Qbeast is an open-source data platform that enhances your modern data stack with the most cutting-edge and open technologies. It is designed to simplify work for data teams managing data lakes, improve performance by accessing fewer data due to automated optimization of data layout, compaction, and sampling, and be open and interoperable with data platforms and cloud providers.
Qbeast is a spin-off of the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) and has its roots in years of research at BSC. The company’s vision is to create a world where every mind can easily and cheaply use all humanity’s information to learn, teach, discover, and build new things.
Qbeast’s solutions can be particularly interesting for Marketplaces, E-Commerce platforms, IoT, and companies from industries such as Advertising & Marketing, Manufacturing, Retail, and Financial Services.
Qbeast is a spin-off of the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) and has its roots in years of research at BSC. The company’s vision is to create a world where every mind can easily and cheaply use all humanity’s information to learn, teach, discover, and build new things.
Qbeast’s solutions can be particularly interesting for Marketplaces, E-Commerce platforms, IoT, and companies from industries such as Advertising & Marketing, Manufacturing, Retail, and Financial Services.
Location: Spain
Employees: 11-50
Total raised: $10.86M
Founded date: 2020
Investors 1
| Date | Name | Website |
| 30.04.2023 | Elaia Part... | elaia.com |
Funding Rounds 3
| Date | Series | Amount | Investors |
| 06.08.2025 | Seed | $7.6M | Surge (Acc... |
| 24.02.2023 | - | $2.65M | Sabadell V... |
| 30.03.2021 | Seed | $609.8K | - |
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| 26.09.2025 | Peak XV's Surge 11 Features 23 Startups Across AI, Fintech, and Enterprise Solutions The 11th Surge cohort features AI and fintech players like Finster, Ignosis, OnFinance, Vault Wealth, Cybrilla, alo... | Peak XV Partners has announced the 11th edition of Surge, its scale-up program designed for early-stage founders. The new cohort brings together 23 startups from India, Southeast Asia, and global markets, with a strong focus on artificial i... |
| 06.08.2025 | Tech Wave: Startups Secure Multi-Million Dollar Funding Across Diverse Sectors | Multiple startups secured major early-stage funding. DPDzero raised $7M for AI debt collection. Gladful, Hylenr, Cautio, CodeKarma, Capitalmind, TPlusA India, and Qbeast also attracted capital. This diverse investment surge underscores robu... |
| 06.08.2025 | DPDzero, Gladful, Hylenr, Cautio, CodeKarma, others raise early-stage funding | The Hylenr team Claims collection startup DPDzero, food brand Gladful, nuclear energy firm Hylenr, dashcam maker Cautio, software development platform CodeKarma, portfolio manager Capitalmind, furniture fittings and hardware company TPlusA ... |
| 06.08.2025 | Barcelona-based Qbeast raises €6.5 million to help open data platforms scale efficiently | Spanish data infrastructure startup Qbeast has raised €6.5 million in Seed funding to accelerate the future of open Lakehouse analytics while expanding the team and furthering product development. The round was led by Peak XV’s Surge progra... |
| 05.08.2025 | Qbeast Secures $7.6M: Revolutionizing Data Lakehouse Performance | Qbeast, a Barcelona-based data optimization firm, secured $7.6 million in seed funding. This capital infusion tackles the "hidden tax" of big data lakehouses. Its multi-dimensional indexing technology streamlines data queries. It ... |
| 04.08.2025 | Qbeast Raises $7.6M in Seed Funding | Qbeast, a Barcelona, Spain-based data optimization platform provider, raised $7.6m in seed funding round. The round was led by Peak XV’s Surge (formerly Sequoia Capital India), with participation from HWK Tech Investment and Elaia Partners.... |
| 04.08.2025 | Qbeast gets $7.6M in funding to streamline data lakehouses queries with multidimensional indexing Join theCUBE Alumni Trust Network Send us a News Tip EXTRACT THE SIGNAL FROM THE NOISE Cookies | Data optimization startup Qbeast Analytics Inc. says it’s going to help organizations eliminate the “hidden tax” of big data lakehouse frameworks like Delta Lake after raising $7.6 million in seed funding today. The round was led by Peak XV... |
| 24.02.2023 | Qbeast Raises €2.5M in Funding | Qbeast, a Barcelona, Spain-based provider of a platform that simplifies the work for engineers managing data lakes, raised €2.5M in funding. The round was led by Elaia, with participation from investors Sabadell Venture Capital and Uber Fou... |
| 23.02.2023 | Qbeast cierra una ronda de €2,5M liderada por Elaia. Participan Sabadell VC, Inveready y O. Salazar | 23/02/2023 Nota de prensa QBEAST CIERRA UNA RONDA DE €2,5M LIDERADA POR ELAIA. PARTICIPAN SABADELL VC, INVEREADY Y O. SALAZAR Qbeast, spin-off del Barcelona Supercomputing Center – Centro Nacional de Supercomputación (BSC-CNS), anuncia s... |
| 23.02.2023 | Uber's founding CTO is backing Qbeast's data lake engineering platform | Barcelona Supercomputing Center spinout Qbeast has created an open-source solution to better align data lakes — server-side repositories of raw, unprocessed data — so they can be deployed later on for operational machine learning. Despite ... |
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