EU-Startups has learned that Orbio, a startup out of Madrid innovating HR through AI, has raised €6.4 million to accelerate the rollout of the “world’s first AI-native human capital management (HCM) system“.
The latest round was led by Visionaries Club, who doubled down after investing in an earlier round, with additional participation from Plus Partners, Enzo Ventures and 2100 Ventures.
“We’re proud to have built the first AI-native system that brings automation, intelligence and speed to HR in a way the industry has never seen before,”said Sergi Bastardas, Orbio’s CEO and Co-founder. “Companies today take months to hire, lose their best candidates because they can’t move fast enough, and waste huge amounts of time on tasks that add no value. Orbio changes that completely.”
Orbio’s platform integrates autonomous, conversational agents that operate around the clock to manage the entire employee lifecycle – from recruitment and onboarding to development and retention. By automating processes that typically overwhelm HR departments, Orbio allows teams to shift their focus from administration to becoming true strategic partners and growth levers inside organisations.
Since launching only three months ago by Sergi Bastardas (CEO, former Founder of Colvin), Nacho Travesí (CRO, former Co-founder of Cobee (with successful exit)) and Antonio Melé (CTO, Founder and former CTO of Nucoro), Orbio has already managed more than 60,000 candidate interviews for major employers including AT&T, Vicio, Honest Greens, and Verisure.
Customers have reported:
- 80% faster hiring cycles, enabling them to secure talent ahead of competitors.
- Up to 20% reduction in early turnover within the first 20 days.
- 99% candidate satisfaction across the interview process.
“These results confirm what we believe: Orbio’s AI-native approach has the potential to fundamentally redefine HR,” Bastardas added. “By combining speed, precision and data-driven decisions, we’re building the strategic partner that companies need to attract, develop and retain talent at scale.”
The new funding will accelerate Orbio’s product development, commercial growth, and global expansion. The company plans to expand into new European and Latin American markets, while deepening its footprint in existing where they operate including Spain, Portugal, Mexico, the UK, Italy and the US.
Orbio will also grow its team with AI specialists and build out an advisory board to support its international growth.
Orbio’s funding follows closely on the heels of deskbird’s €19 million round for its workplace management platform, as reported by EU-Startups. Taken together, the two announcements highlight continued investor interest in HR and workplace-related software in Europe, with solutions spanning from hybrid work coordination to AI-driven human capital management.
Orbio’s round adds to a series of notable HR and workplace-related investments across Europe this year. Most recently (as in yesterday), deskbird secured €19 million for its workplace management platform. Earlier in the year, Skillvue raised €5.5 million to support skills-based hiring, Shyfter collected €1.5 million to expand its shift-scheduling solution, and Shakers attracted €14 million for its AI-driven talent matching platform.
Larger players have also drawn capital, with Factorial extending its unicorn status through an additional €110 million raise. Together, these announcements point to sustained investor appetite for software that addresses different stages of the employee lifecycle, from recruitment and scheduling to benefits and retention.
Isabella Yamamoto, investor at Visionaries Club said: “HR has long been defined by scattered point solutions that fail to deliver across the full workflow and very high back-office burden. We saw that CHROs were asking for a next- generation HCM system that removes the need to switch between tools, capture data and truly automate work. Orbio is tackling that, starting with hiring. Thanks to the team’s deep HR expertise, they’ve already reached a point, just four months in, where they’re working with some of the world’s largest enterprises.”
Orbio is backed by a board of business angels and advisors across key markets. This includes experts in the HRTech space like Phil Chambers (former COO of Workday and Founder of Peakon), Borja Aranguren (Founder of Cobee) and Carlos Fernández Elviro (former COO JobandTalent / current COO Docplanner), Thiago Pessoa (Founding Team of Wellhub).
Read the orginal article: https://www.eu-startups.com/2025/09/spanish-ai-native-system-orbio-has-raised-over-e6-million-for-its-hrtech-offering/
