{"id":150159,"date":"2026-02-23T16:14:55","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T15:14:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.startupbusiness.it\/spanish-company-shakers-arrives-in-italy-to-support-freelancers\/150159\/"},"modified":"2026-02-23T16:19:42","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T15:19:42","slug":"spanish-company-shakers-arrives-in-italy-to-support-freelancers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.startupbusiness.it\/en\/spanish-company-shakers-arrives-in-italy-to-support-freelancers\/150159\/","title":{"rendered":"Spanish company Shakers arrives in Italy to support freelancers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Shakers, a start-up founded in Madrid in 2021 by H\u00e9ctor Mata (CEO), Nico de Luis (COO), Jaime Castillo (CRO) and Adri\u00e1n de Pedro (CPO) (pictured), has announced that it has launched operations in the Italian market with the aim of building a tech infrastructure capable of redesigning the way companies and talent collaborate in the long term.<\/strong> To do this, it uses an AI-driven digital ecosystem that offers a fast, efficient and intelligent connection space, through which it connects professionals and businesses for medium- to long-term projects, secure payments and smooth collaborations, ensuring ultra-fast scalability and maintaining high quality during every phase, from matching to payment.<\/p>\n\n

After its first capital increase of one million euros, Shakers immediately began to grow steadily: in 2022, it reached 100 companies and 1,000 freelancers on its platform; in 2023, it exceeded 6,000 registered professionals; and in 2024, it was recognised as one of the fastest-growing tech companies in Europe, winning the start-up competition at the South Summit event in Madrid<\/a>. With over a thousand projects lasting an average of 6-7 months each, Shakers also brought its technologies to Portugal and the United Kingdom, target markets in addition to Italy, where it also joined the Italian Tech Alliance association. In total, the company has a team of over 100 people working alongside more than 450 companies worldwide, including Microsoft, Inditex, HP, Tecnocasa, Desigual, Telefonica, Accenture, EY, Deloitte, ING, IBM and Atletico Madrid, and more than a thousand Italian talents. <\/p>\n\n

The entry into Italy comes only after important stages of international development and consolidation: these include the \u20ac14 million Series A round in 2025 led by Partech<\/a>, with the participation of KFund, Brighteye Ventures, Athos Capital and Wayra, which supported the expansion of the platform and the acceleration of integrated AI technologies for talent and teams, confirming investors’ confidence in Shakers’ vision as a key infrastructure for the labour market of the future. <\/p>\n\n

In Italy, the mismatch between people’s skills and the needs of businesses is one of the most significant issues on the Old Continent, slowing down the selection process and, above all, technological progress. Italian companies are also increasingly feeling the need for talent capable of navigating complex digital systems, easily handling the most advanced technologies to accelerate Italy’s digital transformation. <\/p>\n\n

To meet the ever-increasing demand for highly qualified technological talent, Shakers provides a pool of freelance professionals selected through rigorous analysis and testing, which only 7% of candidates manage to pass. <\/p>\n\n

Once the project has been uploaded to the platform, Shakers’ AI kicks in with an advanced real-time matching process, which identifies the most compatible profiles and presents one to three ideal candidates, shortening the search time to less than 48 hours. The company can then proceed with interviews to confirm the match and assign the project to the most suitable candidate, choosing from: <\/p>\n\n