One-liner: the Ayuntament de València's operational arm for employment and entrepreneurship — free training, one-stop company-setup counselling (PAE), municipal coworking, and early-stage municipal grants, all delivered under the "València Emprende" service line.
What a founder gets
- Factory Startup (Program) — free ~80-hour training (business, finance, digital marketing, tech development, product design, sales), including a dedicated Women Edition (Initial + Advanced tracks: 8 workshops + 10 meetups with local founders).
- PAE (Punto de Atención al Emprendedor) — free, legally mandatory and free-of-charge company-creation counselling: information on legal form (SLNE, SRL, SLFS, comunidad de bienes, autónomo), telematic company-registration via the CIRCE/DUE (Documento Único Electrónico) system, Social Security/RETA guidance, and financing-aid information. Book via "Toma Cita."
- Coworking Hermanos Maristas — a physical coworking + mentoring space for early founders (project under 1 year old) at Quatre Carreres, run under the "València Activa Impulsa" program, with an emphasis on specialised mentoring and accompaniment through consolidation.
- Centro de Recursos Empresariales y de Emprendimiento Petxina — a second business-resource centre/coworking space.
- Reactivem — a business-transmission/succession service (helping existing businesses transfer to new owners rather than close).
- Municipal grants: Subvención Municipal Emprende y Consolida, Subvención Emprende y Concilia (entrepreneurship + work-life-balance combined subsidy), and the Premios Emprende 2026 awards.
- Broader employment-plan ecosystem (not startup-specific but relevant to a founder's early hires): Plan Municipal de Empleo 2026, EMCORP/EMCORP Joven, EMDONA (women's employment), Programa ETRAME (mental-health-linked hiring subsidy).
Who it's for
- First-time and early-stage entrepreneurs based in the city of València; sector-agnostic.
- PAE specifically serves anyone at the point of legal company formation, regardless of sector or ambition level.
- Coworking Hermanos Maristas is explicitly for projects less than one year old seeking mentoring and workspace.
How to engage
- valenciactiva.valencia.es — start at "València Emprende" in the main menu.
- PAE: book an appointment ("Toma Cita") for company-creation counselling — service is free and, for the DUE telematic registration, obligatory-and-free by law.
- Coworking Hermanos Maristas: apply via the online inscription form + convocatoria bases; address Calle Hermanos Maristas 19, Quatre Carreres, València (15 min from city centre, well served by public transport, ample parking) — tel. 96 208 4077 / 96 208 3659. Prior appointment required for in-person visits.
- Factory Startup: register via agenciaocupacio.valenciactiva.es.
Key facts
- Operates under the Ayuntamiento's Plan Estratégico de Empleo, Formación y Emprendimiento 2025–2028 and the VII Pacto para el Empleo en la Ciudad de València 2021–2024.
- Runs its own Observatorio Socioeconómico de Empleo y Formación, publishing labour-market indicators (youth, 54+, women, long-term unemployed) — a useful public data source for founders sizing the local labour market.
- PAE legal basis: built on the national CIRCE system and its Sistema de Tramitación Telemática (STT) component — i.e. Valencia Activa's PAE is a local access point into a national single-window business-registration infrastructure, not a bespoke municipal tool.
- Distinct operational identity from Valencia Innovation Capital (VIC): Valencia Activa is the employment/training/company-formation layer; VIC is the innovation/testbed/grant layer. Both are municipal (Ayuntament de València) but serve different founder needs and should not be treated as the same body —
#status/verifyon the exact administrative relationship (both ultimately answer to the Ayuntamiento, but are not shown as parent/child of each other in current sources).
Relations
- Runs: Factory Startup (Program)
- Runs: Centro Petxina
- Runs: Coworking Hermanos Maristas
- Runs: PAE - Punto de Atencion al Emprendedor
- Partners with: CleanConnect VLC
- Partners with: W Startup Community
- Partners with: AJEV Woman
- See also: AWE Academy for Women Entrepreneurs
- See also: Female Entrepreneurship (support)
- See also: Idea Stage (phase)
- See also: Ayuntamiento de Valencia
- See also: Valencia Innovation Capital