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On 26 June we received the Aster Award for Best Entrepreneurial Project at Baluarte — the distinction that ESIC University grants together with the Club de Marketing de Navarra and that, since 1982, recognises those who build bridges between academic training and business life. For us it is a special recognition: it comes home, to Navarra, where it all began and where we still design and manufacture every one of our devices.
And it came with a detail we're particularly fond of: the ceremony took place in a building where our technology was already at work. Baluarte itself has MICA devices monitoring its indoor air quality. Collecting an award literally surrounded by our own sensors sums up rather well what we do.
We spend more than 90% of our time indoors, and indoor air can be considerably more polluted than outdoor air. Yet for years indoor air quality wasn't managed as what it is: a critical indicator of health, wellbeing and efficiency. When Xabier Aláez and María Figols founded inBiot, they spotted that gap. There were basic sensors with no analytical capability and, at the other extreme, hugely expensive industrial systems built for laboratories. What was missing was a solution combining scientific precision, connectivity and ease of deployment in a single ecosystem.
That idea gave rise to our infrastructure: the MICA family of devices, which measure parameters such as CO₂, particulate matter, VOCs and formaldehyde in real time, and the My inBiot cloud platform, which turns that data into useful information for decision-making. As Xabier Aláez, CEO and co-founder, puts it, the company started by "filling a gap in the market," and today indoor air quality has become "a strategic variable for health, sustainability and efficiency."
inBiot is a Navarran company in the most literal sense: founded, manufactured and managed from Navarra. All of our manufacturing, configuration and validation takes place in Mutilva. In a sector where the norm is to outsource production or relocate R&D, we've shown that it is possible to build an advanced industrial technology company, with real export capacity, from Navarra's productive fabric.
That local root is not at odds with a European and international vocation. We take part as a Technology Provider in K-HEALTHinAIR, a Horizon Europe project investigating the relationship between indoor air quality and health in real-world settings such as hospitals, homes and schools. In 2024 we were recognised with the BoostUp! Iberia award, driven by EIT Manufacturing (European Institute of Innovation & Technology). And today we have more than 5,000 devices deployed across more than 30 countries in Europe, the Americas and the Middle East.
Behind the figures there are people breathing better. In the UK, Surrey Fire and Rescue Service deployed our technology to monitor firefighters' exposure to smoke and pollutants during training; what used to be invisible is now managed in real time. In Lisbon, Novobanco's new campus relied on MICA WELL devices to back its WELL Platinum certification with data — the most demanding level of the international healthy-buildings standard. Technology made in Mutilva caring for the air in hospitals, offices and public spaces across much of the world.
For María Figols, CSO and co-founder, the award recognises "a way of doing things: developing advanced technology from Navarra, with scientific rigour and local manufacturing, to solve a health problem that affects us all" — a milestone she shares with the international team that made it possible.
We receive this Aster at a time of sustained growth, with projected growth of close to 80% for 2026, driven by international expansion and by recurring revenue from My inBiot. But beyond the numbers, what stays with us is the meaning: an award at home that validates a way of understanding innovation and encourages us to keep turning indoor air into a measurable, actionable indicator at the service of people's health.
Our thanks to ESIC and the Club de Marketing de Navarra for this recognition. And thank you to the team, the partners and the clients who breathe this project with us every day.
