Gyver Raises €1.4M Funding To Support Europe’s Industrial Workforce

The round was led by Brighteye, with participation from āltitude, Vento Ventures, Zanichelli Venture and existing investor Antler, alongside several angel investors.

Founded by Francesco Defendi, Leo Acciarri and Mattia Zarrelli, Gyver is building workforce infrastructure aimed at supporting Europe’s electrification, energy and industrial transformation.

As investment in renewable energy, data centres and grid modernisation accelerates across Europe, demand for skilled electrical workers is rising sharply.

Although the EU currently has around 28 million skilled blue-collar workers, industry estimates indicate that an additional 5.8 million workers will be needed by 2030.

Gyver’s AI-powered conversational hiring platform is designed to mirror the referral-driven and word-of-mouth hiring methods commonly used by electricians, while enabling employers to identify and connect with qualified workers more efficiently.

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Beyond recruitment, the company plans to expand into upskilling, training and workforce productivity solutions for electricians. In the long term, Gyver aims to develop modern technical tools for areas such as electrical design and PLC workflows to help improve productivity across skilled trades.

Gyver ultimately aims to evolve into a comprehensive workforce platform for electrical employers, offering tools for hiring, workforce management and worker enablement.

The newly raised funding will be used to further develop Gyver’s technology platform, with a particular focus on its AI agents and workflow systems, while also supporting the company’s expansion and enhancing the user experience for both electricians and employers.

Francesco Defendi, co-founder of Gyver, said: We want the job of an electrician to be as cool as being a VC or a famous entrepreneur. Electricians are the most important yet neglected workers category in the modern economy. They embody the combination of brain and manual craft that cannot be replaced by AI, yet they have been left behind by modern technology. The future of work in the AI age is the future of manual craft.