Workerbee Secures Funding to Advance AI-Powered Hiring Platform

In Brief

• Strategic investment secured. Workerbee received new funding from founding leadership team.
• AI-driven hiring focus. Platform uses intelligent agents to improve specialist hiring speed and quality.
• Enterprise HR impact. HR leaders gain faster access to qualified specialists with reduced costs and higher trust.

Workerbee, a platform vendor focused on improving enterprise hiring through AI technology, announced it had secured a strategic investment to accelerate its growth on June 18. The funding comes from the company's founding team, with Chair Marce Roth and CEO Heiko Roth backing the next stage of development.

The investment will be used to expand Workerbee's specialist community and advance its AI-driven product infrastructure. According to company officials, the platform has already demonstrated a 40% faster time-to-fill for positions while reducing costs and coordination overhead.

Impacted Audiences for Workerbee's AI-Powered Hiring Platform

• Mid-sized to large organizations using HR/workforce management software.
• HR leaders seeking specialized talent for implementation projects.
  

Workerbee Part of Growing AI-Driven HR Tech Space

AI-driven talent management is transforming HR technology, as organizations seek solutions that directly link workforce strategies to business performance.

The emergence of sophisticated AI systems represents a fundamental shift in how HR departments — and broader organizations — approach task delegation and routine work. Technology vendors have introduced AI into multiple workflows in the hiring and recruiting process, including candidate vetting, drafting job descriptions, answering frequently asked questions and more.

HR leaders increasingly recognize that successful AI implementation depends on careful vendor selection, with a focus on how tools will integrate with existing technology stacks and organizational culture.  

These changes come at a time when candidates and hiring managers complain about the broken hiring process. The introduction of AI aims to streamline the process for both sides, although an increasing number of regulations have emerged in parallel to ensure transparency and minimize bias.   

Workerbee's strategic investment in an agentic AI-based hiring infrastructure aligns with this broader market movement toward intelligent, adaptive talent solutions. 

Platform Capabilities

Workerbee's platform differs from traditional hiring marketplaces by using intelligent agents throughout the hiring process.

Capability	Description
Intelligent Agents	AI-powered guides for customers and specialists during hiring
Adaptive AI Models	Systems that evolve with each interaction
Matching Technology	Contextual understanding beyond resume data
Time Optimization	Platform claims to reduce time-to-fill by 40%
Specialist Network	On-demand access to technical experts

Workerbee Background

Workerbee offers an online talent marketplace for enterprises to hire software specialists as well as for professionals to get hired. The company was founded in 2022 and acquired by Las Vegas-based Agilea Solutions in 2023. Workerbee continues to operate as an independent entity.

The company provides an AI agent-driven platform which it promises delivers "trusted matches" between specialist gig workers and opportunities with greater accuracy, speed and confidence than other, legacy marketplaces. As part of the investment, Roth assumes the CEO role to lead the next stage of the company's growth.