Nonconformist by nature. 15 years managing energy our way.
Our way means never accepting that saving energy has to mean ripping out what you already own. Smarkia makes sites run themselves — turning wasted energy into savings, comfort, and lasting value for the world's most serious operators.
I grew up in León, a small city in the north of Spain, far from any tech hub. Some of my earliest memories are of playing hide-and-seek with my brother through the factory my father directed, a place that made electricity meters.
Energy was everywhere in my childhood, and my father made sure of it, forever taking us to see things connected with it. One has stayed with me ever since. I must have been ten, back in the 1980s, when an exhibition came through on a train, city by city, each carriage devoted to a different source — solar, wind, and hydro — with working models explaining how each one worked.
Those meters were blunt instruments. They told you how much energy you had used, but never how, when, or where. Today that data can be broken apart to show exactly where it goes. But data has never been enough on its own. You have to know how to read it. That has been my mission for thirty years, and it is why I built Smarkia.
I have always been a nonconformist, and that is ultimately what set my course. When my father's company was bought by a multinational, I was just starting university, and the two of us built one of our own, distributing measurement and control systems. That is where I lived the business world firsthand. From the inside, I saw the limits of the big multinationals in the sector — they simply did not innovate at the pace their customers were asking for. So after the 2008 crisis, as the cloud and SaaS emerged around 2011, I knew it was time to do things on my own terms.
Doing things on my own terms meant work I could actually feel. I wanted to be close to the people who manage energy, to make their jobs easier, and to stop the waste that quietly leaks away around them, day after day.
An upbringing that taught me what energy really means left me with the values Smarkia runs on today: hard work, honesty, and that same nonconformist streak — questioning everything and never giving up.
Smarkia competes with the giants of energy management, and I am the first to say their products are impressive. But I have never believed this is won on software alone. What we offer is harder to copy because it is older than any technology: we treat your goals as if they were ours, and we give you everything we have to get you there. Not the distance of a vendor, but the trust you would place in someone genuinely on your side.
That, to me, is a true relationship.
I have never been much good at conforming, and that is ultimately what set my course
Founder & CEO
Our mission
Save our customers a billion dollars a year in energy.
And cut the carbon that comes with it. That is the future we are building toward, one optimized site at a time.
Verdantix Smart Innovator 2025
Recognized by Verdantix, the leading energy-management-software analyst, as market-leading across monitoring, operations, and carbon.
Certified, not claimed
ISO 27001 for information security, audited annually by an accredited body.
What we believe
How we work.
We do the work
We are a partner, not a vendor. We act on your behalf and stay in it alongside your team.
Built to be trusted
Enterprise-grade security and standards, ISO 27001 and 50001, because scale demands it.
The long game
We earn the next site by saving on this one. Relationships outlast transactions.
True automation
Others monitor and report. We optimize energy in real time, so the outcome is automatic.
Proof over promises
We show savings measured, not modeled. Every number we put in front of you is verified.
Non-conformist
We challenge how energy has always been run, then prove the better way on your meter.
Our history
2011
Founded in León, Spain
Where it all began — Smarkia is founded, with energy at its core.
2013
Proven across borders
The platform proves itself beyond its home market and starts operating internationally.
2018
Deep learning, before it was called AI
We put deep learning to work on energy data years before the industry called it "AI."
2021
First US contract
Smarkia signs its first U.S. contract, with Goldman Sachs Renewable Power.
2022
From first US client to investor
Our first U.S. client, now MN8, becomes an investor — alongside Repsol.
2025
Smart Innovator
Verdantix recognizes Smarkia as a Smart Innovator.
2026
Smarkia Corp.
Smarkia Corp. is established as our U.S. company.
