Stratio

Stratio is a data management company founded in November 2013 by a team of seasoned engineers, including Oscar Méndez Soto and Ernesto Funes, with the goal of helping businesses transform their digital strategies around big data and artificial intelligence. Méndez, who now serves as Chairman, and Funes, the Chief Revenue Officer, both have extensive backgrounds in technology and entrepreneurship, having previously founded and sold Paradigma Digital to Indra. Their collective experience in software development and business has shaped Stratio's trajectory. The company has steadily grown, securing a Series B funding round of €13 million in 2018 and a significant €65 million Series C round in 2022, led by InfraVia Growth with participation from Adara Ventures.

The core of Stratio's offering is its Generative AI Data Fabric platform, a comprehensive suite of tools designed to manage the entire data lifecycle. The platform addresses a common enterprise challenge: making sense of data scattered across various silos and locations. It achieves this by creating a unified business data layer, which virtualizes data without moving it from its source, thereby ensuring security and compliance. This enables functionalities like automatic data discovery, governance, quality control, and the application of a semantic business layer to give technical data meaning. The platform is modular, allowing clients to start with specific solutions like metadata management or data quality and scale up as needed. Stratio serves large to medium enterprises across sectors like banking, insurance, retail, and manufacturing, with a client roster that includes major names like BBVA, Santander, and HSBC.

A key feature of Stratio's platform is its Generative AI engine, which allows non-technical business users to interact with complex enterprise data using natural language. This user-friendly interface enables employees to ask business-related questions—such as sales forecasts or customer behavior analysis—and receive instant, accurate answers without needing to write code or wait for reports from data teams. The system is designed to be secure, as the generative AI operates within the company's own systems and respects existing data access rules. This approach aims to democratize data access and accelerate data-driven decision-making across organizations. By automating many data management tasks, Stratio's platform can deliver data management projects significantly faster than traditional methods, helping companies to accelerate their adoption of cloud technologies and launch new digital services more rapidly.

Keywords: data fabric, generative AI, big data, data management, data virtualization, business intelligence, data governance, artificial intelligence, semantic layer, enterprise software