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Best Image Recognition Companies in Spain

The 39 best Image Recognition companies in Spain in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Red Points.

39companies tracked
$168.6Mdisclosed funding
0unicorns
17have raised
Sources & further reading

Ranked: Best Image Recognition companies in Spain

#CompanyDisclosed fundingLast roundEmployeesFounderTech stackWeb popularityPatents & IP focusRecent signals
1AMLcheck
AML solutions for financial institutions
———Uncle Dean Clark
Owner
————
2B-FY
Provider of passwordless identity verification solutions, securing online transactions and data
——21Rodrigo Lazcano
CEO
Amazon Web ServicesSwiperGoogle Font API+6Top 10M——
3Bee the Data
Artificial intelligence based platform offering data integration solutions
———Agustin Villacampa
Co-Founder & CEO
————
4Dembora
Provider of a facial recognition-enabled app for HR teams to manage attendance
———Javier Saeta
CEO
————
5FindThatFake
Cloud-based solutions for fake detection
———Gerard Compte
Founder
————
6Grupo Spec
Manufacturer of access control solution
——63Marcelo DosReis
CEO
WordPressMySQLPHP+34Top 5M——
7Infinity Neural
Provider of an AI-enabled image analytics application development solution
———Jordi Domingo
CEO
———3 job openings
8inPhinite
Provider of digital identity verification and authentication solutions for businesses
———Javier Mira
Co-Founder & CEO
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Top 12 Image Recognition companies in Spain

#1
Public · Alicante, Valencian Community · founded 2010 · 186 employees
$57.7Mraised
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Provider of facial recognition based biometric verification solution. It offers biometric based authentication and KYC solutions for banks. It offers solutions such as facial recognition based digital onboarding, eye based biometric recognition, voice based identity recognition, and e signature based recognition.

Fliar Intelligence Index™ 91how this company ranks against its industry peers
Product
top 17%
AI
top 20%
Tech
top 27%
Global
top 27%
Market
top 28%
Funding
top 28%
Product: 4 published apps (3.5k installs) · Company stage: Public
AI: Classified as an AI company
Tech: 61 technologies across 4/8 capability areas · Cloud: Amazon S3, Amazon Web Services · Security: Cloudflare Bot Management, Hsts
Audience (LinkedIn): 33k LinkedIn followers — 23.9% of this cohort's audience
Activity (LinkedIn): 1 partnerships · 1 awards (incl. Fintech Association of South Africa (FINASA)) announced in 12 mo
Funding rounds
  • May 2024Post IPO$5.4M
  • Dec 2020Post IPO$44.1M
  • Sep 2019Post IPO$4.4M
  • Nov 2018Grant (prize money)$1.9M
Founders & team
Javier MiraPresident & CEO
Investors
Europa, EIC Fund, Nice & Green, Hancom Group, Chamberí Ventures, sherry ventures
Tech stack
Apple Icloud MailBootstrapCloudflareCloudflare Bot ManagementCloudflare Browser InsightsCookiebot
#2
Series C · Barcelona, Catalonia · founded 2011 · 320 employees
$85Mraised
▾

AI powered brand protection and anti counterfeit solutions. It offers solutions to manage online counterfeit, brand abuse, and digital piracy. The platform leverages AI, ML, and image recognition technology to find brand infringement across different sources that include marketplaces and social media profiles. It also allows users to find, track, and remove counterfeit listings and sellers.

Fliar Intelligence Index™ 67how this company ranks against its industry peers
Funding
top 29%
Moat
top 31%
Tech
top 35%
Market
top 42%
Growth
top 45%
AI
top 45%
Funding: Raised $85.0M across 5 rounds · 5 rounds over 10 yrs (0.5/yr) · Last round Series C (Nov 2022)
Moat: Editorial + unicorn rating 8/10 · Soonicorn · 9 curated direct competitors tracked
Tech: 46 technologies across 4/8 capability areas · Cloud: Amazon S3, Amazon Web Services · Security: Cloudflare Bot Management, Hsts
Audience (LinkedIn): 57k LinkedIn followers — 41.7% of this cohort's audience · 64 engagements/post (4.6× cohort median)
Funding rounds
  • Nov 2022Series C$20.7M
  • May 2021Venture Debt—
  • Apr 2019Series C$38M
  • May 2018Series B$12M
Founders & team
Laura UrquizuPresident & CEO
Investors
Northzone, Mangrove Capital Partners, Banco Sabadell, European Investment Bank, Eight Roads Ventures, Sabadell Venture Capital
Tech stack
AddtoanyAddtoany Share ButtonsAutoptimizeCloudflareCloudflare Bot ManagementComplianz
#3
Funding Raised · Paterna, Valencian Community · founded 2014
$12Mraised
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Provider of a depth-sensing solution for AR/VR and AI applications. It provides 3D depth sensing modules that have the capability to capture the 3D geometry of a scene. It features gesture recognition, face recognition, navigation, and other capabilities. It uses a CMOS processor and sensor technology for enabling its integration in mobile devices.

Fliar Intelligence Index™ 29how this company ranks against its industry peers
AI
top 20%
Funding
top 46%
Talent
bottom 49%
Tech
bottom 42%
Global
bottom 36%
Market
bottom 25%
AI: Classified as an AI company
Funding: Raised $12.0M across 8 rounds · 8 rounds over 12 yrs (0.7/yr) · Last round Grant (prize money) (Nov 2022)
Talent: 1 named leader on record · 1 C-suite/founder profile curated
Audience (LinkedIn): 2k LinkedIn followers
Activity (LinkedIn): 2 product launches announced in 12 mo
Funding rounds
  • Nov 2022Grant (prize money)$51.8K
  • Dec 2020Grant (prize money)$3M
  • Mar 2020Grant (prize money)$1.6M
  • Sep 2018Grant (prize money)$1.6M
Founders & team
Ann WhyteCo-Founder & CEO
Investors
EIC Fund, Europa
#4
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
#5
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
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
#6
Seed · Barcelona, Catalonia · founded 2020
$20Kraised
▾

Provider of a cloud-based facial emotion analytics platform for marketing. It enables users to capture and analyze facial expressions. Its offering includes facial recognition, campaign managers, data managers, facial analytics, scoring tools, and content management tools. It is available on iOS and Android platforms.

Funding rounds
  • Mar 2024Seed$20K
Founders & team
Mauro GadaletaCo-Founder
Investors
Techstars, Bcombinator
#7
Seed · Calahonda, Andalusia · founded 2016 · 43 employees
$2.9Mraised
▾

Predictiva provides an anti-fraud solution for fintech and e-commerce. The products offered by the company are CLARA which provides the facility to audit and intercept voice interaction between call center agents and customers. The company also provides fingerprint technology that identifies and verifies the device by leveraging artificial intelligence and collecting information related to the hardware and network. It provides a cross-browser identification facility that can be used to prevent fraud such as the identity of the device and user. The clients of the company are tlmark, ebay, dineo, etc.

Funding rounds
  • Sep 2021Grant (prize money)$58.2K
  • Jul 2019Seed$2.9M
Investors
EIC Fund, Swanlaab Venture Factory, Sabadell Venture Capital
Tech stack
WordpressMysqlPhpBootstrapGoogle Tag Manager For WordpressDraftpress Hfcm
#8
Series A · Las Rozas de Madrid, Community of Madrid · founded 2018 · 12 employees
$3Mraised
▾

Card Dynamics provides token-based payment card security solutions to businesses. It connects with the merchant's payment service providers (PSP) for card-on-file transactions.

Funding rounds
  • Feb 2021Series A$3M
Founders & team
Maria GonzaloCo-CEO
Investors
Big Sur Ventures, GAA Investments
#9
Seed · Vigo, Galicia · founded 2019 · 34 employees
$1.8Mraised
▾

Alice Biometrics is a customer identity verification solution provider. The solution offered by the company can be used for the digital onboarding of customers and maintaining KYC/AML compliance. It can also be used to prevent online identity fraud by leveraging intelligence. The clients include Telefonica, SAMSUNG, etc.

Funding rounds
  • Feb 2021Grant (prize money)$125K
  • Nov 2020Seed$1.8M
Founders & team
Mikel OtazuCEO & Managing Director
Investors
Europa, Mundi Ventures, Xesgalicia, Vigo Activo, IGAPE
Tech stack
Amazon Web ServicesGoogle WorkspaceHstsJqueryMoove Gdpr ConsentMysql
#10
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 — 4.7% 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
#11
Seed · Madrid, Community of Madrid · founded 2018 · 6 employees
$336Kraised
▾

Pibisi provides artificial intelligence and analytics-based anti-money laundering solution. It provides a KYC solution based on digital identity and document verification, person analytics, and behavior analytics. Customers include Indexa Capital, Bewater Funds, and Egido Group. The pricing model is based on the number of peoples registered per month.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 823 LinkedIn followers
Funding rounds
  • Aug 2020Angel$165K
  • 2020Seed—
Founders & team
Alejandro CanedaFounder & CEO
Investors
Angels Capital, SeedRocket, Lanzadera, Tenity
Tech stack
CloudflareCloudflare Browser InsightsCore-JsGoogle AnalyticsGoogle WorkspaceMailchimp
#12
Seed · Valencia, Valencian Community · founded 2013
$673.7Kraised
▾

Umanick is a biometric identification & identity management company which uses fingerprint, iris, face & voice recognition technologies for user identification. Their core products include a desktop application( workbench), web-based application(portal), mobile app & server-based application. The company manages identity, based on biometric, biographical and behavioral user data and claims their solution to be scalable to million users which can be used locally or through the cloud. As of Sep. 2016, the company has focussed solutions for banks and hospitals.

Funding rounds
  • Dec 2018Grant (prize money)—
  • Nov 2018Grant (prize money)—
  • Sep 2016Seed$673.7K
Founders & team
Emilio Gallego SotosCEOIlko GarcíaFounder & CTO
Investors
Tech Emerge, IMPACT Accelerator

Funding & investor landscape

$168.6Mtotal disclosed funding
14companies funded
44disclosed rounds
0rounds last 90 days
Most active investors
Europa7 rounds
EIC Fund6 rounds
Lanzadera3 rounds
Athos Capital2 rounds
Desafia San Francisco2 rounds
Intelectium2 rounds
Sabadell Venture Capital2 rounds
4Founders Capital1 rounds
AIM131 rounds
AccelerAsia1 rounds

Notable founders

Javier Mira
President & CEO · FacePhi
Laura Urquizu
President & CEO · Red Points
Ann Whyte
Co-Founder & CEO · Photonicsens
MariaEugenia Hidalgo
CEO · ColorSensing
Mauro Gadaleta
Co-Founder · Feeder
Maria Gonzalo
Co-CEO · Card Dynamics
Mikel Otazu
CEO & Managing Director · Alice
Alejandro Caneda
Founder & CEO · Pibisi
Emilio Gallego Sotos
CEO · Umanick Technologies
Ilko García
Founder & CTO · Umanick Technologies
Salvador Giro
ex-Founder · INFAIMON
Ivan Nabalon
Founder & CEO · Electronic Identification
Prism market signals · Spain · country-scoped Prism corpus, 22,049 docs

Market landscape — 10 sub-themes by coverage

Share of Image Recognition coverage by sub-theme.

Regulatory-risk over time rising

Funding & growth over time

funding rising · growth rising

RESEARCH SIGNALS · Spain

How research on Computer Vision is moving in Spain

A read on the academic research around Computer Vision — which themes are gaining ground, the institutions and researchers driving them, and how the tone is shifting. Based on 2,151 Spain-affiliated papers.

research sentiment over time
201720182026
enthusiastic · positive · guarded tone
Tone is overwhelmingly optimistic and steady — the enthusiastic (strongly-positive) share moved 22% → 22% across 2017–2026.
top research entities
  • Universidad Internacional De La Rioja1547
  • Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya43
  • Universidad Politécnica de Madrid33
  • Universitat de València24
  • Universidad de Zaragoza23
leading researchers
Juan Moisés de la Serna · Eleonor Diaz Fragachan · Atos (Spain) · Oriol Ruiz Celada · Jan Rosell · Raul Suarez · Antonio Plaza · Joost van de Weijer
▲ Breakthroughs266 · 12%
▼ 75%→11% share
▼0.1× share momentum0 median citations83% since 2021mostly methods-led
Breakthroughs are cooling (75%→11% of field), led by Convolutional neural network.
rising sub-themes (early→recent)
  • Convolutional neural network4→43
  • Segmentation8→43
  • Pattern recognition (psychology)10→34
  • Robustness (evolution)2→24
  • RGB color model1→11
Newly emergingArtificial neural network 0→14 · Pipeline (software) 0→12 · Visualization 0→11
Landmark ORB-SLAM: A Versatile and Accurate Monocular SLAM System · 6,337 cites
◆ Advancements174 · 8%
▼ 12%→7% share
▼0.6× share momentum0 median citations88% since 2021mostly methods-led
Advancements are cooling (12%→7% of field), led by Convolutional neural network.
rising sub-themes (early→recent)
  • Convolutional neural network3→36
  • Pattern recognition (psychology)1→33
  • Segmentation2→28
  • Object detection2→8
  • Point cloud1→5
Newly emergingFeature (linguistics) 0→14 · Robustness (evolution) 0→11 · Artificial neural network 0→10
Landmark The SYNTHIA Dataset: A Large Collection of Synthetic Images for Semantic Segmentation of Urban Scenes · 2,320 cites
▼ Concerns46 · 2%
▼ 6%→2% share
▼0.3× share momentum0 median citations89% since 2021mostly empirical
Concerns are cooling (6%→2% of field), led by Pattern recognition (psychology).
rising sub-themes (early→recent)
  • Pattern recognition (psychology)1→4
Newly emergingConvolutional neural network 0→10
Landmark Review of deep learning: concepts, CNN architectures, challenges, applications, future directions · 7,187 cites
RESEARCH HOTSPOTS · Spain

Where computer vision 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.

Madrid90 · +0.54
Hot · Convolutional neural networkAdvancing · Medical imagingOpportunity · Object detection
Barcelona73 · +0.53
Hot · GRASPAdvancing · TrajectoryOpportunity · Key (lock)
Valencia49 · +0.48
Hot · Image processingAdvancing · RGB color modelOpportunity · Segmentation
Cerdanyola del Vallès23 · +0.67
Hot · SegmentationAdvancing · Convolutional neural networkOpportunity · Artificial neural network
Zaragoza23 · +0.62
Hot · Simultaneous localization and mappingAdvancing · RobotOpportunity · Sleep (system call)
Granada12 · +0.56
Hot · LidarAdvancing · Convolutional neural networkOpportunity · Point cloud
Leioa11 · +0.60
Advancing · RGB color modelOpportunity · Situation awareness
Seville10 · +0.46
Opportunity · Robot
Santiago de Compostela7 · +0.36
Hot · SegmentationOpportunity · Point cloud

Common questions

How many Image Recognition companies are there in Spain?
Radar tracks 39 indexable Image Recognition companies headquartered in Spain that meet our profile-completeness bar.
What is the total funding raised by Image Recognition companies in Spain?
The Image Recognition companies in Spain on this list have raised a combined $168.6M in disclosed equity funding across 14 funded companies.
Which is the highest-funded Image Recognition company in Spain?
Red Points is the highest-funded Image Recognition company in Spain, with $85M in disclosed equity funding.
How many Image Recognition companies in Spain are funded?
14 of the 39 Image Recognition companies in Spain on this list have disclosed at least one equity funding round.
How many Image Recognition unicorns are there in Spain?
None of the Image Recognition companies in Spain on this list currently has a disclosed valuation of $1B or more.
Who are the top investors in Spain Image Recognition companies?
The most active investors in Spain Image Recognition companies on this list include Europa, EIC Fund, Lanzadera, Athos Capital, Desafia San Francisco.
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