Talentia

What Talentia does

Talentia was a Spain-based, for-profit startup that operated an anonymous hiring platform connecting companies with job candidates through fully anonymized profiles. Founded in 2023 and headquartered in Alcalá de Henares, the company built a two-sided web marketplace (talentia.ai) where companies could browse candidates based purely on experience and capabilities, while candidates were discoverable without disclosing personal identity — explicitly positioning the product to replace traditional job postings and third-party recruitment agencies. The platform was offered in Spanish under the tagline "Talento oculto, selección justa" (Hidden talent, fair selection), and exposed self-serve registration flows for two user types: "Candidato" (Candidate) and "Empresa" (Company).

Technically, the product centered on a proprietary anonymity layer that stripped identifying information from candidate profiles before exposing them to employer-side search, allowing hiring decisions to be made on skills and experience rather than demographics or branded CVs. The matching mechanism itself is not described as AI-driven in available sources, and no AI/ML modalities, models, or patents are disclosed. The platform launched in 2023 and operated until September 2024, when the company publicly ceased operations via LinkedIn announcements from CEO Daniel Peña and CTO Pablo Rodríguez.

On the commercial side, Talentia employed a horizontal product-led growth motion with self-serve signup, targeting both individual candidates (free, to maximize supply) and SMB employers as paying or transacting counterparties. Specific pricing was not publicly disclosed, and no customer logos, revenue figures, or monetisation mechanics are evidenced. The company secured two small seed rounds from Aurorial in November 2023 and May 2024 (each in the ~$26K–$27K range) and displayed an ENISA seal indicating receipt of Spanish public-sector innovation financing. The ENISA partnership and the Aurorial seed capital represent the totality of disclosed capital and strategic relationships during Talentia's operating life.

Name

Talentia

Legal name

Talentia

Website

https://talentia.ai

Company type

Private

Founded year

2023

Operating status

Closed

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Talentia was a Spain-based startup that operated an anonymous two-sided hiring marketplace (talentia.ai), connecting companies to candidates via profiles stripped of identifying information. The company shut down in September 2024.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Talent Acquisition Marketplace

NAICS

Employment Placement Agencies (561311)

SIC

Services-Employment Agencies (7361)

akta.pro primary industry

Talent Acquisition (Recruiting) & Applicant Tracking (ATS) (BPACAPAD)

akta.pro secondary industries

Administrative, Clerical & Office Support Direct Hire (BPACAFAF), Government & Public Sector Direct Hire (BPACAFAK)

Keywords

• Anonymous hiring platform
• Talent acquisition marketplace
• Skills-based recruitment
• Candidate matching software
• Blind hiring tools

Headquarters

HQ city

Alcalá De Henares

HQ country

Spain

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Operations

Revenue model

1. Two-sided hiring marketplace: Marketplace connecting companies seeking talent with candidates seeking roles; candidates access anonymously for free while companies access the anonymous talent pool (specific monetisation mechanics not publicly disclosed). Likely transaction or subscription based given the platform's two-sided structure.

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

Talentia.ai operated a two-sided, Spanish-language anonymous hiring marketplace where companies registered to browse fully anonymous candidate profiles and candidates registered to be discovered based on their experience and capabilities, explicitly bypassing traditional job postings and external recruitment firms. The platform was delivered as a single web application and operated from 2023 until it closed in September 2024.

Product overview

Talentia.ai was offered as a single unified product rather than a platform-plus-modules architecture: one anonymous recruitment/hiring experience accessible to two user types — "Candidato" (Candidate) and "Empresa" (Company) — both served through the same Talentia.ai web application at https://talentia.ai/. Companies searched among fully anonymous candidate profiles while candidates showcased their experience and capabilities, with the explicit positioning of eliminating traditional job postings and recruitment firms. The service launched in 2023 and was shut down in September 2024, as announced via the site banner linking to the CEO and CTO LinkedIn posts.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Talentia.ai platform Two-sided Spanish-language web platform where companies ("Empresa") browse fully anonymous candidate profiles and candidates ("Candidato") are discovered based on experience and capabilities, replacing traditional job postings and external recruitment firms; operated 2023-September 2024.

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature2 records

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves5 records

Direct peers

• Gapjumpers: Gapjumpers is a blind hiring platform that uses anonymous work-sample auditions to surface candidates based on skills rather than CV identity — the closest conceptual analogue to Talentia's anonymous-profile marketplace.
• Applied: Applied is a UK-based blind/anonymous hiring platform that strips candidate identifying information from applications to reduce bias. It is the most directly comparable peer to Talentia's anonymous candidate profile model.

Broad incumbents

• Workable: Workable is an established ATS and sourcing platform serving SMBs globally. It overlaps with Talentia's employer-side use case (candidate discovery and screening) as a broader incumbent in the recruiting tech stack.
• Greenhouse: Greenhouse is a leading enterprise ATS with structured hiring and DEI-oriented tooling. Its blind-hiring and bias-reduction features overlap with Talentia's stated value proposition, albeit inside a much broader ATS product.
• Indeed: Indeed is the largest global job-search and hiring marketplace and a dominant paid-channel incumbent in Spain, representing the kind of traditional job-posting flow Talentia sought to displace.
• LinkedIn (Talent Solutions / Recruiter): LinkedIn is the global incumbent in professional networking and recruiter sourcing, with Talent Solutions and Recruiter products that dominate candidate discovery. Talentia's 'bypass job postings' positioning puts it in direct opposition to LinkedIn's recruiter funnel.

Emerging players

• Hired: Hired is a curated two-sided marketplace matching tech candidates with employers, historically focused on reducing friction in screening — comparable to Talentia's marketplace architecture, though without the anonymity wedge.

Regional players

• InfoJobs: InfoJobs is the dominant Spanish job board and employment marketplace, controlling most of Spain's recruiter-side supply. Talentia positioned itself explicitly against this incumbent in its home market.
• Infoempleo: Infoempleo is a leading Spanish employment portal focused on white-collar and professional roles, operating in the same Spanish-language recruitment marketplace that Talentia was attempting to disrupt.
• Jobandtalent: Jobandtalent is a Spanish-founded digital staffing and workforce marketplace operating across Europe and LatAm. As a Spanish-origin HR-tech marketplace at meaningful scale, it is a relevant regional analogue to what Talentia was attempting to build.

Market position

Strengths2 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/talentia_ai
• LinkedIntalentia.ai/assets/linkedin_1_.png

Compliance1 record

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds2 records

Investors1 record

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M&A

Investments

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