Adnkronos (Adnkronos) – Cosmico, il Gruppo italiano del Future of Work in Italia e in Spagna con una community di oltre 35.000 professionisti, ha perfezionato l’acquisizione del 100% di Clutch, società specializzata nella ricerca e selezione del personale che, dalla fondazione, ha servito 195 clienti e ha registrato ricavi pari a 1,8 milioni di euro nel 2025.
Con l’operazione il Gruppo entra per la prima volta nel mercato del lavoro dipendente: alle competenze attivate su base progettuale attraverso la piattaforma di Talent-as-a-Service si affianca ora la ricerca di profili destinati all’inserimento stabile in organico nelle aziende clienti. Si tratta della quinta acquisizione realizzata dal 2024 e dà origine al quinto verticale del Gruppo.
Nato nel 2020 intorno al talento freelance con una piattaforma di Talent-as-a-Service, dal 2024 Cosmico ha acquisito quattro società specialistiche e si è esteso alla Spagna, assumendo la forma di Gruppo multiverticale. La missione è sempre la stessa: mettere in contatto le organizzazioni con il talento di cui hanno bisogno. Cambia il modo in cui quel talento viene attivato, e a ciascun modo corrisponde un verticale del Gruppo: Cosmico Talent per i professionisti freelance attivati su progetto, Flatmates per l’accesso ai talenti della creator economy, Creative Harbour per lo sviluppo di community e iniziative di employee engagement, Play New per il disegno di processi e team potenziati dall’intelligenza artificiale e, da oggi, Clutch per la ricerca di profili destinati all’assunzione.
Sul piano dei risultati, il Gruppo ha chiuso il 2025 con ricavi pari a 24 milioni di euro, in incremento del 109% su base annua, e conferma per il 2026 un target di 40 milioni di euro di ricavi generati, nell’ambito di una traiettoria che individua nei 100 milioni di euro l’obiettivo al 2028.
Cosmico currently serves over 300 clients in Italy and Spain. The Italian recruitment and selection market, worth approximately €500 million according to the most recent estimates, has a polarized structure: on one side, the Italian divisions of large international groups; on the other, a broad base of specialized boutiques, often built around a single sector or professional area. Cosmico's strategy lies within this space: bringing together specialized companies into a single group that continue to operate as such. Each vertical maintains its own brand, management, and operational and strategic autonomy, and shares the Group's core platform functions: technology, finance, administration, marketing, and human resources. This model is designed to be replicated with each acquisition. Covering the entire spectrum of talent activation methods allows the Group to position itself as a continuous partner for companies, strengthening its ability to support clients through transformation. Clutch closed 2025, its first full fiscal year, with revenues of €1,8 million and is targeting €2,6 million in 2026. In 2026, it generated revenue per fee earner of €233.000, managing up to 112 simultaneous searches, operating according to a specialized boutique model based on senior headhunters, technology-enabled processes, and the integration of artificial intelligence. Its main areas of specialization include Manufacturing, Energy, Telecommunications, Retail, Oil & Gas, Financial Services, and Sales. The new vertical plans to manage 500 selection processes in 2027. Clutch will continue to operate under its own brand and will maintain operational and strategic autonomy, while benefiting from integration with the central platform functions. Lorenzo Cattelani will continue to lead the company as CEO.
Over the past six years, Cosmico has developed a proprietary technology for matching supply and demand for freelance skills. This allows Clutch to identify profiles in just a few hours by tapping into a community of over 37.000 professionals. When searching for candidates to hire, the process takes a different amount of time, as it involves skills assessment, profile evaluation, and relationship management with the candidate—activities that remain the responsibility of senior headhunters. The technology's contribution concerns the identification phase, currently the longest of the process, and allows Clutch to deliver a shortlist within five business days, compared to market times typically measured in weeks. The integration enables greater scalability of the new vertical and allows the Group to extend its reach to roles, sectors, and needs previously unserved. "The acquisition of Clutch represents a strategic step in Cosmico's evolution from a platform focused on on-demand talent to a Group capable of integratedly managing access to skills," said Francesco Marino, CEO and Co-founder of the Cosmico Group. "We are entering a market, the Italian search and selection market, that still offers significant room for consolidation. Our goal is to build a scaled operator capable of supporting organizations across the entire spectrum of talent needs, from project development to permanent placement, leveraging vertical expertise, proprietary technology, and a replicable integration model." "In just over two years, Clutch has served 195 companies and built a model capable of delivering a shortlist within five business days of the start of the mandate," says Cattelani. "In this market, the determining factor isn't the individual search, but the breadth and quality of the pool of skills accessed. Cosmico has a community of over 35.000 professionals and matching technology developed over six years. Integrating into the Group allows us to apply that infrastructure to search and selection, while maintaining our brand, team, and operating model."
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