About Qbeast
Qbeast is a spin-off that originated at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC). Qbeast focuses on the analysis of Big Data with Data Leverage, providing great insights while accessing only the minimum quantity of raw data.
Our goal is to help companies get the insights they need faster and with fewer resources.
Cesare Cugnasco, PhD – CEO of Qbeast
From projects to use cases
The Qbeast framework has been partially developed in several European projects like the Human Brain Project, I-BiDaaS and QUAKE, where BSC acts as a technological partner. Qbeast has helped in a number of use cases to speed up data processes. Projects include HBP Brain Atlas, CaixaBank, Telefonica I+D and FIAT Research.
From the research lab to the industry
Our technology is the result of years of research at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center. The key focus of our research was to merge the scalability and flexibility of Big Data software with the superior efficiency of high-performance computing technology. From this marriage, a new, innovative architecture to store, organize and analyze data was born.
About the name
We named it Qbeast (read as “kju:bi:st”), the cubistic beast, as an homage to the cubism art movement pioneered by Pablo Picasso that revolutionized the way we can represent a 3-dimensional world into a 2D canvas. Similarly, Qbeast disrupts the way multi-dimensional information is organized into linear storage.
Our mission is to empower society to take full advantage of Big Data

Our team
Founders

Cesare Cugnasco, PhD
CEO & Founder
Inventor of the patented technology and researcher on Big Data and HPC.

Clemens Jesche
CBDO & Co-founder
Business Consultant and Account Management experience for B2B Treasury Management software providers.

Pol Santamaria
CTO & Co-founder
Big Data engineer with experience in industrial and academic European projects.

Nicolas Escartin
COO & Co-founder
Corporate finance professional and startup advisor. IESE MBA.
Dev team

Paola Pardo
Big Data Engineer
Advisors

Raül Sirvent, PhD
Strategy Advisor
15 years of experience in European Union research.

Ricard Gavalda, PhD
Strategy & Scientific Advisor
30 years of experience in academic research. Entrepreneur and CEO of Amalfi Analytics.
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