€1.45m · Other round · Software · San Sebastián, Spain
SafeLoc Systems has raised €1.45m to industrialise its real-time location technology and expand internationally. Kutxa Fundazioa led the round, joined by BeAble Capital and Basque Tek Ventures; Kutxa says the capital will support industrial growth and overseas expansion.
From proximity alerts to operating data
The San Sebastián company builds real-time location systems around ultra-wideband radio. A 2026 Basque startup dossier describes a platform that tracks people and assets with centimetre-level accuracy and is designed to integrate with existing industrial infrastructure. That matters in plants where metal, machinery and moving vehicles make ordinary positioning tools unreliable, and where a location alert must arrive before a worker or vehicle enters a dangerous zone.
SafeLoc is selling more than an alarm layer. The same position data can support asset traceability and workflow analysis, linking a safety budget to productivity and operating-control use cases. According to company information reported by Cinco Días, its system can locate people and vehicles to within 10–30 centimetres, and customers include Gestamp, ArcelorMittal, Ternium and ABB. Those are company-supplied claims, but they show the commercial wedge: deployments begin with a concrete risk problem, then become useful infrastructure for monitoring how a facility actually moves.
Industrial scale is the next test
The round is intended to move SafeLoc from technical deployment to repeatable delivery. Hardware installation, site calibration and integration with plant systems can make each project expensive to reproduce; international growth therefore depends on standardising deployment without losing accuracy in different physical environments. This is an inference from the company’s product architecture and stated use of funds, rather than a disclosed operating target.
SafeLoc is already present in Spain and Mexico and names Poland and Morocco as its next markets, with France, Italy, Portugal, Germany and the Czech Republic also in view, according to Cinco Días. The company emerged from CEIT research in radiofrequency and location technology; BeAble Capital describes the underlying system as technology developed by CEIT’s Electronic Systems and Communications group. That research lineage reduces the question of whether the signal can work; the financing is now aimed at proving that the product can be installed, supported and sold repeatedly across industrial markets.
