AIs have started doing job interviews, and the interviewees are leaving them horrified. It is a palpable reality in a segment that is experiencing its particular revolution, and that is where it comes in. Orbiuma Madrid startup that has jumped on that wave. And he has done it in a big way.
How it all started. In 2025 three entrepreneurs (in the image, from left to right, Nacho Travesí (CRO), Sergi Bastardas (CEO) and Antonio Melé (CTO)) decided to solve a clear problem that they detected in the industry: the “human infrastructure” to manage the companies’ workers was not efficient enough. To solve this, they created Orbio, a startup that precisely helps manage workforces thanks to the use of AI agents.
18 million euros. This Monday, the company announced that it has closed a Series A financing round of 21 million dollars (almost 18.2 million euros). The financing was led by Dawn Capital, but other investment companies such as Visionaries VC, Plus Partners and Enzo Ventures have also participated. This round adds to the one that was made in September of last year, and in which they raised 6.5 million euros.
Assault on the US. This injection of capital will allow this technology company to triple its team of engineers in Madrid, but the intention is to also open an office in New York to compete head to head with other native platforms created in Silicon Valley.
Robotic interviewers. The fundamental pillar of the platform created by Orbio are the language models that, according to the company, have been polished to maintain fluid and technically rigorous conversations with job candidates. Those “robotic interviews” with AI agents They can be done through both voice and text channels. There is another differential detail in these processes: Orbio’s AI questions, for example, about the candidate’s experience, evaluates their skills and resolves doubts about the position in real time. The promise: eliminate biases from human interviewers and screen thousands of applicants in record time.
A platform for those “frontline” workers. Orbio’s technological solution it is not thought to interview professionals who want to occupy traditional office positions (known as white collar), but is aimed at that mass market of frontline workers. Sectors such as delivery, logistics distribution centers or restaurant chains often suffer from very high staff turnover rates that exhaust the resources of HR departments. Orbio not only automates the interview process: it is capable of collecting documents, verifying backgrounds, and facilitating the onboarding process. The idea: cover job demand in hours or a few days instead of weeks.
But. Of course, the automation of these processes It dehumanizes them and generates a clear ethical and social debate about the current situation of the labor market. That a machine ends up “scoring” you after these interviews is disturbing, and above all it means that you give up things like intuition and empathy in the personnel selection process. At Orbio they argue that this filtering precisely allows Human Resources managers to dedicate their time exclusively to the final phases of the process, treating the preselected candidates individually with much greater attention.
If AI solves a problem, reward. The investment round is the validation of an idea that is beginning to gain strength: there are companies that are taking advantage of AI to propose solutions to real problems. In this, as in other cases, due to the efficiency of its use, something that is crucial in massive processes such as choosing candidates for a job, but also in the field of customer service, where AI is also infiltrating in leaps and bounds. The Madrid startup has been able to identify a bottleneck, and of course its technological solution has already attracted several business clients.
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