Supply chain interruptions and infrastructure security breaches, combined with disinformation, make it difficult for companies to extract valuable data from their reserves.
This Spanish deeptech startup, founded by Ana Beik and Sabi Soltani, claims it can turn scattered open-source data into geopolitical and business intel. Its platform collects data from open, deep, and dark web sources, integrates information across different formats and languages, and uses a network of AI agents to identify patterns that traditional analytics might overlook.
Today, Golden Owl closed a €1.4 million seed round led by Valencia-based impact fund First Drop. Business angels and public sources, including ENISA certification and a NEOTEC grant from CDTI, also supported the round.
Moving past keyword monitoring
The system uses a multi-agent setup to manage everything from collecting large amounts of different data to real-time anomaly detection and automated cross-checking.
Instead of relying on keyword searches, Golden Owl’s platform builds dynamic models of subjects, contexts, and relationships. It tracks how actors behave and how networks form, and spots early warning signs of disruption before they become clear. Currently, it serves two markets.
For security, the platform finds hybrid threats, influence campaigns, and coordinated actions, helps protect infrastructure, and supports forensic investigations. For businesses, it offers supply chain monitoring, geopolitical and regulatory risk analysis, competitor data, and what the company calls federated intelligence.
This dual-use approach is intentional. Many key intelligence uses fall between security and business strategy, and Golden Owl aims to cover both without sacrificing depth.
The company is entering a competitive market, setting itself apart from Palantir, Recorded Future, and Babel Street. It operates on the core belief that these rivals have not yet fully succeeded in integrating unstructured, non-indexed sources into a reasoning layer.
What comes next
The €1.4 million investment will help in three main ways: improving the company’s technical setup, expanding access to non-indexed sources across the open, deep, and dark web, and accelerating commercial rollout in sectors such as energy, logistics, industry, security, and the public sector.
Golden Owl is a young company that has been working quietly in the background. As Beik notes, the company’s impact is largely unseen, operating within decision-making processes that rarely cite their sources.
