Crack in the solid Valencian entrepreneurial ecosystem. After years of fighting for its management, and leading a project that aspires to be a success in the Valencia Marina, Startup Valencia yesterday announced its decision to leave the entity Valencia Innovation District, S.L., the company awarded the old maritime station for the next 35 years to soon make The Terminal project a reality.
The Terminal, as this medium explained a few days ago, will open its doors before summer with a renovated interior with capacity for more than 500 positions from startups and highly qualified technology companies. A restaurant area, a flex coworking space – with about 120 positions for nomadic workers – a conference room open to the sea, training classrooms and a terrace for more recreational events are some of the characteristics of this space that the Valencia Innovation District entity It was awarded a year ago.
“It is a lack of agreement to specify our participation. They have decided another way of managing that we do not fit, but it is not a drama. We wish them the best,” explained Juan Luis Hortelano, president of the Valencian startup association, yesterday. For the moment, the board of directors of In addition, the resignation of the representative of Startup Valencia in the management body of the company has been presented, in which the association remains a partner.
In the statement released yesterday they explain that the decision has been adopted “unanimously” by the board of directors of Startup Valencia and that the resignation of the representative of Startup Valencia on the company’s administrative body has been presented, in the person of his CEO, Nacho Mas, although the association remains a partner.
They also explain that there have been “long months” of negotiations due to the strategic misalignment on how the project should be approached. “I would like it to be clear that it is not a drama, there have been disagreements and we preferred to take another course because we did not see the fit,” insists Hortelano.
The association that it presides, a non-profit entity, is made up of 350 members and 25 partners, including GoHub Ventures (Global Omnium), BStartup (Banco Sabadell), Wayra (Telefónica Group), Elewit (Redeia, Red Eléctrica Group) or Zeus, among others.
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Now The Terminal will be in the hands of the remaining shareholders of the entity (Startup Valencia has approximately 13%), behind which are entrepreneurs such as Quique Calabuig, founder of Kaih? Capital; Iker Marcaide, founder of Zubi Group; Raúl Mir, founder of Âttrim Technology Group; Ricardo Orts, architect and industrial engineer of the project; Ángela Pérez, founder of Health in Code and recently appointed president of the Social Council of the University of Valencia and Isabel Úbeda, founder of Inversiones l’Anella.
