Local startups, investors, and operators based in Valencia, Spain.
4 entries.
Flywire (Nasdaq: FLYW) is a global payments-enablement and software company founded in Valencia as peerTransfer, simplifying high-value, complex payment flows in education, healthcare and travel across 240+ countries. Corporate HQ is now Boston with a Spanish product hub in Valencia. IPO on Nasdaq (FLYW) in 2021.
Lanzadera is a philanthropic, non-equity startup accelerator founded in 2013 by Juan Roig, chairman of Mercadona — Spain's largest supermarket chain — and housed at Marina de Empresas, a 10,000 m² entrepreneurship campus on Valencia's port that also hosts EDEM Business School and Angels Capital. The programme admits roughly 120 startups per cohort across two annual intakes and four maturity tracks (Start, Traction, Growth and Scale Up), each running a minimum of six months. Rather than taking equity, Lanzadera offers flexible loans from €1,000 up to €500,000 at favourable terms, alongside a dedicated project director, mentorship, training grounded in Mercadona's Total Quality Model, and access to Angels Capital. Since 2013 it has accelerated over 1,700 companies and recorded 19 exits including the IPO of Place to Plug; the Financial Times ranked it the #1 startup hub in Spain and #7 in Europe in 2025. Notable alumni include Paack, encrypted-cloud provider Internxt, pet-health platform Barkibu, eSIM provider Holafly and robotics startup Keybotic (acquired by defence-AI firm Helsing in 2026).
Spanish arm of Plug and Play (since 2012) connecting startups with corporate partners in fintech, insurtech, and mobility. Operates from Valencia with pilots and venture funding; global alumni include PayPal and Dropbox. Scope: International.
9th edition of Startup Valencia's flagship summit at the City of Arts and Sciences, themed 'Origin of What's Next', expecting 12,000+ attendees from 120 countries, 3,000 startups, 1,500 corporates and 800 investors managing €300B+ in assets.