[Funding alert] Madrid-based Shakers Raises €6 Mn Seed Funding to Connect Spanish Companies
Oct 30, 2023 | By Startuprise
Shakers, a Madrid-based startup has secured €6 million in a seed round led by Adevinta Ventures, Brighteye Ventures, Athos Capital and Wayra.
Adevinta Ventures, whose parent company Adevinta owns InfoJobs, the primary job platform in Spain used by 70,000 companies to find the best talent; Brighteye Ventures, which recently raised a fund of 100 million euros to support European startups that help people learn and develop professionally; Athos Capital, one of the most active funds in Spain in the seed and series A phase; and Wayra, the main innovation programme open to Telefónica; with the participation of current investors Clave Capital and CDTI Innvierte, along with some business angels, among whom Hilario Albarracín (former president of KPMG).
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“Shakers was born with the vision of reinventing work. We imagine a world in which companies and digital workers can connect in a much faster and more efficient way to develop high-impact projects. “This round and the new partners bring us one step closer to that goal”, Hector Mata CEO & COFOUNDER OF SHAKERS.
By making this investment, they intend to shorten the waiting list, boost our ability to assist more businesses, and start concentrating on their global expansion.
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Founded in 2021 by Héctor Mata, Jaime Castillo, Adrián de Pedro, and Nico de Luis, Shakers has drawn 3,000 of the nation's top digital specialists, helping over 450 businesses overcome their technological obstacles and develop their projects more quickly by giving them access to multidisciplinary teams built on the cloud.
Using the transformative power of digitalization in society, Spain has the potential to spearhead the shift towards a new European industrial model. Shakers is dedicated to continuing in this direction and assisting in the consolidation of Spain as the primary technical reference point in Europe, with the backing of their new investors.
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About Shakers
Shakers closed a €6 million seed round after growing their network by seven times in the previous year and assisting over 450 businesses in finding the top digital experts to advance their technical projects.