The world at your feet: the young blind man who designs shoes
There are math experts who are denied for languages and business geniuses who would never manage to weave a scarf without help. There are people who, no matter how much they practice, will never manage to sing a song out of tune, and there are others who are incapable of being ordered no matter how much they try. Just as we all have abilities, we also have limitations that prevent or hinder the development of certain activities or skills. As Timpers members point out, this means that, in some way, we all have our disabilities. The question is where do we place the importance: on what we have or on what we lack?
Koroko starts selling its flavored eggs throughout Spain with El Corte Inglés
Koroko has started distributing its flavoured eggs in all El Corte Inglés and Hipercor supermarkets, 110 establishments throughout Spain, as of this Thursday. "We were already in many places in the country but this is the big jump in distribution so that everyone can have our eggs within reach", says Cayetano Belso, CEO of the Valencian startup.
iPronics, pioneering technology with a Valencian stamp to democratize photonic chips
Spain is not a country that stands out for its technological contributions to industry at a global level and yet in Valencia there is an oasis where they are seeking to develop pioneering technologies that will mark the future of sectors such as telecommunications. This is the mission set by the company iPronics, a spin-off from the Polytechnic University of Valencia co-founded by Professor of Photonics and Communications José Capmany, who wants to go one step further on a business path that has already begun with VLC Photonics.
When entrepreneurship is power: the female entrepreneurship gap is closing
Nine women start a business for every ten men, according to the latest GEM World Report. Is entrepreneurship the Achilles' heel of a scourge that has made the other half of the world invisible? The hidden face on which society has avoided shedding light and, in the process, framing political, cultural and business references, among others. Although there are many women who have acted as a beacon in the darkness, opening roads and routes. Even when no one was giving them any light.
Valencian Witrac closes a round of 3 million
Witrac, startup specialist in industrial Internet solutions of Things (IIoT) for manufacturing and logistics companies, has obtained 3 million euros in an investment round led by the funds Goldacre Ventures and Mundi Ventures, who become part of the board of directors of the startup. Clave Mayor, through its funds Tech Transfer UPV and Mondragón Fondo de Promoción, has also participated in the operation.
A Valencian brand creates "elegant" slippers, without gender and for everyday life
Normally when you enter a shoe store there are usually differentiated footwear for men and women. Sizes, colors and style vary according to what companies think can be adapted more to one gender or another. With the intention of breaking with stereotypes and providing the market with an "elegant", unisex, everyday slipper, the entrepreneur Mar Sánchez (València, 1985) has created the Vacant brand.