Altenar Wins Best Workplace at SiGMA Europe as 85% Offer Acceptance Rate Signals a Talent Strategy With Commercial Edge
The trophy is not the story. 85% is.
Altenar, the B2B sportsbook provider regulated across Malta, Great Britain, Romania, Ontario, and a growing list of other markets, has been named Best Workplace at the SiGMA Europe Awards 2026. In a category that often produces polished press releases and little else, Altenar has published the kind of internal data that makes the recognition mean something.
In 2025, the company grew by 34.5%. Its offer acceptance rate rose 22 percentage points to reach 85%. Put those two numbers next to each other and a picture emerges that goes well beyond internal culture.
Ekaterina Firsova, HR Director at Altenar, said the award reflects the culture the company continues building across its international teams, adding that creating an environment where employees feel supported, valued, and empowered to grow professionally remains central to Altenar’s strategy.
Key Facts
- Named Best Workplace at the SiGMA Europe Awards 2026
- 34.5% business growth recorded across 2025
- Offer acceptance rate hit 85%, up 22 percentage points year on year
- Retention infrastructure includes leadership training, hybrid working, relocation support, private health insurance, and gamified internal recognition
- Expanded employee recognition channels and cross-border team event policies introduced in 2025
- Active growth across regulated European markets, including the Jokerbet sportsbook integration in Spain
Why an 85% Acceptance Rate Matters in This Market
iGaming is a sector with a talent supply problem it rarely discusses openly. Platforms, studios, operators, and B2B providers are all competing for the same small pool of experienced product managers, sportsbook engineers, and technical architects. Counter-offering is standard practice. Most mid-size providers see acceptance rates hovering in the 60 to 70 per cent range.
An 85% acceptance rate means candidates presented with an Altenar offer are choosing it over the alternatives. Not because they lack options. Because the offer, the culture, and the growth story are compelling enough to close the gap. That does not happen by accident. It happens when flexible working policies, relocation infrastructure, structured leadership development, and recognition systems are genuinely embedded into how the business operates.
The gamification of internal recognition, expanded in 2025, is the detail that stands out here. For a company running distributed teams across multiple European time zones, the mechanisms that create a shared culture across borders are not soft. They are the connective tissue that keeps experienced people engaged beyond year two.
What This Means for Operators Choosing a Technology Partner
Here is the point that tends to get missed in workplace award coverage. For an operator evaluating a long-term sportsbook platform partnership, the provider’s talent stability is a downstream product quality indicator. A high-churn engineering team and a high-retention one produce different outcomes. They deliver against roadmaps at different speeds. They accumulate product knowledge at different rates. That gap compounds over time.
Altenar’s Jokerbet partnership in Spain is a concrete example of what experienced, stable teams can deliver. The integration introduced Bet Builder functionality, improved promotional tooling, and the eFootball vertical, generating more predictable revenue streams for the operator. That level of market-specific execution requires product depth that takes time to build and consistent retention to preserve.
The SiGMA Europe Best Workplace award is the industry acknowledging what the acceptance rate already confirmed. Altenar has built the kind of environment that people choose, and the operational benefits of that decision are visible in the product its operator clients receive.
In a market where talent scarcity is fast becoming a genuine execution risk, this is the kind of advantage that compounds quietly. Until the numbers make it impossible to ignore.
Source: Altenar
