Best Semiconductors Companies in Catalonia, Spain
The 36 best Semiconductors companies in Catalonia, Spain in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Gigle Networks.
Our analysis of 219 Semiconductors companies
$47.9b in tracked funding; 70% of the stack-profiled cohort runs cloud-native; funding activity peaked in 2025.
Ranked: Best Semiconductors companies in Catalonia
| # | Company | Last round | Disclosed funding | Founded | Founder | Tech stack | Web popularity | Patents & IP focus | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ASE Optics Offers optical systems designing and manufacturing services | — | — | 2011 | Andres Cifuentes Founder & CEO | WordPressMySQLPHP+21 | Top 50M | — | — |
| 2 | Balamis Sensors for soil moisture monitoring | — | — | 2015 | Roger Jove Casulleras Co-Founder & CEO | — | — | — | — |
| 3 | Baolab Microsystems Develops sensor products using NanoEMS technologies | — | — | 2003 | Manuel Conde CEO | — | — | 68 patents Integrated MEMS‑CMOS RF filtering and magnetic sensing (magnetometers) components | — |
| 4 | DigiProces Provider of electronic & mechanical design services | — | — | 1987 | — | WordPressMySQLPHP+26 | Top 5M | — | — |
| 5 | EndoASIC Proprietary ASIC based solutions for endoscopy | — | — | 2012 | Angel Dieguez CEO & Co-Founder | — | — | — | — |
| 6 | Iberhermes Developer of capacitive touch sensors | — | — | 1990 | Xavier Bel CEO | — | — | — | — |
| 7 | Optral Fibre optic and networking products manufacturers | — | — | 1988 | Joan Martin CEO | PleskPHPLaravel+9 | Top 10M | 4 patents Fiber-optic cable manufacturing, splicing and connection equipment | — |
| 8 | Progres Provides designing and manufacturing of electronic equipment and systems for agriculture | — | — | 1985 | Jaume Solsona Estrade Co-Founder | — | — | — | — |
Top 12 Semiconductors companies in Catalonia
#1
Seed · Barcelona, Catalonia · founded 2016$6.3Mraised▾
It is a developer of RISC-V IP cores. It provides high-bandwidth and high-performance cores with vector units for use in AI applications and recommendation systems. Its features include a native CHI interface, large memory capacity, Linux and microprocessing capabilities. It includes services for performance analysis, verification, FPGA acceleration and design.
- Apr 2026Seed—
- Dec 2018Grant (prize money)$2.1M
- Jan 2018Grant (prize money)$2.2M
- Dec 2017Grant (prize money)$2M
#2
Seed · Lleida, Catalonia · founded 2022$3Mraised▾
Manufacturer of electronic system that improves heat extraction and reduces energy consumption
- Feb 2026Grant (prize money)$3M
- Jul 2023Grant (prize money)$81.9K
- Apr 2022Seed—
#3
Seed · Barcelona, Catalonia · founded 2015$1.8Mraised▾
IoT platform providing real-time air and water monitoring solutions
- Apr 2025Seed$1.7M
- Nov 2018Grant (prize money)$56.9K
#4
Acquired · Barcelona, Catalonia · founded 2005 · 70 employees$31Mraised▾
Chips for home networking. It is a fabless semiconductor company that develops system-on-chip integrated circuits for home networking applications.
- Nov 2007Series B$20M
- Series A$11M
#5
Seed · Barcelona, Catalonia · founded 2022$362.8Kraised▾
Nano-ink manufacturer. It uses nanotechnology to manufacter smart ink that helps prevent counterfeiting. It caters to currency, documents, luxury goods, and tax stamps.
- Apr 2024Seed—
- Feb 2024Grant (prize money)$362.8K
#6
Seed · Barcelona, Catalonia · founded 2019 · 21 employees$1.2Mraised▾
Manufacturer of optical repairs and laser safety services
#7
Seed · Barcelona, Catalonia · founded 2020 · 7 employees$689.3Kraised▾
Developer of a technology designed for radiative cooling by which all bodies regulate their temperature and reduce energy consumption, with zero carbon emissions. The company's technology makes it possible to reduce the temperature depending on the properties of the material, without energy consumption and offers thermal regulation of machines and buildings, and its efficiency in electronics, machinery and photovoltaic, enabling customers to have a technology that offers passive cooling techniques and alternatives.
#8
Funding Raised · Barcelona, Catalonia · founded 2020$1.7Mraised▾
Provider of computer vision applications for semiconductor manufacturing
- Oct 2020Grant (prize money)—
- Apr 2020Grant (prize money)$1.7M
#9
Funding Raised · Barcelona, Catalonia · founded 2012$1.2Mraised▾
Provider of programmable logic controller (PLC) solutions for industrial automation and monitoring applications. It is an industrial automation solutions provider offering open-source hardware-based products for programmable logic controllers (PLCs), designed for industrial and professional automation, monitoring, and control applications. The company focuses on delivering reliable and durable products to enhance workplace safety. The equipment is intended for use across a broad spectrum of industrial sectors.
- Oct 2019Grant (prize money)$1.1M
- Aug 2016Grant (prize money)$55.8K
#10
Series A · Mont, Catalonia · founded 2000 · 26 employees$1.6Mraised▾
CISSOID is a Fabless Semiconductor company in High Temperature Electronics. They develop and sell Integrated Circuits (IC) designed for the highest reliability in the widest range of temperatures. CISSOID products are commonly used under extreme conditions and harsh environments, for example in demanding Oil&Gas, Aerospace and Automotive applications. They enable exploitation of deep oil resources, energy savings in aircrafts and automobiles, optimal exploitation of geothermal resources, etc.
- May 2008Series A$1.6M
- Dec 2004Seed—
#11
Seed · Barcelona, Catalonia · founded 2013$276Kraised▾
TheThings is a developer of air quality sensors. It can be used in asset tracking, engineering, cold chain, industry, agriculture, smart construction, retail, smart liquid, and connected home. It has partnered with MSD, Baxi, Airliquid, Sigfox, Unabiz, Bemobile, Informatica, Sensatag, and Seasluglabs.
- Jul 2015Seed$276K
#12
Funding Raised · Barcelona, Catalonia · founded 2010 · 11 employees$220.6Kraised▾
Sensing Tex develop, produce and markets smart textile which integrates electronics into textile for sectors like interior design, security, health, sports, automotive and fashion. Their product line includes smart mat development kit which can track the presence of people on it, pressure and direction of movement, pressure sensors, and luminous textile. They use flexible materials printed using flexible electronic inks and pastes to make sensors and silicon-based fiber optics woven into the textile to create luminous fabric.
- Jan 2018Grant (prize money)$220.6K
Funding & investor landscape
Notable founders
Market landscape — 10 sub-themes by coverage
Share of Semiconductors coverage by sub-theme.
Regulatory-risk over time rising
Funding & growth over time
funding rising · growth rising
How research on Semiconductors is moving in Spain
A read on the academic research around Semiconductors — which themes are gaining ground, the institutions and researchers driving them, and how the tone is shifting. Based on 504 Spain-affiliated papers.
- Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya68
- Institut de Microelectrònica de Barcelona55
- Instituto de Microelectrónica de Sevilla49
- Universitat Politècnica de València46
- Universidad de Sevilla38
- CMOS9→17
- Detector2→10
- Transistor8→14
- Amplifier4→8
- Key (lock)1→5
- Power (physics)3→9
- Diode2→6
- Detector2→6
- Photonics5→7
- Laser4→6
- Electronic circuit9
- Electronic engineering8
- Photonics7
- Integrated circuit7
- Reliability (semiconductor)7
Where semiconductors 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.