One-liner: CaixaBank's specialised banking division for tech/startup companies and their investors — financing, M&A/fundraising advisory, talent solutions, and investor connections; comparable to BBVA Spark and BStartup as a big-bank tech-vertical play. Founded 2017, with a confirmed Valencia-based team (11-50 employees) as a Startup Valencia Corporate Innovation Club member.
What a founder gets
- Specialised financial products/services for startups and their investors: foreign trade, treasury and financing specialists, wealth management, investment banking, M&A, and fundraising advisory.
- Solutions to attract and retain national/international talent, plus non-financial benefits via CaixaBankNow.
- At launch (2017): a €250M credit facility for innovative businesses via an agreement with the European Investment Fund (EIF) — historical fact, current availability/terms not confirmed live on today's site. #status/verify (confirm whether the EIF-backed facility is still the active financing vehicle in 2026)
- Dual-sided service: also serves investors (business angels, VC firms, institutional investors) wanting to connect with DayOne's startup client base — supported by Caixa Capital Risc, CaixaBank's own VC arm (Spain's leading private institutional seed investor per the 2017 launch materials).
- Acceleration-adjacent activity: CaixaBank runs branded acceleration programs (e.g. "AgroBank Tech Digital Innovation", per an external reference naming a winning startup) — suggesting DayOne sits inside a broader CaixaBank innovation-program ecosystem beyond pure banking. #status/verify (confirm AgroBank Tech's relationship to DayOne specifically)
Who it's for
- Early to growth-stage tech companies and their investors needing specialised banking, not a pure grant/equity source.
- Confirmed physical presence historically in Barcelona and Madrid (dedicated DayOne centres at launch); also has a Valencia-based team today per Startup Valencia's Corporate Innovation Club directory (11-50 employees) — direct Valencia relevance beyond just serving Madrid/Barcelona clients remotely.
How to engage
- Live DayOne subsite (finally reached 2026-07-05, past the cookie-wall that blocked the 2026-07-02 scrape): https://www.caixabank.es/empresa/dayone_en.html (EN) / https://www.caixabank.es/empresa/dayone_es.html (ES). Content is genuinely thin — a short descriptive blurb embedded in the general "Empresas" site shell, not a deep dedicated program microsite with its own application form/deadlines. This is not a bot-wall issue on re-check; the page itself is simply light on content.
- General CaixaBank Empresas channels (account opening, "Hazte cliente") apply for first contact; no DayOne-specific self-serve application form found.
Key facts
- Founded 2017. Launch (per official CaixaBank press release, 5 Dec 2017): two DayOne centres set up (Barcelona — Cambra de Comerç building, Avenida Diagonal; Madrid — Calle Juan Bravo 3), staffed by ~12 financial-consulting specialists; targeted 4,000 clients in year one; €250M EIF-backed credit facility; DayOne also runs the EntrepreneurXXI Awards with Spain's Ministry of Economy, Industry and Competitiveness.
- Startup Valencia directory listing (found 2026-07-05): CaixaBank DayOne is a Corporate Innovation Club Member, location "Valencia," 11-50 employees — a concrete Valencia-specific presence not previously recorded.
- The dedicated DayOne subsite was not directly captured in the 2026-07-02 scrape (cookie-wall + a wrong guessed URL 404'd); reached successfully 2026-07-05 via the correct URL found through search.
Relations
- See also: BBVA Spark
- See also: BStartup
- Partners with: Startup Valencia