Startup ecosystems can be fragmented, competitive, and hidden to newcomers, which is detrimental for local startups and community growth. The Startup Ecosystem Canvas seeks to provide local entrepreneurs with a clear list of resources for every stage of their startup journey, and outline a basic framework for communities to map their ecosystem.

With applications for the Barcelona Founder Institute now open, we are excited to release the Updated Barcelona Startup Ecosystem Canvas, which is currently in Draft v4 below! It was developed by the Barcelona Founder Institute and local leaders Urs Rothmayr, Oriol Bes, and Raphael Jardim.

More input is needed, so please leave your comments on this collaborative Google document, and it will be considered for the next update.

Are you looking to build a startup in Barcelona? Then apply to the Barcelona Founder Institute today! 

A text version is included below, for searchability:

Startup Stages

 There is no one right way to build a technology company, but for the sake of simplicity we have outlined a basic, common, sequential framework.

1. Idea Stage

This is where new entrepreneurs get inspired, learn best practices, develop skills, validate ideas, and begin to build their team and product.

A. Inspire

• Startup Media: Centralized local information, listings, and news. (i.e. startup blogs/ publications/ lists/ FB groups/ newsletters)

1. Barcelona Startup Map
2. Barcelona Startups List
3. Barcelona Startup News
4. Barcelona Tech city Companies
5. Barcinno
6. Efecto Colibrí
7. Hubbub Labs
8. JobsBCN
9. Loogic
10. Luis Font
11. Portde Barcelona
12. Startup Digest Barcelona
13. Startup Hub Catalonia
14. Tech.co Barcelona
15. Technova Barcelona Blog

• Inspirational Events: Open, inclusive, beginner startup events (i.e. Startup Weekend, idea fairs, and inspirational meetups)

1. 080 Barcelona Fashion Investor Day
2. Big Data Startups
3. Failcon Barcelona
4. First Tuesday
5. Full Stack Fest Barcelona
6. Iniciador Barcelona
7. ISport Forum
8. Mornings4
9. PrimaveraPro Startups
10. Quedamus
11. Social Entrepreneurship Barcelona Meetup
12. Startup Party Barcelona
13. Startup Week Barcelona
14. Startup Weekend Barcelona
15. TechMeetups Barcelona
16. TEDx Barcelona
17. WORKOFF: Digital Nomads & Coworkers in Barcelona

B. Educate

• Best Practices: Beginner knowledge-sharing events. (i.e. beginner events that serve to educate more than inspire, like Startup Founder 101, etc)  

1. Agile Barcelona
2. Barcelona Bitcoin Community
3. Digital Marketing Barcelona
4. Growth Hacking Spain Barcelona
5. Health 2.0
6. Lean Startup Circle Barcelona
7. Lessons Learned
8. MOB + FabCafe Barcelona
9. Startup Founder 101 Barcelona
10. Startup Grind Barcelona
11. Teamlabs Barcelona

• Training & Feedback: Skill & Idea development. (Ex. bootcamps and comprehensive training programs, like Founder Institute, etc)

1. BCN Coding
2. B Corp Spain 
3. Data Science Dojo
4. Founder Institute
5. Fundación INLEA
6. Invasivecode
7. Ironhack
8. Lean Startup Machine Barcelona
9. Moebio
10. Pandorahub Fun Start up!
11. Startup Weekend Bootcamp Barcelona (II): Business Model Validation
12. Ubiqum

C. Validate

• Team Formation: Resources for teaming up. (i.e. events or other resources that facilitate early-stage recruitment and cofounder matching)

1. Cofounders Barcelona
2. CoFoundersLab
3. Foundum

• Build First Product: Hackathons & resources to build. (i.e. hackathons and other builder-focused events and resources)

1. Barcelona Gaming Data Hackathon. By BCNAnalytics + Social Point
2. Global Urban Datafest
3. Hackathon 'Todos Incluidos'
4. Heywood&Sons
5. Legal Hackathon Barcelona
6. Typeform I/O Summer Hackathon

2. Launch Stage

In this stage, entrepreneurs establish and formalize the company, develop the product, get feedback from customers, and prepare for the next step.

A. Start

• Establish: Law firms & banks for startups

1. Abogalo
2. Across Legal
3. Avatic Abogados
4. Banco Pastor
5. Banco Santander
6. Banco Sabadell
7. BBVA
8. B-Ecosystem
9. Delvy Asesores
10. Derecho.com
11. Fortuny Legal
12. La Caixa
13. LexTic
14. Metricson
15. Roca Junyent
16. Rousaud Costas Duran
17. Starting Legal
18. Triodos Bank

• Workspace: Co-working and flexible workspaces (note: “official” office space goes in 3.1.a. Infrastructure)

1. Apocapoc BCN
2. ATTA
3. BCN575 Coworking
4. BCNewt
5. Betahaus
6. Blitz Coworking Gracia
7. Cloudworks
8. Coworking Platon
9. CREC
10. Depot Lab
11. Domènech 7
12. Espai Born
13. Factory 103
14. Felisa Cowork
15. Garden Coworking
16. Impact Hub Barcelona
17. LoftCowork
18. Makers of Barcelona
19. MeetBCN
20. Nidok Coworking
21. Pangea Coworking
22. Pier01
23. Pipoca Coworking
24. RavalCo
25. Start2bee
26. Talent Garden Barcelona
27. Transforma BCN
28. WeWork
29. Zamness

B. Develop

• Formalize: Accounting, development and HR for early-stage startups.

1. 1Dia 1Empresa
2. Acompany
3. Adase Grup
4. Adrenalina
5. Affa Asesoria
6. Alioth Asesores
7. Atraura
8. BCNWebTeam
9. Crealogica
10. eData
11. Einnova
12. Ferpa Recursos Humanos
13. Fite Assessors
14. Lafosca
15. La Teva Web
16. MarsBased
17. Michael Page
18. Mobile Jazz
19. PegPeg
20. PulpoLab
21. Signia
22. Tresmar Consultors
23. WION

• Prepare for Seed: Incubators and advanced mentorship. (i.e. advanced knowledge sharing, later stage events and resources for startup teams)

1. Atresmedia Hub Factory
2. Demium Startups
3. GameBCN
4. Glòries Business Incubator
5. Heywood&Sons
6. Intelectium
7. IQS Tech Factory
8. Kick Incubator
9. La Salle Technova Barcelona
10. SeedRocket
11. Start-Up Catalonia
12. Startup Next Barcelona
13. Upstarter Incubator

C. Launch

• Seed Accelerators: Seed funding mentor programs (Techstars-style programs that provide funding)

1. BStartup
2. Conector
3. Impact Accelerator
4. Itnig
5. Ship2B
6. Wayra

• Pitch & Demo: Show local startups for investment (i.e. demo days for companies seeking seed investment)

1. Betapitch
2. Conector Barcelona #3 Demo Day
3. Demo Day Masteryourself
4. Demo Day Mobile Barcelona
5. Primavera Pro
6. Tech Demo Day

3. Growth Stage

Here, a startup proves their utility, receives recognition, and scales up. This usually requires funding, angels, VCs, and ways to connect them to startups.

A. Recognition

• Investor Networking:  Connect professional investors with founders. (i.e. events or groups that facilitate connections with professional investors)

1. 4YFN Events
2. Barcelona International Investors and Founders (IIF)
3. Barcelona Networking
4. Business Angels Network Catalunya (BANC)
5. Challengers Barcelona
6. Crowdcube
7. Economistes BAN
8. ESADE BAN Investment Forum Barcelona
9. Global Women Entrepreneur-Network: Barcelona
10. IESE Business Angels
11. Keiretsu Forum
12. Seed&Click Angel Network
13. The Crowd Angel

• Major Media: Mainstream local business press. (i.e. major local or regional publications that frequently champion local businesses)

1. 20 Minutos
2. ABC
3. Ara
4. Cinco Días
5. Economia Digital
6. El Economista
7. El Mundo
8. El Pais
9. El Periodico
10. El Punt Avui
11. Emprendedores
12. Expansion
13. La Vanguardia
14. TV3

B. Funding

• Angels / Micro-VCs: Seed-stage investors

1. Albert Armengol
2. Albert Feliu
3. Ankit Shah
4. Axel Serena
5. Bloomium
6. Carlos Blanco
7. Christopher Pommerening
8. Daniel Gimenez
9. David Monreal
10. Ed Freyfogle
11. Encomenda VC
12. Eneko Huarte-Mendicoa
13. Enric Sole
14. Fernando Lodi de Oliveira
15. Finaves S.C.R.
16. Grant Taylor
17. Grupo Godó
18. Grupo HS3
19. Hugo Fdez.-Mardomingo
20. Idodi Venture Capital
21. Ignacio Fonts
22. Inveready Technology Investment Group
23. Javier Juncadell
24. Joel Verges
25. Jordi Priu
26. Lanta Digital Ventures
27. Lars Gehrmann
28. Lluis Faus
29. Luis Martin Cabeides
30. Marco Gari Heseltine
31. Marek Fodor
32. Mauricio Prieto
33. Neoko Capital
34. Oscar Fuente
35. Pura Strong
36. Ramillas
37. Ricard Soderberg
38. Sitka Capital
39. Smartech Capital
40. Szabolcs Gaborjani
41. The Crowd Angel
42. Varun Dalal

• Venture Capitalists: Series A and beyond

1. 101 Startups
2. Abac Capital
3. Active Venture Partners
4. Ariol Capital
5. Caixa Capital Risc
6. ECIJA
7. Flint Capital
8. Funding Circle España
9. Galdana Ventures
10. Idodi Venture Capital
11. Intelectium
12. Lanta Digital Ventures
13. Lánzame Capital
14. Miura Private Equity
15. Nauta Capital
16. Nero Ventures
17. Scaale Barcelona / Cross Border Angels
18. Seed & Click
19. SI Capital
20. Sitka Capital
21. Ysios Capital

C. Growth

• Infrastructure: Office space, HR, local business insurance. (i.e. office space/ HR/ insurance providers for capital-rich companies to grow and scale)

1. Araytor Correduria de Seguros
2. CICOR Internacional Correduria de Seguros
3. CINC Business Center
4. D&M Asesores
5. Grupo RH Barcelona
6. Habitaclia
7. Instant Offices
8. JDM Correduria de Seguros
9. LB Consultores
10. Omnibus Correduria de Seguros
11. Pisos
12. Privat Asesoramiento
13. RSM Correduria de Seguros
14. Search Office Space
15. Target Offices
16. Tecnic Consultores

• Expansion: Growth accelerators/consultants. (i.e. programs and business consultants for capital-rich companies to grow and scale)

1. Accenture
2. Altair Management Consultants
3. Barcelona Business Landing
4. BSD Consulting
5. Eureka Consultores
6. Everis Group
7. Indra Business Consulting
8. Kernel Business Consulting
9. KPMG
10. McKinsey & Company
11. Optimissa
12. PwC

4. Success Stories

Successful homegrown companies that have raised significant institutional funding, employ a large workforce, or have achieved liquidity.

1. 3Scale
2. Atrapalo
3. ByHours
4. Camaloon
5. CloudGuide
6. Cooltra / eCooltra
7. CornerJob
8. Coverfy
9. Cyberclick
10. Datumize
11. Derecho.com
12. Doctoralia
13. eDreams ODIGEO
14. Exoticca
15. ForceManager
16. Fractus
17. Glovo
18. Holaluz
19. iContainers
20. ID Finance
21. Infantium
22. Infojobs
23. Kantox
24. Kigo
25. Kompyte
26. Lodgify
27. Minoryx Therapeutics
28. Nubelo
29. Nubera
30. Nuroa
31. PayTouch
32. Peptomyc
33. Picreel
34. Privalia
35. RedPoints
36. Restb.ai
37. Robot Media
38. Scytl
39. Signaturit
40. Socialpoint
41. Softonic
42. Tiendeo
43. TravelPerk
44. Treeveo
45. Trovit
46. Typeform
47. Ulabox
48. Upptalk
49. Uvinum
50. vLex
51. Voz.io
52. Wallapop
53. Worldsensing

Supporters

To facilitate the steps, every ecosystem needs strong supporters.

1. Evangelists

Successful local founders who lead the ecosystem & frequently mentor newbies.

1. Adriana Freitas
2. Alberto Lopez-Balcells Gallardo
3. Alexander Dmitrenko Marchenkoff
4. Alexis Urusoff
5. Àlex Rodríguez Bacardit
6. Alicia Cañellas
7. Bart Huisken
8. Bogdan Petrescu
9. Diana Moret
10. Diego Fernandez
11. Elena Rodriguez Blanco
12. Erik Brieva
13. Fran Chuan
14. Francesc Saldaña
15. Henrik Sprengel
16. Holger Sprengel
17. Hyun Park
18. Iñaki Ecenarro
19. Ivan Utge Hernandez
20. Joaquim Pinto
21. John Carbajal
22. Jorge Fuentes
23. Josep Amoros
24. Josep Lluis de Gabriel I Eroles
25. Josep Oriol Armengou Girbau
26. Juan Alvarez de Lara
27. Juan Castilla
28. Marc Serra
29. Maria Rubies 
30. Michiel Das
31. Miguel Benavent de B.
32. Miguel Galera
33. Nacho Gallardo
34. Oriol Bes
35. Pere Valles
36. Raphael Jardim
37. Richard Ferraro
38. Ruben Ferreiro
39. Rudy Bianco
40. Sergi Pallares Nadal
41. Spain Admin
42. Tirso Maldonado
43. Toni Ferrate
44. Toni Mascaró
45. Urs Rothmayr 
46. Valerie Coulton
47. Veronica Torras
48. Xavier Alabart

2. Government

Public organizations that facilitate local economic development

1. ACCIÓ
2. Avançsa
3. Barcelona Activa
4. Barcelona Global
5. Barcelona Innovacion
6. BCN OpenChallenge
7. Cambra de Comerç de Barcelona
8. Ministry for Business and Labour
9. Mobile World Capital
10. mVenturesBcn

3. Talent

Major local business or tech universities and employers that attract and retain local talent.

• Local Universities (universities with prominent technical or business programs)

1. Barcelona Business School
2. Barcelona Graduate School of Economics
3. Barcelona Technology School
4. EADA Business School
5. EAE Business School
6. EU Business School Barcelona
7. ESADE Business & Law School
8. ESIC Business School
9. IESE Business School: Barcelona
10. Teamlabs Barcelona
11. TBS - Campus Barcelona
12. Universitat Abat Oliba CEU
13. Universitat de Barcelona
14. Universitat Internacional de Catalunya
15. ETSEIB - Escola Tècnica Superior Enginyeria Industrial de Barcelona
16. Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya
17. Universitat Pompeu Fabra
18. Universitat Ramon Llull

• Local Employers (Major technical employers, like Microsoft or Google or large local companies, with large local offices)

1. Booking.com
2. CA Technologies
3. Colt Technology Services
4. HP
5. IBM
6. King.com
7. Microsoft
8. SAP
9. Scytl
10. SEAT
11. SmartFocus
12. Softonic
13. Sony
14. Telefonica
15. Typeform
16. VistaPrint
17. Xerox
18. Yahoo!

Learn more about the Startup Ecosystem Canvas here, and leave us your thoughts on the Barcelona Canvas on this collaborative Google document (This is just a DRAFT, and more input is needed!)

Are you looking to build a startup in Barcelona? Then apply to the Barcelona Founder Institute today