Orbio

Orbio AI is a Spanish company that sells an AI-native HR system aimed at enterprises and organizations with large workforces and high hiring volumes. The product is delivered as a set of specialized AI agents — named Maria, Daniel and Claire — that operate across a customer's existing HR stack to run processes end to end, from job posting and sourcing through interviewing, candidate assessment, onboarding, ongoing employee check-ins and retention insight. The recruitment agent (Maria) drafts job descriptions, sources and screens candidates, manages the hiring pipeline and schedules interviews; other agents monitor employee output, run daily check-ins and conduct exit interviews. The company describes a feedback loop in which each agent's data informs the others: onboarding signals inform recruiting quality, exit interviews recalibrate hiring criteria, and engagement data flags retention risk.

The platform includes a built-in applicant tracking system with custom career pages and source tracking, candidate matching, and 24/7 multilingual outreach across voice calls, WhatsApp and SMS, with support stated for more than 60 languages. Orbio positions itself for regulated enterprise environments, citing GDPR alignment and EU AI Act readiness, ISO 27001 certification and a SOC 2 Type II audit, EU-localized LLM inference for EU clients, a contractual commitment not to use customer data for model training, prompt-injection defenses, role-based access with immutable audit trails, mandatory human validation of critical HR decisions, and explainable outputs with source references and confidence scoring. Listed integrations include Workday, BambooHR, Meta4, Bizneo, Lever, Teamtailor, Bullhorn and Salesforce.

Customer engagements follow a four-step delivery model — analyze existing workflows, configure agents to company processes and policies, deploy into existing systems, and optimize based on feedback. Orbio frames its addressable population as the roughly 2.7 billion frontline workers in healthcare, retail, logistics and hospitality, most of whom lack a corporate email address.

Founding story

Sergi Bastardas spent a decade at Amazon and at floriculture startup Colvin, where he was CEO and founder, and concluded that companies lacked efficient "human infrastructure" to manage behind-the-scenes workers. In 2025 he founded Orbio with Nacho Travesí, an HR specialist and former founder of employee-benefits platform Cobee (acquired by Pluxee Group), and Antonio Melé, former founder and CTO of B2B wealth-management platform Nucoro (acquired by Backbase). Bastardas is CEO, Travesí is CRO and Melé is CTO. The founders cited HR teams losing more than 60% of their time to administrative work, monthly turnover rates reaching 30% in some sectors, and forecasts that over 40% of core skills will change by 2030.

Business model

Orbio sells software to employers, primarily enterprises and organizations managing large frontline workforces. Deployments are consultative: the team analyzes existing HR workflows, configures agents to the customer's processes and policies, integrates with incumbent HR systems and ATS platforms, and then iterates against milestones and measurable outcomes.

Traction

Customers named at the time of the Series A include Poke, YUM! Brands and The Stepping Stones Group, where Orbio runs the company's full U.S. operation with 20% more candidates progressing to hire. The company said customers were moving from pilots to full deployments. Marketing materials claim time-to-hire reductions of up to 80% across roles.

Latest developments

On 14 June 2026, TechCrunch reported Orbio had announced a $21 million Series A led by Dawn Capital, with total funding of $26 million to date from investors including Visionaries and 2100 Ventures. The company said proceeds would fund hiring and the development of additional AI agents.