Ajuntament de Calafell

What Ajuntament de Calafell does

Ajuntament de Calafell is the municipal government (city council) of Calafell, a coastal municipality in the Baix Penedès comarca of Tarragona, Catalonia, Spain. The entity operates the Línia Verda (Green Line) municipal environmental services platform, a bilingual (Catalan/Spanish) web portal and mobile application that enables direct citizen-government communication on environmental matters. The platform serves two primary user groups: resident citizens, who can report municipal incidents such as broken streetlights, damaged waste containers, and blocked drains with geolocation-tagged photo documentation, and local businesses, which access environmental compliance consultations and waste-management guidance. Additional services include an interactive map of environmental points of interest, waste collection schedules, recycling guidance, circular economy information (including WEEE recycling via a partnership with Ambilamp), environmental best-practice guides, educational resources, and a personal municipal citizen card (Tarjeta Ciudadana) for service authentication.

The platform's underlying technology is a web portal and cross-platform mobile application (available on iOS and Android) with geolocation-enabled incident reporting as its most distinctive feature. The application and platform are owned, operated, and maintained by GREEN TAL, S.A., a private technology company based in Las Rozas de Madrid, which acts as the data processor (encargado del tratamiento) under GDPR. Web hosting infrastructure is provided by DATA RECOVER S.L. The platform integrates regional environmental data from the Generalitat de Catalunya's XVPCA air quality monitoring network, positioning it within a broader Catalan regional environmental-information ecosystem. The "Línia Verde" mark is a registered trademark held by GREEN TAL, S.A., and the platform is deployed for multiple municipal clients (evidenced by the generic Línea Verde support site and the LINEA VERDE MUNICIPAL Facebook and Twitter accounts), of which Ajuntament de Calafell is one instance.

The business model is that of a free public municipal service with no commercial revenue. Ajuntament de Calafell funds the platform from its public budget, and the service is provided at no charge to citizens and businesses as part of statutory municipal responsibilities. There is no pricing model, no subscription tiers, and no GTM motion beyond citizen self-service access through the web portal, mobile app, and citizen card. Marketing is minimal and limited to organic social media and app-store presence. Because the entity is a municipal government rather than a commercial enterprise, revenue, funding rounds, M&A, and most traditional PE/VC/M&A analytical lenses do not apply; the relevant strategic and operational dynamics are public-sector service delivery, vendor dependency on GREEN TAL, S.A., and the structural protection of being a statutory municipal monopoly within Calafell's geographic boundaries.

Name

Ajuntament de Calafell

Legal name

Ajuntament de Calafell

Website

https://liniaverdacalafell.com

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

51–100 employees

Short description

Ajuntament de Calafell is the municipal government of Calafell, Spain, operating the Línia Verda platform — a bilingual web portal and mobile app enabling citizens and local businesses to report environmental incidents, access environmental consultations, and obtain recycling and waste-management information free of charge.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Calafell

HQ country

Spain

HQ region

Europe

Offices3 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Operations, Infrastructure, Others

Revenue model

1. Municipal Public Service: This is a free public service funded by the municipal government of Calafell. No commercial revenue is generated. The service is provided as part of municipal responsibilities to serve citizens and manage environmental matters.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

Ajuntament de Calafell operates the Línia Verda (Green Line) municipal environmental services platform, providing citizens and businesses with a web portal and mobile application to submit environmental queries to municipal experts, report municipal incidents such as broken streetlights and blocked drains, access waste collection schedules, environmental best-practice guides, and circular-economy information. The service is offered free of charge in Catalan and Spanish.

Product overview

Línia Verda Ajuntament de Calafell is a municipal environmental services platform operated by GREEN TAL, S.A. for the Ajuntament de Calafell. The platform consists of a web portal and mobile application providing environmental consultation services, incident reporting, environmental education resources, and citizen services. The core service enables citizens and businesses to submit environmental queries and report municipal issues. The platform integrates environmental guides, waste collection schedules, circular economy information, and a citizen card system into a unified municipal environmental services ecosystem.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Quantifiable outcome

• Streamlined incident reporting for municipal environmental issues

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature3 records

Partnerships

Two partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• GREEN TAL, S.A.coreTechnology or IntegrationGREEN TAL, S.A. is the author, owner, and operator of the Línea Verde application platform used by Ajuntament de Calafell. They act as the data processor (encargado del tratamiento) under GDPR, managing the technical infrastructure and app functionality for the municipal environmental services portal.
• Generalitat de CatalunyaminorOthersRegional government providing environmental monitoring data, air quality information from the Xarxa de Vigilància i Previsió de la Contaminació Atmosfèrica (XVPCA), and coordinating environmental policies affecting Calafell municipality.

Scale indicators1 record

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• Accela: Accela is a government software platform focused on permitting, licensing, code enforcement, and citizen service requests for state and local governments. It is a broad incumbent in the municipal digital-services space that competes for the same government-IT budget pool as the Línia Verda deployment.
• OpenGov: OpenGov provides a government technology platform for budgeting, procurement, permitting, and citizen services. It serves the same municipal buyer as Línia Verda and offers overlapping citizen-engagement capabilities, but across a much broader public-sector workflow footprint.
• Granicus: Granicus is a large government-experience cloud platform spanning communications, digital services, and records management for public-sector agencies. It is comparable in that it underpins many municipal digital citizen-service portals, though it is a broad incumbent rather than a niche environmental-services specialist.
• Tyler Technologies (Socrata / Data & Insights): Tyler Technologies, including its Socrata-derived Data & Insights offerings, provides a broad suite of software for public-sector agencies including citizen engagement and open-data portals. It addresses the same municipal buyer as the Línia Verda service but as a diversified public-sector software incumbent.

Emerging players

• Compology: Compology provides AI-camera-based container monitoring and waste-route optimization for municipal and hauler customers. It overlaps with the waste-management pillar of Línia Verda (Recollides, environmental incident reporting) but operates at the operational/IoT layer rather than the citizen-engagement layer.
• Rubicon Technologies: Rubicon offers a software and services platform for municipal and commercial waste and recycling operations, including citizen-facing notification tools. It is comparable to Línia Verda's waste-collection and circular-economy offerings, with a broader operational footprint in North America.
• Enevo: Enevo provides ultrasonic fill-level sensors and analytics for waste and recycling containers in municipal deployments. It addresses the same waste-management domain as Línia Verda's "Recollides" and "Punts d'Interès" modules but with hardware-driven operational data rather than citizen reporting.

Regional players

• FixMyStreet (mySociety): FixMyStreet, run by UK non-profit mySociety, is a citizen incident-reporting platform for street and environmental issues in the UK and several other geographies. It is directly comparable in functionality to Línia Verda's incident-reporting module but operates primarily in the UK, making it a regional rather than direct peer in Spain.

Direct peers

• SeeClickFix (CivicPlus): SeeClickFix, now part of CivicPlus, provides a citizen incident-reporting platform (streetlights, potholes, trash, etc.) used by hundreds of US municipalities via web and mobile apps with geolocation. It is the closest functional analogue to the Línia Verda incident-reporting module.
• ReCollect Systems: ReCollect provides waste collection scheduling, recycling lookup, and service-notification tools to municipalities, directly mirroring Calafell's "Recollides" sub-product and the recycling/circular-economy modules. It targets the same municipal environmental-services buyer as Línia Verda.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/LVmunicipal
• Facebookfacebook.com/LineaVerdeMunicipal
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/ajuntament-de-calafell

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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