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Spain built a route for high-earning remote workers to live here. Three years of permits show where they went, and it was not evenly across the country.
The islands are better at starting companies than keeping them. The leak happens at one specific moment, and it is the moment local capital could fix.
On Mallorca, wealth means property. It is a reasonable instinct with one blind spot, and the fix is not to sell the house but to stop stopping there.
The Balearics are fighting over how many tourists to allow. The deeper problem is that the islands built almost nothing else, and that is the fixable part.
In Spain, a qualifying angel investment can return half its value through a tax deduction, up to 50,000 euros a year. The case for backing local startups.
Emerging startup ecosystems are rarely starved for capital. They are starved for people. Why talent is the real bottleneck, and what it means for both sides.
Capital is necessary but not sufficient for building a startup ecosystem. Here is why community, events, and founder networks matter as much as funding, and how to build them from scratch.
Mallorca is not short of wealth, talent, or ambition. What it has historically lacked is structure. This is the story of how we set out to build it from scratch.
Max Ventures has already proven its early-stage strategy with the success of Seed One. Now, with Seed Two, we’re expanding our commitment to backing Spain’s most promising founders. Discover the opportunity at MaxVentures.eu.
There’s a romantic idea around business angels that doesn’t quite match reality. Founders often imagine a seasoned entrepreneur, freshly exited, scanning the horizon for bold ideas to champion. Sometimes that’s true. More often, angel investment is slower, more cautious, and far more personal than the mythology suggests.
We gathered founders, creatives and investors for our first community dinner, hosted by The Relak Club and co-hosted by Sebastian Cramer and David Franzen. The evening reflected the growing momentum of the startup and investment ecosystem in Mallorca.
Podcasting is driving demand for professional recording spaces in places like Mallorca, where brands are searching for reliable podcast studio rental and podcast studio hire options to produce high-quality content. Max Ventures offers a dedicated studio for professional audio and video production, making it easy to create polished content without investing in equipment.