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No SAFE, a notary appointment and a capital increase voted by the partners. How a first angel investment in a Spanish SL gets executed, and where it stalls.
ENISA has certified more than 2,100 Spanish startups. What the label does for companies and investors, what it does not do, and why the angel deduction can skip it.
On the Balearic Islands, ambition often comes with an unspoken condition: you have to leave. A personal look at why that is, and what might change it.
The Balearic workforce grows by about 40 percent between January and July. What that does to hiring, cash and planning, for tourism firms and for everyone else.
Luara set out to build an AI companion for the lonely. Therapists said it was too risky, so the founders rebuilt it as a copilot for psychologists instead.
Spain's expat tax regime gets pitched as a hiring perk for anyone moving here. It is a narrow senior-band instrument, and below a certain salary it costs money.
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.