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The Soft Landing Program

The Soft Landing Program created by Startup Valencia aims to assist entrepreneurs, startups and tech businesses carry out their arrival to the Valencian Community in matters of legal advice, public grants, accelerator programs, basic documentation, administrative procedures, working spaces and accomodation, among others.

Valencia is a wise option when thinking of starting a business or growing internationally your current company in Spain. Although Valencia is smaller compared to Madrid or Barcelona, the number of advantages the city offers to entrepreneurs are huge: its strategic geographical location, the climate conditions or out-going culture are only some of them.

RCD

DWF, the well-known English law firm, integrated the Catalonian law firm RCD at the end of 2019, increasing both firms’ international coverage. The professional team behind the law firm will advise companies in bankruptcy law, competition law, immigration law, labor law, public and administrative law, etc.

Aktion Legal

Aktion Legal is another referent law firm in the Valencian Community that provides specialised services for startups, investors, venture capitalists and corporations in a lot of different areas.

Bounsel

This startup created in Valencia automates all your contracts throughout a platform that can be integrated with a lot of tools that companies use every day such as Salesforce or HubSpot.

Tugesto

Tugesto is an online advisory for autonomous, businesses and e-commerces that offers a quick, simple and online comprehensive management from the cloud at affordable prices.

Metricson

This Valencian law firm is specialised in providing the following services to tech and innovative firms: privacy & GDPR, intellectual property, litigation, insolvency and alternative dispute resolution (ADR), tax and international law, among many others.

Declarando

Declarando is the first platform for freelancers that allows the free presentation of their taxes. It allows you to keep up to date with your tax obligations and file your taxes online quickly and easily.

Ecija

ECIJA is a law firm specializing in technology, media and telecommunications (TMT). ECIJA has positioned itself as the 4th largest Spanish law firm, consolidating its position as the Latin American firm with the largest presence in Latin America.

Innova.legal

Innova.legal is the place where law meets tech. A meeting point for everyone who has already understood that technology and law cannot live separately.

Adera Legaltech

Adera Legaltech is a financial and legal services firm for startups. They help you to build a good business plan, a correct financing, but above all, to have a good plan B if you have to pivot or leave with the maximum legal guarantees for the protection of your management team.

Code Contract

Code Contract is a WaaS (Warranty as a Service) platform to centralise and automate administrative processes with digital and legal evidences.

Query Layer

Query Layer empowers legal and engineering teams to build plug & play, automated and scalable privacy operations.

Accomodation, Offices and Coworkings

Find out the accommodation that suits best your needs as well as office or coworking spaces to set up your company in the following links:

Talented graduates

Public Universities in Castellón: Universitat Jaume I

Private business and marketing schools in Valencia: EDEM and ESIC

Other private universities and studies centres: Cardenal Herrera - CEU, Católica de Valencia San Vicente Mártir, Europea de Valencia, Internacional Valenciana, La Florida, IMF Business School, Universidad Internacional Menéndez Pelayo, ESAT and Centro de Estudios Financieros, EOI

Soft LandingRecruitment

When arriving in Spain you might want to hire some local employees or interns to join your team. Check out these platforms that’ll help you look for talent in the Valencian Community:

Plug and Play Tech Center

The well-known accelerator opened an office in Valencia in 2012 and ever since they have invested in more than 100 startups. Currently startups can apply for the Real Estate & Construction acceleration program.

Social Nest Foundation

The company executes several acceleration programs that support entrepreneurs
from the idea stage to the preparation for the investment: Raise X Impact, Launch X Impact, Youth X Impact and many others!

Demium

Demium offers a six-month incubation program in different cities around the world, Valencia being one of them. Their vision is to in the best entrepreneurial talent to help them create companies that will shape the future.

KM Zero

KM Zero is an open innovation hub that offers support, experience, knowledge and resources to startups in the food sector through their 4-month program “Level-Up”. Besides boosting startups, KM Zero provides aid to food industry companies to face the future successfully.

Lanzadera

Lanzadera is a private equity accelerator and incubator for startups promoted by the Valencian businessman Juan Roig. Startups can apply to the 9-month acceleration program, the 14-month Traction Program for seed stage startups or the Corporate Program: an equity-free incubation and acceleration program held by Lanzadera and other big corporations such as Acciona.

No Spoon Tech Lab

No Spoon Lab is a startup studio specialized in product development founded by two experienced entrepreneurs with the objective of developing new business ideas and create profitable companies in the new technology era.

Founder Institute Valencia

Founder Institute is the world's largest significant business launch and entrepreneur training program, helping aspiring founders around the world build lasting technology companies. Based in Silicon Valley and with headquarters in 90 countries, the Founder Institute has helped launch more than 4,500 companies.

Órbita

Programa Órbita is a business accelerator program that seeks to select outstanding projects and undertake with them a process of scalable and sustainable growth, improving the access to private funding. They select 10 startups and give away five 20.000€ in prizes to the best projects so they can boost their companies to the next level.

Star Startups

Star Startups is a startup incubator and accelerator that helps entrepreneurs create an idea, turn it into a business model and traction. Its goal is to empower the entrepreneurial ecosystem in an inclusive and collaborative way.

Zubi Labs

Zubi Labs co-creates companies that seek to generate a positive impact on our immediate environment using the company as an instrument to achieve economic, social and environmental profitability.

Zubi Labs

FI Boost

FI Boost is FI Group's equity free corporate acceleration program. They train you for 5 months and accompany you to the market to increase your sales.

TRL+

TRL+ works on the cogeneration of Technology-Based Companies (EBT’s) with origin in the projects of Research Centers of the Universities, thanks to the union of professional business teams and researchers.

TRL plus

Immigration Procedures

In the official website of the Spanish Government you can find all the immigration procedures that can be done in the different offices located in the Valencian Community. For any additional information you can always take a look at the townhall website of the province you’re interested in: Valencia, Castellón or Alicante.

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Financing Aids for Entrepreneurs

The following institutions and organisations provide financing aids for entrepreneurs; you can check their websites for further information.

CDTI

The CDTI has different instruments to fund R&D&i projects and to create and consolidate technology startups.

Invest in Spain

In the website of Invest in Spain (ICEX) you can find specific aids and grants for your company by filtering them by sector, industry and region.

València Activa

Entrepreneurship grants by València Activa

Enisa

Enisa provides financing aids for early-stage startups, pymes and business projects thinking of expanding their activity or achieving a competitive improvement.

Plan España Emprende by Cámara de Comercio Valencia

Plan España Emprende by Cámara de Comercio Valencia supports the creation and consolidation of new businesses. Through all the phases of this plan, entrepreneurs will be trained, advised and guided in matters of administrative procedures and competitive matters, among others.

Programa PAEM by Cámara de Comercio

Programa PAEM by Cámara de Comercio supports entrepreneur women with either a business project or a modernization or expansion plan for their current company. They provide different services such as business information, business advice and orientation, strategic development or networking creation.

Valencia Institute of Finance

The Valencian Institute of Finance (IVF) grants credits, loans and guarantees to companies and entities of private nature.

IVACE

Valencian Investment Desk.

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