The Venue Barcelona

The Venue Barcelona: The largest global Innovation Ecosystem in Sports, Music & Events.

+100,000 m² of Innovation Playground, including iconic venues such as the Olympia Stadium Lluís Companys and Palau Sant Jordi, as well as 1,500 m² of co-creation spaces, offering a unique environment to develop, test and scale solutions in real-world environments.

+160 events and 2.2 million spectators per year, enabling companies to test and validate solutions in live environments with large audiences and to connect directly with key industry players across the ecosystem.

The Venue Barcelona connects over 600 companies across key industry verticals and innovation sectors, and includes leading ecosystem players such as Spain is Sport, Music Tech Hub and the International Padel Cluster.

Our ecosystem and collaboration approach features 11 dynamic verticals: Music, Sports, Events, Fan Engagement, Media, eSports, Food & Beverages, Mobility & Tourism, Sustainability, Safety & Security and Well-Being.

The Venue Barcelona currently is also the world’s leading ecosystem hub for the fastest-growing sport globally: Padel.

Hosting the headquarters of the International Padel Cluster (IPC) & The MotherTrees Innovation Ecosystem, whose ecosystems span over:

• 132 companies and 165 brands

• €2 billion in combined annual turnover

• 100+ active investors in Padel Ventures from 15+ countries

• 300+ startups and scaleups

Together with Fira de Barcelona, the IPC co-organizes the Padel World Summit the world’s leading B2B event for the padel industry, gathering:

• 130+ exhibitors

• 6,000+ professional attendees (investors, clubs, brands, startups, manufacturers, operators, and federations from across the globe.)

The Venue Barcelona is a project of the City of Barcelona and Barcelona Serveis Municipals (BSM), managed by its founding partners, The MotherTrees, Ongoing, B-Bruce and U-Skale.