Shakers offers a platform that connects businesses with vetted freelancers and uses AI to match talent, assemble teams, and manage hybrid projects that include AI agents. The product analyzes more than 1,000 data points per freelancer to assess technical skills, soft skills, experience, and cultural fit, reducing friction in freelance hiring. Its AI capabilities act as coordinators and personalized copilots, assigning routine tasks to agents while enabling freelancers to focus on creative and strategic work. The company promotes a "freeworkers" model in which digital-native freelancers integrate AI tools as capability multipliers. Shakers plans to expand across Europe and double its team over the next 12 months while accelerating development of new AI features. By 2027, the company aims to have orchestrated more than 10,000 hybrid projects. Shakers provides an online marketplace that matches companies with digital specialists to deliver projects such as mobile apps, cloud migrations, generative AI features, data analysis and cybersecurity plans. The platform simplifies collaboration between large enterprises and distributed freelancer teams, enabling them to work together efficiently. It applies proprietary AI informed by behavioural science to assemble teams with the optimal skill set for a company’s product mission. Shakers was founded in 2021 and is based in Barcelona. The platform has attracted more than 3,000 tech freelancers and has empowered over 450 companies to create teams for development projects. The company plans to use new funding to expand operations, broaden its business reach and continue developing its AI and product capabilities. Shakers offers an online marketplace and collaborative environment that lets companies post projects and teams of freelancers apply and work remotely. The platform targets digital professionals and aims to simplify long-distance collaboration and project delivery. Founded in 2019 by Adrián de Pedro, Jaime Castillo and Héctor Mata, the startup was accelerated by Lanzadera and has grown initially through self‑financing. Notable clients named in the article include CaixaBank, Grupo Barceló and Deliveroo. With the new funding, Shakers plans to improve its technology and accelerate growth of its community. The company intends to begin international expansion starting in 2022.

Total raised

$24M

Funding rounds

4

Latest round

Series A

Latest activity

May 2025