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Catalonia Trade & Investment

TravelPerk's current valuation is an impressive $1.4 billion, which reaffirms its status as a unicorn - a classification earned in its last round of funding.

Catalonia is the 5th territory in the world with the most companies attending the congress, after China, Germany, the United Kingdom, and the United States.

The new European supercomputer, MareNostrum 5, is Spain's largest European investment in scientific infrastructure.

The project, called RETRIEVE, will last 3.5 years and will demonstrate the efficiency of using different technologies to recycle components such as glass, silicon, silver, polymers, or heavy metals to produce photovoltaic panels.

The first ACCIÓ-Catalonia Trade & Investment offices abroad were opened in 1988 in Tokyo, Hong Kong, Milan, and New York.

The agreement sets out the mutual commitment of both territories to actively support and enhance trade relations, facilitate foreign direct investment, and promote the development of dual education programs.

The Belgian company has created 25 jobs and increased capacity at its 2,450-square-meter facility, from where it designs, tests, and produces automation equipment for automotive electronic components, such as battery power systems.

According to the Startup Heatmap Europe 2023, the Catalan capital has been ranked for the sixth consecutive year only behind Berlin and ahead of Amsterdam, Paris, and Lisbon.

The project is expected to create over 400 direct and 100 indirect jobs.