One-liner: the city government — the municipal parent behind Valencia's founder-facing operational arms (Valencia Activa, Valencia Innovation Capital) and the direct runner of the urban living-lab and open-data programs.
What a founder gets
- Direct access routes via Valencia Living Lab (Program) (real-world municipal piloting) and VLCi Open Data Valencia (Program) (open civic datasets/APIs).
- Indirect access to the full municipal support stack via Valencia Activa (training/space/grants) and Valencia Innovation Capital (VIC grants, Urban Sandbox, La Harinera, Game City).
Who it's for
- Any founder engaging with city-level pilots, open data, or municipal grant/space programs; sector-agnostic.
How to engage
- No single "front door" — engage via the specific program (Valencia Living Lab (Program), VLCi Open Data Valencia (Program)) or via Valencia Activa / Valencia Innovation Capital for the broader municipal offer.
Key facts
- Stub page created 2026-07-03 during a wiki lint — was referenced as
run-by::target from two program pages but had no entity page. Org chart / current mayor and relevant councillor need verification.#status/verify - Operates a dedicated sandbox program (www.valencia.es/web/sandbox, with a downloadable "kit del sandbox") — a municipal regulatory-testing route distinct from the regional Valencia Urban Sandbox (Program); relationship between the two needs confirmation. #status/verify
- Runs VLCi Open Data (opendata.vlci.valencia.es) — a live civic open-data portal with datasets tagged by theme (e.g. public/state utility services) — the practical entry point behind VLCi Open Data Valencia (Program).
- Valencia Activa is the municipal foundation/brand for entrepreneurship + employment services (Valencia Emprende, Valencia Emplea), operating out of physical resource centres including Petxina and Coworking Hermanos Maristas — see Valencia Activa for the full service breakdown.
Relations
- Runs: Valencia Living Lab (Program)
- Runs: VLCi Open Data Valencia (Program)
- See also: Valencia Activa
- See also: Valencia Innovation Capital
- See also: Valencia Urban Sandbox