Spain's top-funded tech companies in H1 2026
Tech.eu Tamara Djurickovic
Spain’s tech startups pulled in about €1.7bn in H1 2026. A few huge rounds drove most of it: the top 10 took 68% of the cash.
Based on reporting by Tech.eu, Tamara Djurickovic — read the original for the full story.
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Spanish tech funding in the first half of 2026 was lopsided in the way big funding rounds usually are. Companies in Spain raised about €1.7 billion, and the top 10 alone took around 68% of that total. A small club of winners did most of the heavy lifting.
Space was the loudest sector. Spacetech brought in about €354.3 million, with PLD Space, EOS-X Space, Arkadia Space and FOSSA Systems leading the charge. Travel came next at roughly €266.1 million, mostly thanks to Perk’s $300 million private credit facility. Medical and healthcare firms collected about €195.1 million, while AI companies raised around €150.9 million.
And the money did not stop there. Jobs and recruitment pulled in €135 million, semiconductors €121 million, software €85 million and fintech €70 million. The mix shows a market that is still willing to back very different kinds of companies, but not in equal amounts. Space and deep tech got the biggest checks; plenty of others had to make do with smaller ones.
The funding stages also tell a familiar story. Pre-seed and seed rounds were common, but the larger growth-stage deals carried more of the total value. Debt mattered too, making up about 19% of all capital raised. That is a neat reminder that startup finance is not just equity and optimism; sometimes it is a private credit facility with a very large number attached.
Among the biggest individual rounds, PLD Space raised €210 million across two rounds, Factorial raised $150 million in Series D, EOS-X Space closed a $140 million Series D, and Xoople secured $130 million in Series B. Openchip took in €115 million from SETT, while Ona Therapeutics, THEKER, Biorce and Embat also landed substantial rounds. The pattern is clear: Spain’s first half of 2026 was driven by a handful of large bets, not a broad flood of capital.
My take — AI-written commentary, not fact-checked reporting
This is what serious funding looks like when investors are trying to look clever and safe at the same time: space, AI, semiconductors, and a sprinkling of enterprise software. The market still loves a big round with a serious deck and a hardware-flavoured story; the rest can queue politely. Open models and open roads are lovely, but money still prefers a rocket with a launch plan and a spreadsheet that scares people.
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