Barcelona Tech City

Barcelona Tech City is a private non-profit association created by successful entrepreneurs in 2013. It currently represents more than 1,000 companies in the digital and technological sectors based in Barcelona, and collaborates with the different agents that make up the entrepreneurial ecosystem of the city: entrepreneurs, startups, SMEs, corporat... ions, universities, business schools, public and private organizations, consulting firms and investors. Its main objectives are to consolidate the city as an international technological hub and to promote innovation among the different agents of the Barcelona's entrepreneurial ecosystem, which employs 30,000 professionals. Barcelona Tech City launched the Pier01 project in 2016 with the aim of becoming a benchmark technology space in Europe. Located in Palau de Mar (La Barceloneta) and with almost 11,000 square meters, it groups 100 companies and startups with more than 1,000 professionals. Pier01 has been recognized by Forbes as one of the six most innovative hubs in the world. Barcelona Tech City is working on the creation of the Urban Tech Campus project and incorporating new hubs to it. Some of the new hubs will specialize in technologies with great potential such as AI or Blockchain, and others will focus on sectors, such as mobility. As part of this initiative, Canódromo by Peninsula has been incorporated as video games and cultural industries hub. Recently, the Association also incorporated two new spaces: Pier03, a hub specialized in Blockchain and located very close to Pier01, and El Palauet |Barcelona Tech City, a social meeting club for the ecosystem.Read More