Accenture has acquired Keepler Data Tech, a Spanish cloud-native AI and data startup, in order to further strengthen and expand Accenture’s ability to scale AI for clients in Spain and beyond.
Today’s acquisition is part of Accenture’s ongoing investments in AI to accelerate clients’ reinvention. Keepler is the latest in a series of strategic acquisitions aimed at expanding Accenture’s AI capabilities, including Faculty; the Palantir consultancy Decho; Palantir certified partner RANGR Data; Salesforce AI consultancy NeuraFlash; and AI company Halfspace.
“From day one, our mission at Keepler has been to help organizations turn data and AI into real, scalable outcomes,” says Juan María Aramburu, CEO of Keepler. “By joining Accenture, we accelerate that mission. Together, we will further scale our solutions and drive innovation to clients across Spain and EMEA, empowering them to activate AI with confidence and transform how they operate.”
In adjacent AI, data-platform and cloud-infrastructure categories, recent activity shows funding for Xoople in Madrid (€112.6 million Series B to build AI-ready Earth data infrastructure), Qbeast in Barcelona (€6.5 million Seed to scale open data platforms and Lakehouse analytics), Galtea in Barcelona (€2.7 million to develop its AI evaluation platform), DataCrunch in Helsinki (€55 million Series A to scale AI compute infrastructure), NexGen Cloud in London (€41 million to expand sovereign AI infrastructure in Europe), and PoliCloud in Cannes (€7.5 million Seed to grow sovereign HPC cloud infrastructure).
Together, those disclosed rounds amount to over €225 million, and the Spanish cluster is notable in Keepler’s case because Xoople, Qbeast and Galtea are all same-country comparisons.
Set against that backdrop, Accenture’s acquisition of Keepler points to the same market dynamic from a different angle: while investors have continued to back European companies building data infrastructure, AI tooling and cloud capacity, strategic buyers are also moving to secure delivery capability in enterprise AI, data engineering and agentic systems.
EU-Startups had previously covered Xoople before its latest round, Qbeast before its 2025 raise, and DataCrunch before its Series A, which suggests these companies are part of a continuing build-out rather than isolated announcements.
In that context, Keepler’s sale is consistent with a broader pattern in which AI and data capability is being accumulated both through venture funding and through acquisition.
“Technology is evolving at extraordinary speed, and AI and data are now central to how companies reinvent their businesses, stay competitive and improve their resilience in the current context,” says Mercedes Oblanca, Market Unit Lead for Spain and Portugal at Accenture.
“By bringing Keepler into Accenture, we further strengthen our end-to-end AI and data capabilities as well as our agentic AI solutions. Combined with our deep industry, functional and technology expertise, this enables us to support clients as they transform their organizations by harnessing the full potential of AI adoption across their value chains in a secure and responsible way,” Mercedes adds.
Founded in 2018, Keepler offers AI and data capabilities that cover the end-to-end value chain, from defining a data strategy and building cloud-native data foundations to deploying advanced analytics, gen AI and agentic AI that embed intelligence into core business processes.
With a value-realisation approach supported by secure, modern data platforms and data readiness, Keepler focuses on industrialised delivery, ethics, compliance and robust observability to optimise automation and decision-making.
This helps organisations modernise their data architecture, implement DataOps and MLOps at scale and activate AI across the enterprise to deliver tangible business impact.
More than 240 Keepler professionals will join Accenture. The company, with presence in Madrid, London and Lisbon, has a team that includes technical architects, data scientists, analysts and software engineers.
Read the orginal article: https://www.eu-startups.com/2026/04/accenture-acquires-spains-keepler-to-deepen-ai-and-data-capabilities-in-spain-and-emea/
