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The top floor is reserved for late-stage start-ups


that have gained residency – there are currently seven of these, from a grocery shopping and delivery app to one that monitors your fertility if you are trying to conceive. Since opening, Campus start-ups have created 2,500 jobs and raised more than €37 million (US$45.8 million) in funding.


FOSTERING INNOVATION In 2016, the European Commission oversaw the launch of a pilot initiative called Madrid Startup House (madridstartuphouse.com), which is working to establish a one-stop shop to provide support and guidance for fledgling enterprises. It has been mobilised by communications agency Hugin and Munin and investment facilitator Socios Inversores, whose directors established the project. Asier Basterretxea-Gomez and Victor Teodosio


co-founded Madrid Startup House in 2016. “While we know there is a lot of growth and investment, Madrid’s start-up scene is dispersed – you have something here and there, instead of a nice, thick gravy where you can see who is part of the ecosystem and community,” Basterretxea-Gomez says. The foundation is working to integrate these parts, as well as to create useful tools such as a start-up community


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