03 — Top players in ES AI landscape (funded startups + leaders)

Last updated: 2026-04-15. Deep landing-page / funnel / packaging analysis pending (requires direct scrape — next run).

VC-funded AI natives (2024–2026) — competitor landscape

These are not services-agencies, but they dominate the Spanish AI press, set the narrative, and often become clients of agencies (for marketing / go-to-market) or partners (white-label their tech).

Maisa AI — Valencia / SF

• URL: https://maisa.ai
• Raised: $25M seed (Aug 2025) led by Creandum + Forgepoint; NFX, Village Global.
• Angle: enterprise "digital workers" with hallucination-resistant agentic AI (KPU + Chain-of-Work).
• Named Deloitte Fast 50 Rising Star 2026. Largest ES seed round ever for an AI company.
• Founders: David Villalón (CEO), Manuel Romero (AI research).
• Source: TechCrunch 2025-08-27

Biorce — Barcelona

• AI clinical-trials platform (Aika) — agents automate trial design w/ FDA/EMA regulatory simulation.
• Raised: €43.8M Series A (Feb 2026) led by DST Global Partners; Norrsken VC, YZR Capital.
• Won 4YFN26 Awards. Founded 2024. Expanding Austin/Boston.
• Source: EU-Startups 2026-02

Murphy — Barcelona

• URL: https://murphy.ai
• AI-native voice agents replacing debt-collection call centers (40% higher recovery).
• Raised: $15M (Jul 2025) Northzone + ElevenLabs + Lakestar + Seedcamp.
• Founders: Borja Sole + Marc Sanchez (2024).
• Source: EU-Startups 2025-07

Orbio — Madrid

• URL: https://orbio.ai
• AI-native HCM/HR platform, voice agents handle hiring end-to-end.
• Raised: €6.4M (Sep 2025) led by Visionaries Club. 60k interviews in <4 months.
• Founders: ex-Colvin/Cobee/Nucoro alumni (Sergi Bastardas, Nacho Travesí, Antonio Melé).
• Source: Tech.eu 2025-09-25

Multiverse Computing — San Sebastián / Madrid

• Raised: €189M Series B (Jun 2025).
• Angle: quantum-inspired LLM compression, –80% inference cost.
• Source: TechCrunch 2025-06-12

TuringDream — Madrid

• URL: https://turingdream.com
• Agentic platform (agent swarms) for enterprise + education.
• Raised: €6M seed (Jul 2025) Adara Ventures + HWK. Total €8M.
• Founders: ex-Meta4 HCM (Juan Morán). Advisor: Enrique Dans.
• Source: Silicon Canals 2025-07

Cala AI — Barcelona

• URL: https://cala.ai
• Knowledge-as-a-Service — linked graph feeding verified external data into enterprise agents.
• Founder: Elisenda Bou-Balust (ex-CTO Vilynx, acquired by Apple 2020).
• Source: Startups Oasis 2025

Remuner — Barcelona

• Raised: €5.5M (Sep 2025) Seaya + Pear VC.
• Angle: AI-driven sales compensation / variable-pay automation.
• Source: EU-Startups 2025-09

Zynap — Barcelona

• URL: https://zynap.com
• Preventive cyber (GenAI-simulated attackers).
• Raised: €5.7M (Jan 2025) + €6M extension (Jan 2026) Kibo + Kfund. Total €12M.
• Founder: Daniel Solís (ex-Blueliv).
• Source: The AI Insider 2026-01-09

Anyformat — Madrid

• URL: https://anyformat.com
• Agentic OCR w/ EU data sovereignty.
• Raised: €3.3M seed (Nov 2025) Kibo Ventures.
• Founders: Juan Huguet, Alejandro Fernández, Diego Pérez.
• Source: EU-Startups 2025-11

TandemTrace — Madrid

• AI agents for 24/7 SecOps / SOC.
• Raised: $4M pre-seed (Feb 2025) Nauta + Draper B1; Amadeus Ventures follow-on Jun 2025.
• Source: Adara VC 2025

Afori — Spain (insurtech)

• Raised: €4M (2025). Angle: AI agents automating back-office for insurance brokers.
• Source: El Referente TOP25 2025-12-10

Ringr.ai — Madrid

• URL: https://ringr.ai
• Voice AI: 10k concurrent calls, multilingual. Bootstrapped. $440k revenue 2025.
• Founder: Diego Cuadrado (2024).
• Source: getlatka.com 2025

Omnia — Madrid

• AI-engine search optimization (GEO) for ChatGPT/Perplexity/Google AI Overviews visibility.
• Founder: Daniel Espejo (2025).
• Source: EU-Startups 2026-01-30

Orga AI — Valencia

• URL: https://orga.ai
• Multimodal conversational AI (voice+vision) SDK for banking, insurance, health, retail.
• Founders: Marc Revert + Julio Roldán (2024).

NeuralTrust — Barcelona

• AI security / red-teaming.
• CEO: Joan Vendrell Farreny.
• Source: Tech Barcelona profile

Pre-2025 baseline (verify per-run)

Sngular · Paradigma Digital · Bismart · Plain Concepts · Clibrain · Narrativa · Bitext · BBVA AI Factory · Sherpa.ai · Inbenta · Minsait (Indra).

Macro capital signal

• Seaya Growth Tech Fund I — €1B, largest ES growth fund ever, focused on applied AI / deeptech.
• Spanish AI vertical: >€300M across ~30 deals in 2025.
• March 2026: government announced €40M plan for SME AI democratization (MTDFP).

Deep-dive shortlist for next run (landing/funnel/packaging)

Priority for manual firecrawl_scrape deep analysis on these 5 (to be done in separate run, not here):

1. Level4.es — the Kit Consulting "Plan IA" lander
2. Axolot Agencia — "Tu asistente virtual pagado por Europa"
3. Creamos IA (Bilbao) — fresh agency framing
4. AI Consortivm / aikit.es — bundle play
5. Ringr.ai — voice-agent packaging as a service

What to capture per site: hero one-liner · reason-why cluster · package structure · price anchors · lead-magnet (audit / calculator / ROI tool) · video/demo format · proof / cases / logos · CTA / pricing call · footer partnerships / kit-digital badges.

Update 2026-04-29 — Run 9: Deep-dives populated

Ringr.ai — Enterprise AI Voice Platform

• Hero: "Llamadas telefónicas con IA para Enterprise. Sonamos diferente, porque lo nuestro es ingeniería conversacional a medida."
• Funding: €3M raised January 2026 for European expansion (El Economista, El Mundo, Expansión)
• One-liner: "Not a bot — conversational infrastructure"
• Package structure: Custom enterprise — from €600/mo with volume tiers (1K-100K+ monthly calls)
• Key metrics: 10K simultaneous calls, 32 languages, proprietary ML models for telephony
• Price anchors: "Desde 600€/mes", "Listo en 3 semanas", "Diseñado a medida"
• Lead magnet: ROI Calculator (ringr.ai/calculator) + demo booking
• Proof: Logos: Telefónica, Securitas Direct, Wallbox, Vocento, Vichy Catalán, Multiópticas, Axactor, Remax
• Case studies (7 with numbers):
  • Factory Colchón: -75% time on delivery confirmations
  • Debt recovery: +45% collection rate
  • Northius: +€450K generated in 4 days via AI sales calls
  • Energy company: 100% survey response rate (automated post-sale satisfaction)
  • Education platform: 1,000+ daily automated calls across 12 countries
• Security: ISO 27001, pentests, GDPR compliant (EU servers), cyber insurance €2M
• Integrations: Slack, Zoom, HubSpot, Zendesk, Salesforce, Zoho, Pipedrive, WhatsApp, custom API
• Awards: Fitur 2025 winner, Alhambra Venture 2024 winner, NVIDIA Inception Program, Antena 3 Noticias
• CTA: "Prueba ahora" / "Agenda demo" — note: "Ringr no hace ventas en frío"
• Assessment: Most sophisticated voice AI company in Spain. Product company, not services agency, but sets the bar for voice AI market.

Magnific (ex-Freepik) — Malaga — magnific.ai

• Funding: $0 raised — fully bootstrapped and profitable
• Revenue: $230M ARR, 1M+ paying subscribers, 250+ enterprise clients
• Hero: Unified AI creative platform (image + video generation in 4K with audio, AI upscaling, collaborative workspace)
• Enterprise clients: BBC, Puma, Amazon Prime Video
• Recognition: #1 generative AI web company in Europe by users (Andreessen Horowitz ranking)
• Key metric: 4M+ images generated daily
• Model approach: Model-agnostic — integrates Veo 3.1, Seeddance 2.0
• CEO: Joaquín Cuenca Abela (previously cofounded Panoramio, acquired by Google 2007)
• Assessment: Spain's most successful AI company by revenue. Proves bootstrapped path to scale is viable. Not an agency — a platform — but demonstrates the potential of AI creative tools in the Spanish market.

Traza — AI Procurement Agents — traza.ai

• Funding: €1.7M pre-seed (April 2026)
• Lead investor: Base10 Partners
• Other investors: Kfund, a16z scouts, Clara Ventures, Masía Ventures, angel investors (Pepe Agell)
• Product: AI agents that automate procurement and supply chain management
• CEO: Silvestre Jara Montes
• Assessment: Early-stage but strong investor signal (a16z scouts + Kfund). Procurement AI = growing B2B niche with clear ROI story.

Update 2026-05-27 — Run 10

Tucuvi — Healthcare Voice AI — tucuvi.com ⭐

• Funding: $25M+ total ($20M Series A, January 2026)
• Lead investors: Cathay Innovation, Kfund/Leadwind
• Other investors: Frontline Ventures, Seaya Ventures, Shilling
• City: Madrid / New York (dual HQ)
• Product: LOLA — autonomous voice AI clinical agent for patient phone calls
• Metrics: 1M+ calls, 60+ healthcare organizations, 90%+ patient engagement, 5.5% COPD readmission reduction
• Clients: Hospital Virgen de la Arrixaca, Vall d'Hebron Barcelona, AstraZeneca, BMS, J&J, SSIBE, Ribera Salud
• Certifications: CE Class IIb SaMD (FIRST in Europe for voice AI), ISO 27001, ISO 13485, HIPAA
• Founders: María González Manso (CEO), Marcos Rubio Rubio (CTO)
• Assessment: Spain's most advanced voice AI company. Healthcare-only vertical with regulatory moat. TechFundingNews Top10 AI Spain 2026 #6.

Didit — AI Identity Verification — didit.me

• Funding: $7.5M seed ($6M extension, May 26, 2026)
• Lead investors: Y Combinator (W26), Pioneer Fund, Orange Collective, Founders Future
• Founders: Alberto & Alejandro Rosas (twin brothers, Spanish AI engineers)
• City: San Francisco (Spanish-founded)
• Product: AI-native identity verification and fraud detection for eIDAS 2.0
• Metrics: 1,500+ B2B customers, 220+ countries, 30%+ MoM revenue growth, profitable
• Assessment: Only identity verification provider validated by Spain's Financial Sandbox (SEPBLAC, CNMV). Building for Dec 2026 eIDAS 2.0 deadline. Fastest-growing Spanish AI company by revenue growth rate.

Orbio AI — HR Voice AI — orbio.work

• Funding: $7.5M/€6.4M (September 2025)
• Investors: Visionaries Club
• Founders: Sergi Bastardas, Nacho Travesi, Antonio Mele (ex-Colvin/Cobee/Nucoro)
• City: Madrid
• Product: AI voice agents for end-to-end hiring interviews
• Metrics: 60K interviews in <4 months
• Clients: Ribera Salud (MarIA agent)
• Assessment: Voice AI for high-volume recruitment. Strong founding team from Spanish unicorn ecosystem.

Optimitive — Industrial Energy AI — optimitive.com

• Funding: €5M Series A (February 2026, €1M final tranche from Suma Capital)
• Investors: Suma Capital (SC Climate Tech), Cemex Ventures, Titan Cement Group
• City: Vitoria-Gasteiz (Basque Country)
• Product: Real-time AI optimization of industrial energy efficiency
• Assessment: Vertical AI for industrial sector. TechFundingNews Top10 AI Spain 2026. Basque Country emerging as AI hub.

Alinia AI — AI Safety & Guardrails — alinia.ai

• Funding: VC-backed (Raise Ventures, Speedinvest, Precursor Ventures)
• City: Barcelona
• Founded: 2023
• Product: AI guardrails, model safety evaluation, responsible AI infrastructure
• Assessment: Novobrief Top5 AI Startups Barcelona May 2026 #3. EU AI Act enforcement = growing demand for safety tools.

Biorce — CORRECTED: €43.8M Series A (Feb 2026)

• Previous entry stated €8.5M — this was INCORRECT.
• Actual funding: €43.8M Series A (reported as $52.5M by Novobrief, February 2026)
• Assessment: Spain's largest healthtech AI round. 4YFN Awards 2026 winner. TechFundingNews Top10 #3.

Murphy AI — AI Debt Collection — getmurphy.ai (UPDATE)

• Funding: $15M (July 2025, previously recorded)
• Investors: Northzone + ElevenLabs + Lakestar + Seedcamp
• Revenue: $2.5M ARR (2025)
• New data: Novobrief Top5 AI Barcelona May 2026 #2. 30+ countries. Clients: Holaluz, KPMG, Grenke.
• Assessment: Direct competitor to Ringr.ai in debt collection. ElevenLabs strategic investment = voice tech advantage.

Macro: Ispania Growth Fund — €300M (May 20, 2026)

• Partners: Qatar Investment Authority (QIA) + COFIDES (Spain)
• Manager: Portobello Capital (€4.5B AUM)
• Focus: Spanish SMEs in green, digital, and advanced tech
• Assessment: Largest sovereign co-investment vehicle for Spain in 2026. Will flow into AI/tech SMEs.

Acquisitions Wave (May 2026)

• Helsing (€12B, Germany) acquired Keybotic (Barcelona AI robots) — defense-AI convergence
• Factorial (Barcelona HR unicorn) acquired YepCode — AI-powered HR integrations
• DCycle (Spain) acquired ESG-X (Germany) — AI for ESG data

Update 2026-07-04 — Run 14: Major funding updates

Theker Robotics — $85M Series A (June 2026) ⭐ RECORD

• Previous entry: €18M seed (was largest Spanish AI seed)
• New funding: $85M Series A (June 2026) — LARGEST AI ROUND IN SPAIN HISTORY
• Lead investor: Cathay Capital
• Other investors: Kibo Ventures, Kfund, Inditex, Seaya
• Expanding to: Automotive (Seat, Gestamp) beyond original Inditex
• Source: Reuters, Yahoo Finance, TechFundingNews (June 2026)
• Assessment: Industrial AI robotics = Spain's strongest AI vertical. Hardware + software moat.

Orbio AI — €18.09M Series A (June 2026) UPDATE

• Previous entry: $7.5M/€6.4M (September 2025)
• New funding: €18.09M Series A (June 2026)
• Investors: Visionaries Club + Kfund
• New metrics: 200+ companies on platform. Expanding to 8 European markets
• Assessment: Voice AI for HR scaling rapidly. Largest HR-tech AI round in Spain.

Sherpa.ai — €11M Fresh Round (June 2026) UPDATE

• Previous entry: Total $47.6M
• New funding: €11M fresh round (June 2026)
• Total raised: $47.6M+ (now even higher with fresh round)
• Focus: Privacy-preserving agentic AI. Federated learning for enterprise/defense
• Assessment: Largest agentic AI funding in Spain.

Fracttal — $35M+ Raised (Madrid office)

• URL: fracttal.com
• City: Madrid (LATAM origin)
• Founded: 2015
• Product: AI-powered CMMS/EAM — predictive maintenance for industrial assets
• Metrics: 1,500+ clients across LATAM + Spain
• Assessment: LATAM AI companies choosing Madrid as EU gateway. Industrial AI at scale.

Lang AI — Acquired by Salesforce

• Previous status: Independent NLP startup (Spain-founded)
• Acquired by: Salesforce (acqui-hire)
• Assessment: Validates Spain AI talent. Spanish NLP engineers absorbed into Salesforce.

Macro: June 2026 Spanish AI Funding Summary

• Theker Robotics: $85M (Series A, industrial robotics) — RECORD (at the time)
• Orbio AI: €18.09M (Series A, HR voice AI)
• Sherpa.ai: €11M (fresh round, agentic AI)
• Total identifiable June 2026: €100M+ in Spanish AI rounds
• YTD 2026 context: Spain on track for €1B+ in AI VC (vs €717M full-year 2025)

Update 2026-07-28 (Run 16) — Multiverse Computing Unicorn + Sherpa.ai Update

Multiverse Computing — €500M Series C, Spain's First AI Unicorn

• URL: multiversecomputing.com
• HQ: San Sebastián (País Vasco)
• Founded: 2019
• Valuation: €1.5B (unicorn status)
• Total raised: €500M+ (Series C led by Goldman Sachs)
• Investors: Goldman Sachs (lead), BBVA Spark, Grupo Mondragón, previous: JME Ventures, Quantonation
• Team: 100+ employees across San Sebastián, Paris, Toronto, Munich
• Product: CompactifAI — LLM compression technology (80-95% size reduction without quality loss). Enables enterprise-grade AI on standard hardware without GPU clusters.
• Clients: BBVA, CaixaBank, Crédit Agricole, BMW, Bosch, European Space Agency
• Key tech: Quantum-inspired algorithms + tensor network mathematics applied to neural network compression. Peer-reviewed research.
• Why it matters: LARGEST AI ROUND IN SPANISH HISTORY. Surpasses Theker's $85M. First Spanish AI unicorn. Proves Basque Country as AI funding hub (Multiverse €500M + Sherpa.ai $18M in July alone). CompactifAI = game-changer for on-premise AI deployment in regulated industries.
• For agencies: "AI Soberana" pitch — deploy compressed models on-premise, data never leaves Spain. Premium positioning for banks, healthcare, legal, government.

Sherpa.ai — $18M Series (July 2026) UPDATE

• Previous entry: $47.6M total, €11M round (June 2026)
• New funding: $18M round (July 2026, Forgepoint Capital led + SETT + Mundi Ventures + Ekarpen + Allegra)
• Total raised: $41.5M+ (corrected from previous overcount)
• Founded: 2012 (corrected from 2018)
• Team: 50-249 (corrected from 10-49)
• HQ: Erandio (País Vasco)
• Focus: Privacy-preserving federated learning for enterprise + defense. Agentic AI.
• Assessment: Forgepoint Capital = top cybersecurity VC. Defense/government positioning validated. Basque Country AI cluster confirmed.

PageMind — €1.2M Pre-seed (July 2026)

• URL: pagemind.ai
• City: Madrid
• Founded: 2025
• Raised: €1.2M pre-seed (Kfund + Seedcamp + Day One Capital)
• Product: AI website builder / optimization engine
• Assessment: Fresh entry, Kfund backing = strong Spanish VC signal. Competes with international AI web builders.

Macro: July 2026 Spanish AI Funding Summary

• Multiverse Computing: €500M (Series C, quantum-AI compression) — NEW RECORD. Spain's first AI unicorn.
• Sherpa.ai: $18M (Series, federated learning + defense) — Forgepoint Capital led
• PageMind: €1.2M (pre-seed, AI website builder) — Kfund + Seedcamp
• Total identifiable July 2026: €520M+ in Spanish AI rounds (dominated by Multiverse)
• YTD 2026 context: Spain AI VC pace now €1.5B+ annualized. Basque Country = emerging AI capital (€518M in July alone)
• AI Act: Aug 2 transparency deadline in 5 days. Digital Omnibus postponed high-risk to Dec 2027, but Art. 50 still applies.

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