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Qida Isn’t Just Another Startup

It is one of Spain’s leading social impact scaleups, with a clear mission: to improve the quality of life for older adults and those who are dependent through a humane, professional, and technology-driven home care model.

In 2025, it closed a €37 million funding round—the largest social impact transaction in Spanish history—and ended the year with €38 million in revenue, a 40% increase over the previous year. More than 10,200 families served. And a stated goal: to quadruple sales in three years.

Scaling tech teams at the same pace as the business

Qida faced a challenge common to many fast-growing scaleups: its ability to execute was beginning to depend on something it couldn’t scale at the same pace—talent. Finding highly specialized technical profiles (especially in technologies like Django) had become a slow, complex, and unpredictable process, while projects continued to move forward with fixed and increasingly demanding deadlines.

Added to this was the need to bring on board people who not only met technical requirements but also aligned with the company’s social mission.

The result: a clear hiring bottleneck that was beginning to jeopardize both the speed of development and the company’s growth ambitions.

Results

Hiring Speed

Qida has reduced its time-to-hire from months to approximately 2 weeks, and has even been able to bring on talent in a matter of days in critical situations. This has allowed them to respond quickly to projects with tight deadlines, eliminating one of the main bottlenecks to their growth.

More flexible teams and real execution capability

Thanks to the full-time external talent model, Qida has been able to scale its teams dynamically, adding capacity when the business needs it without expanding its internal structure. Currently, they have several active projects driven by Shakers talent, with professionals who not only contribute but also integrate as key members of the team.

From a one-off solution to a strategic growth lever

What began as an urgent need has become a recurring model for scaling the tech team. Qida has gone from having reservations about external talent to incorporating it as a strategic asset, capable of accelerating development, providing expertise, and sustaining its growth seamlessly.