Canada-based SuccessFinder Raises USD $2.23 Million for Its Psychometric Assessments
Canada-based SuccessFinder has raised USD $2.23 million to join a crowded field of North America-based assessment providers. Positioning for recruitment, talent management, and analytics and stressing the validity of their psychometric science, there doesn't look to...
GloatRaises $25 Million Series B for Its Career Mobility App
Global unemployment remains low and the skills shortage/gap remains large, so entrepreneurs and investors are getting behind models that help employers deploy their existing resources. Gloat is the latest to see investment, raising $25 million in a Series B. They...
EdCast Raises $34 Million For Its Learning Experience Platform
EdCast raised $34 Million for its learning experience platform. Enterprise learning continues to get disrupted as the expectations for this category are at the nexus of addressing skills gap/re-skilling opportunities and consumerized expectations of both CLOs and...
Germany-based CoachHub Raises Another USD $4 Million for Its Coaching App
Germany-based CoachHub raised another USD $4 million for its coaching app. Coaching apps have garnished a lot of investor attention this year, but the practitioners we're speaking to question the viability of the model at scale. We're looking closely at this topic -...
Degreed Acquires London-based Adepto to Enable Businesses to Sense and Respond to Shifting Demand for Skills
Degreed, which now branded a workforce upskilling platform, has acquired London-based Adepto. Degreed reports that the result of the acquisition will empower organizations to upskill, analyze, and deploy employees based on their skills. Adepto enables organizations...
New Zealand-based Joyous Raises $3.8 Million For Employee Feedback App
New Zealand startup Joyous, led by HR tech industry veteran Michael Carden, has raised a $4 million Seed round for its employee feedback app. Carden was quoted in SmartCompany saying “Employee experience is a fashionable term, but it’s quite possibly just a whole new...
Germany-based CoachHub Raises USD $11 Million to “Democratize” Leadership Coaching
The latest coaching app aiming to democratize leadership coaching with a marketplace of remote coaches is Germany-based CoachHub. They've raised USD $10 Million which they reported to EU-Startups will be used to develop more product, extend its "pool" of coaches, and...
TREND NOTE: Cultivate Raises $8M to “Coach” Managers by Listening To Digital Communications with Employees
Cultivate was one of the early HR tech startups to gather insight into manager communication and style via passive listening to a manager's digital communications on channels like Slack, Microsoft Teams, Office 365, and Google Suite. They use the data to deliver...
U.K.-based Immersive Labs raises USD $40 Million Series B to Gamify Cyber Security Skills Learning and Validation
U.K.-based Immersive Labs raised $40m Series B for their gamified cyber security skills learning and validation platform. The funds will support growth in U.S. and further platform development. Categories across HR tech will continue to see specialization based on...
Israel-based Centrical Raises USD $13 Million to Gamify Performance Management and Micro-Learning
Israel-based Centrical, formerly Biz-Effective Ltd., raised $13 million for its gamified apps that focus on micro-learning and performance management. This is a crowded HR tech category where the trends are leaning more toward putting learning and performance into the...
Germany-based Bunch Raises USD $1.5 Million Seed Round to Listen to Employee Slack Channels and Measure “Morale”
German startup Bunch is the latest to venture into employee "listening" apps designed to passively track employee communications, analyze the captured data via natural language processing (NLP), and then provide one of a variety of measurements back to the employer....
FRance-based ELEVO Raises USD $1.1 Million for Performance Management
France-based Elevo raised USD $1.1 Million and joins the very crowded performance management category of HR tech. Source: ELEVO raises 1 million euros in funding