Best Smart Cities Companies in Spain
The 49 best Smart Cities companies in Spain in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: XESOL Innovation.
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Ranked: Best Smart Cities companies in Spain
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Employees | Founder | Web popularity | Patents & IP focus | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Aquacorp Provider of remote water quality monitoring using image analysis technology | — | — | Funding Raised | 35 | Pablo Perez Robla Founder & CEO | — | — | — |
| 2 | ArsonMetering Provider of smart metering solutions for water and gas management | — | — | Acquired | 15 | Amador Martinez CEO | — | — | — |
| 3 | Automated Devices Develops drone autopilots, urban gas sensors and location services infrastructure | — | — | Unfunded | 4 | Mauro Garcia Founder & CEO | — | 3 patents Patents concentrated in its core technology | — |
| 4 | Betterways Smart transport management solutions for cities | — | — | Deadpooled | — | Pablo Barcelo CEO | — | — | — |
| 5 | Bitcarrier Cloud-driven real-time traffic management & road monitoring solution | — | — | Acquired | 11 | Martin Mendez CEO | — | 7 patents IoT-based urban monitoring systems for tracking people and vehicles in city environments. | — |
| 6 | blauLabs Develops a data management platform for sensor data | — | — | Unfunded | — | Blanca Trevino CEO | — | — | — |
| 7 | ENVIRA IoT Provider of IoT-enabled environment monitoring solutions | — | — | Unfunded | — | — | — | — | — |
| 8 | Fibsen Manufacturer of AI-based fibre optic sensors for monitoring water quality | — | — | Unfunded | 3 | — | — | — | — |
Top 12 Smart Cities companies in Spain
#1
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
#2
Series A · Seville, Andalusia · founded 2008 · 61 employees$3.8Mraised▾
Wellness TechGroup provides data intelligence software solutions. It allows users to monitor, process and analyze data related to citizens, waste management data and other utility data. It enables users to analyze and capture actionable insights from the data. It uses IoT, big data and other technologies to provide solutions for smart lighting, smart waste management, smart mobility and smart cities.
- Nov 2020Grant (prize money)$546.4K
- Sep 2020Grant (prize money)$771.2K
- Jan 2020Grant (prize money)$380.9K
- May 2018Grant (prize money)—
#3
Funding Raised · Vigo, Galicia · founded 2012 · 18 employees$4.6Mraised▾
Xesol Innovation is a Spanish R&D company focused on the automotive industry, providing solutions towards autonomous and intelligent cars. Xesol's current projects include SmartJump, SmartCars, and SmartCities. SmartJumps is an electromagnet AI-based shock absorbing solution for cars that provides cushioning for each vehicle wheel independently. SmartCars is a telematics solution for vehicles aimed at driving safety, reducing vehicle maintenance costs, lower fuel consumption and improved navigation. SmartCities has three sub-projects, including SmartParking (management detection of free parking spaces in real time), SmartBikes (bicycles with support services such as maps, voice instructions, statistics sightseeing) Smart SteetLights (aimed at reducing the costs of implementation of Smart City technologies to include in a single device + lighting + sensors connectivity charging points).
- Jun 2019Grant (prize money)$2.3M
- Jul 2017Grant (prize money)$2.3M
- Dec 2016Grant (prize money)$52.7K
- Jul 2016Grant (prize money)$55.7K
#4
Seed · L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, Catalonia · founded 2017 · 12 employees$1.9Mraised▾
Provider of IoT-enabled air quality monitoring solutions. It offers indoor and outdoor air quality monitors that measure several parameters like NO2, NO, CO, O3, SO2, H2S, CO2, particulate matter, relative humidity, ambient noise, temperature, and atmospheric pressure. It utilizes machine learning algorithms to process, analyze, and map urban air pollution. Its features include low power consumption, dust and water resistance, Bluetooth connectivity, dashboard view, and node visualization.
- Oct 2021Grant (prize money)$599.6K
- Jan 2020Grant (prize money)$100.3K
- Nov 2019Grant (prize money)$1.2M
- Oct 2019Seed—
#5
Seed · Madrid, Community of Madrid · founded 2008 · 13 employees$1.2Mraised▾
Online building energy management solution for buildings. The platform offers to store, manage, and analyze the hourly consumption of electricity. An innovative technology service, allows any organization to know their consumption in detail, helping to identify and prioritize energy efficiency initiatives. The platform is used by companies of all sizes that provide energy efficiency management and internal departments such as maintenance and management of large energy companies.
- Dec 2010Seed$1.2M
#6
Funding Raised · Derio, Basque Country · founded 2003 · 17 employees$617.8Kraised▾
Provider of cybersecurity solutions, including network detection and response platform. The company offers active network protection with next-generation IPS deployment. It provides network traffic analysis, security information and event management, and correlation engine capabilities. The company also offers hardware and wireless traffic monitoring.
- Jan 2018Grant (prize money)$249.1K
- Dec 2017Grant (prize money)$59.9K
- Jul 2017Grant (prize money)$57.1K
- Jun 2017Grant (prize money)$251.7K
#7
Deadpooled · Barcelona, Catalonia · founded 2012$534.5Kraised▾
Spin off of IQS School of Engineering and Management. OptiCits develops a scalable technological platform to help city managers & urban service providers to assess & manage Resilience in cities. Currently developing the HAZUR SYSTEM, a City Resilience Management Platform for city managers, urban services operators and consultancy engineering companies to assess and manage Resilience. The platform helps in assessing and planning for resilience with real time updates from urban sensors.
- May 2016Grant (prize money)$534.5K
#8
Funding Raised · Barcelona, Catalonia · founded 2011 · 8 employees$388Kraised▾
SenseFields is a traffic monitoring & data analytics solution. It uses several magnetic sensors & a Data Processing System (DPS) that receives their signal & outputs a vehicle counting and classifying data. It offers analytical traffic modeling, traffic infrastructure planning, vehicle counting, and classification for shadow toll, dynamic tolls, real-time traffic information, and modeling of city mobility for urbanistic planning.
- Aug 2017Grant (prize money)$290.9K
- Feb 2017Grant (prize money)$97.2K
#9
Funding Raised · San Sebastian, Basque Country · founded 2015$293.6Kraised▾
Provider smart lighting systems for cities and factories Both its smart city and smart factory solutions are limited to street lighting automation and management. The modules are attached to existing luminaires and these enable administrators to control lighting remotely. It also develops smart luminaires.
- Feb 2016Grant (prize money)$293.6K
#10
Funding Raised · Malaga, Andalusia · founded 2016 · 14 employees$114.6Kraised▾
Provider of digital signage for smart cities. It offers iSearch showcase solutions and charging towers for airports, malls, bus stops & other public places. It is available on a subscription-based pricing model.
- Sep 2020Grant (prize money)$114.6K
#11
Deadpooled · Madrid, Community of Madrid · founded 2017$111Kraised▾
Urban Data Eye provides sensor-based analytics solutions. Offerings include human behavior insights, tracking object location, data-driven predictive analysis, and reporting. It aids in monitoring the audience for advertisements. Some of its clients include Airbus, Arcadis, KPMG, and more.
- Nov 2019Grant (prize money)$55K
- Jun 2019Grant (prize money)$56K
- Mar 2019Seed—
#12
Funding Raised · Castelldefels, Catalonia · founded 2015 · 12 employees$123.5Kraised▾
Rokubun is involved in research regarding vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) and vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) technology. Incubated at the European Space Agency, their work is applicable to a large range of applications that require navigation. The team's experience is chiefly in telecommunications and navigation.
- Mar 2016Grant (prize money)$56.6K
- Oct 2015Grant (prize money)$56K
- Grant (prize money)$11K
Funding & investor landscape
Notable founders
Market landscape — 10 sub-themes by coverage
Share of Smart Cities coverage by sub-theme.
Regulatory-risk over time rising
Funding & growth over time
funding rising · growth rising
How research on Smart Cities is moving in Spain
A read on the academic research around Smart Cities — which themes are gaining ground, the institutions and researchers driving them, and how the tone is shifting. Based on 947 Spain-affiliated papers.
- Universitat Politècnica de València73
- Universidad Politécnica de Madrid64
- Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya59
- Universidad Carlos III de Madrid50
- Centre Tecnologic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya38
- Intelligent transportation system11→33
- Smart city14→29
- Scalability6→18
- Software deployment4→15
- Key (lock)4→12
- Smart city25→66
- Intelligent transportation system16→41
- Key (lock)1→17
- Context (archaeology)7→19
- Sustainability3→14
- Smart city21→49
- Context (archaeology)3→14
- Corporate governance4→15
- Intelligent transportation system2→12
- Internet of Things3→12
Where smart cities 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.