Event Report: CultureAmp Shortens The Distance Between Culture and Business Performance For Its Customers
Culture drives business performance. Most of us believe this, but we find it difficult to connect the dots between the company culture we experience and the impact on business results we know it delivers. Leaders outside of HR agree. When HRWins asked thousands of...
Fuel50 Raises $14 Million for Career Pathing App
Fuel50, the "career pathing" app that claims to be the "future of work," has raised $14 million to improve employee engagement and experience by helping employers provide a visible career path for its teams. We expect Fuel50 and other firms in this category to...
Chile-based Rankmi Raises $1.5 Million USD Seed Round for Culture and Performance Management App
We are starting to see more LATAM HR technology VC. Most of the deals are smaller, seed or pre-A rounds. Chile-based Rankmi is the latest. They offer what looks like culture/engagement surveys tied to performance management, feedback, and succession planning. Source:...
TREND NOTE: Germany-based Staffbase Raises $23 Million Series C for its Employee Communications App
Employee communications and collaboration apps continue to get healthy investor attention. Staffbase is the latest entry to this growing subcategory with a $23 Million C Round. Employee communications applications all look to integrate with HCM platforms like Workday,...
Netherlands-based 2DAYSMOOD Raises $404K USD Seed Round for Its Employee Well-being Survey
Netherlands-based 2DAYSMOOD raises $404K seed round for 15 second pulse surveys focused on measuring employee wellbeing. An interesting cross between employee engagement and wellbeing, both categories seeing increasing attention and investment. Source: Dutch HR tech...
TREND NOTE: 15Five Raises $30.7 Million Series B For Structured Employee Feedback App
The latest big raise in the increasingly crowded performance management and feedback category is 15Five. They've raised $30.7 million in a Series B. 15Five has largely operated on the edges of the HR technology category, seen as more of departmental solution that gets...
Canada-based Fellow.app Raises $6.5 Million Seed Round for Its Feedback and Recognition App
Canada-based startup Fellow.app enters the crowded talent management space with, what sounds like, a combination of employee feedback, recognition, goal setting and tracking, and pulse surveys. They've branded and messaged as the "first software for managers" and...
TREND NOTE: Enboarder Raises $8 Million to Focus on Employee Onboarding Experience
Employee onboarding is broken. Sort of. Today's announcement of an $8 million raise by Enboarder to focus on experience seems like a great opportunity to pause and ponder what we're doing right, and what needs fixing in the world of employee onboarding. Do We Have An...
TREND NOTE: Indonesia-based Outpost Raises $1.3M Seed Round for It’s Remote Work Destination Travel
Distributed and remote work is now about more than a destination, it's a lifestyle brand. Coding offsite in Bali? Remote co-working trip for two weeks in Cambodia? That's the kind of remote work that Outpost inspires with its APAC travel/resort/co-working mashup, and...
TREND NOTE: Robin Powered Raises $20 million Series B to Improve Physical Aspect of Employee Experience
Robin Powered raised $20 million to impact a significant part of the employee experience - the physical workspace. Most of the chatter we hear about employee experience in the HR tech bubble is really an evolution of employee engagement data and HR tech adoption. This...
Engagedly Acquires Management Mentors Adding Mentoring to Employee Engagement Platform
Engagedly, a provider of performance management and employee engagement software, today announced the acquisition of Management Mentors, a SaaS-based mentoring company headquartered in Boston. Acquiring Mentoring Management's e-mentoring software with its proprietary...
Canada-based Lane Raises $2.5M for Its Workplace Experience Platform
We've been talking about employee experience for years, but few tech solutions take into account the physical aspect of the employee experience. Lane just raised $2.5 million to do just that. In SMB and small middle market employers it isn't unusual to see facilities...