Talentoo

What Talentoo does

Talentoo is a B2B recruitment marketplace founded in 2016 and headquartered in Madrid, Spain. The platform connects companies seeking to hire talent with a global network of specialized recruitment firms and headhunters. Employers post job vacancies for free and receive pre-screened candidate profiles submitted through the platform; they pay a success-based fee only upon successful placement, calculated as a percentage of the hired candidate's annual gross salary. The platform's core technical features include anonymized candidate profiles (candidates' identities are hidden until employer pre-selection), mandatory key-question filtering for rigorous pre-screening, a 1-5 star recruiter performance rating system, real-time messaging between recruiters and employers, and calendar-based interview scheduling. A 60-day free replacement guarantee covers qualifying placements.

The company operates across 15+ countries through localized subdomains in Spanish, English, Italian, Portuguese, Polish, and Latin American Spanish, with approximately 2,000 enterprise customers including Santander, Indra, Ibermática, Grupo Pascual, Grupo Cobra, Cofidis, and ACNUR (UNHCR Spain). Beyond the core marketplace, Talentoo has built an extended service ecosystem under "Talentoo 360" comprising managed service tiers — Premium (assistant-managed platform), ONE (exclusive recruiter sourcing), RPO (hourly embedded recruiters), and Global (international recruitment). Two sub-brands extend into adjacent HR markets: Talentoo Academy offers customized corporate training (bonifiable through Spanish FUNDAE credits) and Talentoo People provides HR consulting including reskilling, outplacement, and organizational diagnostics.

Talentoo is incorporated as TALENTOO WEB SOLUTIONS, S.L., a privately held Spanish company with no disclosed institutional investors. The company has received limited external capital, notably a €39,589.18 innovation grant from IVACE in 2022. Revenue is generated through transaction-based placement fees on the core marketplace plus professional services revenue from the 360 tiers, Academy, and People engagements. The company remains founder-led by Javier Puebla (CEO) with a lean team of approximately five core members.

Name

Talentoo

Legal name

TALENTOO WEB SOLUTIONS, S.L.

Website

https://talentoo.net

Company type

Private

Founded year

2016

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Talentoo is a B2B recruitment marketplace connecting employers with a global network of recruitment firms. Employers post jobs for free and pay only upon successful placement, with the platform operating across 15+ countries and ~2,000 enterprise customers.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Recruitment Marketplace / HR Technology

NAICS

Employment Placement Agencies (561311), Employment Placement Agencies and Executive Search Services (56131)

SIC

Services-Employment Agencies (7361)

akta.pro industry

PRIMARYBPACAPAD

Talent Acquisition (Recruiting) & Applicant Tracking (ATS)

Business & Public Services/HR, Staffing & Recruitment Services/Human Capital Management (HCM) & HR Tech

SECONDARYBPACABAM

Sourcing / Talent Research & Pipeline RPO (Sourcer-as-a-Service)

Business & Public Services/HR, Staffing & Recruitment Services/Recruitment Process Outsourcing (RPO)

SECONDARYBPACAKAG

Recruiting Administration Outsourcing (Recruitment Support, Scheduling, Onboarding Ops)

Business & Public Services/HR, Staffing & Recruitment Services/HR Outsourcing (HRO) & Shared Services

Keywords

• Recruitment marketplace platform
• B2B talent acquisition
• Recruitment process outsourcing
• Headhunter network platform
• HR technology marketplace

Headquarters

HQ city

Madrid

HQ country

Spain

HQ region

Europe

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Success-Based Placement Fee (Transaction Fee): Companies pay a fee only when they successfully hire a candidate sourced through the platform. The fee is set by the employer (based on a percentage of the annual gross salary of the vacancy) and is paid to Talentoo, which then pays the recruiter. The fee is per successfully incorporated candidate. No upfront cost to post jobs or receive CVs. This is the core revenue model.
2. Talentoo 360 Premium Services: Beyond the core platform, Talentoo offers managed service tiers: ONE (exclusive recruiter sourcing for a role), PREMIUM (assistant-managed platform), and RPO (recruiter embedded hourly in client teams). Revenue from these services likely comes through separate service agreements.
3. Talentoo Academy — Training Services: Customized corporate training programs across technical, soft skills, leadership, languages, and AI topics. Courses are bonifiable through FUNDAE (Spanish professional training credits). Revenue derived from course fees charged to corporate clients.
4. Talentoo People — HR Consulting and Reskilling: Organizational diagnostics, performance evaluation, assessment centers, interim management, equality plans, and reskilling/outplacement programs. Revenue from consulting engagement fees.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels5 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

Talentoo operates a B2B digital recruitment marketplace that connects companies seeking to hire with a global network of recruitment firms and headhunters. Employers post job vacancies for free, configure mandatory key-question filters, and receive pre-interviewed, anonymized candidate profiles; payment is triggered only upon successful candidate incorporation as a percentage of annual gross salary. Recruiters join the platform at no cost and earn the success fee when their candidates are hired, with performance tracked through a 1–5 star rating system.

Product overview

Talentoo operates as a platform-plus-modules architecture centered around its core B2B recruitment platform. The core Talentoo platform connects companies with a global network of recruiters and headhunters for digital recruitment. Around this core, Talentoo offers three additional service models under the Talentoo 360 umbrella: Talentoo Premium (managed assistant), Talentoo ONE (exclusive recruiter), and Talentoo RPO (hourly recruiters), plus Talentoo Global for international recruitment. The company has expanded into adjacent service lines with Talentoo Academy (customized corporate training) and Talentoo People (HR consulting including reskilling programs). The platform is free for companies to post jobs and receive CVs, with payment occurring only upon successful hiring through a fee model.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Talentoo Academy: Training service providing professional development courses including soft skills, technical training, languages, leadership, and AI tools.
• Talentoo People

Products and services

• Talentoo Core Platform B2B digital recruitment platform that connects companies seeking personnel with a network of recruitment agencies and headhunters. Companies post job offers for free, configure mandatory key-question filters, and receive pre-interviewed, anonymized candidate profiles from a global recruiter network. Payment is triggered only upon successful candidate incorporation as a percentage of annual gross salary.
• Talentoo Premium

Quantifiable outcome

• Nearly 2,000 companies trust and use Talentoo for their recruitment needs
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers18 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature5 records

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• Instituto Valenciano de Competitividad Empresarial (IVACE)minorOthers · 1 January 2021Talentoo received a €39,589.18 grant from IVACE under the INNOVA-CV 2022 PYME Innovation Aid Program for the project 'Desarrollo Aplicación TALENTOO' (Talentoo Application Development), expediente IMINOD/2021/194. This is a government innovation subsidy, not a commercial partnership.

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• LinkedIn (Talent Solutions): LinkedIn Talent Solutions is the dominant global professional network and recruiter marketplace, offering job postings, InMail, and recruiter search. It competes with Talentoo for employer recruiting spend across all of Talentoo's 15+ markets but as part of a much broader social platform with vastly larger recruiter supply.
• Cornerstone OnDemand: Cornerstone OnDemand is a large US-headquartered talent management and learning platform serving enterprise HR with recruiting, learning, and performance. Its breadth across the HR lifecycle makes it a broader incumbent competing for the same enterprise HR transformation wallet share as Talentoo 360.
• Indeed: Indeed is the world's largest job search engine and aggregation marketplace with pay-per-click and sponsored job models. It overlaps with Talentoo's core marketplace value proposition and operates globally, including strong presence in Spain (Indeed España) and LATAM.
• Robert Half: Robert Half is a global staffing and consulting firm providing temporary, contract, and permanent placement services, including RPO offerings. It is a broad incumbent comparable to Talentoo's RPO managed service and global recruitment offerings.
• Michael Page: Michael Page is a global professional recruitment firm specializing in permanent placement for mid-to-senior roles across industries. It competes for the same enterprise direct-hire placements that drive Talentoo's success-fee revenue, but via traditional agency delivery rather than marketplace.
• ZipRecruiter: ZipRecruiter is a US-headquartered AI-driven job marketplace connecting employers to a distributed pool of recruiters and job boards on a pay-for-performance model. Its marketplace mechanics and performance-based pricing closely parallel Talentoo's employer-paid success fee model.

Direct peers

• InfoJobs: InfoJobs is the leading job board in Spain (owned by Adevinta/Schibsted), directly serving the same employer and job-seeker segments as Talentoo with job-posting and candidate matching. It is the most direct Spanish-market competitor to Talentoo's core platform.
• Workable: Workable is a global ATS and sourcing platform that distributes job postings to 200+ free and premium job boards and offers AI-powered candidate matching. It targets the same mid-market and enterprise employer segment as Talentoo with overlapping sourcing technology.
• Bizneo HR: Bizneo HR is a Spanish HR Tech suite offering ATS, performance, time tracking, and learning modules to SMB and enterprise customers in Spain and LATAM. It is a direct domestic peer for Talentoo's HR technology ambitions, particularly the Academy and People extensions.

Regional players

• Jobartis: Jobartis is a job board and recruitment marketplace focused on Central America and the Caribbean with growing LATAM presence. It is a regional peer to Talentoo's LATAM country sites (Peru, Mexico, Chile, Colombia) with overlapping SMB employer target customers.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/TalentooNet
• Facebookfacebook.com/TalentooB2B

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles5 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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