Xoople Secures $130M to Build AI's 'System of Record' for Earth

MADRID, Spain – April 06, 2026 – After seven years of development in stealth mode, data infrastructure company Xoople has emerged with a landmark $130 million Series B funding round, catapulting its total capital raised to $225 million and securing its position in the exclusive club of tech “unicorns” with a valuation reportedly exceeding $1 billion. The Madrid-based company aims to build what it calls “Earth’s System of Record,” a foundational data layer designed to provide artificial intelligence with a real-time, high-fidelity understanding of the physical world.

The financing round was led by Nazca Capital, with significant participation from MCH, the Spanish government’s Centre for the Development of Industrial Technology (CDTI), Buenavista Equity Partners, and Endeavor Catalyst. The capital infusion is set to fuel the commercial launch of Xoople’s platform in the second quarter of this year, transitioning the company from a deep-research phase into a market-facing enterprise poised to challenge established players in the geospatial intelligence sector.

Powering the 'Agentic Era'

Xoople’s ambitious vision is timed to coincide with what many in the tech industry are calling the “agentic era” of AI. This next wave of artificial intelligence involves systems that can move beyond simple analysis and prediction to take autonomous action in the real world. For these AI agents to perform complex tasks—from rerouting a global supply chain in response to a port closure to directing autonomous agricultural machinery—they require a constant stream of reliable, ground-truth data. This is the critical gap Xoople intends to fill.

“Every major computing era creates a new system of record; those that define that system become the economic centers of that era,” said Fabrizio Pirondini, CEO of Xoople, in a recent statement. “CRMs gave companies a system of record for customers. Cloud platforms create systems of record for software and data. We are building the system of record for the physical world in the AI era with Xoople.”

This concept of a planetary system of record represents a paradigm shift from traditional satellite imagery, which is often designed for human analysis. Instead, Xoople is creating a continuously updated digital representation of Earth’s physical state, optimized for ingestion by machine learning models. As AI models become increasingly commoditized, access to proprietary, high-quality datasets like the one Xoople is building is emerging as a decisive competitive advantage.

A New Generation of Earth Observation

To achieve its goal, Xoople is developing its own constellation of satellites equipped with advanced optical sensors. These sensors are being designed and manufactured in partnership with L3Harris Technologies, a major U.S. space and defense contractor. The company claims its proprietary technology will produce data that is “two orders of magnitude better than existing monitoring systems” in terms of precision and speed.

The data infrastructure, known as the EarthAI platform, is built on Microsoft Azure and will be distributed through strategic partnerships with enterprise giants like Microsoft and the geographic information system (GIS) leader Esri. This integration-focused strategy is key to Xoople’s plan to differentiate itself from competitors such as Planet and BlackSky. Rather than requiring customers to adopt entirely new workflows, Xoople aims to embed its physical-world intelligence directly into the business tools and platforms that organizations already use, making the data seamless to analyze and act upon.

This enterprise-first approach is already being validated by a group of private preview customers, which reportedly includes Fortune 500 companies and government agencies. These early adopters are using Xoople’s intelligence for a wide range of applications, including supply chain optimization, agricultural forecasting, insurance risk modeling, critical infrastructure monitoring, and disaster response.

Strategic Capital in a New Space Race

The composition of Xoople’s investor base speaks volumes about the strategic importance of its mission. The combination of private equity firms like Nazca Capital and MCH with the Spanish government’s CDTI signals a powerful public-private alignment. The investment from CDTI, which also led a previous €34 million round, underscores a national strategic interest in developing sovereign capabilities in critical technologies like AI and space-based intelligence.

This funding round is one of the largest for a deep tech company in Spain in recent years and reflects a broader acceleration of investment in Europe’s space and defense sectors. The significant capital positions Xoople as arguably the best-funded player in its specific category of AI-native Earth observation, creating a high barrier to entry in a capital-intensive industry. The new financing is seen not just as a bet on a single company, but as an investment in the foundational infrastructure that could power countless applications across industries.

As Xoople prepares to emerge from the shadows and begin commercialization, it enters a competitive but rapidly growing market for physical-world data. The success of its platform will depend on its ability to deliver on its promise of unparalleled data quality and seamless integration. If it succeeds, its “Earth’s System of Record” could become an indispensable utility for governments and industries navigating an increasingly complex and dynamic world.