Information is power, but too much of it becomes a problem. Although not for everyone. Marc Serra Majem and Juan Ramón González saw a business opportunity in the large volume of data that companies must process in real time. “We detected this unmet need in the market from Mética Partners, a company co-founded by both of us that employs 70 people, and we decided to create another startup for this new business area,” explains Serra.
Still within Mética Partners, the entrepreneurs carried out a proof of concept that included aid of 450,000 euros from the Center for Technological Development and Innovation of Spain (CDTI) plus 150,000 euros of their own resources. After about two years of development, the result was a tool that “filters information, but without being a bottleneck,” the co-founder explains plainly. To market the tool, the startup Aqtiva Data Technologies was established at the beginning of 2021, which currently operates under the commercial name Omma Data. The shareholders include Mética Partners, Marc Serra Majem, Juan Ramón González and Astrid Camprubí. The co-founder, who came in as CEO, is no longer on the management team.
“We help companies make responsible use of data, guaranteeing that the information is correct and that the results they obtain from it will not give erroneous indicators or results,” explains Marc Serra. These are financial, human resources or company public data. Omma Data’s clients are mainly multinationals “because they are the first to have had to deal with data,” says the entrepreneur. Clients include Randstad, Parques Reunidos, Vocento, Zurich and Banco Santander. They operate in Spain and Latin America and the founders are looking for a partner with whom to land in the US market. In parallel, the startup has won another grant from the CDTI of around 350,000 euros to evolve its tool and be able to determine if a piece of data is incorrect and find the origin of the error.
Based in Barcelona, ??where it shares space with Mética Partners, Omma Data employs nine people including the founding partners. In 2023, the turnover of the emerging company was 90,000 euros and the entrepreneurs plan to grow by 20% this year, up to 110,000 euros in turnover.
