The Spanish Bank of Algae (BEA) is an infrastructure of the Universidad of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria managed by the Canarian Science and Technology Park Foundation (FCPCT). Its basic objectives are the isolation, characterization, conservation, supply and development of cultivation techniques and applications of microalgae and cyanobacteria from a scientific-technological point of view. The BEA is a member of the European Culture Collections’ Organisation (ECCO), of the World Federation for Culture Collections (WFCC) and is included in the World Data Centre for Microorganisms (WFCC-MIRCEN), being accredited before the Government of Spain as the international authority for the deposit of microorganisms, in accordance with the provisions established in the Budapest Treaty. Strains of microalgae from tropical and subtropical regions are conserved in the BEA, particularly from the Macaronesian region. This collection of strains (> 1700 clonal strains) offers great potential for the development of industrial applications, allowing companies, scientific groups, and institutions around the world access to unique genetic resources, hardly explored, for their application in biotechnological processes. It also offers services to companies, research institutions and technological development centres, to facilitate the implementation of initiatives and projects essentially related to industry and research on microalgae and cyanobacteria.