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Best Cybersecurity Companies in Barcelona, Spain

The 50 best Cybersecurity companies in Barcelona, Spain in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: LuxQuanta.

50companies tracked
$51.7Mdisclosed funding
0unicorns
18have raised
FLIAR INTELLIGENCE · CYBERSECURITY × BARCELONA

Our analysis of 174 Cybersecurity companies

$16.2b in tracked funding; 96% of the stack-profiled cohort runs cloud-native; funding activity peaked in 2025.

174companies analysed
96%cloud-native stacks
2025funding peak (by rounds)
20unicorns
2018median founding year
85kcombined LinkedIn audience
42%of audience held by top 3
2companies hiring publicly (12 mo)

Ranked: Best Cybersecurity companies in Barcelona

#CompanyDisclosed fundingLast roundStageFounderFoundedTech stackRecent signals
1LuxQuanta
Provider of Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) systems and technologies
24Talent top 28%Funding top 30%Moat top 48%Global bottom 36%
All 5 signals ▾
Talenttop 28%
Fundingtop 30%
Moattop 48%
Globalbottom 36%
Marketbottom 21%
Talent: 3 named leaders on record · 3 C-suite/founder profiles curated
Funding: Raised $15.5M across 3 rounds · 3 rounds over 2 yrs (1.5/yr)
rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 24/100
$15M9 mo agoSeries ASebastian Etcheverry
Co-Founder
2021—1 partnership
2Zynap
Provider of threat intelligence and security orchestration platform for cybercrime defense
$13M6 mo agoSeedOriol Blanch
Co-Founder & CFO
2008WordPressMySQLPHP+21—
3Blueliv
Provider of cloud-based threat intelligence platform
$8M101 mo agoAcqui-Hired—2009——
4Qustodio
Provider of internet safety and usage control solutions for students
$2M151 mo agoAcquired—2011WordPressMySQLRedis+441 partnership
5Ourspace
Cloud-based platform for colleague matching and team collaboration
$2M45 mo agoSeedMark Allen
Co-Founder
2022——
6Oonair
Mobile & web-based video streaming solution provider
$2M194 mo agoDeadpooledGenís Morata
CEO
2010——
7Didit
Provider of identity verification solution
$2M2 mo agoSeedAlberto Garcia
Co-Founder & CEO
2021Node.jsRadix UITailwind CSS+221 job opening · 1 launch
8Herta Security
Building your biometric solution
$2M39 mo agoFunding Raised—2009WordPressMySQLPHP+28—
9ColorSensing
Provider of automatic color recognition solution
$1M38 mo agoEarly StageMariaEugenia Hidalgo
CEO
2018——
10restb.ai
Deep Learning based Image Recognition API
$1M72 mo agoAcquired—2013WordPressMySQLPHP+31—
11Catchoom
Provider of an image recognition and AR based product tagging solution
$750K170 mo agoDeadpooled—2011——
12SEVEN SECTOR TECHNOLOGIES
Provider of cybersecurity suite solutions
$357K14 mo agoSeedHiram Ortiz
Founder & CEO
2020—1 job opening

Top 12 Cybersecurity companies in Barcelona

#1
Seed · Barcelona, Catalonia · founded 2008
$12.9Mraised
▾

Provider of threat intelligence and security orchestration platform for cybercrime defense. The platform transforms threat intelligence into actionable strategies by connecting disparate security systems into a unified ecosystem. It automates knowledge distribution, strategic decision-making, and protective countermeasures, shifting operations from alert management to proactive threat neutralization. The interconnected architecture fuses threat intelligence with automation, enabling real-time knowledge sharing and rapid decision-making against evolving threats. It offers AI-driven automation to prioritize risks and trigger intelligent actions, along with automated simulations to replicate adversary tactics. The platform amplifies existing security tools to enhance security processes through intelligent automation.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 6k LinkedIn followers — 7.3% of this cohort's audience
Funding rounds
  • Jan 2026Seed$7M
  • Jan 2025Seed$5.9M
Founders & team
Oriol BlanchCo-Founder & CFODaniel SCo-Founder & CEO
Investors
Kibo Ventures, K Fund
Tech stack
Amazon S3Amazon Web ServicesCloudflareCloudflare Bot ManagementFancyboxGoogle Hosted Libraries
#2
Series A · Barcelona, Catalonia · founded 2021 · 3 employees
$15.5Mraised
▾

Provider of Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) systems and technologies. It offers a QKD management platform to monitor Quantum Links within AWS infrastructure in real time.

Fliar Intelligence Index™ 24how this company ranks against its industry peers
Talent
top 28%
Funding
top 30%
Moat
top 48%
Global
bottom 36%
Market
bottom 21%
Talent: 3 named leaders on record · 3 C-suite/founder profiles curated
Funding: Raised $15.5M across 3 rounds · 3 rounds over 2 yrs (1.5/yr) · Last round Series A (Oct 2025)
Moat: Editorial + unicorn rating 4/10 · 9 curated direct competitors tracked
Audience (LinkedIn): 7k LinkedIn followers — 8.5% of this cohort's audience
Activity (LinkedIn): 1 partnerships (incl. Spain) announced in 12 mo
Funding rounds
  • Oct 2025Series A$9.3M
  • Mar 2024Grant (prize money)$2.7M
  • Jan 2023Grant (prize money)$3.5M
Founders & team
Sebastian EtcheverryCo-FounderValerio PruneriCo-FounderSaeed GhasemiCo-Founder
Investors
EIC Fund, Europa, Big Sur Ventures, A&G, GMV, Wayra
#3
Seed · Barcelona, Catalonia · founded 2021
$2Mraised
▾

Provider of identity verification solution. It provides digital identity by providing a decentralized, and privacy-first identity solution. The platform offers reusable KYC that allows users to verify once and reuse the verified identity data. Features include document verification, facial recognition, reusable authentication, and more.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 12k LinkedIn followers — 14.0% of this cohort's audience
Hiring: 1 hiring post in 12 mo (public)
Activity: 2 product launches · 1 partnerships (incl. AlloVoisins) announced in 12 mo
Funding rounds
  • Dec 2025Seed$2M
Founders & team
Alberto GarciaCo-Founder & CEOAlejandro GarciaCo-Founder & CTO
Investors
Y Combinator, Pioneer Fund, Orange Collective, Founders Future, Phosphor Capital, SaaSholic
Tech stack
Amazon CloudfrontAmazon S3Amazon Web ServicesApple Sign-InCloudflareCloudflare Browser Insights
#4
Seed · Barcelona, Catalonia · founded 2020
$356.8Kraised
▾

Provider of cybersecurity suite solutions. It provides red team, threat hunting, threat detection, intrusion detection, pentest, OSINT, XDR, phishing, and more. It offers a wide range of threat management tools established in control frameworks such as OWASP or OSSTMM.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 1k LinkedIn followers
Hiring: 1 hiring post in 12 mo (public) · hiring: Ejecutivo de cuentas
Funding rounds
  • May 2025Seed$356.8K
Founders & team
Hiram OrtizFounder & CEO
Investors
Encomenda, Iris Venture
#5
Funding Raised · Barcelona, Catalonia · founded 2009 · 5 employees
$1.6Mraised
▾

Herta Security is a spin-off of the Technical University of Catalonia (UPC), offers software and hardware for the integration of biometrics for security applications such as access control, video surveillance, and border control. Has been used at the Golden Globe Awards to catch stalkers. Can be used to identify parameters such as gender, approximate age, use of glasses, and facial expressions. Can scan faces at 12X real-time speeds. Has partners in over 25 countries.

Funding rounds
  • May 2023Grant (prize money)$200.1K
  • Oct 2022Grant (prize money)$123.1K
  • Oct 2021Grant (prize money)$425.6K
  • Aug 2021Grant (prize money)$469.3K
Investors
Europa, EIC Fund
Tech stack
WordpressMysqlPhpParticles.JsYoutubeBootstrap
#6
Early Stage · Barcelona, Catalonia · founded 2018 · 8 employees
$1.4Mraised
▾

ColorSensing is a provider of automatic colour recognition solution. Is based on an algorithm that designs ad-hoc colour patterns for each specific application based on QR technology. The pattern is recognized by any camera and the algorithm processes the images containing the pattern.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 2k LinkedIn followers — 2.3% of this cohort's audience
Funding rounds
  • Jun 2023Grant (prize money)$80.6K
  • Jul 2019Grant (prize money)—
  • Nov 2018Grant (prize money)$57K
Founders & team
MariaEugenia HidalgoCEO
Investors
EIT Health, Europa, Moebio
#7
Seed · Barcelona, Catalonia · founded 2022 · 10 employees
$2.5Mraised
▾

Cloud-based platform for colleague matching and team collaboration. It offers a slack-integrated internal communication platform for team selection, work distribution, etc. It provides a listing of team members and their profiles for project skills matching.

Funding rounds
  • Oct 2022Seed$2.5M
Founders & team
Mark AllenCo-FounderStephanie BowkerCo-Founder
Investors
Seedcamp, Connect Ventures
#8
Acqui-Hired · Barcelona, Catalonia · founded 2009 · 62 employees
$8.3Mraised
▾

Blueliv is a provider of a cloud-based threat intelligence platform. The product provides cloud-based targeted cyber threat information and analysis intelligence for enterprises, service providers, and security vendors. It delivers a cloud-based feed of actionable data like botnet command control, targeted malware, credit card theft, rogue mobile app, data leakage, phishing, and brand abuse. It continuously monitors and analyzes web sources to deliver intelligence about verified online crime servers conducting the malicious activity, the infected bot IPs, malware hashes, and hacktivism activities.

Funding rounds
  • Feb 2018Series A$4.9M
  • Feb 2014Series A$3.4M
Investors
Telefonica, Kibo Ventures, Vento, start-ups, Desafia
#9
Acquired · Barcelona, Catalonia · founded 2013 · 47 employees
$1.3Mraised
▾

Restb provides a deep learning based Image Recognition API for classifications of images. Their core technology is based on convolutional neural nets. They claim to be processing more than 5000000 images a day.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 6k LinkedIn followers — 7.5% of this cohort's audience
Funding rounds
  • Jul 2020Grant (prize money)$58.9K
  • Sep 2018Grant (prize money)$1.4M
  • Jun 2018Grant (prize money)$2.3M
  • May 2017Seed$1.3M
Investors
EIC Fund, Europa, Capitana Venture Partners, Lanta Digital Ventures, Westcott, Tandem Capital
Tech stack
All In One SeoAnimate.CssBootstrapCloudflareCloudflare Bot ManagementCookieyes
#10
Acquired · Barcelona, Catalonia · founded 2011 · 88 employees
$2.5Mraised
▾

Provider of internet safety and usage control solutions for students. It develops parental control and usage monitoring software solutions for k-12 students and also provides internet usage tracking sollutions for businesses. Its features include browser-based management and reporting, internet usage summary, social network monitoring and protection against inappropriate and illegal content.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 7k LinkedIn followers — 8.6% of this cohort's audience
Activity: 1 partnerships (incl. Bouygues Telecom) announced in 12 mo
Funding rounds
  • Jan 2014Series A$1.5M
  • Mar 2013Seed$1M
Investors
W8ventures.com, Kibo Ventures
Tech stack
ActivecampaignAlpine.JsAmazon CloudfrontAmazon S3Amazon SesAmazon Web Services
#11
Deadpooled · Barcelona, Catalonia · founded 2010
$2.4Mraised
▾

Oonair provides mobile & web-based video streaming solution that enables companies to collaborate with videos in real-time or pre-recorded contents through mobile phones. Companies can also keep their content on the cloud-based storage, create a folder, and share their content with others.

Funding rounds
  • May 2010Series A$2.4M
Founders & team
Genís MorataCEO
Investors
Highgrowth, THCAP
#12
Deadpooled · Barcelona, Catalonia · founded 2011 · 4 employees
$750Kraised
▾

Catchoom provides an AR and image & object recognition technology-based product tagging solution. Enables users to categorize and assign attributes to eCommerce products using annotation tools. Also enables customers to visualize products in a superimposed environment and also features visual search capabilities.

Funding rounds
  • May 2012Seed$750K
Investors
Inveready, AccelerAsia

Funding & investor landscape

$51.7Mtotal disclosed funding
15companies funded
30disclosed rounds
0rounds last 90 days
Most active investors
Europa6 rounds
EIC Fund3 rounds
Kibo Ventures3 rounds
Lanzadera3 rounds
Athos Capital2 rounds
Intelectium2 rounds
4Founders Capital1 rounds
A&G1 rounds
AccelerAsia1 rounds
Archipelago Next1 rounds

Notable founders

Oriol Blanch
Co-Founder & CFO · Zynap
Daniel S
Co-Founder & CEO · Zynap
Sebastian Etcheverry
Co-Founder · LuxQuanta
Valerio Pruneri
Co-Founder · LuxQuanta
Alberto Garcia
Co-Founder & CEO · Didit
Alejandro Garcia
Co-Founder & CTO · Didit
Hiram Ortiz
Founder & CEO · SEVEN SECTOR TECHNOLOGIES
MariaEugenia Hidalgo
CEO · ColorSensing
Mark Allen
Co-Founder · Ourspace
Stephanie Bowker
Co-Founder · Ourspace
Genís Morata
CEO · Oonair
Mauro Gadaleta
Co-Founder · Feeder
Prism market signals · Spain · country-scoped Prism corpus, 1,354,838 docs

Market landscape — 10 sub-themes by coverage

Share of Cybersecurity coverage by sub-theme.

Regulatory-risk over time rising

Funding & growth over time

funding rising · growth rising

RESEARCH SIGNALS · Spain

How research on Cybersecurity is moving in Spain

A read on the academic research around Cybersecurity — which themes are gaining ground, the institutions and researchers driving them, and how the tone is shifting. Based on 349 Spain-affiliated papers.

research sentiment over time
200920202026
enthusiastic · positive · guarded tone
Tone is overwhelmingly optimistic and intensifying — the enthusiastic (strongly-positive) share moved 15% → 33% across 2009–2026.
top research entities
  • Universidad Publica de Navarra49
  • Universidad de Murcia26
  • Telefonica Research and Development26
  • Universidad Politécnica de Madrid26
  • Software22
leading researchers
Berrueta, Eduardo · Morató , Daniel · Magaña, Eduardo · Izal, Mikel · Nitin Naik · Jaime Lloret · Paul Jenkins · Antonio Pastor
▲ Breakthroughs129 · 37%
▲ 31%→47% share
▲1.5× share momentum0 median citations64% since 2021mostly methods-led
Breakthroughs are rising (31%→47% of field), led by Intrusion detection system.
rising sub-themes (early→recent)
  • Intrusion detection system8→25
  • Key (lock)3→20
  • Denial-of-service attack3→12
  • Network security9→16
  • Software-defined networking1→8
Newly emergingArtificial neural network 0→10 · Internet of Things 0→7 · Computer security model 0→5
Landmark A Machine Learning Security Framework for Iot Systems · 254 cites
◆ Advancements88 · 25%
▼ 30%→26% share
▼0.9× share momentum3 median citations52% since 2021mostly methods-led
Advancements are cooling (30%→26% of field), led by Intrusion detection system.
rising sub-themes (early→recent)
  • Intrusion detection system8→17
  • Denial-of-service attack1→7
  • Network security8→14
  • Artificial neural network1→5
  • Internet Control Message Protocol1→4
Newly emergingAnomaly detection 0→6
Landmark An Evolutionary SVM Model for DDOS Attack Detection in Software Defined Networks · 250 cites
▼ Concerns42 · 12%
▼ 31%→9% share
▼0.3× share momentum0 median citations38% since 2021mostly empirical
Concerns are cooling (31%→9% of field), led by Security service.
rising sub-themes (early→recent)
  • Security service2→5
Landmark Multi-Context TLS (mcTLS) · 105 cites
RESEARCH HOTSPOTS · Spain

Where cybersecurity is researched across Spain

Location clusters by institution affiliation — each city's volume, stance tone, and a quick read on its hot topic, what's advancing, the opening opportunity, and the main concern.

Madrid55 · +0.60
Hot · Key (lock)Advancing · Intrusion detection systemOpportunity · Insider threat
Barcelona24 · +0.53
Hot · Computer networkAdvancing · Anomaly detectionOpportunity · Key (lock)Concern · Computer security
Granada14 · +0.51
Hot · Data miningAdvancing · Network securityOpportunity · Set (abstract data type)
Valencia13 · +0.48
Hot · Denial-of-service attackAdvancing · Anomaly detectionOpportunity · Network management
Leioa7 · +0.63
Hot · Denial-of-service attackAdvancing · Intrusion detection systemOpportunity · Trinoo

Common questions

How many Cybersecurity companies are there in Barcelona, Spain?
Radar tracks 50 indexable Cybersecurity companies headquartered in Barcelona, Spain that meet our profile-completeness bar.
What is the total funding raised by Cybersecurity companies in Barcelona, Spain?
The Cybersecurity companies in Barcelona, Spain on this list have raised a combined $51.7M in disclosed equity funding across 15 funded companies.
Which is the highest-funded Cybersecurity company in Barcelona, Spain?
LuxQuanta is the highest-funded Cybersecurity company in Barcelona, Spain, with $15.5M in disclosed equity funding.
How many Cybersecurity companies in Barcelona, Spain are funded?
15 of the 50 Cybersecurity companies in Barcelona, Spain on this list have disclosed at least one equity funding round.
How many Cybersecurity unicorns are there in Barcelona, Spain?
None of the Cybersecurity companies in Barcelona, Spain on this list currently has a disclosed valuation of $1B or more.
Who are the top investors in Barcelona, Spain Cybersecurity companies?
The most active investors in Barcelona, Spain Cybersecurity companies on this list include Europa, EIC Fund, Kibo Ventures, Lanzadera, Athos Capital.
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