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Orbio Raises $21 Million to Automate AI Hiring and Workforce Management Platform
Orbio has raised $21 million in a Series A funding round led by Dawn Capital to grow its AI-powered workforce management platform. The startup uses AI agents to automate hiring, onboarding and employee management for frontline workers and already counts major brands, including YUM! Brands, among its customers.
Orbio, an enterprise workforce management startup which provides AI platforms for frontline workers, announced it raised $21 million in series A funding.
Dawn Capital led the funding round, which landed at a time when companies are increasingly looking for AI for automating, hiring, onboarding and employment management.
Founded To Overcome Challenges Of The Frontline Workforce
Founded in 2025 by Sergi Bastardas, Nacho Travesí and Antonio Melé Bastardas. Before launching Bastradas spent a decade at Amazon and floriculture startup Colvin, which he identified after seeing what he called lack of efficient human infrastructure for managing frontline workers.
The company specializes in sectors like healthcare, retail, logistics & hospitality where you find workforce management remains fragmented and reliant on human-based systems like spreadsheets, phone calls and disparate systems.
Bastardas added that the objective is to help enterprises automate workforce operations while enhancing engagement and support of employees.
AI agents take care of hiring, onboarding and employee management
Orbio's platform is powered by AI agents designed to manage different stages of the employee lifecycle called Maria, Daniel and Claire.
Agents could interview job applicants, determine whether candidates are qualified for positions, keep tabs on employee productivity and perform daily check-ins with employees. Information collected by every agent is shared across the platform to optimize workforce choices.
For example, onboarding data, according to Bastardas, can help elevate recruiting quality while exit interviews reveal why employees leave and engagement data can identify retention risks before they turn into longer term issues.
Increased Funding for Customers and Expanded Usage
According to the company, YUM! brands and Poke the platform is already being used by brands to manage frontline employees.
Bastardas said multiple customers have graduated from pilot programs to deploying the software at full scale. Orbio is now responsible for the US operation of behavioral health provider The Stepping Stones Group, with the business claiming 20% more candidates successfully proceeded through the hiring process.
Bastardas said Orbio competes with companies including Paradox and WorkJam, but its biggest competitor is still antiquated workforce management practices.
Visionaries and 2100 Ventures completed the startup's current rounds, bringing total funding to $26 million. Orbio intends to utilize the most recent funding to grow its group and construct more AI agents as it scales its platform.
The company recognizes a major opportunity to create better work solutions for the 2.7 billion frontline workers globally in places like healthcare, retail, logistics and hospitality who keep businesses running which Bastardas noted.
Source: TechCrunch
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