Barcelona, often dubbed “the Silicon Valley of Europe,” has become one of the most exciting tech hubs in the region. With a population of just 1.7 million, the city is home to some of the top tech startups in the world, including Typeform and PayFlow.
The AI startup scene is also growing, with the city raising €115 million in VC funding for AI startups in 2025 alone.
While there’s still more work to be done to grow the sector, the early success of industry events like AI Summit Barcelona highlights the potential the Catalonian capital has for innovation.
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Below are the top five AI startups to watch in Barcelona in 2026, including companies using the technology to transform everything from stock selection to collections management, climate risk, chatbots and security.
Danelfin
Danelfin, founded in 2018 by CEO Tomás Diago, CTO Guillermo Fernández and head of data engineering and AI Aaron González, is one of the most promising startups in Barcelona, providing an AI-powered stock picking platform to help investors make better investment decisions.
The startup ranks popular stocks according to Danelfin AI, which analyses over 10,000 features per day per stock. In fact, it claims that its AI-powered stocks strategy generated a return of +376% vs. +166% of the S&P 500.
According to European startup and VC industry media outlet Vestbee, the startup raised €2 million in funding in 2024 as part of a funding round led by Nauta Capital with participation from existing investors. The report placed Danelfin’s team at 15 members.
The firm was also a finalist in Benzinga’s Global Fintech Awards in 2024, and its early process makes it one of the top fintech and AI startups to watch in the future.
Murphy
Murphy, founded in 2024 by Borja Sole Fauria and Marc Sánchez Garcia, is also a top AI startup to watch in the city. Murphy provides a platform that enables companies to replace manual collections work with AI, and operates in over 30 countries with clients including Holaluz, GCBE, Cerberus, KPMG, and Grenke.
In July 2025, the Spanish company announced it had raised $15 million as part of a funding round led by Northzone, including $13 million in seed funding and $2 million in pre-seed funding. Investors include ElevenLabs, Lakestar, Seedcamp and Enzo Ventures.
Agentic AI is all the rage at the moment, and the ability of Murphy to automate collections operations 24/7 via agents has the potential to impact many organizations in the future and streamline debt collection.
Mitiga Solutions
Mitiga Solutions started out as a spinout from the National Supercomputing Center in Spain in 2018, and uses AI to assess climate-related risks and natural hazards. Founded by Alejandro Marti and Mauricio Hanzich, it is used by a range of entities including Tesla, the NHS, Peloton, Acciona, HDI, Telefónica, HDI, Fengate, and Breitling.
Through the Mitiga platform, users can evaluate climate risks at physical sites, benchmarking potential exposure across assets, portfolios, and geographies to generate accurate climate risk disclosures.
Mitiga claims to be the only provider delivering climate projections from 1970-2100 in five-year increments, combining CMIP6, CORDEX, and its proprietary Multiple Futures Model for temporal and spatial resolution. It also offers access to over 100,000 monitoring stations across 180 countries.
Earlier this year, the company was awarded European Innovation Council (EIC) Accelerator funding, gaining €2.4 million in grant financing plus €6 million equity investment, which Mitiga Solutions claims will be used to help scale the world’s first climate-risk intelligence solution built specifically for energy assets.
Landbot
Landbot is a no-code AI chatbot builder launched in 2018 and founded by CEO Jiaqi Pan and VP of Customer Success Cris Villar. Landbot provides sales teams with chatbots that can automatically qualify leads and answer customer questions.
The company claims that its chatbots can increase booking and show rates by 30%, and its client base includes companies such as Allianz, Coca-Cola, Media Markt, Generali, BNP Paribas, and Nestle.
Companies can connect ChatGPT to their website, Facebook Messenger or WhatsApp, and then feed the Landbot with customer FAQs to help improve support functionality. The platform also offers built-in integrations with external tools including Hubspot, Salesforce, and Slack.
According to TechCrunch, Landbot raised an $8 billion Series A led by Swanlaab back in 2021, alongside support from CDTI, the Spanish innovation-focused public agency. Landbot quickly gained traction due to its ability to enable non-technical users to start leveraging AI assistants as part of their support workflows.
Alinia AI
Alinia AI is an AI startup founded by Ariadna Font Llitjós and Carlos Muñoz Ferrandis in 2023, which has developed a model-agnostic platform for evaluating AI models’ guardrails. The idea is to help organizations assess the safety and compliance of AI assistants.
The company also offers an API that enables users to create safety and compliance guards for their AI models, including flagging, blocking, redacting and reporting protections.
According to Tech Funding News, Alinia AI raised $7.5 million in seed funding in December 2025 in a round led by Mouro Capital and with participation from Raise Ventures, Speedinvest and Precursor Ventures. To date, the company is used by a range of clients including M47 Labs, Subgen AI, Origin, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, and FIATC MF Seguros.
As more powerful frontier AI models are introduced to the market, new risks are coming to the forefront for adoptees. Having the ability to secure this infrastructure is going to become increasingly crucial over the long term.
SheAI
SheAI is a startup founded in 2024 by CEO Stephany Oliveros, COO Kristina Talon, and CMO Maja Zavrsnik. The startup is part of the United Nations AI for Google Skills Coalition, and attempts to provide accessible AI education to women.
Today, the organization has a community of over 1,000 women who are upskilling with AI, which is becoming one of the biggest trends in techs, as employees and entrepreneurs experiment with AI chatbots and agents to automate workflows.
Courses available on the company website include tutorials on how to use Claude Code, building market research reports with PerplexityLabs, automating financial tracking with Claude Artifacts, creating self-service aboard systems with Scribe, and more.
Europe’s tech heartland
These are just five startups from Barcelona’s incredibly diverse tech scene. As the sector becomes more developed we can expect to see more VC investment in the city over time.
And, while it still has a long way to go to match the development of other critical cities like London, it is becoming a hub of innovation that can’t be ignored.
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