Vira Gas Imaging

vira-gas.com ↗ ·Madrid ·Other

Vira Gas Imaging is a Spanish industrial emissions-monitoring company that detects and quantifies methane leaks and other volatile organic compounds using optical gas imaging (infrared cameras with cooled detectors and spectral filters), plus software for real-time monitoring, alarms and data processing. It serves Oil & Gas, industry and ports/vessels clients with LDAR programmes, biogas/biomethane and hydrogen inspections, and reports having identified over 4,000 fugitive emission sources. Founded in 2016 as the first startup spun out of Enagás Emprende, Enagás's corporate entrepreneurship programme; in February 2020 engineering group INERCO acquired a 54% majority stake, so the company now operates as a subsidiary of Grupo INERCO rather than as an independent venture-backed startup.

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2016

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SectorsEnergy & Climate, Deeptech & Hardware, Industrial IoT, Emissions Monitoring, Oil & Gas Start-up MapEnergy & Climate › Industrial resource monitoring

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Jesús Manuel Gil Jiménez

Co-founder

José Luis Esteban

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Project Canary

United States · www.projectcanary.com ↗

Sells continuous methane-emissions monitoring sensors, software and certified measurement to oil and gas operators, the same leak-detection data and services model Vira sells to industry.

~$150MComparable

GHGSat

Canada · www.ghgsat.com ↗

Detects and quantifies methane leaks at industrial facilities using satellites and aircraft, and sells the emissions data and analytics to oil and gas companies and other industrial sites.

~$150MComparable

Bridger Photonics

United States · www.bridgerphotonics.com ↗

Delivers methane leak detection and quantification as a service to oil and gas operators using aircraft-mounted laser imaging, a direct alternative to camera-based leak inspection programmes.

~$80MComparable

Qube Technologies

Canada · www.qubeiot.com ↗

Sells continuous methane and volatile-gas monitoring devices with a real-time alarm and quantification software platform to oil and gas and industrial sites.

~$50MComparable

Kuva Systems

United States · www.kuvasystems.com ↗

Uses fixed infrared optical gas imaging cameras with cloud software to detect and visualise methane leaks continuously at oil and gas facilities, the closest technology match to Vira.

~$30MComparable

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INERCO

Buyout 2020 · not counted Spain

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Date	Round	Amount	Lead
2020-02-14	Buyout	—	INERCO

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Enagás joins the capital of digHy to enhance its renewable hydrogen plant software ↗

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