Is Valencia Only Good for Paella?

We asked Ceeve. Turns out there's more cooking here than rice.

If you're into startups, or you just want to work somewhere you actually own something from day one instead of doing slides in a corporate internship, Valencia has one of Spain's fastest-growing startup scenes — and honestly, best weather for your lunch break.

Fintech, elder care, travel tech, cybersecurity, energy. There's a whole wave of startups growing fast here, and not just the big names. A lot of smaller seed and pre-seed teams are actively hiring interns and new grads. One of them is Spain's answer to Big Tech cloud storage, backed by the country's richest grocer.

If you're a student, a recent grad, or someone tired of being employee #4000 somewhere, this is your sign.

Here's what's actually happening in Valencia right now, company by company.

Fintech & Payments

Inespay — A payment gateway built on direct SEPA bank transfers instead of cards, letting individuals send payment links with no sign-up required and letting businesses embed a transfer-based checkout in invoices or online stores. Founded in 2016, it's now a fully licensed EU payment institution operating across 29 countries.

AI & Automation

aunoa — Builds custom conversational AI agents that handle customer service across WhatsApp, web chat, and social channels for companies in retail, banking, and tourism. Grew out of 20+ years of enterprise IT experience among its founding team, and recently raised €1.5M to expand its agentic AI platform across Europe.

GoKoan — An AI-powered study platform that builds personalized learning plans for students preparing for competitive public-sector exams (oposiciones), adapting the plan in real time based on progress and available study hours. Backed by Sabadell Venture Capital and the Valencian Institute of Finance.

Vidext — Turns written content and training documents into interactive AI-generated videos with avatars, in over 40 languages, aimed at corporate L&D and sales teams. Just closed a €6M Series A led by Flashpoint (the fund behind Shazam and Chess.com) and is now expanding into the UK and US.

Care & Wellbeing

Cuidum — Matches families with vetted, professional caregivers for at-home elder care, positioning itself as an alternative to residential care homes. Sparked real controversy in Spain with an ad campaign reading "If you put me in a home, I'll disinherit you" — and has since grown into one of the country's most established home-care platforms.

INDYA — A subscription-based personalized nutrition app for athletes, built by a team of nutritionists and product designers. Counts Pau Gasol, Iker Casillas, and Rudy Fernández among its backers, alongside a €1M round led by Valencian VC Draper B1.

Travel & Mobility

Passporter — A trip-planning app built around a "visual passport": travelers log geotagged photos from places they've visited so other users can find the exact spot and plan around it. Works with 600+ destinations worldwide and partners directly with tourism boards to power their own trip-planning tools.

Clover — A subscription e-bike service for individuals, families, and couriers, starting at €99/month and including maintenance, insurance, and battery swapping through city-based stations. Part of Valencia's push to replace car trips with cleaner urban mobility.

Industry & Energy

MESbook — A real-time factory management system (MES/MOM software) that connects a factory's ERP, machines, products, and workforce into one live dashboard, aimed at helping manufacturers cut costs and boost output. Serves 100+ industrial clients across 15 sectors and claims up to 40% EBITDA improvement with payback in under a year.

Aldea Energy — Lets people and businesses join a shared solar plant and access renewable energy without installing panels on their own roof or paying anything upfront. Focused on distributed, collective self-consumption as an alternative to the traditional centralized energy model.

WITRAC — Builds its own IoT hardware and software to track and locate physical assets in real time — pallets, containers, packaging — for supply chain and logistics clients who need full visibility across their value chain.

xNova International — A market-intelligence platform for exporters, using trade data to show companies which international buyers are purchasing what, and from whom, so they can find new customers and track competitors abroad. Backed by Plug and Play and Basque fund ieStart.

Home & Consumer

Internxt — A privacy-first cloud storage alternative to Google Drive and Dropbox, built on zero-knowledge, post-quantum encryption so not even Internxt can see your files. Backed by Juan Roig (Spain's richest grocer, via Angels Capital) and now official cloud partner to Valencia CF and Levante UD.

CubicUp — A managed marketplace for home renovations, matching homeowners with vetted renovation companies based on project type, budget, and city, with a secured payment gateway so clients aren't stuck sending a deposit into the void.

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Direct links to every open role at these companies are on Ceeve — no aggregator listings, no dead links, just the actual application pages.

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