Best Native AI Companies in Spain
The 154 best Native AI companies in Spain in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: FacePhi.
Spain's Native AI sector is smaller than the hype suggests, but the funding trajectory tells you something real is building. This directory tracks 154 companies with $245M in total disclosed funding, no unicorns yet, and a market expanding at around 50% CAGR. FacePhi leads the pack by a wide margin at $58M raised, with Nymiz ($4M), Turing Dream ($10M), Methinks ($3M), and Galtea ($3M) filling out the mid-tier. The most active backers, Europa, EIC Fund, and Lanzadera, are betting on AI automating routine paperwork, sharpening patient inflow predictions, and reshaping programmatic workflows. And the debate about where native AI actually lives, whether in dedicated hardware or folded into your phone, as this piece on AI devices vs. smartphones frames it, matters directly for Spanish startups deciding which platform layer to build on.
I'd flag that the gap between FacePhi and everyone else is striking. So the real question isn't whether Spain has Native AI companies worth watching, it's whether the funding distribution starts to flatten as the sector matures. Coverage is rising, enterprise adoption pressure is intensifying, and the 154 companies in this directory represent the clearest snapshot we have of where Spain's bets are concentrated right now.
- benzinga.com
Our analysis of 150 Native AI companies
$80.7b in tracked funding; 94% of the stack-profiled cohort runs cloud-native; funding activity peaked in 2025.
Ranked: Best Native AI companies in Spain
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Employees | Founder | Tech stack | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | FacePhi Provider of facial recognition based biometric verification solution 91Product top 17%AI top 20%Tech top 27%Global top 27% All 10 signals ▾Producttop 17% AItop 20% Techtop 27% Globaltop 27% Markettop 28% Fundingtop 28% Growthtop 30% Moattop 39% Talentbottom 49% Newsbottom 26% Product: 4 published apps (3.5k installs) · Company stage: Public AI: Classified as an AI company rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 91/100 | $58M | 25 mo ago | Public | 186 | Javier Mira President & CEO | WordPressApple iCloud MailMicrosoft 365+35 | 1 partnership · 1 award |
| 2 | strands Strands is a FinTech partner that develops digital money management solutions that help banks empower people… | $55M | 222 mo ago | Acquired | 120 | — | WordPressMySQLPHP+28 | — |
| 3 | Voicemod Developer of a real-time voice modification and soundboard application 89AI top 20%Tech top 21%Growth top 22%Innovation top 25% All 12 signals ▾AItop 20% Techtop 21% Growthtop 22% Innovationtop 25% Customerstop 31% Markettop 32% Producttop 36% Moattop 39% Fundingtop 42% Talentbottom 49% Globalbottom 36% Newsbottom 22% AI: Classified as an AI company Tech: 57 technologies across 6/8 capability areas · Cloud: Cloudflare, Google Cloud rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 89/100 | $23M | 39 mo ago | Series B | 156 | Juan Bosch Co-Founder | Creator Tools Product Lead | WordPressSentryZendesk+28 | 1 award |
| 4 | Mediktor AI-based medical assistant for triage and pre-diagnosis that guides patients | $16M | 56 mo ago | Series B | 71 | — | Apple iCloud MailGoogle WorkspaceMUI+11 | 2 awards |
| 5 | IDOVEN Provider of AI-powered platform for cardiology diagnostics, triage, and patient monitoring | $15M | 33 mo ago | Series A | 44 | Manuel Breysse Co-Founder & CEO | WebflowCart FunctionalityApple iCloud Mail+23 | 3 awards |
| 6 | Turing Dream Developer of an agentic platform and educational technology for learning | $10M | 2 mo ago | Series A | — | Manuel Tarrasa Co-Founder & Global CIO & CTO | TurbopackNode.jsReact+11 | — |
| 7 | Argilla Provider of AI and cloud-based open-source platform for data-centric NLP 21AI top 20%Funding top 50%Tech bottom 45%Global bottom 36% All 7 signals ▾AItop 20% Fundingtop 50% Techbottom 45% Globalbottom 36% Growthbottom 35% Newsbottom 22% Marketbottom 20% AI: Classified as an AI company Funding: Raised $7.0M across 2 rounds · 2 rounds over 3 yrs (0.7/yr) rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 21/100 | $7M | 32 mo ago | Seed | 6 | — | Node.jsZohoYouTube+8 | — |
| 8 | Nuclia Provider of RAG-as-a-Service platform, AI search, and generative answers | $5M | 50 mo ago | Acquired | 28 | Ramon Navarro Co-Founder | WordPress Block EditorElementorWordPress+36 | — |
| 9 | Sadako Technologies Provider of an AI-based waste sorting robotic solution | $5M | 88 mo ago | Funding Raised | 15 | — | — | — |
| 10 | Aeorum Provides software for fleet management and counter drone solutions | $5M | 79 mo ago | Funding Raised | 17 | Jesus Merino CEO | — | — |
| 11 | Nymiz Provider of AI-powered data anonymization and pseudonymization software platform | $4M | 9 mo ago | Acquired | 10 | — | WordPressMySQLPHP+28 | 1 award |
| 12 | AllRead MLT Developer of software using OCR for port and terminal operations | $3M | 43 mo ago | Seed | 28 | Dimosthenis Karatzas Co-Founder | WordPressMySQLPHP+27 | — |
| 13 | Galtea Provider of an AI evaluation platform for GenAI product development 32AI top 30%Talent top 38%Funding top 49%Global bottom 48% All 6 signals ▾AItop 30% Talenttop 38% Fundingtop 49% Globalbottom 48% Techbottom 38% Marketbottom 25% AI: Classified as an AI company · Product described with: llm Talent: 2 named leaders on record · 2 C-suite/founder profiles curated rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 32/100 | $3M | 2 mo ago | Seed | — | Jorge Palomar Giner Co-Founder & CEO | Animate.cssBootstrapAmazon Web Services+13 | — |
| 14 | Smartvel Provider of AI-enriched travel content solutions, including destination and travel requirements | $3M | 14 mo ago | Seed | 50 | Iñigo Valenzuela CEO & Founder | WordPressMySQLPHP+28 | — |
| 15 | Luca (Educational Software) Developer of an educational platform intended to democratize education with various learning techniques. | $3M | 52 mo ago | Seed | 35 | — | WordPressMySQLPHP+31 | — |
| 16 | Methinks Provider of AI and cloud-based software for the diagnosis of strokes | $3M | 2 mo ago | Seed | 17 | Cristian Marti Founder | WebflowApple iCloud MailMicrosoft 365+12 | 1 job opening |
| 17 | Hutoma Conversational AI platform providing document search solutions | $3M | 98 mo ago | Deadpooled | 5 | Andrea Cibelli Co-Founder & CTO | — | — |
| 18 | Pangeanic Provider of AI-powered machine translation, data annotation, and language services | $3M | 41 mo ago | Funding Raised | 138 | Manuel Herranz Founder & CEO | HubSpot CMS HubMaterial Design LiteAnimate.css+21 | — |
| 19 | Dost Provider of automated invoice and accounts payable management software solutions | $2M | 21 mo ago | Unfunded | 9 | Fernando Martin Co-Founder | Node.jsReactNext.js+20 | — |
| 20 | Verbio Technologies AI enabled platform for conversational systems | $2M | 81 mo ago | Acquired | 77 | Carlos Puigjaner CEO & Co-owner | WordPressMySQLPHP+31 | — |
| 21 | SpotLab Platform offering an AI powered solutions for biopharma research and diagnostics | $2M | 49 mo ago | Funding Raised | 23 | Miguel Oroz Founder & CEO | WordPress Block EditorWordPress Site EditorElementor+25 | 1 award |
| 22 | Sntisis NLP based SaaS platform for Social Media Monitoring | $2M | 135 mo ago | Series A | 47 | — | WebflowZohoIntercom+21 | — |
| 23 | Paymefy Provider of automated accounts receivable management software for businesses and organizations | $1M | 65 mo ago | Funding Raised | 22 | Quim Gallart Co-Founder & CEO | Webflow EcommerceWebflowPayPal+17 | — |
| 24 | restb.ai Deep Learning based Image Recognition API | $1M | 70 mo ago | Acquired | 47 | — | WordPressMySQLPHP+31 | — |
| 25 | Narrativa Visualization AI-powered platform to automate content and optimize processes for businesses | $1M | 60 mo ago | Seed | 22 | David Llorente Founder & Chief Executive Officer | WordPressMySQLPHP+25 | 1 internship |
| 26 | Candam Provider of recycling solutions using packaging recognition and fill-level sensor data 48AI top 20%Growth top 35%Talent top 38%Funding top 46% All 8 signals ▾AItop 20% Growthtop 35% Talenttop 38% Fundingtop 46% Techtop 50% Productbottom 45% Globalbottom 38% Marketbottom 23% AI: Classified as an AI company Growth: Fresh capital in last 24 mo rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 48/100 | $1M | 4 mo ago | Seed | 22 | Miquel Solsona Co-Founder | WordPressMySQLPHP+27 | — |
| 27 | Hubtype Customer support over Instant messengers | $1M | 85 mo ago | Acquired | 47 | — | WebflowSentryApple iCloud Mail+23 | — |
| 28 | Loud Intelligence AI-driven contextual audio advertising solutions for brands | $1M | 20 mo ago | Seed | — | Felipe Areal Hidalgo Founder & CEO | WordPressMySQLPHP+18 | — |
| 29 | Dubme.io Provider of AI dubbing, re-video, pro audio, and split services | $1M | 23 mo ago | Seed | — | Elias Moreno Co-Founder | WordPressMySQLPHP+29 | — |
| 30 | Proppos Developer of computer vision platform for automated retail checkout solutions | $885K | 64 mo ago | Seed | 13 | — | — | — |
| 31 | QubioTech Developer of neuroimage processing software for brain disease detection and monitoring | $861K | 36 mo ago | Seed | 8 | Pedro Arenas Barreiro Co-Founder & CEO | WordPress Block EditorwpBakeryWordPress+26 | — |
| 32 | Kimera Technologies Provider of computer vision solutions for companies | $723K | 38 mo ago | Seed | 7 | Jorge Igual Co-Founder | WordPressMySQLPHP+33 | 1 job opening |
| 33 | Kloutit Artificial intelligence-powered chargeback defense solutions 53Growth top 28%Talent top 28%AI top 30%Tech top 48% All 7 signals ▾Growthtop 28% Talenttop 28% AItop 30% Techtop 48% Globalbottom 36% Fundingbottom 35% Marketbottom 29% Growth: Web rank 50,000,000 → 10,000,000 YoY · Fresh capital in last 24 mo Talent: 3 named leaders on record · 3 C-suite/founder profiles curated rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 53/100 | $567K | 18 mo ago | Seed | — | Albert Algarra CEO and Co-founder | Node.jsTailwind CSSReact+16 | — |
| 34 | Dedomena Technologies AI based platform offering anonymization tools for synthetic data generation | $538K | 48 mo ago | Seed | 6 | Mario Bricio Co-Founder | Node.jsRadix UITailwind CSS+13 | 1 partnership |
| 35 | Replexica Cloud based multilingual SDK for web and mobile applications | $500K | 24 mo ago | Seed | — | Max Prilutskiy Co-Founder | — | — |
| 36 | Oroi Provider of a virtual reality-based device for cognitive stimulation for elderly care | $472K | 68 mo ago | Seed | 10 | Inaki Aramburu Co-CEO | DrupalPleskPHP+6 | — |
| 37 | Rozett.ai Online platform for launching brands and creators into a metaverse | $174K | 42 mo ago | Seed | 7 | — | — | — |
| 38 | Tucuvi Developer of an AI platform for healthcare patient management solutions 48AI top 8%News top 36%Talent top 38%Funding top 46% All 8 signals ▾AItop 8% Newstop 36% Talenttop 38% Fundingtop 46% Moattop 48% Techtop 50% Globalbottom 38% Marketbottom 32% AI: Classified as an agentic-AI company News: 3 BI events in 12 mo (of 5 tracked, 1 types) · Top themes: Funding rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 48/100 | $173K | 5 mo ago | Series A | 22 | Marcos Rubio Co-Founder & CTO | WebflowVimeoLenis+20 | — |
| 39 | Luz WaveLabs Provides photonic integrated circuits and laser instrumentation systems | $165K | 106 mo ago | Funding Raised | 3 | Angel Serrano Co-Founder & CEO | — | — |
| 40 | Invofox Developer of an API that parses and extracts data from documents | $125K | 47 mo ago | Seed | 32 | Alberto Gimeno Co-Founder & CEO | Webflowanime.jsAmazon Web Services+24 | — |
| 41 | Visual Tagging Visual Social Media Analytics Platform | $109K | 114 mo ago | Deadpooled | 6 | Jordi Gonzalez Sabate Co-Founder & CSO | — | — |
Top 12 Native AI companies in Spain
#1
Series A · Torrelodones, Madrid · founded 2023$9.7Mraised▾
Developer of an agentic platform and educational technology for learning. The company provides a platform built for autonomous development, powering industries with adaptable intelligent agents. It also delivers an educational technology solution offering personalized learning through self-generating agents.
- Mar 2026Series A$2.3M
- Oct 2025Seed$23.6K
- Jul 2025Seed$7.1M
- Feb 2025Seed$23.6K
#2
Seed · Barcelona, Catalonia · founded 2016 · 17 employees$2.7Mraised▾
Methinks provides AI and cloud-based software for the diagnosis of strokes. It allows the radiologist to assess stroke treatment from a non-contrast CT. It also provides a communication feature that allows coordination among hospitals, stroke units, and healthcare professionals.
- Nov 2023Seed—
- Feb 2023Grant (prize money)$2.7M
- Dec 2020Grant (prize money)—
#3
Seed · Barcelona, Catalonia · founded 2024$3.2Mraised▾
Provider of an AI evaluation platform for GenAI product development. The platform helps AI teams accelerate the development of GenAI products by simplifying LLM evaluation. It enables teams to build customized testing stacks, ensuring each iteration is rigorously tested with business-aligned metrics before deployment. The platform facilitates the generation of custom evaluation data, simulating real-world scenarios. It assists in validating product iterations with robust testing, and defining custom, business-specific metrics to ensure models behave as expected.
- Mar 2026Seed$3.2M
#4
Acquired · Bilbao, Basque Country · founded 2019 · 10 employees$4Mraised▾
Provider of AI-powered data anonymization and pseudonymization software platform. The SaaS solution uses natural language processing to automatically detect, classify, and replace sensitive personal information in documents, databases, and files across 102 languages. It supports workflows including synthetic data generation, tokenization, redaction, and masking to enable secure data sharing, AI model training, and compliance with GDPR, HIPAA, and other privacy regulations while preserving data utility. Deployment options include cloud-based SaaS, API integration, and on-premises installations for structured and unstructured data processing.
- Sep 2025Series A$2.4M
- Apr 2024Series A$3M
- Feb 2022Seed—
- Jan 2022Seed$830.8K
#5
Seed · Barcelona, Catalonia · founded 2017 · 22 employees$1.2Mraised▾
Provider of recycling solutions using packaging recognition and fill-level sensor data. The company offers recycling bins and rings that identify materials like PET bottles, metal cans, and glass. It combines scanning with acoustic AI detection for accuracy. The company aims to improve packaging recovery and waste collection.
- Feb 2026Seed—
- Oct 2024Seed$1.2M
- Aug 2022Grant (prize money)$613.2K
#6
Public · Alicante, Valencian Community · founded 2010 · 186 employees$57.7Mraised▾
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.
- May 2024Post IPO$5.4M
- Dec 2020Post IPO$44.1M
- Sep 2019Post IPO$4.4M
- Nov 2018Grant (prize money)$1.9M
#7
Seed · Madrid, Community of Madrid · founded 2013 · 50 employees$3.1Mraised▾
Provider of AI-enriched travel content solutions, including destination and travel requirements. The company offers application programming interfaces for destination and tourism content across various industries. It delivers content through multiple channels, aiming to inspire, inform, convert, personalize, and optimize customer experiences. The company’s solutions include travel guides, trip planners, and event calendars.
- Mar 2025Grant (prize money)—
- Oct 2018Seed$1M
- Nov 2015Seed$2.1M
#8
Series A · Madrid, Community of Madrid · founded 2019 · 22 employees$172.7Kraised▾
Developer of an AI platform for healthcare patient management solutions. The platform offers an AI clinical agent for autonomous patient conversations. It also provides a dashboard to empower clinicians to monitor patient parameters and medication. The company supports healthcare organizations with configurable protocols based on clinical guidelines.
- Jan 2026Series A$20M
- Oct 2022Grant (prize money)—
- Jun 2020Seed—
- Apr 2020Seed$172.7K
#9
Unfunded · Barcelona, Catalonia · founded 2021 · 9 employees$2.2Mraised▾
Provider of automated invoice and accounts payable management software solutions. The platform offers features such as document capture, data extraction, and ERP integrations. It also provides tools for supplier portals, payment reconciliation, and approval workflows. The software aims to streamline financial processes and reduce administrative costs for businesses.
#10
Series A · Madrid, Community of Madrid · founded 2019 · 44 employees$14.9Mraised▾
Provider of AI-powered platform for cardiology diagnostics, triage, and patient monitoring. The platform offers digital diagnostics and cloud technology for rapid identification of cardiac patterns. It develops disease risk scores using ECG-based biomarkers to identify high-risk patients. The platform also provides preventative screening programs with remote ECG monitoring and analysis.
- Sep 2023Series A—
- Jun 2022Grant (prize money)$6.9M
- Jun 2022Series A$12.9M
- Jun 2021Seed$2M
#11
Series B · Valencia, Valencian Community · founded 2010 · 156 employees$22.6Mraised▾
Developer of a real-time voice modification and soundboard application. The application allows users to modify their voices in real-time. It provides sound effects for integration into voice chats and streams. The application offers voice creation and customization tools.
- Feb 2023Series B$14.5M
- Jun 2020Series A$8M
- Jun 2015Seed$55K
#12
Seed · Madrid, Community of Madrid · founded 2023$1.1Mraised▾
AI-driven contextual audio advertising solutions for brands. It enables brands to connect with listeners at ideal moments in digital audio content. It enables advertisers to deliver personalized and relevant audio messages to listeners at the opportune moments, managing brand recognition and audience engagement.
- Sep 2024Seed$1.1M
Funding & investor landscape
Notable founders
Market landscape — 10 sub-themes by coverage
Share of Native AI coverage by sub-theme.
Regulatory-risk over time rising
Funding & growth over time
funding rising · growth rising
How research on Artificial Intelligence is moving in Spain
A read on the academic research around Artificial Intelligence — which themes are gaining ground, the institutions and researchers driving them, and how the tone is shifting. Based on 16,179 Spain-affiliated papers.
- Universidad Internacional De La Rioja15741
- Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya23
- Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia16
- Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona14
- Universidad de Zaragoza13
- Scalability2→10
- Robustness (evolution)1→8
- Context (archaeology)1→7
- Interpretability1→5
- Inference1→4
- Robustness (evolution)1→10
- Segmentation1→8
- Set (abstract data type)1→5
- Task (project management)1→5
- Convolutional neural network1→4
- Latin Americans18
- Market research12
- Artificial neural network7
- Field (mathematics)6
- Market intelligence6
Where artificial intelligence 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.
Common questions
Rohit lives in the feed. He covers what's moving right now — the funding rounds, launches and shifts breaking across the trade press — and ties them back to where the sector is heading.