1. BARcELONA
mobile
startup
hub

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As the Mobile World Capital, Barcelona is fully
committed to the promotion of the mobile sector.
This represents a boost for innovation in the city,
which helps Barcelona to develop as a social and
economic capital. As part of the ‘Barcelona Digital
City roadmap’, the City Council aims to exploit
digital innovation opportunities to improve the city
and the lives of citizens, as well as promoting the
development and diversification of our economy.
Barcelona has become a mobile startup hub, with a
highly dynamic ecosystem, made up of companies,
incubators, institutions and investors specialised
in the sector. Through Barcelona Activa, the local
economic development agency, we help digital
enterprises become consolidated. Barcelona
Activa facilitates access to this ecosystem, as well
as offering a personalised business or growth
plan assessment for both local and foreign
entrepreneurs.
Along with the Mobile World Capital, we promote
initiatives like mStartupBarcelona, an incubator
for business accelerators, which is located in the
MediaTIC building. Or the 4YFN congress, the
main event for connecting startups, investors and
corporations.
Barcelona Activa is presenting 24 startups and 1
project at this very unique 4YFN platform. Their
work exemplifies of the diversity of products,
services and applications that are being created by
the mobile sector in Barcelona.
We would like to invite you to discover these
startups.
Welcome to Barcelona,
the mobile startup hub.
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3. H1 J1
J2
BARCELONA MOBILE STARTUP HUB
. 4YFN .
Booth H1
Rokubun
Smartbrain
Snackson
SpanishZoom
Adan Medical Innovation
Aistech Space
Cuideo
People Who Global
Booth J1
DyCare
Ges-Emer
hippo technologies
Holded
IOMED
m4Social
RateNow
Reactable Systems
Sellers n’ Bloggers
Booth J2
Afterscool
CODA
DIMO
MJN Neuroserveis
Nectarcompany
Omnirooms.com
TinFunding
Wide Eyes Technologies
Company Index
Adan Medical Innovation�������������������������������������������������������������� 6
Afterscool��������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� 6
Aistech Space����������������������������������������������������������������������������������7
CODA����������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������7
Cuideo�������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� 8
DIMO��������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� 8
DyCare������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� 9
Ges-Emer��������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� 9
hippo technologies������������������������������������������������������������������������10
Holded �����������������������������������������������������������������������������������������10
IOMED������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������ 11
MJN Neuroserveis������������������������������������������������������������������������ 11
Nectarcompany�����������������������������������������������������������������������������14
Omnirooms.com���������������������������������������������������������������������������14
People Who Global�����������������������������������������������������������������������15
RateNow ��������������������������������������������������������������������������������������15
Reactable Systems������������������������������������������������������������������������16
Rokubun���������������������������������������������������������������������������������������16
Sellers n’ Bloggers�������������������������������������������������������������������������17
Smartbrain������������������������������������������������������������������������������������17
Snackson���������������������������������������������������������������������������������������18
SpanishZoom �������������������������������������������������������������������������������18
TinFunding�����������������������������������������������������������������������������������19
Wide Eyes Technologies ��������������������������������������������������������������19
m4Social - Inclusive Mobile�������������������������������������������������������� 20
Company Page Booth
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J2.5
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J2.8
H1.5
J2.3
J1.4
J1.8
J1.1
J1.5
J1.3
J2.2
J2.4
J2.7
H1.4
J1.7
J1.2
H1.7
J1.6
H1.1
H1.2
H1.8
J2.1
J2.6
J1.0
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4. Afterscool
info@afterscool.com
www.afterscool.com
Sector:
Education
Afterscool is a pioneering digital platform in Spain,
with comprehensive services both for families and
after-school activities providers.
Families can discover, plan and book the best
classes, camps workshops in their city. With
ratings and opinions, families can share their
experience with other peers.
Among other benefits, businesses receive increased
visibility, online registration tools and feedback
from their customers.
Booth J2.5Booth H1.6
Health startup with the mission to improve the
quality of life of patients that suffer severe allergic
reactions requiring epinephrine.
anAPPhylaxis is the first integrated solution
for anaphylaxis management. It consists of
two components: a smart case for epinephrine
autoinjectors and a mobile app with multiple
features (epinephrine status, automatic emergency
protocol in case of anaphylaxis, distance alert…).
Technology also applicable to epinephrine stored
in public spaces making easier the access to
epinephrine and saving lives.
Sector:
Health | Digital Health
www.adanmi.com
epala@adanmi.com
Adan Medical Innovation
Booth J2.8Booth H1.3
CODA
aleix@codainterface.com
www.codainterface.com
Sector:
Services
CODA is a system that allows to get customers
feedback once the service provided has finished.
Thus, we are able to increase the company quality
controls, improve the customer retention and
evaluate the customer service given by providers.
Global Big Data company dedicated to harnessing
the existing capacity to capture and manage the
high volume of the Earth data generated at ground-
level and transform it into high value-added
information that can be useful, provide benefits and
solve current problems in different areas of society,
using the own Cubesat constellation.
The fields of application in which you work
ranging from maritime control, environmental
management, prevention and control of fires,
monitoring of the evolution of crops, control and
safety of territories, tracking loads, optimizing
routes, applications in the field of defense, locating
people, detect undeclared movements.
Sector:
Space
www.aistechspace.com
carles.franquesa@aistechspace.com
Aistech Space
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5. Booth J2.3Booth H1.5
Visual Creatives
Cuideo offers senior home care services.
2 services:
· Care by hours: Marketplace where Care Pros are
connected with Senior users. Cuideo intermediaries
between freelance based Care Pros and families,
monetising 25% of the total service value.
· Care Pro recruiting: Cuideo recruits full time and
part time Care Pros for families with heavy care
needs. Cuideo filter candidates and match them
with Senior users based on pathology, care needs
and other 20 more variables.
Cuideo started at the beginning of 2016 and has
closed the year with over 22.000 hours delivered
and 250.000 euros invoiced in care services.
DIMO is a digital design studio based in Barcelona.
Helping create web design, mobile Apps Motion
Graphics.
We promote brands, campaigns and digital
products to the specific needs of our clients.
Sector: Branding | Web Design
| Development Applications
Sector:
Healthcare
www.cuideo.com www.dimo.cat
gerard@dimo.catabuzon@cuideo.com
DIMOCuideo
Booth J1.4 Booth J1.8
Ges-Emer is a technological company in the field of
emergencies, creating solutions that respond to the
needs of the 21st century market:
Ges-Emer is a web and mobile tool that allows easy
management of emergency plans of any company or
administration.
It can manage the protocol, contact with the team
through notifications, optimize the time of the
organizations, control by geolocation, manage
differents projects, practice drills,…
Evacuation3D transforms static evacuation posters
of any installation into 3D audiovisual productions,
facilitating users understanding of more useful,
practical and eye-catching information.
DyCare develops innovative solutions for the
control and clinical assessment of diseases affecting
the functionality of the musculoskeletal system.
DyCare devices, integrate wearable sensors to be
used in clinical practice.
Our main goal is providing solutions which
revolutionize the care process of patients with
musculoskeletal, neurological disorders by
optimizing the therapy, accelerating the clinical
trials and improving the quality of life.
DyCare motion analysis system provides clinicians
a new measurement tool to support diagnosis
and treatment phases, allowing the continuous
assessment of patient improvements and
effectiveness of the received treatment, providing
greater efficiency in the management of movement
diseases.
Sector:
Healthcare | Rehabilitation
Sector:
Technologies in the field of emergencies
www.ges-emer.comwww.dycare.co
silvia.raga@dycare.co ramon@ges-emer.com
Ges-EmerDyCare
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6. Booth J1.5
Holded is a beautiful cloud invoicing and
accounting software for small businesses.
The user can set up Holded easily to fit his business
and also can activate integrations and additional
applications on the Holded Store to boost the power
of the software and get a complete ERP.
Sector:
B2B Software as a Service
www.holded.com
hello@holded.com
Holdedhippo technologies
alex.lopez@hippo.tech
www.hippo.tech
Sector:
Mobile strategy | Mobile solutions | IoT
| UXUI | Creativity innovation
hippo technologies is a dream of five people devoted
to innovation and mobility arisen by a common
passion: creating digital experiences that actually
change the vision of the world.
Our mission is helping corporations in thinking
the best solution that fits their needs, from the very
first beginning of the idea to finally developing the
End2End solution. We are focused on corporate
mobile solutions, IoT, UXUI and design thinking.
Booth J1.1
MJN Neuroserveis
david@mjn.cat
www.mjn.cat
Sector:
Health | Medical Devices | Bioengineering
MJN Neuroserveis aims to improve the life quality
of people with epilepsy.
With a non-invasive, discrete and portable device
that predicts an epileptic seizure before it happens.
The device consists of an earpiece that reads the
electroencephalogram, a wristband and a mobile
application with an AI algorithm that warns the
user and their environment, one-minute before
the epileptic seizure occurs. In addition, the device
monitors permanently the brain activity of the
patient. Currently, there is no device on the market
that offers these functions.
And in the near future, MJN will be speaking about
schizophrenia and other brain diseases.
Booth J2.2Booth J1.3
IOMED provides a new software tool for medical
doctors.
Our goal is to integrate with existing software
systems, providing a useful layer which helps
doctors to introduce medical data (medical
records), provides useful visualizations
summarizing the medical history of the patient, and
allows to perform complex searches and analysis on
medical data, in a simple way.
We aim to improve medicine by creating high
quality medical data from the first moment, and
bringing into medicine the latest technologies in
computer science and artificial intelligence.
Sector:
Big Data | Machine Learning
Mobile Health | eHealth
www.iomed.es
alvaro.abella@iomed.es
IOMED
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8. Omnirooms.com
pedro.hernandez@omnirooms.com
www.omnirooms.com
Sector:
Accessible tourism
| Adapted vacation | Disabled people
Omnirooms.com is an online portal that offers
accessible rooms with their characteristics and real
pictures. Although other portals normally provide
generic pictures, our website has real pictures of the
adapted rooms available, as well as a description
of their characteristics and of the establishment
services. And it is possible to book directly.
Thus, anyone with reduced mobility may decide if
the room fits their personal needs or not, just by
checking out the information without having to call
to the hotel nor sending mails.
So, the reservation process is simplified and
the possibilities of finding what you really need
increase.
Booth J2.7Booth J2.4
Nectarcompany is a VoIP service provider and telco
software manufacturer. Introduces its SaaS unified
and collaborative communications product for
medium and large companies, Synapsis.
Increase the productivity of your employees
around the world. Reduce your infrastructure and
maintenance costs with a single corporate
communications platform. Integrate Synapsis with
your business by our open API.
More agility and efficiency in your business with
native integration with Salesforece, Desk.com,
Google drive, Docs. Manage the platform and its
resources in an easier, profitable, efficient and agile
way with our management and monitoring
platform. Unify all channels and platforms into one
software.
Sector:
Telecomunicacions | Unified
communications as a Service (SaaS)
www.nectarcompany.com
acolls@nectarcompany.com
Nectarcompany RateNow
g.sanchez@ratenow.es
www.ratenow.es
Sector:
Market Research
The surveys of tomorrow: touch screens within
your facilities to collect a high volume of real-time
feedback.
Interact with your customers asking and analyzing
anything you want. Make better decisions.
Booth J1.7Booth H1.4
People Who is the online patient platform and
mobile app for sharing, monitoring and staying
informed about the illness.
A digital product for to all people who live with an
illness and which brings together all of the services
that patients need in their everyday life into one
place.
People Who is organized by illnesses. For each
illness has three sections: a Community to speak
to other people who are in the same situation,
a Control area to keep track of the illness and
a Magazine for patients to stay up-to-date with
reliable information.
Sector:
Digital Health
www.peoplewhoglobal.com
miquel.dominguez@peoplewhoglobal.com
People Who Global
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9. Booth J1.2 Booth H1.7
Sector:
Geopositioning for mobile devices
Sector:
Electronic musical instruments
| Electronic music technology
Smartbrain
jrllorente@smartbrain.net
www.smartbrain.net
Sector:
Healthcare | Wellbeing
Smartbrain generates a high social impact by
helping the elderly and anybody suffering cognitive
impairment to slow down the loss of skills and to
keep their autonomy and quality of life for longer,
delaying the threshold of dependency.
We also help the healthcare system, families and
caregivers to keep their quality of life and to get
significant savings in the dependency costs.
Smartbrain is an interactive program for
cognitive stimulation with proven therapeutic
efficacy, featuring more than 34.000 exercises in
several languages that can be used with tablets,
smartphones and PC’s.
Booth H1.1Booth J1.6
We are a digital warehouse of fashion products.
With the aim of providing an optimum user
experience and adapting to the everyday habits of
all business participants, we have created online
stores and an action button, to allow our sales force
to tag product photographs to allow the immediate
purchase of products.
By publishing in whatsapp and social networks,
which allows to develop a chat-shopping channel
between personal contacts.
In this way each person can be a salesperson, taking
advantage of the conversation, the collaborative
economy and confidence to drive digital sales.
Sector:
Fashion Market Place
www.sellersnbloggers.com
daraujo@sellersnbloggers.com
Sellers n’ BloggersRokubun
xavier.banque@rokubun.cat
www.rokubun.cat
Rokubun is an RD company focused on accurate
and innovative navigation solutions beyond those
based on classical Global Navigation Satellite
System (GNSS).
Rokubun offers navigation solutions specially
targeted to the mobile devices market and, in
particular, to V2X technologies (Connected
Car), wide area logistics, precision farming and
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV). In addition,
Rokubun provides RD services for companies and
public institutions in the fields of navigation and
positioning as well as earth observation.
ARGONAUT is Rokubun’s first accurate geo-
location solution based on the combination of
an advanced navigation receiver and a powerful
navigation data processing service.
The Reactable was the first big project developed
by this team, which at this time was integrated by
Sergi Jordà, Günter Geiger, Martin Kaltenbrunner
and Marcos Alonso.
The project started in February 2003, with the
ambitious goal of developing the best computer-
based musical instrument we could imagine,
without being necessarily constrained by any
predefined technology. In that sense, the Reactable
really started from a concept, and not from a
technology.
Since 2009, the commercialization and further
development of the Reactable music instrument in
all its forms (tabletop, mobile apps, etc.) is being
carried by the spin-off company Reactable Systems.
www.reactable.com
marc@reactable.com
Reactable Systems
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10. Wide Eyes Technologies
info@wide-eyes.it
www.wide-eyes.it
Sector:
Artificial Intelligence | Fashion | Retail
| eCommerce | Marketing
Wide Eyes Technologies, a Barcelona-based fashion
AI startup, was founded with the idea to create
a fully automatised AI technology to empower
fashion industry and revolutionise it.
We are an international team of 15 professionals
from all over the world with experience in deep
learning, startups, scaling, marketing, operations
and growth hacking.
Our technology is based on deep learning and
artificial intelligence. We are able to recognise
any fashion item, auto-tag it and build automatic
style advisor. Besides, we do big data analytics,
analyse users’ behaviour and identify fashion trend,
seasonality and personalise the search result for
each customer.
Booth J2.6Booth J2.1
TinFunding is the collection platform for students.
Nowadays, the crowdfunding is not a choice for
student who need money for his studies because the
rewards model doesn’t attract investment.
However, we have all bought cookies, lotteries, etc.
to students who need money for an event, such as
the end-of-study trip.
Inspired by crowdfunding and relational sales,
The students can get money thanks to purchases
made by their contacts. Students only have to
share TinFunding products on their social media
channels.
If any of your contacts purchase that product, the
student receives 80% of the benefit as a reward.
Sector:
Money collection platform
www.tinfunding.com
manuel.juan.granell@gmail.com
TinFundingSpanishZoom
scodinach@spanishzoom.com; eperal@spanishzoom.com
www.spanishzoom.com
Sector:
Education
SpanishZoom is an online Spanish language school
that offers live classes 24/7 with native qualified
teachers through an easy-to-use video conference
system.
Our customized and convenient service allows us
to fulfill both personal and professional needs of
our busy clients that need to maximize their time
without losing quality and the contact with a real
teacher.
We have specific programs for individual students,
groups and companies using an enjoyable
methodology combined with state-of-the-art digital
learning resources to conduct our classes.
SpanishZoom is also a global Spanish learning
community that connects students and teachers
for sharing news, resources, experiences and
knowledge.
Booth H1.8Booth H1.2
Snackson is a solution that allows our clients to
communicate with their teams and collaborators as
well as to train them through their smartphone in
an easy way, by dedicating just 5 minutes a day.
Snackson combines the advantages of mobile
learning with micro-learning methodology
(modular contents of short duration adapted
mobile devices) and gamification dynamics.
Our clients have more autonomy, simplify the
processes, and follow-up the training activities
more effectively.
Snackson. Learn in 5 minutes.
Sector:
Education
www.snackson.com
miguel.angel@snackson.com
Snackson
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11. 1. Location, Location, Location
Barcelona is the gateway to southern Europe, the
capital of the Mediterranean, North Africa and a
bridging platform to reach Latin America.
2. Easy to get
This is the only city in Southern Europe that
brings together one of the biggest ports in the
Mediterranean, an International airport, highways
Connected to the European network and a TGV
high speed train station.
3. Large diversified economic area
The city has a long-standing industrial tradition
and a dense network of firms, and it has made a
strategic commitment to the knowledge economy.
4. Business Friendly City
Barcelona has a long-standing tradition
in business, commerce and trade, and
entrepreneurship and its ecosystem favours the
setting up of new businesses.
5. A natural magnet for talent
Barcelona has a highly-qualified pool of
specialists and 48% of active professionals are
working in the knowledge economy. It also
attracts international talent thanks to the prestige
of its business schools and universities, which are
ranked amongst the world’s best.
6. Internacionalized Economy
Barcelona has an open economy that is connected
to the world, where foreign firms can invest
successfully.
7. Leader in Strategic Sectors
The city offers interesting business and
investment opportunities in strategic economic
sectors with great future potential.
8. Ambitious City Projects
Barcelona is constantly transforming itself,
with policy commitments to ICT and mobile
technologies, providing private initiatives great
opportunities for the future.
9. Best quality of life in Europe
Barcelona is internationally renowned for its
quality of life.
10. A city brand that adds value
Barcelona is now internationally recognised.
10 Reasons for Investing in Barcelona
m4Social - Inclusive mobile
hola@m4social.org
www.m4social.org · www.tercersector.cat
m4Social connects non-profit organizations with social entrepreneurs, developers and investors in order to
promote and implement technology projects and high-impact mobile applications that improve the social
life of the people and disadvantaged groups.
m4Social is an initiative of the The Third Social Sector Platform in Catalonia (Taula d’entitats del Tercer
Sector Social de Catalunya), that represented 3.036 Catalan non-profit organizations, with the support of
“Ajuntament de Barcelona”, “Departament de Treball, Afers Socials i Famílies de la Generalitat de
Catalunya”, “Fundació Obra Social de La Caixa” and “Mobile World Capital Foundation”.
Booth J1.0
Sector:
Third Social Sector
Find out more at
bcn.cat/
barcelonabusiness
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12. Landing in a new city is not easy! We provide you with strategic guidance to plan your arrival
correctly. Additionally, we offer you a portfolio of services adapted to your needs.
The Business Landing Service provides comprehensive
support for Barcelona-based investment projects.
One stop service, free of charge, and fully confidential.
• Information and advice on procedures for setting
up in Barcelona
• Online business incorporation service for limited
liability companies
• Support for recruitment searches
• Business location searches
• Short-term office space for softlanding
• Information about private suppliers and providers
• Connection with other players in the business
ecosystem
For companies
Are you looking to expand
your business in Barcelona?
For international newcomers
Are you moving to Barcelona?
For entrepreneurs
Are you looking to set
up your business in
Barcelona?
Barcelona Activa provides you with personalised
itineraries that will guide you to successfully
develop your business activity in Barcelona, a
path that will allow you to follow, step by step,
the different stages in the entrepreneurial process
of starting up a company in Barcelona.
Sign up for a welcome session in English!
Barcelona is vibrant and a creative magnet for international talent. A welcoming city that
facilitates personal landing and the connection with the local community through:
• Free and complete relocation guides and welcome sessions in English
• Seminars, workshops, expat breakfasts, city business tours
• Afterwork gatherings that put you in touch with the international clubs
• Courses of Catalan for business
• Barcelona International Community Day
Let the Barcelona City Council
become your best partner to land
in Barcelona
 Contact us at: citypromotion@barcelonactiva.cat
 Contact us at: barcelonactiva.cat/entrepreneurship
 Contact us at:
bcn.cat/businesslanding
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13. BARcELONA mobile startup hub
bcn.cat/
barcelonabusiness