islands, Valencia, and Malaga, are also actively fostering their local ecosystems through initiatives for growth and innovation. 

 Spain's gaming sector has seen significant growth, and further boosted by events like [MWC Barcelona](https://www.mwcbarcelona.com/), [Smart City Expo World Congress](https://www.smartcityexpo.com/), and [South Summit](https://www.southsummit.io/) play a vital role in promoting the ecosystem globally and bringing together entrepreneurs, investors, and industry leaders every year.

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Start4big Second Innovation Wave is a cross-sector open innovation initiative in Europe driven by Aigües de Barcelona, CaixaBank, Naturgy, SEAT, and Telefónica, looking for start-ups to develop solutions for specializations in business

Start4big Second Innovation Wave

Additional information and program details of Start4big Second Innovation Wave accelerator in Barcelona, Spain on StartupBlink. You can also look for other accelerators in Spain on the interactive startup ecosystem map, and filter them by investment size and ranking. Own an accelerator? Add it to the map as well

As the innovation hub of the Asia-Pacific region, Taiwan is renowned for its outstanding high-tech R&D capacity, highly-trained professionals, and thriving networks of entrepreneurs which enable our  startup ecosystem to achieve steady continuous growth.

Director General, Department of Academia-Industry Collaboration and Science Park Affairs

In the recent years, Moscow has become a gravity centre for the most talented people not only from Russia and Eastern Europe, but from all over the world. Such concentration of professionals affirms Moscow as one of the global “cities of the future”, world centre for the development of breakthrough technologies, particularly in IT.

The Moscow Agency of Innovations was established to create a truly favorable environment for the advancement of technology in Moscow.

2016

The Skolkovo Innovation Center and Skolkovo Foundation was signed into law with a goal to goal is to create a sustainable ecosystem of entrepreneurship and innovation.

2010

Avito, a classified ads website and now a unicorn, first went online.

2007

The Moscow Seed Fund, a VC which invests in see and pre-seed startups, was established.

2005

Yandex search engine was launched!!!!

1997

Catalan startups raised 1,479 million euros in investment in 2021, the highest figure on record.

2021

 Pier 01 is inaugurated. It is one of the largest space for startups & entrepreneurs in Europe and home to the Tech Barcelona association. 

Mobile World Congress moves to Barcelona.

2006

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