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The Valencian company eKuore launches a round of investment of 500,000 euros through the Capital Cell platform to complete a round of 1.5 million euros, which already had the support of the Smart Fund of Banco Santander with the remaining million euros in loan format. The campaign, which has special conditions during the first two weeks of the launch, is for any type of investor, as the minimum contribution is EUR 100.

Social Nest Foundation and the United States Embassy are launching the Jump Startup program, which aims to train startups in the Valencian Community with international growth potential and connect them to the entrepreneurial ecosystem of the United States. Jump Startup will be held in Valencia between the 10th and 13th of March 2020.

València Activa, through VIT Emprende, has provided a space for 15 Valencian startups at Forinvest 2020, the largest meeting point for experts from the Spanish business and financial sector. "In Valencia we have a lot of talent and this is demonstrated by the startups that will be exhibiting their products and services at the joint stand of València Activa-VIT Emprende", highlighted Javier Mateo, deputy director of Emprendimiento of València Activa.

Three companies specialized in robotics in the Valencian Community, Scignals and iDRhA -from Elche- and Robotnik -from Paterna- are present until March 5th in the most important robotics event in Europe, the "European Robotics Forum" (ERF), which this year is held in Malaga and will bring together a thousand expert personnel in the field to address the latest developments in the fields related to Artificial Intelligence. In fact, its aims are focused on putting robotic technology and digital innovation at the service of a sustainable ecosystem that favours well-being and economic growth.

Promote the good life and offer users all the services of daily life. These are the two premises under which the Valencian 'startup' Jeff -known until a few months ago as Mr Jeff- has evolved, continuing its meteoric rise since its three founders, Eloi Gómez, Adrián Lorenzo and Rubén Muñoz, launched a business model that has revolutionized the world of technology.

"We are an elearning company that puts artificial intelligence (AI), gamification and science at the service of learning and teaching. We started in the opposition market because of the opportunity we identified," says Clara Torrijos, co-founder of GoKoan.

The organization of Women Techmakers Valencia, an event promoted by Google and to be held in Las Naves on March 28 and 29, is looking for programmers or women working in technology to be part of the program for its fourth edition, which will close on March 8.

Iker Marcaide was a young engineer starting out at the prestigious MIT in the United States. It was 2008, at the height of the financial crisis. To attend the MBA, he had to make the first of his tuition payments. The transfer was a headache and ended up in the wrong account. Unfortunately, it was not an exceptional thing in American universities. Why not devise a platform to try to solve these problems? That was the germ of Peertransfer. This startup, today called Flywire, which was born between Boston (USA) and Valencia, has just made its debut in the select club of technological unicorns after the irruption of Goldman Sachs as a partner in a shareholding with other giants of Silicon Valley and the Spanish fund Kibo Ventures.