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HR Software Market Landscape For Middle-Sized Businesses
HR isn't one size fits all, and neither is your HR software. It's difficult for middle-sized employers to get the context they need to understand the HR tech available to them. Technology is purpose-built for target customers in mind. The features, functions, pricing...
FULL REPORT: 2020 Global HR Tech VC Surges To $5 Billion
In the midst of a raging global pandemic and a floundering economy, investors pumped nearly USD $5 billion VC into HR technology in 2020. The USD $4.98 billion in 2020 generated the second-highest amount of growth capital to flood into the market in the last decade,...
India-based darwinbox Raises $15M for Its HR Suite
India-based darwinbox announced a USD $15 million Series C VC round for its HR Suite that focuses on the Asian market. This brings the total raised to $34 million. darwinbox serves the SMB segment with an average customer size of 2,000 employees (~500 customers with a...
PAIRIN Raises $4.36M to Help Workforce Agencies Serve the Workforce Impacted by COVID-19
PAIRIN announced a $4.36 million Series A for its solution that aims to support American governments, workforce agencies, and educational institutions to better serve the workforce in need. PAIRIN offers career planning and management, skills development, and training...
HCM
Teamflow Raises $3.9 Million for Team Collaboration Via Its “Virtual HQ”
Teamflow raised $3.9 million for what it bills as a "virtual HQ" to engage distributed teams in work. Based on the screenshots provided to TechCrunch, it presents as a sort of visual intranet - like a floorplan that would lead the user to rooms to collaborate, chairs...
UK-based Perchpeek Raises USD $2.7 Million for Its Employee Relocation App
UK-based Perchpeek announced a USD $2.7 million VC A round for its relocation app. This brings its total raised to $3.8 million. Perchpeek is an AI-powered app that helps a user find a new home location by leveraging machine learning as a user navigates through the...
Employee Navigator Raises $34M for its Benefits and HR platform
Employee Navigator raised a $34 million growth equity round for its benefits and HR platform. The firm works with insurance brokers, payroll providers, and benefits administrators. The benefits market in US has a massive spend and any efficiency to the process or...
India-based darwinbox Raises $15M for Its HR Suite
India-based darwinbox announced a USD $15 million Series C VC round for its HR Suite that focuses on the Asian market. This brings the total raised to $34 million. darwinbox serves the SMB segment with an average customer size of 2,000 employees (~500 customers with a...
UK-based Omnipresent Raises USD $15.8M for its Global EOR Solution
UK-based Omnipresent announced a USD $15.8 million Series A round of VC for its global employee of record (EOR) solution. Omnipresent becomes the employer of record (EOR) for its clients that are hiring remote employees in a reported 150 countries. Their value...
airSlate Raises $40M for its Low Code No Code Solution That Lets Employees Create Automated Experiences
airSlate raised a $40 million B Round of VC, bringing its total raised to date to $80 million. airSlate reports to enable employees to create automated workflow experiences to help them with day to day tasks. airSlate focuses its messaging on document process...
Talent Acquisition
PAIRIN Raises $4.36M to Help Workforce Agencies Serve the Workforce Impacted by COVID-19
PAIRIN announced a $4.36 million Series A for its solution that aims to support American governments, workforce agencies, and educational institutions to better serve the workforce in need. PAIRIN offers career planning and management, skills development, and training...
Spain-based Jobandtalent Raises USD $108M for its Job Board Marketplace
Spain-based Jobandtalent announced a Series C round of USD $108 million for what it calls a workforce-as-a-service platform. Essentially it's a job board marketplace connecting temporary/contract workers to jobs. They operate as a virtual temp staffing firm, handling...
Ireland-based Swyg Raises $1.2M to Reduce Bias in Recruitment with AI
The latest startup to attempt to reduce bias in recruiting with AI and peer interviews is Ireland-based Swyg. They join the crowded category with a $1.2 million seed round. Source: Swyg raises $1.2M pre-seed to use peer-interviewers and AI to reduce bias in...
Canada-based Knockri Raises USD $3 Million to Reduce Hiring Bias With AI
Canada-based Knockri announced a seed round of USD $3.3 million for its hiring tech that leverages AI to reduce hiring bias. Source: Knockri Raises $3 Million to Reduce Hiring Bias, Improve Diversity and Help Hire Exceptional Talent – Knockri
New Zealand-based Weirdly Raises $1.8 Million for its Assessment-based Recruiting Platform With a Focus on Customer Service Roles
New Zealand-based Weirdly announced a $1.8 million round of funding for its recruiting platform. Weirdly's focus is on assessment and selection for primarily customer service roles. The company has been growing on the success of landing and supporting major brands...
India-based Gigforce Raises USD $802K Seed Round for Job Board Marketplace Focused on Temporary, Shift, and Part-time Work
India-based Gigforce announced a USD $802K Seed Round for its job board marketplace that focuses on temp, shift, and part-time work. Source: Unitus invests $802,380 in staffing solutions startup Gigforce
TALENT MANAGEMENT
Syndio Raises $17.1 Million for its Pay Equity and People Analytics App
Syndio announced a Series B VC round of $17.1 million for its pay equity app. This brings the total raised to $32 million. Syndio started it's journey in HR tech with more broad people analytics and ONA and has found a niche, led by their customers, in pay equity....
Sweden-based Sana Labs Raises $18 Million for Mobile Learning With AI-based Learning Assistants
Sweden-based Sana Labs announced a USD $18 million Series A for its learning app that gives users an AI-powered learning assistant. The AI reportedly identifies gaps in the skills and knowledge of the user and then applies nudges to motivate them toward the right...
Collective Raises $8.7 Million for Its Freelancer Back Office
Pre-COVID the freelance and contingent workforce could be up to 45% of any given employer. As we navigate uncertain times, freelancing will be popular not just for employers but for workers. Collective has raised $8.7 million to be the "back office" for these workers....
Blueboard Raises $9.3M Series A for Rewards Focused on Curated Experiences
Blueboard announced a $9.3 million Series A for its rewards tech that focuses on curated employee experiences. Source: Blueboard Secures $9.3M in Series A Funding | FinSMEs
Skillshare Raises $66 Million Series D For Its Learning Platform
After a year of what Skillshare calls unprecedented growth, it's announced a $66 million D round for its learning platform. Source: Skillshare Raises $66 Million in Series D Funding, Led by OMERS Growth Equity
Stack Overflow raises $85M Series E Funding and Leans In On Collaboration and Knowledge Management
Stack Overflow further aligns with HR technology categories with an $85 Million Series E, announcing a focus on collaboration and knowledge management. Stack Overflow has long had a job board offering. Source: Stack Overflow raises $85M in Series E funding to...
Employee Experience
Finland-based HappySignals Raises USD $5.6 Million
Finland-based HappySignals Raised USD $5.6 million to measure employee happiness and productivity. Source: Workplace startup HappySignals used this pitch to win $5m investment - Business Insider
Mighty Raises $4.3 Million Seed Round to Become the Operating System for Work
Mighty has raised a $4.3 million Seed round to create an experience layer between primary systems like Slack or Trello and back office systems of record like Workday or Salesforce. Investor Jason Corsello of Acadian believes that Mighty has the potential to become the...
Australia-based Pyn Raises USD $2.21 Million Seed Round For Modern Employee Communications
Australia-based Pyn raised a Seed round of USD $2.21 million for employee communications. The round was led by Accel Partners and the firm's founders include Jon Williams a co-founder at Culture Amp. Employee communications and collaboration has been an HR tech...
Armored Things Raises $7M for Workplace Utilization Analytics – Fifth Similar Deal Since the Start of the Pandemic
Armored Things announced a $7 Million deal for their workplace utilization analytics app. The fifth VC deal we've seen focused on the physical aspect in the employee category since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. While much of the discussion regarding employee...
Denmark-based Good Monday Raises USD $4 Million To Make the Workspace More Employee Focused
Denmark-based Good Monday announced a USD $4 million VC raise this week. They provide what they call a "workspace management" app. From what we can glean from their site, it's really a marketplace and management app addressing the physical employee experience. We...
Ireland-based Workvivo Raises USD $16 Million for Its Employee Social Intranet
Ireland-based Workvivo thinks enterprises will look away from existing collaboration and communications platforms and toward their new "social intranet" integrating existing solutions across HCM, employee experience, and enterprise collaboration. They're going to test...
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Teamflow Raises $3.9 Million for Team Collaboration Via Its “Virtual HQ”
Teamflow raised $3.9 million for what it bills as a "virtual HQ" to engage distributed teams in work. Based on the screenshots provided to TechCrunch, it presents as a sort of visual intranet - like a floorplan that would lead the user to rooms to collaborate, chairs...
UK-based Perchpeek Raises USD $2.7 Million for Its Employee Relocation App
UK-based Perchpeek announced a USD $2.7 million VC A round for its relocation app. This brings its total raised to $3.8 million. Perchpeek is an AI-powered app that helps a user find a new home location by leveraging machine learning as a user navigates through the...
Employee Navigator Raises $34M for its Benefits and HR platform
Employee Navigator raised a $34 million growth equity round for its benefits and HR platform. The firm works with insurance brokers, payroll providers, and benefits administrators. The benefits market in US has a massive spend and any efficiency to the process or...
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