Marcos Valera, Roberto Oliver, and Jorge Calvo co-founded Healthmate in February 2024 at the Scientific Park of Miguel Hernández University in Elche. Eighteen months later, the startup's AI-powered virtual receptionist is running the administrative layer of 100 private clinics across Spain, having processed 800,000 messages from approximately 30,000 patients. The product sits inside WhatsApp and handles the full administrative cycle, appointment booking, confirmations, reminders,...

The pitch was strong. The deck was polished. The references were impeccable, drawn from deployments across Germany, the Netherlands, and the UK. The product worked. The foreign vendor had done everything right, and when the Spanish client went quiet after the third meeting, the account executive assumed the deal needed nurturing. He followed up on Tuesday. He followed up again on Thursday. The client thanked him for his diligence, took two more weeks, and then signed with a local competitor...

Acciona Energía has opened a 42-bay public EV charging station at the El Faro shopping centre in Badajoz, Extremadura, in one of the largest public charging deployments by a single operator in Spain to date. The site carries 2,000kW of contracted power, distributed across four 240kW ultra-fast chargers serving eight bays, ten 80kW fast chargers serving 20 bays, and seven 22kW AC chargers covering the remaining 14 bays. Hardware is supplied by Circutor, the Spanish EV charging manufacturer....