What is investing in startups like in Spain? Learn about the Startup Observatory, a public, free digital tool where we collect startup investment data.
Through our Startups programme, the Bankinter Innovation Foundation is inaugurating the Startup Ecosystem Observatory, an initiative that was created with the aim of shedding light on entrepreneurial activity in Spain and to serve as a source of information for entrepreneurs, investors and the media.
From today, entrepreneurs, investors, media and people interested in the entrepreneurship scene have at their disposal a digital, public and free tool, with data on investment in startups.
The Startup Observatory is based on data on investment operations published in the media over the last two years, and through various graphs, tables and tables it breaks down the main investment figures in Spain. This allows you to interact with the data to serve as a source of reference information for entrepreneurs and investors in decision-making.
The Observatory’s interactive analyses make it possible to reflect, among other points:
- Global data on investment in Spain, with details of the main sectors, operations and most active investors.
- Year-on-year investment outlook, comparing various data such as the size of each round.
- Investment analysis and trends, with information on monthly evolution, types of investors or the origin of funds.
- Analysis of divestment operations (exit) in order to anticipate trends, with data on the evolution and origin of funds, among others.
Together with the launch of the Observatory, we present a first report analysing its data: “Investment Trends in Spain in 2019”.
The main trend we have detected is that sustained investment, understood as recurring and exempt from large one-off operations, is growing at a good pace, specifically by 47%, reaching 735 million euros. In addition, the number of operations closed last year rose by 44%, totalling 231 projects that obtained investment.
However, if we take the total investment made in startups, including large and exceptional funding rounds, the volume stood at 1,218 million euros in 2019, a figure that represents a slight year-on-year decrease of 2.9%.
Despite the decline, the conclusion is that the startup sector has healthy organic growth and less tendency to concentrate investment in a few operations.
You can access the full report and data from the Bankinter Innovation Foundation’s Startup Observatory by clicking here.
