Orbio raises $21 million to automate hiring and onboarding for frontline workers

Enterprise startup Orbio has raised $21 million in Series A funding to automate hiring and onboarding for frontline workers using AI agents. The company aims to replace fragmented legacy management processes in sectors like healthcare and retail with autonomous AI-driven workflows.
Why it matters
It demonstrates the growing trend of applying AI agents to operational and HR tasks in industries that rely heavily on non-desk workers.
After Sergi Bastardas decade at Amazon and floriculture startup Colvin, one thing always stood out — the feeling that there wasn t enough efficient “human infrastructure” to manage the workers behind the scenes. He took this feeling and, in 2025, alongside his co-founders Nacho Travesí and Antonio Melé, launched Orbio , an enterprise startup that helps businesses manage frontline workers — using AI agents, of course.
The article is a standard business news report on a funding round.
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