Company · AI & Data

CARTO

carto.com ↗ ·New York ·Series C

CARTO is a cloud-native location intelligence platform for spatial analytics, GIS and web mapping. Data scientists, analysts and developers use it to run geospatial analysis directly on top of cloud data warehouses such as Google BigQuery, Snowflake, Amazon Redshift and Databricks, sold as software-as-a-service. Customers include JLL, Mastercard, T-Mobile, Telus, Vodafone, IKEA, Decathlon and Coca-Cola, for use cases such as site selection, geomarketing, route optimisation and network planning. Founded in Madrid in 2012 by Javier de la Torre and Sergio Álvarez as CartoDB, the company raised a $7M Series A in 2014, a $23M Series B in 2015 led by Accel, and a $61M Series C in December 2021 led by Insight Partners, with participation from Accel, Salesforce Ventures, Hearst Ventures, Earlybird, Kibo Ventures and the EIC Fund.

Founded
2012
Founders
2
News
10
Rounds
1
Investors
7
SectorsGeospatial Analytics, Location Intelligence, Data Analytics, SaaS, GIS Start-up MapAI & Data

Profile updated 25 Sep 2026

Founders

Javier de la Torre
Founder & Chief Strategy Officer
Sergio Álvarez
Co-founder
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Global models

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Investors 7

Investor United States
Earlybird
Investor Germany
EIC Fund
eic.ec.europa.eu
Investor Luxembourg
Investor United States
Insight Partners
Investor United States
Kibo Ventures
www.kiboventures.com
Investor Spain
Salesforce Ventures
Investor United States

Funding rounds 1

Series C · $61M
Madrid-founded cloud-native spatial analysis platform CARTO closed a $61M Series C led by Insight Partners, joined by the EIC Fund and exist…
2021-12-14

News & media 10

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