Prime Highlights
- Orbio has raised $21 million in a Series A round led by Dawn Capital.
- The startup uses AI agents to recruit, onboard and manage frontline workers.
Key Facts
- Orbio was founded in 2025 by former Amazon and Colvin executive Sergi Bastardas and his co-founders.
- The company serves customers including Poke and YUM! Brands, the parent company of Pizza Hut, Taco Bell and KFC.
Background
Orbio, a company focused on offering artificial intelligence services in work management for front-line employees, has raised an investment of $21 million in the series A funding round led by Dawn Capital.
The company was founded in 2025 by Sergi Bastardas, together with Nacho Travesí and Antonio Melé, and it is an automation platform that offers AI agents to automate organizational operations. The company focuses on industries with large frontline workforces, including healthcare, retail, logistics and hospitality.
Orbio’s platform uses AI agents to handle key workforce functions such as candidate interviews, employee onboarding, performance monitoring and daily engagement. The system is designed to help companies manage large teams more efficiently while improving employee support and retention.
According to the startup, Poke and YUM! Brands, the owners of Taco Bell, KFC, and Pizza Hut, are already among its clientele. According to the company, several customers have moved beyond pilot projects and are now deploying the software across broader operations.
One example cited by Orbio is healthcare provider The Stepping Stones Group, where the platform reportedly manages the company’s US operations and has helped increase the number of candidates progressing through the hiring process.
The company said its AI agents continuously exchange data, allowing businesses to improve recruitment, onboarding and retention strategies. Insights from employee engagement, hiring outcomes and exit interviews are used to refine workforce decisions over time.
Orbio operates in a growing market alongside workforce technology providers such as Paradox and WorkJam. Nonetheless, Orbio thinks that the biggest threat to their operation lies in conventional methods of workforce management, which involve manual operations.
At this stage, the company has managed to raise a total of $26 million in funding. This sum will be used to create more AI agents and increase the workforce. It is also worth noting that AI technology in workforce management will become increasingly important for billions of front-line workers globally.