Golden Owl
Golden Owl is a dual-use strategic anticipatory intelligence solution that transforms complex, fragmented external data into actionable intelligence and early-warning signals, supporting informed decision-making. Detect. Decide. Dominate.
Mission
In an age of information overload, decision paralysis, and cognitive fatigue, we transform complexity into strategic clarity to strengthen resilience, developing structured, sovereign intelligence that supports European technological autonomy.
Problem
The information that determines an outcome increasingly sits outside the organization, fragmented across the open, deep, and dark web, in every language, and it arrives too late. Threats move faster than internal systems can see: hybrid threats, foreign influence campaigns, disinformation, and fraud are planned and coordinated in external ecosystems long before they reach an institution. Teams face information overload and decision paralysis, sourcing multiple vendors, running manual OSINT, and stitching disconnected reports together themselves, reacting late because the signal surfaced somewhere no one was watching.
Solution
Golden Owl is a dual-use anticipatory intelligence solution built on a foundation of OSINT, data fusion, verification, and contextualization, drawing on 10,000+ sources across the open, deep, and dark web, omnilingual, real-time, and continuous, with a non-intrusive architecture that never accesses the client's internal data. It is delivered as three layers of one intelligence ecosystem: NOCTUA, an Intelligence-as-a-Service (IaaS) platform to investigate, analyze, and transform fragmented information into actionable intelligence (research, due diligence, monitoring); STRIX, an Anticipatory Intelligence Operating System that deploys autonomous Cells and interoperable Grids to monitor environments, detect emerging signals, and deliver persistent situational awareness; and OTUS, a global, governed Human Intelligence Network of vetted investigators, analysts, forensic specialists, and subject-matter experts that validates, enriches, and expands intelligence beyond what technology alone can provide.
Dual-use: serves security, defense, and institutional protection alongside business intelligence, from one solution.
Anticipatory and early-warning: detects emerging signals before they surface in internal systems or mainstream reporting.
Non-intrusive, with no access to internal data.
Explainable and traceable intelligence, every finding connected to its source.- Access to non-indexed information across open, deep, and dark web; omnilingual, real-time, continuous.
Scalable architecture, from individual Cells to full systems; rapid deployment in cloud, hybrid, or on-premises.
Three layers, one ecosystem: NOCTUA (investigate), STRIX (monitor and anticipate), OTUS (governed human intelligence).
Certified: ENISA, AENOR (JEI), ISO 27001, ENS; aligned with EU AI Act and NIS 2.
Market Opportunity
Market size
Golden Owl addresses the rapidly expanding global market for external intelligence, OSINT, risk intelligence, and AI-enabled decision-support solutions, driven by increasing geopolitical uncertainty, hybrid threats, regulatory pressure, and the growing need for real-time situational awareness across both public and private sectors.
The opportunity spans multiple industries, with particularly strong applicability in maritime and logistics, where ports, shipowners, operators, insurers, and supply-chain organizations increasingly require continuous external surveillance, early-warning capabilities, and intelligence on geopolitical, security, operational, and competitive risks.
Target customers
B2B and B2G, across industries including financial services and insurance, defense and security, public sector, energy, mining, logistics and transportation, industry and manufacturing, and consulting. In maritime specifically: shipowners and operators, ports and terminals, classification societies, maritime insurers, and logistics providers. Buyers are typically risk, compliance, security, intelligence, and investigations functions.
Go-to-Market Strategy
Contribution to academia and defense, through published research papers on foreign influence campaigns.
Exit Strategy
Not relevant at this stage.
Traction
Stage: early stage, opening the market.
Funding: EUR 1.4M seed round led by First Drop (with NEOTEC/CDTI, ENISA, IVF).
Certifications: ENISA, AENOR (JEI), ISO 27001, ENS.
Full three-layer ecosystem live (NOCTUA, STRIX, OTUS).
Published research (The Ceuta Mobilisation Network) cited in Fox News, Euronews, El Pais, Die Presse, The Sun, Moncloa.
Recognized: APTE 2025 Top 100; El Referente Top 26 Startups to follow in 2026.
Business Model
B2B and B2G revenue through software licensing, subscription, and on-premise deployment. Delivered as Platform, Operating System, and API/MCP, across the three products (NOCTUA, STRIX, OTUS), with rapid deployment in cloud, hybrid, or on-premises. OTUS engagements are structured so the delivering specialist is always paid, with Golden Owl retaining a margin.
R&D and product development (the NOCTUA, STRIX, and OTUS platforms and their data infrastructure), intelligence operations and specialist-network development, research and academic/defense contribution, security and certification (ISO 27001, ENS), and go-to-market.
Financials
- Golden Owl has secured EUR 1.4M in seed funding, combining private investment led by First Drop with public innovation financing through NEOTEC/CDTI, ENISA, and IVF, supporting product development, commercialization, and international expansion.
- The company operates a scalable B2B/B2G model combining software subscriptions and licensing, enterprise and on-premise deployments, API/MCP access, and specialized intelligence services, creating diversified recurring and project-based revenue streams.
Team
Team size approximately 11-50.
Founders and key team members:
Ana Beik, Founder & CEO, experience in banking, risk management, M&A, international operations, OSINT, and journalism; PhD candidate in International Law.
Sabi Soltani, Co-founder & CTO, data architecture, AI, and multi-agent systems.
Marga Herrero, CBO.
Giacomo Gori, CISO, PhD in Cybersecurity.
Tal Hagin, Director of OTUS, OSINT, information warfare, and media literacy; M.A. in Armed Forces & Security Studies.
Raquel Serradilla, Principal Strategist.
Funding
Golden Owl raised a EUR 1.4 million seed round led by First Drop, with NEOTEC (CDTI), ENISA, and IVF.
Contact Information
Ana Beik, CEO, ceo@goldenowl.ai, LinkedIn Profile.
Tal Hagin, Director of OTUS, th@goldenowl.ai, LinkedIn Profile
Address: Datintel S.L., Alicante Science Park, West Campus of the University of Alicante, 03005, Alicante, Spain
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