Acquired by Contents, 2026.
Balio no longer appears in the directory or on the maps; its funding history is kept below.
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Balio is a Barcelona-based fintech founded in 2019 offering a financial education and wellbeing platform, combining courses, tools, and expert guidance on personal finance and investing, later expanding into a corporate financial-wellbeing benefit for employers. It raised roughly $1.16M across pre-seed/seed rounds from a group of Spanish angel and micro-VC investors. On 2026-07-20 it was acquired by Milan-based enterprise-AI company Contents in its sixth European buy-and-build deal, so Balio is no longer an independent startup.
SectorsFintech, HR & Future of Work
Founders
G
Gerard Bernal
CEO & Co-founder
G
Guillem Roig Collell
COO & Co-founder
S
Sergi Benet
Co-founder
Global models 5
DDailyPay
United States · www.dailypay.com ↗
Employer-integrated earned-wage-access and financial-wellness platform, the closest large-scale comparable to Balio's workplace financial wellbeing model.
$1.73BComparable
WWagestream (Stream)
United Kingdom · wagestream.com ↗
Workplace financial wellness app offering earned-wage access, saving and financial education tools distributed through employers, same B2B2C model as Balio.
$228MComparable
PPayActiv
United States · www.payactiv.com ↗
Employer-sponsored financial wellness and earned-wage-access platform aimed at improving employee financial health.
$134MComparable
SSalary Finance
United Kingdom · www.salaryfinance.com ↗
Financial wellbeing benefit sold through employers, combining loans, savings and financial education similar to Balio's corporate offering.
$114MComparable
OOrigin
United States · www.useorigin.com ↗
AI-powered financial wellness benefits platform for employees, matching Balio's pivot toward a B2B corporate financial-wellbeing product.
$76.5MComparable
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Investors 9
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DDraper B1
draperb1.vc
EEnzo Ventures
enzoventures.eu
BBackFund
www.backfund.vc
BBewater Funds
bewaterfunds.com/en
F
Fernando Cabello-Astolfi
F
François Derbaix
R
René de Jong
Y
Yago Arbeloa
BBlue Lion Global
Funding rounds 1
·1 not countedNews 3
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| 2026-07-20 |
Milan-based Contents acquires Spanish financial wellbeing platform Balio in sixth buy-and-build deal ↗
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2026-07-20 |