Jobandtalent closed a 88M€ round; Filmin among the European startups to watch in 2021

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News

▸ Jobandtalent, the job offers marketplace co-founded by the Mallorcan Felipe Navío, has closed a financing round of 88 million euros. The company has processed more than 80,000 jobs in 7 countries, closing 2020 with a turnover of 360 million euros.

▸ Sifted has elaborated a list of startups to follow in 2021, where they have included the video-on-demand platform Filmin, highlighting the entry of venture capital into society at the end of last year.

▸ Brief interview with the Mallorcan Sofía Coloma , engineer, doctor in Automation and Robotics and specializing in artificial intelligence. She is the only woman who is part of the robotics team of the world project IFMIF-DONES (the International Neutron Source Oriented by the International Installation Fusion of Materials) since 2016.

▸ Última Hora has reviewed the collaborations between the University of the Balearic Islands and private companies during the past 2020. Where several companies such as Webbeds, Robot or Iberostar Foundation have sponsored scholarships or competitions between students.

▸ Thorough report from El Confidencial on behalf of the storm Filomena on how the weather forecasts currently work. It has the participation of the Meteoclim team, which is developing a prediction system based on the analysis of mobile phone waves.

▸ Don Dominio organized a webinar (now available in video) Checklist para crear un Podcast, with Pol Rodríguez director of the podcast network RedCast.

▸ The entrepreneur and content creator José Pascual, published a video reviewing his activity in the last year Así he ganado 10.000€ por Internet en 2020.