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.
Employees: 11-50
Total raised: $3.26M
Founded date: 2020
Investors 1
| Date | Name | Website |
| 30.04.2023 | Elaia Part... | elaia.com |
Funding Rounds 2
| Date | Series | Amount | Investors |
| 24.02.2023 | - | $2.65M | Sabadell V... |
| 30.03.2021 | Seed | $609.8K | - |
Mentions in press and media 5
| Date | Title | Description |
| 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 ... |
| 31.03.2021 | Qbeast, cierra su primera ronda de €520.000 liderada por Inveready y BStartup | 31/03/2021 Nota de prensa LA STARTUP BARCELONESA DE BIG DATA, QBEAST, CIERRA RU PRIMERA RONDA DE FINANCIACIÓN DE €520.000 LIDERADA POR INVEREADY Y BSTARTUP. Qbeast, una spin-off del Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) ha cerrado su pri... |
| - | Qbeast Analytics | “QBEAST – Big Data free from the unnecessary” |