Best Security & Surveillance Technology Companies in Barcelona, Spain
The 36 best Security & Surveillance Technology companies in Barcelona, Spain in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Red Points.
Our analysis of 50 Security & Surveillance Technology companies
$4.8b in tracked funding; 91% of the stack-profiled cohort runs cloud-native; funding activity peaked in 2025.
Ranked: Best Security & Surveillance Technology companies in Barcelona
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Founder | Founded | Tech stack | Patents & IP focus | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Red Points AI powered brand protection and anti counterfeit solutions 67Funding top 29%Moat top 31%Tech top 35%Market top 42% All 9 signals ▾Fundingtop 29% Moattop 31% Techtop 35% Markettop 42% Growthtop 45% AItop 45% Talentbottom 49% Globalbottom 39% Newsbottom 27% Funding: Raised $85.0M across 5 rounds · 5 rounds over 10 yrs (0.5/yr) Moat: Editorial + unicorn rating 8/10 · Soonicorn rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 67/100 | $85M | 46 mo ago | Series C | Laura Urquizu President & CEO | 2011 | WordPressMySQLPHP+24 | — | — |
| 2 | Awaait Provider of an AI-based video analytics platform | $4M | 88 mo ago | Funding Raised | Andreu Figueras Co-Founder | 2014 | — | — | — |
| 3 | Herta Security Building your biometric solution | $2M | 40 mo ago | Funding Raised | — | 2009 | WordPressMySQLPHP+28 | 3 patents High‑performance object detection on heterogeneous multicore CPUs and GPU, plus GUI display. | — |
| 4 | ColorSensing Provider of automatic color recognition solution | $1M | 39 mo ago | Early Stage | MariaEugenia Hidalgo CEO | 2018 | — | — | — |
| 5 | restb.ai Deep Learning based Image Recognition API | $1M | 73 mo ago | Acquired | — | 2013 | WordPressMySQLPHP+31 | — | — |
| 6 | Catchoom Provider of an image recognition and AR based product tagging solution | $750K | 172 mo ago | Deadpooled | — | 2011 | — | — | — |
| 7 | INFAIMON Provider of systems and components for industrial and artificial vision | $110K | 128 mo ago | Funding Raised | Salvador Giro ex-Founder | 1994 | — | 2 patents 3D shape inspection using single‑shot photometric stereo imaging systems | — |
| 8 | Feeder Provider of a cloud-based facial emotion analytics platform for marketing | $20K | 30 mo ago | Seed | Mauro Gadaleta Co-Founder | 2020 | WebflowAmazon Web ServicesLinkedin Insight Tag+14 | — | — |
Top 12 Security & Surveillance Technology companies in Barcelona
#1
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.
- Nov 2022Series C$20.7M
- May 2021Venture Debt—
- Apr 2019Series C$38M
- May 2018Series B$12M
#2
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.
- May 2023Grant (prize money)$200.1K
- Oct 2022Grant (prize money)$123.1K
- Oct 2021Grant (prize money)$425.6K
- Aug 2021Grant (prize money)$469.3K
#3
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.
- Jun 2023Grant (prize money)$80.6K
- Jul 2019Grant (prize money)—
- Nov 2018Grant (prize money)$57K
#4
Funding Raised · Barcelona, Catalonia · founded 2014$3.6Mraised▾
Provider of an AI-based video analytics platform
- Apr 2019Grant (prize money)$1.2M
- May 2017Grant (prize money)$1.2M
- Jan 2017Grant (prize money)$1.2M
#5
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.
- Jul 2020Grant (prize money)$58.9K
- Sep 2018Grant (prize money)$1.4M
- Jun 2018Grant (prize money)$2.3M
- May 2017Seed$1.3M
#6
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.
- May 2012Seed$750K
#7
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.
- Mar 2024Seed$20K
#8
Funding Raised · Barcelona, Catalonia · founded 1994 · 72 employees$109.8Kraised▾
Provider of systems and components for industrial and artificial vision. The platform offers software solutions for deep learning in manufacturing processes and industrial cameras for vision applications.
- Dec 2015Grant (prize money)$54.6K
- Jul 2015Grant (prize money)$55.2K
#9
Seed · Barcelona, Catalonia · founded 2018 · 17 employees—raised▾
Provider of tech hardware-based platform for emergency alert solutions. It provides users with a preventative protection system for the elderly that offers advanced telecare services with GPS location, SOS, falls, and calls.
- Apr 2026Seed—
#10
Seed · Barcelona, Catalonia · founded 2014 · 33 employees—raised▾
Mobile-based application for monitoring health parameters of family members. The platform allows users to check the allocation, monitor daily activities, and body vitals data. The parameters monitored include steps, heart rate, blood oxygen, energy level, emergency situations, medications, and more.
- May 2022Seed—
- Oct 2018Seed—
#11
Late Stage · Barcelona, Catalonia · founded 2008 · 113 employees—raised▾
Provider of video intelligence solutions for streaming service quality and engagement. The company offers end-to-end monitoring and correlation of data across the delivery chain. It provides real-time measurement of user experience and audience segmentation. The company enables multi-CDN switching and content discovery. It identifies user journeys and navigation patterns to improve engagement. The company optimizes multicast video with packet recovery and channel switching.
- Apr 2020PE—
#12
Acqui-Hired · Barcelona, Catalonia · founded 2013 · 70 employees—raised▾
Digital identification and e signature solutions. It offers video id which combines video streaming with machine learning and the artificial intelligence algorithm to identify people. It provides face to face identification security and legal compliance with kyc and aml authorizations.
- Aug 2018Series A—
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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.
- Universidad Publica de Navarra49
- Universidad de Murcia26
- Telefonica Research and Development26
- Universidad Politécnica de Madrid26
- Software22
- Intrusion detection system8→25
- Key (lock)3→20
- Denial-of-service attack3→12
- Network security9→16
- Software-defined networking1→8
- Intrusion detection system8→17
- Denial-of-service attack1→7
- Network security8→14
- Artificial neural network1→5
- Internet Control Message Protocol1→4
- Security service2→5
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.
Common questions
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