Following its journey to Oviedo, Cartagena, Bilbao and Malaga, Valladolid was the fifth stop on this tour. This is the sixth edition of Venture on the Road, the itinerant event organised by Banco Sabadell’s BStartup, SeedRocket and Wayra, Telefonica’s open innovation initiative, also partnered by Google for Startups. The objectives remain the same: to seek out the best opportunities in each region and give early stage startups the chance to present their projects to investors and build a high quality network of contacts.
The event took place on Wednesday 19 April at the Instituto para la Competitividad Empresarial (ICE), of the Junta of Castile and Leon, in Arroyo de la Encomienda, and benefited from the experience and knowledge of the local ecosystem thanks to the participation of local partners such as the ICE of Castile and Leon and its startup accelerator, Wolaria.
The four finalist startups were:
- Articae: provider of technological solutions and services aimed at optimising the energy efficiency of air conditioning and industrial refrigeration systems, using artificial intelligence and advanced control technology.
- Leial Technologies: a company that offers cross-cutting transformation in robotics, developing tools, training and methodologies to teach users how to operate any robot at any level.
- Maybein: a restaurant booking app that allows the user to monitor, in real time, table availability in top restaurants, based on an alerts system that notifies the user instantly when a table becomes free or if a reservation is cancelled.
- Rooteco: a biotech company that offers 100% sustainable biofertilizers, using living micro-organisms that improve productivity and crop yield.
