Startups in the Barcelona Supercomputing Center’s AI Factory Accelerator Programme can now access select services directly through the NVIDIA Inception portal, NVIDIA announced. The accelerator programme is now in full operation following an initial pilot initiative, giving companies access to sovereign compute resources, technical support and training.
NVIDIA reported that the BSC AI Factory has delivered more than 800 services to public and private sector clients since launching in April 2025. The installation is Spain's first AI factory and ranks among the first in Europe. Compute resources rely on MareNostrum 5, the center's public infrastructure powered by NVIDIA accelerated computing. An upcoming hardware extension of MareNostrum 5 will deliver supercomputing access through the BSC facility and other planned AI factories across Europe.
Members of NVIDIA Inception receive training through open courses from the NVIDIA Deep Learning Institute. The program also supplies participating startups with business mentoring, venture capital introductions and technical resources to complement the supercomputing center's infrastructure.
Three Inception members earned AI Champion awards at the accelerator's pilot demo day. Qatium deployed its Neural Water Intelligence technology, using proprietary models trained on MareNostrum 5 alongside the NVIDIA cuGraph library, PhysicsNeMo framework and Nemotron open models to serve more than 250 utilities across 16 countries. BSC spin-off OneCareAI used NVIDIA NIM microservices to detect hidden atrial fibrillation in electrocardiograms to flag stroke risks early. Avatia constructed an agentic coworker system for pharmaceutical representatives and doctors, tapping NIM microservices, the Nemotron 3 model family and the NeMo Curator library.
Seven other startups belong to the BSC AI Factory roster: Agrikola AI, Elna Health, Lokutor, Montevive AI, Oppy, Pack2Earth and Up2Smart. Their work covers precision agriculture, medical imaging, speech services, enterprise security, sales intelligence and sustainable packaging. Projects under development across the group include robotic crop protection without chemicals, biobased compostable materials designed to replace petroleum plastics, and tools to detect breast cancer subtypes prior to biopsy.
