Barcelona-based social intelligence startup that used ethical AI (NLP and machine learning) to analyze large volumes of unstructured text — social media, helpline transcripts, chatbot logs — to help governments and organizations understand citizen sentiment and inform policy in real time. Founded in 2018, it worked with bodies like the WHO, UNESCO, and IDB and was named a World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer in 2022. Founder Ivan Caballero announced the company was shutting down in February 2025, citing lack of product-market fit and a weak AI funding climate in Spain.
SectorsAI & Data, GovTech, Social Intelligence, Text Analytics
Start-up MapAI & Data › AI monitoring & insights
Founders
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Ivan Caballero
Founder & CEO
Global models 5
DDataminr
United States · www.dataminr.com ↗
Uses AI to scan huge streams of public social and web text in real time and sells the resulting risk and event alerts to governments, the public sector and corporations on subscription.
$1.1BComparable
SSignal AI
United Kingdom · www.signal-ai.com ↗
Its AI platform reads large volumes of unstructured news and social text and sells subscriptions to organisations tracking reputation, risk and public sentiment.
$250MComparable
PPrimer
United States · primer.ai ↗
Sells NLP software that turns large volumes of unstructured text and social media into intelligence, mainly to government and public-sector customers.
$180MComparable
BBrandwatch
United Kingdom · www.brandwatch.com ↗
A social-listening SaaS that uses NLP to analyse online conversation and sentiment for organisations, including governments and NGOs, before Cision acquired it.
$65MComparable
ZZencity
Israel · zencity.io ↗
Closest match: AI that analyses social media, 311 calls and survey text to measure how residents feel, sold as a subscription to local governments to guide policy.
$63MComparable
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Investors 12
Open as list →I
IDB Lab
bidlab.org/en
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Avançsa
avancsa.gencat.cat
FFundación Innovación Bankinter
www.fundacionbankinter.org
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IESE Business Angels Network
www.iese.edu/entrepreneurship/iese-business-angels-network
WWayra
wayra.com
FFitalent
www.fitalent.es
CCAF - Development Bank of Latin America
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Estinvest Ventures
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everis
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Everis Fitalent
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H&S Investment
PPrevisora General Mutualidad de Previsión Social
Funding rounds 3
| Date | Round | Amount | Lead |
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| 2021-11-18 | Seed | €0.5M |
Lead not disclosed
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| 2021-07-16 | Seed (estimated) | €2M |
Lead not disclosed
+5 more
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| 2019-12-11 | Seed | €1.4M |
Lead not disclosed
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News 1
Open as list →| Published | Article |
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| 2025-02-17 |
I'm shutting down my startup, Citibeats. ↗
Medium (Ivan Caballero)
2025-02-17 |