Golden Owl, a Spanish startup specialized in external intelligence and advanced OSINT, has closed a €1.4 million seed round aimed at scaling its anticipatory intelligence operating system, designed to detect complex dynamics across informational, geopolitical, and business environments.
The round was led by the venture capital fund First Drop, known for its investments in impact-driven startups, and was also supported by business angels and public funding. This includes backing from the Spanish National Innovation Company (Enisa) and the Neotec grant from the Centre for the Development of Industrial Technology (CDTI), which endorse the “innovative and strategic” nature of the company’s technology.
The funds will be used to strengthen its proprietary technology architecture, expand capabilities in non-indexed sources—including the open, deep, and dark web—and accelerate its rollout across sectors such as energy, logistics, industry, security, and the public sector, according to the company in a statement released on Thursday.
Transforming fragmented signals into structured intelligence
Golden Owl has developed an external intelligence operating system that “goes beyond traditional data analysis.” Its technology combines advanced OSINT, multi-source fusion, and multi-agent orchestration to transform fragmented signals into structured, traceable, and actionable intelligence, including access to non-indexed information.
The company noted that the investment comes at a time of “growing complexity,” driven by the convergence of technology, geopolitics, and information.
“The proliferation of misinformation and low-quality or highly biased information, information overload, and the rise of hybrid threats are directly impacting the decision-making capacity of both public and private organizations,” it explained.
In this context, CEO and co-founder Ana Beik stated that this is an “environment where informational manipulation, competitive pressure, and operational uncertainty coexist.”
“Informational risk can outweigh technical or financial risk,” she concluded, emphasizing that Golden Owl addresses this challenge through structured intelligence that enables the distinction between signal and noise, the detection of hidden dynamics, and the reduction of cognitive fatigue in decision-making.
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