Marbella celebrates the second edition of 'Startup Olé' to connect new entrepreneurs with investors

Marbella reaffirms its international positioning as a destination attracting entrepreneurship with the celebration of the second edition of Startup OLÉ, which gathers more than 200 high-level speakers and around a hundred emerging companies. The Deputy Mayor, Félix Romero, highlighted yesterday during the opening ceremony of the event at the Adolfo Suárez Congress Palace, also attended by the Provincial Delegate for Research and Innovation of the Junta de Andalucía, Miguel Briones, that "our city is a hub for talent attraction and investment where new business initiatives are born at a dizzying pace." He also pointed out that this event "connects investors and entrepreneurs to create unique synergies and business opportunities" and thanked the organization for choosing the city again, "which is not only a unique place in the world for its quality of life, but there is no other like it to visit, live, and invest."

The councilor emphasized that "today Marbella is a vibrant engine of economic growth, a leading tourist destination of quality and well-established excellence, and also stands out as a constantly boiling business ecosystem." In this regard, he recalled that in the town "there are more than 22,000 companies and over 15,000 self-employed individuals, and record figures are being reported month after month in areas such as tourism and employment." "Marbella has managed to reinvent itself and position as a true center of innovation and opportunities in the south of Europe," he added. He also valued the fact that this edition "especially focuses on technologies that are transforming our day-to-day, such as artificial intelligence, and on such important aspects as cybersecurity." All this through specialized forums, talks, workshops, round tables, business rounds, and networking opportunities.

For his part, Briones emphasized that "in the last 6 years, the province of Málaga has managed to generate, through the advice and monitoring of the CADEs, 15,000 jobs and more than 80,000 in the Andalusian community." In addition, he specified that there are 259 entrepreneurship centers in the region and also indicated that the Andalusian government is investing about 4.6 million euros in supporting business incubators, among other actions.