Barcelona Tech City, the association that represents more than 800 entrepreneurs, startups and companies from the digital and technological sectors of Barcelona has announced the opening of Pier03, a new hub created to accommodate new companies that want to join this new project. Located in the Els Porxos d’en Xifré– a building 3 minutes from Pier01-, this new venue’s size is approximately 3,500 square meters plus a future project to expand it to 2,500 more thanks to a green roof. It will be occupied by more than 15 entrepreneurs, corporations, investors and different players in the ecosystem that share the same philosophy as the current Barcelona Tech City hub.

“This exciting new Pier helps accelerate the growth of Barcelona’s technological and digital ecosystem and consolidates the focus and business investment in this sector. It increases the capacity of the ecosystem to create new synergies and spaces and foster development of new projects for members. The different companies and organizations that will be part of Pier03 will benefit from the cross-pollination of digital and technological ideas on their businesses”, says Miguel Vicente, President of Barcelona Tech City.

The opening of Pier03 supports the growth strategy of the Association, as part of its Barcelona Tech City Campus project, which aims to consolidate different spaces focused on technologies with great potential for the city.

“Barcelona Tech City was created, in large part, to contribute a private perspective for aligning all the key players of the ecosystem to move Barcelona into the vanguard of global technological cities. Barcelona is now well positioned, since it is among the 30 most important technological hubs on an international scale. Incorporating the Pier03 allows us to reinforce the city project strategy that we promote from the Association”, says Miquel Martí, CEO of Barcelona Tech City.

Pier03 is an expansion of the Technological Campus project that Barcelona Tech City is creating, an initiative that through new locations, fosters the growth of the city’s technological and digital ecosystem across all sectors. It currently has Pier01, recognized by Forbes as one of the 6 most innovative hubs in the world: and also incorporates Canòdrom, the hub of Peninsula strategic partner of the Association, that’s focuses on video games and creative industries.

About Barcelona Tech City

Created by successful entrepreneurs, Barcelona Tech City is a private non-profit association that represents more than 800 companies in the digital and technological sectors with based in Barcelona, cooperating with different agents that composes the enterprising ecosystem in Barcelona: entrepreneurs, startups, SMEs, corporations, universities, business schools, public and private organizations, consulting companies. The main objective is consolidating the city as technological hub to enhance the innovations between the different agents that composes the entrepreneurial ecosystem in Barcelona, which employs 30,000 professionals.

The association launched the Pier01 project in 2016 with the aim of becoming a leading technological space in Europe. Located in Palau de Mar (La Barceloneta), in its almost 11,000 square meters, it groups together 100 companies and startups and more than 1,000 professionals. Now, Barcelona Tech City is working to create the Urban Tech Campus incorporating new hubs, some of them specialized in technologies with great potential such as AI or Blockchain and others focused on different areas as mobility. As part of the initiative, Canódromo by Peninsula has incorporated as videogame and cultural industries hub.

https://barcelonatechcity.com/en/

ANNEX PIER03

A Blockchain hub

The Blockchain hub will have a very active participation within Pier03, including numerous startups and institutions focused on this transversal technology, one of the most disruptive innovations since the invention of the Internet, where technology can generate trust and transparency in a completely decentralized manner.

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