Project Management Software for Technology Startups in Barcelona
A twelve-person team in a Poblenou warehouse office is lean by necessity, not by choice, and a missed handoff costs more here than it would with a bigger team to absorb it.
A factory district rebuilt for teams this size
22@ was Poblenou's industrial quarter, brick chimneys and warehouse floors turned over at the turn of the millennium into one of southern Europe's denser concentrations of startups, a few minutes from the beach and from the shipping routes that made the neighbourhood industrial in the first place. The companies working out of it are small on purpose or small for now, competing for the same engineering talent Mobile World Congress brings through the city every year, without the headcount of the firms they're competing against.
A twelve-person Barcelona startup rarely has a dedicated person for HR or marketing yet, and the cost of a slow handoff or a missed status update lands harder here than it would in a bigger organisation with slack to absorb it. Software that charges per module, or that offers a free tier only until it doesn't, adds exactly the wrong kind of friction to a team already running lean.
ShipSprint's Free plan covers five users and two projects, permanently, and engineering, HR, marketing and operations run on the same subscription rather than four separate ones a lean team has to justify one at a time.
The annual pull of Mobile World Congress through Fira Gran Via also means a lot of Barcelona's engineering talent has direct experience of much larger, better-resourced teams, and a candidate weighing a twelve-person startup against a bigger name has real points of comparison for what a well-run team's tooling should look like. Looking organised from the first hire is a genuine part of that pitch, not a nice-to-have.
What a lean Poblenou team actually needs
A twelve-person team competing against much bigger firms doesn't need their tooling. It needs something that fits a team this size without looking like it.
Five users and two projects, permanently, not a trial dressed up as a gift. A founding team can build its whole workflow here before deciding anything needs to be paid for.
Engineering, HR, marketing and operations each get their own templates on the same login, so the same small team fielding a hiring round and a launch calendar isn't paying for four tools to do it.
A sample project is preloaded, and a board can be shaped to how the team actually works within a sitting, no lengthy configuration project to get through first.
The built-in wiki keeps decisions next to the work they affect, with page history, so nobody has to ask "wait, who agreed to this?" six weeks later.
Everyone opens to today's items, a one-tap time log, and one tap to say "I'm blocked", which pulls in the right person with context attached, without a project manager whose only job is chasing status.
Free that's honest about where it stops
A free tier priced to be forgotten about until it starts billing is a bad match for a Poblenou team that's already watching every cost line closely, competing for talent against firms with far more slack. ShipSprint's Free plan is what it says it is: five users and two projects, permanently, with the limits stated plainly rather than discovered in an invoice.
ShipSprint is built by Quantuva Technologies Pvt. Ltd., based in India, and billed per seat in rupees with annual billing available. That's a plain fact about the company rather than a claim of any local presence in Spain or the EU, and worth knowing before a team commits a workflow to it.
A twelve-person team competing against much bigger studios doesn't need to be watched to prove it's working, that's obvious on a floor this size. What it needs as it grows past that is a fair, consistent record: no screenshots, no keystroke logging, no activity tracking, just delivered work and logged hours, adjusted for leave and visible to the person the scorecard describes.
Questions from Barcelona startups
It doesn't expire. Five users and two projects are free permanently, with no time limit. Moving to a paid plan happens because a team has outgrown the limits, not because a countdown ran out.
It works at both ends. The Free plan covers five users and two projects permanently, which is enough for a founding team, and nothing about the paid tiers requires a large headcount to be worth using.
No. ShipSprint is built and operated by Quantuva Technologies Pvt. Ltd., based in India, and every plan is billed per seat in rupees. There's no separate EU or Spanish entity.
Team is ₹299 per user per month, or ₹2,899 per year, up to 40 users. Business is ₹599 per user per month, or ₹6,499 per year, and adds forecasts, scorecards and the owner command center. Full detail is on the pricing page.
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