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Company · AI & Data

Qbeast

qbeast.io ↗ ·Barcelona ·Seed

Qbeast is a data infrastructure company that builds a multi-dimensional indexing and smart data-layout engine for open lakehouse formats (Delta Lake, Apache Iceberg, Apache Hudi) and engines like Spark, Trino, DuckDB, Databricks and BigQuery, claiming 2-6x faster queries, 62% shorter AI training times and ~70% less data processed. Founded in 2020 as a spin-off of the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC-CNS) by Cesare Cugnasco with Pol Santamaria, Paola Pardo, Clemens Jesche and Nicolas Escartin, it now presents Srikanth Satya, Cesare Cugnasco and Flavio Junqueira as its co-founders after a leadership rebuild. It raised a $7.6M (~€6.5M) seed round in August 2025 led by Peak XV's Surge, and operates from Barcelona (Europe HQ), Bellevue WA (US HQ) and Bengaluru.

Founded

2020

Founders

7

News

0

Rounds

3

Investors

6

SectorsAI & Data, Enterprise Software, Data Infrastructure, Deeptech & Hardware, Open Source Start-up MapAI & Data › AI data infrastructure

Profile updated 16 Aug 2026

Founders

C

Cesare Cugnasco

Co-Founder & Chief Scientific Officer

C

Clemens Jesche

Co-Founder (founding team, BSC spin-off)

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F

Flavio Junqueira

Co-Founder & CTO

N

Nicolas Escartin

Co-Founder (founding team, BSC spin-off)

P

Paola Pardo

Co-Founder (founding team, BSC spin-off)

P

Pol Santamaria

Co-Founder (founding team, BSC spin-off)

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S

Srikanth Satya

Co-Founder & CEO

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Investors 6

BStartup (Banco Sabadell)

bstartup.bancsabadell.com/en

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Elaia Partners

www.elaia.com ↗

Investor France

HWK Tech Investment

P

Peak XV Partners (Surge)

www.peakxv.com ↗

Investor India

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Sabadell Venture Capital

www.bancsabadell.com ↗

Investor Spain

Funding rounds 3

Seed · €6.5M

Qbeast, a Barcelona Supercomputing Center spin-off building multidimensional indexing for open lakehouse formats such as Delta Lake, Apache …

2025-08-04

Seed · €2.5M

Qbeast, a spin-off of the Barcelona Supercomputing Center, secured a €2.5 million seed round led by Elaia to commercialise its technology fo…

2023-02-23

Seed · €520K

Barcelona Supercomputing Center spin-off Qbeast closed its first funding round of €520K, co-led by Inveready and BStartup (Banco Sabadell), …

2021-03-31

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