Nuclia is a Barcelona-based AI search company that built a RAG-as-a-Service platform. It lets developers and enterprises index unstructured data such as text, documents, audio and video in many languages, then run semantic search and generative answers over it. The company offered its platform as a cloud API and also released NucliaDB, an open-source vector database built for unstructured data. Eudald Camprubí and Ramon Navarro founded Nuclia in 2019. It raised a $5.4 million seed round in April 2022, led by Crane Venture Partners and Elaia. Progress Software acquired Nuclia in June 2025 and now sells its technology as the agentic RAG part of the Progress Data Platform.
SectorsAI & Data, Enterprise Software, Search, Developer Tools
Start-up MapAI & Data › AI data infrastructure
Founders
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Eudald Camprubí
Co-founder & CEO
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Ramon Navarro Bosch
Co-founder & CTO
Global models 5
PPinecone
United States · www.pinecone.io ↗
Sells a managed vector database and retrieval API to developers and enterprises building semantic search and RAG over unstructured data, the same developer-infrastructure model as Nuclia's cloud API.
$138MComparable
ZZilliz
United States · zilliz.com ↗
Commercialises the open-source Milvus vector database as a managed cloud service for semantic search and RAG, matching Nuclia's open-source NucliaDB plus paid cloud platform approach.
$113MComparable
CContextual AI
United States · contextual.ai ↗
Sells an end-to-end enterprise RAG platform that ingests company documents and returns grounded generative answers, the same RAG-as-a-service model Nuclia offers.
$100MComparable
WWeaviate
Netherlands · weaviate.io ↗
Open-source AI-native vector database with a paid managed cloud for developers building semantic search and generative retrieval apps, close to Nuclia's NucliaDB plus cloud model.
$67.7MComparable
VVectara
United States · www.vectara.com ↗
Offers RAG-as-a-service through an API that indexes enterprise documents and serves semantic search and grounded generative answers to developers, the closest match to Nuclia's model.
$53.5MComparable
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Investors 4
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Funding rounds 2
| Date | Round | Amount | Lead |
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| 2022-04-20 | Seed | €5M | Crane Venture Partners, Elaia |
| 2021-05-10 | Pre-seed | €400K |
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News 4
Open as list →| Published | Article |
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| 2025-10-22 |
RAG-as-a-Service on AWS Marketplace ↗
Progress Blog
2025-10-22 |
| 2025-09-10 |
Progress Software Unveils Breakthrough SaaS RAG Platform Designed to Make Trustworthy and Verifiable Generative AI Accessible Across Organizations of all Sizes ↗
Progress Software (press release)
2025-09-10 |
| 2025-07-03 |
Progress snaps up Nuclia for agentic RAG tech ↗
Blocks & Files
2025-07-03 |
| 2024-06-14 |
Securing Enterprise Data in RAG Applications with Nuclia ↗
Medium (Eudald Camprubí)
2024-06-14 |