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Juncosa

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Sant Joan les Fonts

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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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Manremyc is a spin-off of the igtp (badalona) with the mission to eradicate tuberculosis (tb) by reducing its risk of development of the disease. we produce a unique and revolutionary product,prime nr, based on the most advanced technology.

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Cloud Active Reception is a management software for the automotive sector that allows you to streamline and optimize the entire service and customer service cycle, digitally.

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Empatif is an integrated solution talent recruiter for talent management, training and occupational risk prevention training company, that helps you truly enhance the value of your company through people.


Revo is a set of tools designed to manage restaurant service businesses. we take constant care of the simplest solutions, while offering everything required in order to provide flexible coverage of all the needs of this demanding and diverse market. 

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UVE combines the SaaS cloud services of their modular platform with a deep understanding of sector-specific needs and the Route to Market.

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IN TALENT LAB helps companies in the Life Sciences sector, which try to understand life and use this knowledge to benefit people, find the best qualified professionals to meet their objectives.

IN TALENT LAB

Nomadizers is a platform for travelers, where they can find other travelers, find out the compatibility with each one of them and hire tours of locals.

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E2S Creative, with creativity as a tool, solves the business, product and communication challenges of companies, brands, institutions and territories.




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Inprosy is a production logistics company dedicated to providing innovative, high quality industrial solutions. 


INPROSY

Sportbangbang is a cloud management tool developed for personal trainers and training centers.

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ProCycla is an environmental technology and consultancy company founded in 2008 offering a wide range of services and engineering solutions for environmental problems, including environmental assessment (EA), bioenergy production, and waste management.


ProCycla

Liberia community is a technology and intelligent communication company strongly committed to technological innovation and improving the quality of life and well-being of the person

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Connecting Heads analyzes customers' needs to build the best team. They work for a new model of companies that focus on the person and balance the social purpose with the economic benefits.



Connecting Heads

BOSCAT promotes a paradigm shift in the forestry sector that recognizes forest ecosystem services and the potential of a forest-based bioeconomy.



BOSCAT

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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.

Startup Ecosystem Overview of Manresa | StartupBlink | StartupBlink

Regional Rank & change	City	Global Rank & Change	Total Score	Quantity Score	Quality Score	Business Score
1st⁰	Barcelona, Spain	38th⁺²	21.982	5.85	13.24	2.89
2nd⁰	Girona, Spain	503rd^-23	0.480	0.20	0.06	0.21
3rd⁰	Lleida, Spain	650th^-28	0.282	0.12	0.04	0.13
4th⁰	Reus, Spain	681st⁺¹⁹	0.261	0.09	0.06	0.12
5th⁰	Tarragona, Spain	707th⁺⁵⁰	0.244	0.08	0.05	0.11
6th⁰	Manresa, Spain	799th^-3	0.189	0.06	0.04	0.08
7th⁰	Granollers, Spain	880th⁺²⁶	0.153	0.06	0.03	0.07

Manresa Startup Ecosystem Comparative Analysis

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