One-liner: the city's foreign direct investment and soft-landing agency — three-stage service (Discovery → Softlanding → Aftercare) that pitches Valencia's 12 strategic sectors to inbound investors and relocating companies, run under Valencia Innovation Capital.
What a founder gets
- Three-stage relocation journey: Discovery (personalized ecosystem tour), Softlanding (guided integration — legal, real estate, talent), Aftercare (ongoing growth support and monitoring). The instrument-level detail (contacts, application route) lives on Invest in Valencia - Soft Landing.
- Sector-specific market intelligence across 12 strategic verticals it actively promotes to investors: Technology, Wellbeing & Health, Renewable Energy, Smart City, Creative Industries, Logistics, Aerospace, Semiconductors, Emergency/Security/Defense, GovTech, AgroTech, UrbanTech — each with its own briefing naming the relevant clusters/institutes (e.g. VaSiC for semiconductors, BIOVAL/BIOHUB VLC for biotech, KM ZERO for agrotech).
- Warm introductions into the ecosystem — testimonials cite direct connections to Lanzadera, local investors, and corporate partners (Siemens, APEX, Spectral, Deimos, CDTM, Onda F.C.).
- Ambassador network — a formal "Ambassadors" program (named on-site) of local figures who vouch for and connect incoming companies.
Who it's for
- Foreign companies and startups relocating to Valencia or opening a local office/subsidiary — any sector, but with particular strength pitching tech, biotech/agrotech, renewable energy, smart city/govtech, aerospace, and semiconductors.
- Typically growth/scale-stage companies with an established business elsewhere looking to establish Valencia operations, rather than idea-stage local founders (those are better served by Startup Valencia Soft Landing Program or PAE - Punto de Atencion al Emprendedor).
How to engage
- Contact via investinvlc.com — "Contact Us" / hello@investinvlc.com · (+34) 963 10 39 00.
- Two office locations: C/ Poeta Querol, 15, 46002 València and C/ de Joan Verdeguer, 116 (Poblats Marítims), 46024 València.
- For the concrete soft-landing application route, see Invest in Valencia - Soft Landing.
Key facts
- Run by Valencia Innovation Capital (the municipal innovation-agency successor to Las Naves — see CLAUDE.md domain memory).
- Cites Valencia ecosystem scale figures (as marketed to investors, 2026): over 1,500 startups (1,250+ within Valencia city), 1,780 related organizations; 3,500+ engineers/developers graduating yearly; REDIT network of 11 technological institutes running 1,000+ R&D projects/year.
- Sector claims of note: Valencia is Spain's 5th-largest biotech hub (8.62% of national biotech companies); 50%+ of Spain's semiconductor engineering jobs; recognized as European Green Capital 2024; Europe's first fully-integrated Fiware-based smart city / urban sandbox.
- Recent news highlighted on-site (2026): a strategic mission to Silicon Valley (ties with OpenAI, NVIDIA, Google, Stanford, San José, LA) to strengthen Valencia's AI-hub position (30 June 2026); hosted the Gay Games 2026 (27 June–4 July) as an international-profile event; cited in the Global Startup Ecosystem report gaining momentum on the European innovation map (23 June 2026).
- status/verify: the "12 strategic sectors" framing and the ecosystem stats above are investor-marketing copy from the live site (captured 2026-07-02) — treat scale figures as the agency's own claims pending independent cross-check.
Relations
- Run by: Valencia Innovation Capital
- Runs: Invest in Valencia - Soft Landing
- See also: Startup Valencia Soft Landing Program
- Partners with: GSIC
- Partners with: Lanzadera