Session 001
60 guests
— Line-up —
- 01Technical anchorNerva Technologies
- 02Live demoAlex Vidal
- 03Live demoAlex Sancho
- 04Live demoOpen
- 05The after
Provisional
Doors 18:30
València
Est. 2026 · València → the world
BARRACAFounders House
The house València's founders and builders come back to.
Live demos, under the hood, founder tables, build nights and the after. Small groups, long conversations and the same faces coming back.
Apply to get inGet on the guest listGuest list only. You're in if you're building.
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The concept
València already has the talent, the companies and the ambition. What it was missing was somewhere to come back to.
Big events put a city on the map. What builds an ecosystem is the relationships that start between one event and the next. BARRACA exists so those conversations don't hang on a date in the calendar: a house open often enough that the faces stop being strangers.
Every city where things happen has a place like this. What makes it good is never the stage; it's that you always end up talking to someone worth talking to. That's what we're putting together in València.
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Why BARRACA
The attitude hasn't changed. Only the dancefloor has.
In the eighties, BARRACA changed how Europe understood the night, and it did it from València. We're not recreating that story; what interests us is the attitude of people who do things their own way. Today that energy sits with the people making products, companies and technology from here. We borrowed the name; the rest we write together.
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What happens inside
Five formats. Each session runs whichever ones it needs, so no two nights are the same.
Live demos
You show the product running, live. No slides, no recorded video. If something breaks, it breaks in front of everyone, and that's usually the best part.
Under the hood
The decisions that rarely make it into a talk: the architecture, the trade-offs, the monthly bill and what you learned after taking production down. You can ask anything.
Founder tables
One table, a few people and time to spare. The conversations that rarely happen in front of a hundred people: real numbers, hiring, and when to change direction.
Build nights
Laptops open and nobody presenting anything. You arrive with an idea and leave having shipped something, however small. This is where the building happens.
The after
The programme ends; the conversation doesn't. The best part of the night often happens after the last demo.
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The house
Show, don't tell
Ideas are interesting; products that run are more interesting. If you can show it, show it: demos come first here, and the keynotes come from people who have already built something.
The same faces
Every time you come back you recognise more people, and that's where the relationships that last begin. So the house looks after frequency before capacity.
València, no apologies
You can build a serious company here without asking permission and without moving away. The house exists so the people doing it have somewhere to come back to.
Guest list
The guest list is about context, not exclusivity: everyone who comes in should make the conversation better, and everyone should leave having learned something. Once you're in, the house belongs to everyone who builds, whether you're junior or a serial founder.
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Line-up
The nights coming up, with what's already on them. The line-up comes out of the applications, so there's nearly always a slot still open.
- Session 001
Demo night · Provisional
First night
One technical talk, three live demos and all night to ask about them.
Doors 18:30
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València · 60 guests - Session 002
Under the hood · Provisional
Looking inside
Two technical talks, half an hour each, from the inside.
Doors 18:30
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València · 60 guests - Session 003
Hackathon · Provisional
BDS
Build, Don't Schmooze. Laptops open until something runs.
Doors TBA
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València · 50 guests
The whole catalogue is under Sessions, past nights included. They're never deleted; they're the house's memory.
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Partners
Sessions are free. Someone pays for the room, the bar and the chairs; this is where their names go.
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Sponsor a session →How being a partner works, and what money can't buy.
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Before you come
Where is the house?
There's no fixed address. Each session happens somewhere else in València: an office, a workshop, a borrowed rooftop. What repeats isn't the place, it's the people; the exact address always goes out with the invitation.
Do I have to be a founder?
No. Founder isn't about having started a company, it's a way of working: you take a problem, treat it as your own and push it through. The room has engineers, researchers, product people, designers and early employees in it. The only thing we look at is what you're building.
What does it cost?
Nothing. The door is free, and what the night costs, from the room to the last beer, is on the partners.
Do I have to show something?
No. Most of the room comes to watch, to ask questions and to stay for the after. If you're building something, ask for a demo slot: it doesn't have to be finished, it almost never is.
Can I bring someone?
Tell us who they are and what they're building. The room is small and every name takes up a seat, so invitations are individual; if they fit, they're in the same way you are.
What language is it in?
Whichever one works. The room runs in Spanish, English and Valencian depending on who's at the table, and plenty of demos are in English because the product already ships abroad. People switch mid-sentence and nobody minds.
Tell us what you're building.
A link to what you've made is enough; no CV, no pitch deck. We read all of them and write back before the next session.
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Or write to us at hola@barraca.house