WELCOME TO VALENCIAThe 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.
LEGALITYTax & Legal Advice
DWF-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.
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.
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.
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.
BANK ACCOUNTSBanking and insurances
Not only to start your company’s activity in Spain but also for your daily life, you’ll need to open a Spanish bank account.
Opening a bank account with Banco Sabadell is very easy. It can be done only and it offers the possibility of opening a bank account in Spain while the residency permit is being arranged by presenting your passport and the Tax Identification Number (TIN).
Looking for protection for your startup? For just 199€/year, Banco Sabadell offers extensive coverage in a single policy in the event of your company’s business resulting in damages for third parties. Find out more about RC BStartup from Banco Sabadell here.
Banco Sabadell also offers company protection insurance. Company Protection is multiperil protection designed to offer broad cover in a single policy of the assets (buildings, machinery or products), the business (civil operating, ownership or product liability) and the profits of your company against accidental risks. Learn more about it here.
BBVA allows you to open a bank account in a very simple and easy way. You can do it online, with no fees, no minimum conditions and without having to go anywhere.
It offers a specific plan for the self-employed and companies where there are no fees for the usual services for the first 12 months, which can be extended indefinitely depending on your company's turnover.
BBVA also offers a company insurance policy, Business and SME Insurance, BBVA Allianz Negocios Plus, offering coverage for both industrial and non-industrial risks. It is a multi-risk insurance, to cover damage or loss of materials, it is flexible and adaptable to the types of business, and has assistance coverage. Learn more about it here.
WORKSPACEAccommodation, 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:
EDUCATIONTalented Graduates
- Public Universities in Valencia: University of Valencia (UV) and Polytechnic University of Valencia (UPV).
- Public Universities in Alicante: Universidad de Alicante and Universidad Miguel Hernández de Elche
- 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:
TALENTAccelerators and Incubators
Valencia is the Spanish city with more startups per cápita and a wise choice when thinking of starting a new business or growing internationally. If you’re looking for investment to boost your startup, check out the following programs, accelerators, incubators and innovation hubs:
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.
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.
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.
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.
Soft LandingLooking for investment
This initiative aims to support young companies in developing their projects with the maximum guarantee of success. The program has two investment vehicles - BStartup10 and Sabadell Venture Capital - depending on the stage of the startup.
The Venture Capital fund of Global Omnium invests in B2B deep-tech startups to drive their rapid growth.
GoHub Ventures lookouts for the best B2B deep-tech startups offering disruptive solutions to pre-empt the major challenges of the future. Startups with unique solutions not only for water management, but also with agnostic technologies that can be deployed in different sectors for process automation and optimisation.
BBVA supports innovative and technological companies with products and services tailored to their needs at every stage of their growth. The bank helps startups with any short- and long-term liquidity needs as well as managing their working capital requirements.
SpeedOut Advisory was born with the objective of guiding startup and pymes’ founders throughout all their company’s stages providing them with financing and strategic advice, among others. Besides that, the consulting company also advises investors in the development of investment policies, analysis and monitoring of projects.
Ángela Impact Economy is a recent investment and consulting firm aimed to businesses that promote impact economy as well as technological and innovative companies.
This non-profit organization is fully committed in the creation of a private investment ecosystem in startups. One of their main activities is to put in contact entrepreneurs with innovative projects with business angels and other private investors.
Conexo Ventures invests in exceptional individuals with passion for solving hard challenges and bringing disruptive innovation to high growth markets. They favor software investments with scalable and defensible business models, often leveraging cutting-edge artificial intelligence techniques, in these high growth sectors
Draper B1, formerly known as Bbooster Ventures, is a company that supports and invests in ambitious founders aiming to change the world. Their main values as a company are their hands-on investors and value-added global network.
The company eases connections between startups, suppliers, accelerators, corworkings and investors. By joining the largest startup community you will gain visibility among investors that are looking for interesting projects to invest in; you will get a transparent vision of the current ecosystem situation; and you will increase your networking opportunities.
Soft LandingTranslation agencies
BigTranslation is a translation agency tailored to the digital sector.
They offer professional, economical, and totally localised translations thanks to their network
of thousands of native translators. What’s more, their advanced online platform lets you
manage all your projects quickly and easily.
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.