Dealflow dot es  number 225: Nauta and K Fund have new funds. Travel Perk acquires API startup. Teltoo acquired.  
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Dealflow dot es  number 225: Nauta and K Fund have new funds. Travel Perk acquires API startup.  
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Jul 13, 2020  bullet  Issue  number 225  
Last week we  
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something that we'd been working on for a few months.  
We've called it  
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Founders  
and it's a pre seed investment program to write checks of up to €100k in very early stage  
Spanish startups.  
We'll do a few investments of this size through the life of K Fund II, but our  
main focus will continue to be on our usual €200k to €2m investments.  
Why do this now?  
This has nothing to do with covid 19 as some people might think, and it's a  
program that my colleague Marc Clemente thought about a few months ago, before the pandemic.  
We  
thought it would be a good idea to offer founders the possibility of accessing pre seed funding, in  
order to have sufficient resources to make the decision of leaving their full time jobs (if they,  
for example, are currently working at a company) and tackle the idea they have head on.  
Despite the evolution of the Spanish startup ecosystem, I still believe that one of the bigger  
challenges for founders who do not have a strong network is to find the first €100k (or so) that  
allows them to go full time on their projects.  
With K Founders, we're trying to help these kind of  
founders find the resources they need.  
By no means we're trying to replace the super important activity and role business angels play in  
the market.  
In fact, our goal with this program is to actually share the dealflow that we get with  
them, since we're happy to co invest and set the terms of the investments in conjunction with them.  
All in all, we're just trying to help more non founders become founders  smiling face with smiling eyes  
The current batch is open until September 15th.  
If you think you fit with what we're looking for,  
send us your info through the form you'll find  
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Taxfix  
is on a mission to help people get their maximum tax refund effortlessly, without needing  
prior tax knowledge.  
Our user friendly Taxfix App enables people to file their tax declaration  
within 22 minutes on average using a chat like interface to guide the process.  
To date, Taxfix has raised $110 million in funding from some of the world’s top investors   Index  
Ventures, Valar Ventures, Creandum, and Redalpine.  
We achieved this by putting our customers at the  
core of everything we do and by helping them save millions of euros every week.  
The company has offices in Berlin and Madrid and is looking to add several profiles in the Spanish  
capital. Scroll down to find out more.  
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According to a study from Universo Crowdfunding, all varieties of crowdfunding (equity, reward,  
lending, etc)  
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for €200 million raised in 2019  
Madrid based logistics startup GOI  
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€17 million from Moira Capital.  
According to the  
announcement, Moira will end up owning approximately 50 percent  of GOI  
Barcelona based biotech company Deep UII  
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raised  
€3.5 million from Alta Life Sciences, Kurma Partners  
and Sofimac Innovation  
Barcelona based gaming startup Champion Games  
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raised  
€1 million Play Ventures and Encomenda  
Other financing rounds:  
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HUBUC  
(fintech, €350k)  
Startups looking for funding:  
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Adtuo  
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Canadian company Haivision  
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acquired  
Teltoo, a Spanish technology company innovating in the field of  
peer to peer (P 2P) and Web RTC enabled real time video delivery.  
Terms of the deal were not disclosed  
Barcelona based Travel Perk  
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bought  
Albatross, an API for virus related travel restrictions, to expand  
risk management offering.  
Avi Meir, CEO of Travel Perk,  
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about the deal in this Twitter thread  
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Nauta Capital  
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announced  
a new €120 million fund to back early stage European B 2B startups.  
Nauta  
also disclosed its first investment out of its new fund, in UK startup Number Eight  
At K Fund, we  
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a new €70 million fund and the  
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of K Founders, an investment program  
aimed at pre seed startups with tickets of up to €100,000.  
We wrote about K Founders  
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Telefonica  
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in American and Swiss Io T startup Nozomi Networks  
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Berlin headquartered Taxfix has raised more than $110 million to date and wants to change how  
consumers file their taxes.  
The company has an engineering and product office in  
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Madrid  
and they're  
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for various positions, including Product Designer and Engineering Manager.  
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Mailtrack, creators of the popular email tracking for Gmail software,  
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announced  
the launch of its  
email tracking add on on i OS.  
In the blog post, Mailtrack claims to have 1.5 million active users  
El Referente  
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profiled  
Student Finance, a Spanish startup co founded by Mariano Kostelec, co founder  
of Uniplaces.  
Student Finance helps students, companies and educational institutions implement  
Income Share Agreement (ISA) programs.  
The company has raised €1.1 million to date  
In a podcast, Javier Arroyo of Smartick  
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says  
that the company currently has 35,000 paid users (out  
of a total of 50,000) and that since covid 19 it has increased the number of students using its  
platform by 2.4X  
El Español  
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profiled  
Taxdown, the Madrid based startup that helps people do their taxes and save  
money doing it  
Fernando Summers, CEO of insurance comparison site Rastreator,  
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talked  
in an interview about how the  
company plans to go full remote  
La Vanguardia  
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talked  
to Carlos Pierre, co founder of Badi, about the company's history and current  
situation.  
Carlos says that demand has dropped by 70 percent  as a consequence of covid 19  
Hiring community Circular  
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announced  
the launch of Talent Pool for V Cs, a tool to help investors  
share potential candidates with their portfolio companies  
Car ecommerce company Clicars  
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claims  
to have grown its business by 62 percent  in 2020 and to have  
processed €120 million in sales since being founded  
CSS Tricks  
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wrote  
a long profile of Madrid based Frontity, calling it  React for Wordpress  
Jorge Gomez Sancha, co founder of Tinybird,  
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wrote  
a Twitter thread about how they do sales at the  
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French proptech startup Unlatch raised €5.2 million and said one of the main objectives it has is  
to  
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expand  
its real estate sales platform to Spain and the UK  
Startup profiles:  
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Shellock  
(logistics),  
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Dat Mean  
(marketing)  
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Taxfix offices in Berlin and Madrid are home to a diverse team of 200 plus  people who come from more  
than 40 nations around the world.  
And with our most recent  
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funding round  
, we’re looking to scale  
our team even further.  
Every day we welcome new challenges that help us further our mission: to cure tax filing chaos.  
Why? Because billions of euros in tax refunds are unclaimed each year.  
Interested in  
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joining us  
as a product manager or engineering manager?  
Learn more about our  
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Expansion  
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wrote  
about the data centre plans of Amazon, Microsoft and Google in Spain:  Spain  
emerges as a cloud European hub'  
Virgin's Hyperloop project in Spain has been  
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I don't usually include links about the situation of R and D spending and research in Spain, but these  
two published last week are worth reading:  
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La burocracia mata la investigación española contra el  
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La letra pequeña del plan de I plus D: una lotería para tapar agujeros a la espera de la UE  
  
Diego Mariño  
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wrote  
a blog post about product management and the  Product Briefing' document  
Miguel Arias, Director of Wayra,  
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wrote  
Rethinking the corporate accelerator model'  
Samuel Gil (JME)  
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The 10 commandments of fundraising'  
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K Fund  
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interviewed  
Juan Pablo Tejela, co founder of Metricool.  
The bootstrapped company has reached  
$100,000 in MRR with no outside financing  
Itnig  
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interviewed  
Sisco Sapena, co founder of Lleida dot net  
En dot digital  
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interviewed  
Aritza Loroño and José Mari del Moral, co founders of Micolet and Colectivia  
Mas Que Startups (is back!)  
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interviewed  
Jose Ignacio Andres, co founder of Nailted  
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