The objective is to consolidate a joint strategy for the entrepreneurship ecosystem in Málaga
Málaga TechPark and The Pool Marbella, a coworking and business hub, are now collaborating to consolidate an entrepreneurship ecosystem in Málaga. Several international investors take part in this space with the aim of promoting the technology companies in it.
One of the park’s goals is structuring the startups ecosystem in Málaga to consolidate a cooperative working environment. In fact, the park itself has become a hub for the creation of startups.
Dozens of startups are created in Málaga every year, many of them located in different support units for startups and incubators. Málaga TechPark is home to some of them and aims to promote a suitable environment to boost the startups’ growth with the help of different public and private entities that focus on fostering entrepreneurship, developing acceleration programs and activities, consulting, incubation and business creation. This has resulted in an active community of entrepreneurs.
Collaborations such as this one are therefore of utmost importance when achieving this objective, which is one of the park’s priorities.
The Pool Marbella
The Pool Marbella is located on the first floor of the shopping centre El Corte Inglés El Capricho, in the Bulevar Alfonso de Hohenlohe avenue. It was founded by seven businessmen (five of them are Swedish and two of them are Spanish): Fredrik Båge, Martin Wettergren, Johan Hedberg, Per Roman, Douglas Goullet, Christian Rasmusson and Thomas Ahlerup. It has several international investors as minority shareholders.
The Pool Marbella started operating in February 2023 with the help of independent international investors. The company is led by Douglas Gallet, founder partner and CEO.
With 24 offices, a workforce of 161 professionals and 2,200 square metres, the new coworking space is the first ‘tech-hub’ in Marbella with the main objective of providing a professional space for the creation of technology companies in the city.
Website: www.thepool.es
About Málaga TechPark
Málaga TechPark is located in a privileged natural environment with high-quality infrastructures and advanced services, where there is a perfect balance between multinationals, the university, innovative SMEs and entrepreneurs developing their strategy through the science and knowledge acquired at the university and as a result of the internationalisation. These aspects have made the park a space suited for everyone, where facilities and infrastructures of all types and sizes are available to host start-ups and larger companies.
There are currently 653 companies established in the park, 66 of them being foreign companies from 21 different countries. These companies have 24,396 workers, over 50% of whom are university graduates. The park reaches €2.7 billion in turnover.
The park’s surface is 222 hectares with 74,847 square metres in the PTA-UMA extension area, where there is a global entrepreneurship space called The Green Ray.
Málaga TechPark is home to the headquarters of the International Association of Science and Technology Parks (IASP), the Association of Science and Technology Parks of Spain (APTE) and the ANCES, the National Association of Spanish CEEIs (European Business and Innovation Centres).