Accenture has acquired Keepler Data Tech, a Spanish cloud-native AI and knowledge startup, with a view to additional strengthen and develop Accenture’s potential to scale AI for purchasers in Spain and past.
At present’s acquisition is a part of Accenture’s ongoing investments in AI to speed up purchasers’ reinvention. Keepler is the newest in a collection of strategic acquisitions aimed toward increasing Accenture’s AI capabilities, together with School; the Palantir consultancy Decho; Palantir licensed accomplice RANGR Knowledge; Salesforce AI consultancy NeuraFlash; and AI firm Halfspace.
“From day one, our mission at Keepler has been to assist organizations flip knowledge and AI into actual, scalable outcomes,” says Juan María Aramburu, CEO of Keepler. “By becoming a member of Accenture, we speed up that mission. Collectively, we are going to additional scale our options and drive innovation to purchasers throughout Spain and EMEA, empowering them to activate AI with confidence and remodel how they function.”
In adjoining AI, data-platform and cloud-infrastructure classes, latest exercise reveals funding for Xoople in Madrid (€112.6 million Sequence B to construct AI-ready Earth knowledge infrastructure), Qbeast in Barcelona (€6.5 million Seed to scale open knowledge platforms and Lakehouse analytics), Galtea in Barcelona (€2.7 million to develop its AI analysis platform), DataCrunch in Helsinki (€55 million Sequence A to scale AI compute infrastructure), NexGen Cloud in London (€41 million to develop sovereign AI infrastructure in Europe), and PoliCloud in Cannes (€7.5 million Seed to develop sovereign HPC cloud infrastructure).
Collectively, these disclosed rounds quantity to over €225 million, and the Spanish cluster is notable in Keepler’s case as a result of Xoople, Qbeast and Galtea are all same-country comparisons.
Set towards that backdrop, Accenture’s acquisition of Keepler factors to the identical market dynamic from a unique angle: whereas buyers have continued to again European firms constructing knowledge infrastructure, AI tooling and cloud capability, strategic consumers are additionally transferring to safe supply functionality in enterprise AI, knowledge engineering and agentic techniques.
EU-Startups had beforehand lined Xoople earlier than its newest spherical, Qbeast earlier than its 2025 increase, and DataCrunch earlier than its Sequence A, which suggests these firms are a part of a unbroken build-out reasonably than remoted bulletins.
In that context, Keepler’s sale is according to a broader sample by which AI and knowledge functionality is being accrued each via enterprise funding and thru acquisition.
“Expertise is evolving at extraordinary velocity, and AI and knowledge at the moment are central to how firms reinvent their companies, keep aggressive and enhance their resilience within the present context,” says Mercedes Oblanca, Market Unit Lead for Spain and Portugal at Accenture.
“By bringing Keepler into Accenture, we additional strengthen our end-to-end AI and knowledge capabilities in addition to our agentic AI options. Mixed with our deep trade, purposeful and expertise experience, this permits us to help purchasers as they remodel their organizations by harnessing the complete potential of AI adoption throughout their worth chains in a safe and accountable method,” Mercedes provides.
Based in 2018, Keepler provides AI and knowledge capabilities that cowl the end-to-end worth chain, from defining an information technique and constructing cloud-native knowledge foundations to deploying superior analytics, gen AI and agentic AI that embed intelligence into core enterprise processes.
With a value-realisation method supported by safe, fashionable knowledge platforms and knowledge readiness, Keepler focuses on industrialised supply, ethics, compliance and strong observability to optimise automation and decision-making.
This helps organisations modernise their knowledge structure, implement DataOps and MLOps at scale and activate AI throughout the enterprise to ship tangible enterprise influence.
Greater than 240 Keepler professionals will be a part of Accenture. The corporate, with presence in Madrid, London and Lisbon, has a staff that features technical architects, knowledge scientists, analysts and software program engineers.
