Lance Free, a talent platform that matches technical companies with technical freelancers announced that Eneco Ventures is investing in the start-up, along with the Zeeland Participation Fund (ZPF) and Impuls Zeeland.

Lance Free acts as a marketplace where companies can post their projects, with two available options: projects with an hourly rate and unit-based projects. The platform then automatically matches suitable freelancers to the projects through smart algorithms or actively searches for those freelancers through targeted marketing. Through the platform, companies and freelancers can collaborate more easily and efficiently.  More than 20,000 self-employed people have already registered on Lance Free. The start-up aims to achieve a turnover of over €75 million in projects from construction and technical companies by 2026. The investment from Eneco Ventures and Impuls Zeeland will be used to achieve this goal by improving the software, strengthening marketing and expanding the team. Eneco Ventures, Impuls Zeeland and Lance Free are all based in the Netherlands.

Barcelona-based recruitment firm Workfully has raised a €1.2 million seed round, reports Tech.eu. The round was led by Indico and included Pitchdrive, Secways and others. Funds will allow for continued product development and growth. The decentralised recruitment and upskilling marketplace was founded in 2021 and allows recruiters to ‘independently grow, engage and monetise vertical talent pools, launching their digital recruiting agencies’ cutting out the hassle of client acquisition and paid ads.

“We believe that building a recruiting business in the future will look much more like being a content creator: starting off on a platform like Workfully, building an audience and then monetising that audience in-platform,” said Valerio Rossi, Workfully’s co-founder and CEO.