Spain’s startup ecosystem enters 2026 with new momentum
Spain is emerging as one of Southern Europe’s most active technology hubs, buoyed by a broader investor base, a growing talent pool, and founders building with international markets in mind. While Barcelona and Madrid remain the primary engines of startup formation and funding, secondary hubs such as Valencia and Bilbao are increasingly contributing specialised talent, sector depth, and new company creation.
Across the ecosystem, innovation is clustering around AI, fintech, healthtech, robotics, and cybersecurity—a mix that reflects both Spain’s digital transformation priorities and the global shift toward automation, compliance-by-design, and data-driven operations. Below are 10 startups founded between 2024 and 2026 that illustrate where Spain’s next wave of growth may come from, along with the funding and product bets they are making.
10 promising Spain-based startups founded since 2024
Accountable: real-time financial verification for on-chain and off-chain markets
Founded in 2024 and headquartered in Tórtola, Accountable is positioning itself as a standard for continuous financial verification in both traditional and crypto-native markets. The company’s pitch targets a persistent trust gap in tokenised finance: how institutions can prove assets and liabilities in real time without exposing sensitive information.
Its core infrastructure, the Data Verification Network, is designed to verify on-chain and off-chain activity continuously. On top of that, the company offers products including Proof of Solvency, Vault-as-a-Service for structuring tokenised yield and credit products, and YieldApp, a marketplace that surfaces yield opportunities backed by ongoing verification. Accountable says it already verifies more than $2 billion in assets across over 100 blockchains and 75 data sources. The startup has raised €8.2 million to scale its network and expand adoption among institutions and asset managers.
Biorce: AI-native clinical trial optimisation with regulatory compliance
Barcelona-based Biorce, founded in 2024, is building an AI platform aimed at reducing the time and cost of clinical trials while maintaining regulatory rigour. The company’s platform consolidates protocol design, feasibility analysis, and regulatory planning into a single workspace—an approach intended to reduce workflow fragmentation for pharma, biotech, and contract research organisations.
Trained on more than 560,000 clinical trials, Biorce says its AI can speed preparation, reduce protocol amendments, and help patients access treatments sooner. The company emphasises alignment with global standards and regulators such as the FDA, EMA, and PMDA. It has raised €8.5 million to expand product development and support partners in global markets.
Kabilio: automating accounting and tax workflows for SMEs
Also founded in 2024 in Barcelona, Kabilio is targeting Spain’s accounting and tax digitisation wave with an AI-powered platform for SMEs, freelancers, and accounting firms. The product focuses on automating invoicing, tax, and reconciliation tasks while supporting compliance with Verifactu and Spain’s anti-fraud regulations.
Kabilio automates invoice processing, bank reconciliation, and accounting entry generation, and is designed to integrate with existing accounting software—an important requirement for advisory firms managing large client portfolios. The company has raised €4 million to broaden its offering and accelerate adoption.
Lookiero Outfittery Group: data-driven personal shopping at scale
Established in 2025 and headquartered in Bilbao, Lookiero Outfittery Group operates in online personal shopping and fashion e-commerce. The group combines data-driven styling and personalised recommendations, blending technology, logistics, and human stylists to deliver curated selections across Europe.
The company’s strategy centres on improving customer satisfaction while optimising inventory management—two levers that can materially affect margins in fashion e-commerce. Lookiero Outfittery Group has raised €17 million to fund growth, platform development, and international expansion.
Murphy AI: autonomous, compliant AI agents for debt collection
Founded in 2024 in Barcelona, Murphy AI is building an AI-driven debt collection platform aimed at replacing manual servicing work with autonomous agents. The company’s proposition is that lenders and servicers can run end-to-end strategies across eligible portfolios continuously, without the operational constraints of call centres or external agencies.
A key differentiator is its emphasis on compliance, auditability, and brand protection. Clients can define conversation paths, tone, and decision logic, while every interaction is tracked and logged. The platform operates across more than 30 countries and multiple languages, serving banks, collection agencies, NPL funds, fintechs, and other creditors seeking higher recovery rates at lower cost. Murphy AI has raised €12.6 million to develop its agents and expand international deployments.
Omnia: optimising brand visibility for AI-powered search
Madrid-based Omnia, founded in 2025, is focused on a new marketing battleground: how brands appear in AI-generated answers. As discovery shifts toward systems such as ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews, the company offers an AI engine search optimisation platform that tracks prompts and topics, measures brand visibility and share of voice, and analyses where AI systems source information.
Omnia aims to turn that monitoring into actionable recommendations for content and distribution strategy in AI-native discovery channels. The startup has raised €3.5 million to build out the platform and support brands adapting to the next generation of search.
Orbio: AI-native HR automation for large enterprises
Founded in 2025 and based in Madrid, Orbio is developing autonomous AI agents that automate HR processes from recruitment and onboarding to workforce insights and retention analysis. The company is targeting enterprises and large workforces where small efficiency gains can translate into meaningful cost savings and faster hiring cycles.
The platform combines an AI recruitment agent with applicant tracking, multilingual candidate engagement, and real-time insights, and is designed to integrate with existing enterprise systems. Orbio has raised €6.4 million to expand its agents and support deployments in multiple markets.
Ringr.ai: multilingual voice AI for phone-based operations
Madrid-based Ringr.ai, founded in 2024, is building a conversational AI platform for phone-based interactions in customer service, sales, and operations. Its technology is designed to handle high volumes of inbound and outbound calls simultaneously, using natural, multilingual voice AI configured to match a brand’s tone.
Beyond basic voice bots, Ringr.ai combines conversational AI with analytics, campaign management, and integrations that can trigger downstream actions such as CRM updates, appointment scheduling, and follow-up messaging. The platform supports more than 30 languages and is being adopted across multiple sectors, including healthcare and insurance.
Sector signals: what these companies reveal about Spain in 2026
Taken together, these startups underscore three trends shaping Spain’s innovation landscape in 2026: first, the rapid productisation of AI agents for regulated workflows; second, a push toward compliance-by-design in fintech, healthcare, and servicing; and third, a growing emphasis on building for cross-border markets from day one. With funding flowing into both infrastructure and applied AI, Spain’s next generation of venture-scale companies is increasingly being built around measurable operational outcomes—faster trials, higher recoveries, lower back-office costs, and improved discovery in AI-first channels.
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