About Lyra
Lyra is a small team in Barcelona helping companies put AI to work, with the talent the usual filters miss. Transparent, evidence-based and on the side of the people doing the work.
Brilliant engineers and product leaders were sending hundreds of applications and hearing nothing. Keyword filters didn’t see their portfolios. The screening logic was invisible.
Lyra started with free AI workshops, real conversations and a stubborn belief that matching could be transparent. Today it places AI engineers inside companies, trains their teams, and is building the hiring product we wished existed.
Two immigrant co-founders who lived the unrecognised-credentials, underpaid, invisible-pipeline reality before setting out to fix it. Now is the time to use AI to close the gender gap in work and pay.
Co-founder and COO
Two-time founder, project manager and educator with more than ten years leading complex programmes, and an expert in linguistics applied to learning design. She builds Lyra’s operations across cohorts, content and partnerships, and created education programmes that reached more than 1,200 women worldwide. She studies educational frameworks with AI.
Founder and CEO
Three-time founder, AI researcher and product lead with more than seven years of experience, and a university lecturer in AI. She collaborates with the International Red Cross and the Barcelona Supercomputing Center, and has worked with many women’s communities on AI learning.
Video producer
Shapes Lyra’s visual storytelling, from member portraits to event films.
Product designer
Owns the candidate experience end to end, and makes the four-score model read like a friend’s note, not a black box.
Content and brand strategy
Voice, narrative and the editorial system. Clear, exact, no urgency theatre.
Social impact programme manager and chief scientific officer
Turns academic fairness research into product decisions, and designs the programmes that turn matches into careers.
Every score Lyra produces is something a person can read, question and learn from. No hidden filters, no black-box ranking.
We look at what someone has actually done, the work and the results, and we show our reasoning.
Our community comes to the workshops, tests prototypes and tells us when we are wrong. The product is built with them in the room.
Before I immigrated, my life was full of joy and opportunities. I enrolled in university at 16. I had a 10, 15 and 20-year career plan. Then it became impossible to keep living in the country I came from. My university closed. So I started over in a new place, with no contacts, no money and no idea how to play the game.
Be fearless. Find a new opportunity that doesn’t necessarily make you passionate, but that is exciting enough to give you the energy to cultivate, outside of work, a more meaningful life.
— Stephany
I had every kind of irregular job. I was a waitress first. They promoted me when I started proposing tech solutions to increase bookings. Then they fired me the moment I broke a leg, before I could get sick leave. No one was hiring me with a broken leg. Suddenly I had no way to get my university studies recognised, I didn’t speak English, and I had no savings.
I went to the UK as an au pair. I worked in a care home. The mission was to learn English. I did, and I came back with savings to start studying again. Back in Spain I found a more stable job, severely underpaid. When I started looking for something better, COVID hit and I was put on a temporary layoff (an ERE). I changed jobs. Six months later that company went bankrupt and had to let everyone go. One thing after the next. It took several years before I could go back to tech and have real prospects again.
Hundreds of failed applications. Endless selection processes. No clear upskilling path. Ghosting, until I finally understood the rules of the game. Kris lived something similar, until she landed the most average office job: secure but with no purpose, hustling for second income streams. People conform, women especially, and the muscle of interviewing only builds through repetition. That muscle gives you confidence.
I have a friend who is incredible. Let’s call her Jess. Jess competed in two Ironman triathlons. She rode her motorcycle alone from Brussels to Spain just to visit a friend. She gave birth by IVF, alone in her apartment during COVID. She is remarkable. She lives in Sweden with her two kids, a master’s degree, a job and a mortgage. She offered me a two-year home swap. She was willing to quit her job and walk into the unknown with a two-year-old and a five-year-old, in a new country, with no job secured. That is courage.
We are at Via Laietana 26, 2nd floor, in Barcelona, in residence at the BSC AI Factory. Write to [email protected] if you want to work with us, or book a call.
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