Profesiolan, a Bilbao-based digital marketplace connecting small and medium-sized business sellers with buyers, is seeking to raise up to €690,000 in a round led by Easo Ventures and Seed Capital Bizkaia. An investor page on Dozen Investments, captured August 31, 2026, showed the round with 13 days remaining and a pre-money valuation of €2.2 million. The company declined to comment on the final amount raised.
The startup's pitch is straightforward: digitize Spain's fragmented lower-market mergers and acquisitions sector, where family-owned businesses change hands with minimal fanfare and even less transparency. Brothers Ander Hospital, the CEO, and Javier Hospital, the COO, describe their platform as "la infraestructura estructurada para el lower-market M&A en España" on the company website.
Profesiolan claims more than 2,000 private investors and €400 million in aggregated buying power, according to its LinkedIn page as of July 2026. The site also lists over 700 businesses for sale, a radar tracking 40,000 companies, and 80 transactions it has facilitated. Those numbers suggest traction, though the platform remains early-stage with between two and 10 employees at its Bilbao headquarters.
A Structured Bet on Generational Transition
The funding structure reflects the startup's local roots and regulatory environment. Easo Ventures, a seed investor based in Donostia-San Sebastián, and Seed Capital Bizkaia, the venture arm of Bizkaia's Provincial Council, are each contributing €100,000. The Dozen syndicate can add up to €350,000, with a strategic legal-sector business angel committing €140,000. Retail co-investors can claim a 50 percent tax deduction under Spain's Startup Law, with minimum tickets starting at €4,000.
Both founders bring technical backgrounds. Ander Hospital studied telecommunications engineering at UPV/EHU and previously led avionics for BiSKY Team, according to a July 2026 LinkedIn article by advisor Alberto Hospital. Javier Hospital, an industrial and renewable energy engineer, held quality roles at Renault Motores and Tubacex before shifting to operations at Profesiolan.
The company participated in BerriUp's 17th accelerator cohort in March-June 2024 and received two modest €10,000 grants in 2022 from the Provincial Council of Bizkaia and the Basque Government, per Dealroom data.
Funds from the current round will expand commercial and product teams nationally, accelerate acquisition sourcing, and support technical certifications, according to the Dozen page and Alberto Hospital's LinkedIn post. That post also referenced an ENISA participatory loan "ya aprobado" to complement the round, though the approval could not be independently verified through official documentation.
Crowded Playing Field
Profesiolan is hardly alone in chasing Spain's generational handoff opportunity. Deale, perhaps its most visible competitor, reported 18 closed deals worth €52 million in the first half of 2026 and more than 25,000 users, including 9,500 SMEs and 12,500 investors.
"El lower mid-market español se está configurando como uno de los segmentos más activos del M&A en España, impulsado por el relevo generacional," Gerard García, Deale's founder and CEO, told Cinco Días in late July 2026.
Other platforms operating in this space include Diligenz, which claims over 2,400 listings, plus Relevya and MercadoPYMEs, based on site marketing reviewed in August 2026. The broader European landscape is substantial: Commission data from 2021 estimated roughly 450,000 business transfers annually across the continent, affecting around 2 million employees.
Profesiolan's revenue model hinges on success fees. Buyers pay 1.5 percent of deal value; sellers pay 2.7 percent with no retainer or monthly costs, according to separate pages on the company site. The Dozen page characterizes the approach as "100 percent success fee" and cites four closed transactions totaling approximately €1 million, with a pipeline of 20 deals representing roughly €400,000 in projected value. Those figures suggest the company is still in proof-of-concept mode, testing whether a digital marketplace can really gain traction in a sector where relationships and discretion have long ruled.
"El relevo generacional no va de vender, va de dar continuidad a una historia," Ander Hospital said in the July LinkedIn article. It's a sentiment that captures the emotional stakes behind what might otherwise look like pure financial engineering—a reminder that behind each listing is a business someone built, and someone else hopes to sustain.
