Barcelona-based Payflow, a YC-backed salary-advance fintech with ambitions to evolve into a neobank, has banked a $9.1 million Series A funding round — bringing its total raised since January 2020, when the business was founded, to $13.6M. Investors in the round include a mix of national and international funds, including Spain’s Seaya Ventures, a new […]
Alexia Putellas and Lionel Messi named 2021 Ballon d’Or winners
Barcelona playmaker claims award after a stunning seasonMessi wins his seventh title, edging out Robert LewandowskiAlexia Putellas and Lionel Messi have been crowned winners of the 2021 Ballon d’Or during a glittering ceremony in Paris.Putellas, who wa…
Depay on spot as Xavi’s Barcelona era starts with win over Espanyol
This would have to do for now but cannot do for much longer. Twice as many people were at the Camp Nou than the last time Barcelona played here in La Liga, 74,000 fans hoping to witness a brave new world. Instead, they watched as their side needed a Me…
Xavi heading home to Barcelona in chronicle of a coaching job foretold | Sid Lowe
Club legend twice rejected offers but finally he is coming back as a defender of the faith and symbol of hope for the futureOn Xavi Hernández’s last night as a Barcelona player, he walked out of the Olimpiastadion in Berlin carrying the European Cup in…
‘Freedom’: exhibition celebrates Barcelona’s 1970s counterculture
Underground recalls brief but intense flowering of movement in city following death of FrancoWhen Spain’s repressive dictatorship finally came to a close with the death of Francisco Franco in 1975, the counterculture that had been bubbling away for yea…
Luis Suárez strikes as Atlético Madrid push Koeman closer to Barcelona exit
It had to be him. The man who was forced out of Barcelona and immediately brought the league title to Atlético Madrid may also have brought Ronald Koeman’s brief and ultimately bitter time at the Camp Nou to a close that has long been coming. On the ni…
Sacking Koeman not the answer, insists De Jong after Barça crash at Benfica
Barcelona beaten 3-0 and bottom of Champions League groupDe Jong says ‘hard work and being united’ key to bouncing backA 3-0 defeat at Benfica in the Champions League heaped more pressure on Barcelona’s under-fire manager, Ronald Koeman, but the midfie…
‘We ask for patience’: Koeman takes no questions as heat rises at Barcelona
Under-pressure head coach calls for team to be supported‘The club is with me in this period of reconstruction,’ he saysBarcelona’s head coach, Ronald Koeman, took no questions in a brief news conference on Wednesday and instead read a statement saying …
Seqera Labs grabs $5.5M to help sequence Covid-19 variants and other complex data problems
Bringing order and understanding to unstructured information located across disparate silos has been one of more significant breakthroughs of the big data era, and today a European startup that has built a platform to help with this challenge specifically in the area of life sciences — and has, notably, been used by labs to sequence […]
Spain’s Factorial raises $80M at a $530M valuation on the back of strong traction for its ‘Workday for SMBs’
Factorial, a startup out of Barcelona that has built a platform that lets SMBs run human resources functions with the same kind of tools that typically are used by much bigger companies, is today announcing some funding to bulk up its own position: the company has raised $80 million, funding that it will be using […]