BBarbara
Barbara is an Edge AI platform that lets industrial companies securely deploy, run, and monitor AI models and applications on-site rather than in the cloud, covering container orchestration, device lifecycle management, and MLOps at the edge. It serves mission-critical sectors such as smart grid/energy, water utilities, manufacturing, and oil & gas, with customers including Iberdrola, Acciona, Cellnex, Redeia, EDP, Schneider Electric, and GSK. Founded in Bilbao in 2016, it has raised a Series A round led by Aramco Ventures.
SectorsEdge Computing, Industrial IoT, AI/MLOps, Industrial Software
Start-up MapEnterprise Software › Infrastructure & operations software
Founders
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David Purón
Co-Founder & CEO
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Isidro Nistal
CTO / Chief Product Officer & Co-Founder
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Marcos Eguillor
Co-Founder & Former President
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Miguel Angel Fernández Otero
Co-Founder & Partner
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Miguel Ángel Fernández Otero
Partner & Co-Founder
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Pablo Portero
Co-Founder
Global models 5
SSamsara
United States · www.samsara.com ↗
IoT/AI platform gathering and analyzing sensor data from industrial and fleet operations, the closest large-scale comparable to Barbara's industrial edge/IoT-AI model before its 2021 IPO.
$930MComparable
CC3 AI
United States · c3.ai ↗
Enterprise AI platform for building and deploying AI applications across energy, manufacturing, and industrial sectors, similar to Barbara's industrial AI focus.
$481MComparable
PParticle
United States · www.particle.io ↗
IoT device management and connectivity platform for deploying and monitoring distributed hardware fleets, matching Barbara's device lifecycle management model.
$135MComparable
FFogHorn Systems
United States · www.foghorn.io ↗
Industrial edge AI platform enabling real-time analytics and machine learning directly on edge devices such as PLCs and gateways, closely mirroring Barbara's edge-AI-for-industry model.
$82MComparable
EEdge Impulse
United States · edgeimpulse.com ↗
End-to-end edge AI MLOps platform for developing and deploying ML models to edge devices, directly comparable to Barbara's edge MLOps proposition (acquired by Qualcomm in 2025).
$54.3MComparable
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Investors 6
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Funding rounds 3
| Date | Round | Amount | Lead |
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| 2026-02-18 | Series A (estimated) | €4.5M |
Aramco Ventures
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| 2022-05-11 | Series A (estimated) | €2.5M |
Caixa Capital Risc
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| 2020-12-16 | Seed | €500K |
GoHub Ventures
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