Handshake built the dominant campus recruiting network in the United States. Most major universities are on it. Most large enterprise employers have subscriptions. For the better part of a decade, if you wanted early career talent at scale, Handshake was the default...
The early career market is in its pre-ACA-like moment. The regulatory deadline is real. The platform gap is wide open. The incumbents aren't building toward it. That combination doesn't last long. The Affordable Care Act (ACA) set a mandatory compliance deadline that...
A 12-year-old people analytics consultancy tore up the software it spent five years building, rebuilt it AI-native in six months, and landed on a thesis that should worry every legacy analytics vendor and reassure every services firm sitting on unmonetized expertise:...
I run the Investor Experience at HR Tech, which means most of my days right now are spent talking to angels, VCs, private equity, and corp dev about what they're looking for. There's a phrase I hear more than I'd like: "not really interested in talent acquisition...
As the traditional job board model dies, the ecosystem built on job traffic and arbitrage is under pressure to change....
There is a category cluster in HR and Work Tech that never followed the script. While funding peaked in 2021 and...
Phenom just made its second acquisition in the behavioral science and assessments space in roughly ten weeks....
There is a particular kind of expensive mistake that happens in markets moving this fast. It is not the mistake of...
The HR and Work Tech market has always had winners and losers. What's different now is the speed and the direction....
Q1 2026 was a notable quarter in Global HR Tech funding, notable partly for what was missing. Mid-stage deals, the...