OPTIMITIVE and Suma Capital agreement
Suma Capital, an independent manager specialized in sustainable investment and purpose-driven capital, has invested €1 million in OPTIMITIVE, a technology company focused on Real-Time Optimization of industrial processes using Artificial Intelligence. The investment, made through SC Venture via the early-stage fund SC Climate Tech Ventures, completes a €5 million Series A round, in which Cemex Ventures and TITAN Cement Group also participated as strategic co-investors.
This transaction takes place in a context in which energy-intensive industries are simultaneously facing the challenge of reducing their environmental footprint while maintaining competitiveness. In this scenario, data-driven operational optimization has become an immediate lever to improve efficiency and resilience, with a direct impact on energy costs and productivity.
Through its industrial AI platform OPTIBAT®, OPTIMITIVE applies Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning algorithms to optimize continuous manufacturing processes in real time in energy-intensive sectors such as cement, chemicals, petrochemicals, paper, and metals. OPTIBAT® integrates into the plant’s daily operations to reduce energy consumption and improve operational performance, achieving energy savings of up to 6% and production improvements of up to 10%, depending on the process and the conditions of each facility. These operational improvements allow industrial customers to achieve fast returns on investment and contribute to reducing emissions associated with energy consumption, while simultaneously strengthening their competitiveness.
In 2025, OPTIMITIVE experienced significant growth, enabling the company to build a team of more than 40 professionals and establish a global commercial presence, with its solution deployed in industrial plants across markets such as the United States, Mexico, India, Turkey, Egypt, and several European countries, among others.
OPTIMITIVE priorization
With this funding round, OPTIMITIVE will prioritize:
- Consolidation and growth of its current team
- International expansion and deployments in new geographies and industrial clients
- Product evolution and enhanced platform capabilities for new use cases
- Commercial growth and consolidation of its industrial customer base
Fernando de la Prida, CEO of OPTIMITIVE, stated:
“The closing of this investment round allows us to accelerate the global deployment of our technology and consolidate our value proposition in industries where every efficiency point counts. Moreover, doing so with Suma Capital—who, together with the rest of the co-investors, shares OPTIMITIVE’s purpose of building a more sustainable future through clean technologies—gives us confidence that we are doing so with the best possible partners.”
Josep Miquel Torregrosa, Partner at Suma Capital, added:
“OPTIMITIVE perfectly represents our objective of investing in applied technology that improves efficiency and reduces energy consumption in industry, with a clear value-creation logic based on increased productivity, cost reduction, and risk management. The company has demonstrated measurable results in complex industrial environments; our role will be to support the team as they continue to drive the global adoption and consolidation of the platform.”
About Suma Capital
Suma Capital is a leading alternative manager in responsible investment specialized in sustainability. Founded in 2007 and headquartered in Barcelona, with offices in Madrid and Paris, it manages more than €1.2 billion across three investment strategies that drive the ecological transition:
- SC Infra: Sustainable infrastructure for the energy transition and circular economy.
- SC Expansion: Capital for growing SMEs leading decarbonization processes.
- SC Venture: Investment in technology startups and scale-ups accelerating the climate transition.
Recognized as a European benchmark in impact investing, Suma Capital promotes a purpose-driven capital model that generates both economic and environmental value.
