Seven start-ups pitch investors on a Madrid–Seville AVE at Al Andalus Innovation Venture

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The fifth Al Andalus Innovation Venture started, as it usually does, on a train. Seven start-ups boarded an AVE from Madrid to Seville, and each had three minutes to pitch 25 investors and corporates in carriage 2 while keeping their balance as the train rocked. The event runs this Pitch Train with TrenLab, Renfe's innovation platform. Flowy, which monitors passenger flows in real time, won the passengers' vote, an honorary award. The real business came afterwards, in ten-minute one-to-one meetings with investors such as Pinama Capital, Zubi, Faraday, Armilar and Kibo, and with companies including Acciona, Naturgy, Iberdrola and Mapfre.

In Seville, the event closed with 3,103 attendees and 1,500 business and investment meetings among 1,050 start-ups, 330 companies and 205 investors. Its director, Diego Vargas, said the aim was a boutique format "where the entrepreneur sits with whoever really decides".

Somos Eldes, Nexo Intelligence, Arkaiu, Montevive.AI and Glosso won the Startup Andalucía Roadshow 2026, picked from twelve finalists. They go on to Valencia Digital Summit on 21 and 22 October and to Slush in Helsinki from 17 to 19 November. Murcia scale-up A4Radar won the BME prize: three years in the BME Scaleups programme, valued at 7,800 euros.