MOVEMENTS, a Spanish platform that permits the creation, scaling and sustainability of citizen actions, has reached its preliminary goal of €300k in its pre-Seed spherical and is opening an extension spherical as much as €350k to herald strategic buyers earlier than the ultimate shut.
This milestone follows preliminary backing from enterprise angels Miguel Vicente (Antai, Wallapop, Glovo), Vincent Rosso (Consentio, BlaBlaCar), David Tomás (Cyberclick), Marta Huidobro (AEBAN) and Ignacio Carnero (Libelium, Ontruck). They’re joined by social entrepreneurs together with Sergi Figueres, the co-founder and CEO of Worldcoo (acquired by Glovo), and Diego Hidalgo, the founding father of Amovens.
“We’re witnessing one thing uncommon: individuals who not solely assist causes, but in addition wish to develop and maintain them over time. That utterly adjustments the sport,” explains Francisco Polo, founding father of MOVEMENTS.
IDirectly comparable CivicTech or citizen-mobilisation rounds are restricted, so the closest reference factors for MOVEMENTS sit in adjoining classes comparable to neighborhood, participation and impression platforms.
These embrace Madrid-based Akka, which channelled almost €9 million into tech corporations in 2025; Lisbon-based Goparity, which raised €2.9 million to assist finance impression initiatives; Milan-based Waveful, which secured €1.8 million to broaden its social neighborhood platform; and London-based Unfabled, which reached simply over €3.3 million in whole Seed funding to scale its community-led girls’s well being platform.
Towards that backdrop, MOVEMENTS’ €300k pre-Seed spherical, with an extension as much as €350k, is smaller in dimension however nonetheless suits a wider sample of funding flowing into platforms constructed round organised communities, participation and digital infrastructure.
Taken collectively, the funding talked about throughout MOVEMENTS and these adjoining EU-Startups examples involves roughly €17.35 million.
“Our objective isn’t just to develop, however to redefine how energy is in-built society. That includes offering anybody with the instruments to begin, scale and maintain their trigger on a worldwide scale,” provides Francisco.
Based in 2025, MOVEMENTS is a citizen empowerment platform whose mission is to supply activists and organisations with instruments which have “traditionally solely been out there to giant establishments, permitting any trigger with real goal to succeed in its most impression potential“.
Since its launch, MOVEMENTS has skilled notable progress, with the next month-to-month will increase:
- 940% in December 2025
- 127% in January 2026
- 3,184% in February 2026
Probably the most notable instance of a motion launched on their platform is Sanidad Pública Segura (Protected Public Healthcare), which yesterday grew to become the platform’s first motion to succeed in the Congress of Deputies. Over 100,000 signatures have been handed over in defence of affected person security in simply 5 weeks. Led by physician Tamara Contreras, this motion has succeeded in inserting the controversy on the state of the healthcare system on the centre of the political agenda.
One other noteworthy motion is Generation Zero Nukes, led by Nobel Peace Prize laureate Carlos Umaña, which has helped to reignite public debate on Spain’s stance on nuclear weapons.
Extra not too long ago, Signos que cambian el mundo (Indicators that Change the World), led by deaf activist Marcos Lechet, has generated social mobilisation round compliance with signal language laws. In Spain, the initiative has been endorsed by outstanding figures within the deaf neighborhood, together with Nora (@nagorericol), a 10-year-old lady with a considerable following on Instagram, the place she teaches signal language, in addition to Noemí García, a number one content material creator within the area of signal language schooling.
Following this primary funding milestone, MOVEMENTS is getting into a brand new part by which it can consolidate its product and scale its mannequin.
In April, the corporate will finalise its MVP by launching its subscription system. This may allow the actions to generate recurring income and guarantee their long-term sustainability.
In parallel, MOVEMENTS will begin getting ready for its Seed spherical, which is deliberate for June 2026. The corporate has two most important aims for this spherical: the event of an agent-based synthetic intelligence system to optimise the creation and administration of actions, and worldwide growth, notably specializing in america as a precedence market.
This subsequent step goals to ascertain MOVEMENTS as a worldwide infrastructure for creating actions, combining expertise, funding and affect inside a single ecosystem.
