Company · Insurtech

Barkibu

barkibu.com ↗ ·Vigo ·Series A

Barkibu is a Spanish digital pet health insurtech offering fully digital, lifetime insurance for dogs and cats, combining coverage with AI-powered veterinary telehealth (its "Bai" virtual vet assistant). Series A-stage, it insures pets across Spain and Germany and is a certified B Corporation formed from the 2020 merger of the original Barkibu (founded 2015) with pet insurer Noma.

Founded

2015

Founders

News

Rounds

Investors

SectorsInsurtech, Pet Health, Veterinary Telehealth, AI Start-up MapInsurtech › Health & wellbeing cover

Profile updated 30 Jul 2026

Founders

Alvaro Gutierrez

Co-Founder & Co-CEO (via 2020 Noma-Barkibu merger)

Pablo Pazos

Co-Founder & Co-CEO

Patricia Seoane (Patricia Mendez Seoane)

Co-Founder

Quique Torres (Enrique Torres Redondo)

Co-Founder & VP of Data (formerly CTO)

Global models 5

ManyPets (formerly Bought By Many)

United Kingdom · www.manypets.com ↗

Direct-to-consumer digital pet health insurer that scaled internationally with heavy VC backing, the closest large-scale analogue to Barkibu's insurance model.

$485MComparable

Lemonade

United States · www.lemonade.com ↗

AI-driven digital insurance platform (including a pet insurance line) matching Barkibu's tech-first, chatbot-assisted underwriting and claims approach.

$480MComparable

Trupanion

United States · trupanion.com ↗

Pioneer subscription-based pet health insurer that was VC-backed before its 2014 IPO, same core lifetime pet-insurance business model.

~$140M (pre-IPO VC)Comparable

Fetch Pet Insurance

United States · www.fetchpet.com ↗

VC- and private-equity-backed digital pet insurance provider offering comprehensive accident/illness coverage, directly comparable to Barkibu's offering.

$38.7MComparable

Waggel

United Kingdom · www.waggel.co.uk ↗

Digital-first, app-based lifetime pet insurance startup with a similar tech-enabled, direct-to-consumer model at a comparable early stage.

~£10MComparable

Investors 8

Kima Ventures

www.kimaventures.com ↗

Investor France

Leap Venture Studio

www.leapventurestudio.com ↗

Investor United States

R/GA Ventures

Investor United States

TheVentureCity

www.theventure.city

Investor United States

Funding rounds 4

Other · €40M

Galician pet-health company Barkibu disclosed a €40M transaction led by London-based insurance specialist Correlation Partners, of which rou…

2025-12-18

Debt · €5M

Galician pet-health and pet-insurance startup Barkibu raised €5M of venture debt from Banco Sabadell, arranged through the bank's venture ca…

2023-10-17

Series A · $5M

Galician pet health insurance and telehealth startup Barkibu raised $5M (about €4.5M) led by K Fund, with existing investor Mundi Ventures p…

2023-05-04

Other · $5.6M

Barkibu raised a $5.6M (about €4.7M) bridge round to expand its AI veterinary assistant, remote-vet service and pet insurance into other Eur…

2021-03-18

News & media 5

Published	Article
2025-10-28	Barkibu wins Esade Alumni & Banco Sabadell BStartup Award for Best Start-Up of 2025 ↗ Esade Alumni
2025-05-23	Barkibu se alza con la victoria en la tercera edición del EY Scale Up Award ↗ EY España
2025-01-15	Barkibu comienza su actividad en Portugal e Italia ↗ Interempresas
2025	Barkibu Increases Revenue by More Than 3,000% in 3 Years with Stripe ↗ Stripe
—	How Barkibu hit $3.8M revenue with a 65 person team in 2024 ↗ GetLatka