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Top HR Tech VC Categories in Q4 2019
Job boards and Payroll Tech led HR technology venture capital investment in Q4 2019, while tech for staffing firms emerged into the top six tech categories. Q4 2019 showed talent acquisition surge ahead of HCM with total deal volume of USD $566 million. This...
2019 Global HR Tech VC Look-back
With a new year comes new analysis of the HR technology investments and the trends they reflect. The 2019 Global HR Tech VC is ready for viewing and download by all HRWins members. 2019 set another record for global HR tech VC investment and we've...
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Vida Health Raises $110 Million Bringing Employees Physical and Mental Health Wellness
Vida Health announced a $110 million Series D round of venture capital funding for its virtual chronic care platform. This brings its total raised to $188 million. Vida believes "that personalized, continuous virtual mental and physical care can be more effective and...
Blind Raises $37M to Blend Workplace Gossip, Career Advice, and Recruiting. What Could Go Wrong?
Blind, the anonymous professional network, announced a $37 million Series C round of venture capital to move its platform toward career advice and recruiting. This brings its total raised to $61.8 million. Blind gives users an anonymous network, which presents like a...
Singapore-based Impress.ai Raises $3m for Conversational Recruiting Tech
Singapore-based impress.ai announced a USD $3 million Seed round of venture capital funding for its conversational recruiting tech. This brings its total raised to $4.4 million. Impress.ai operates a no-code, self-service platform that is highly focused on simplifying...
China-based Beisen Raises USD $260 Million for Low Code Core HR and Talent Management
China-based Beisen announced a USD $260 million Series F round of venture capital for its low code core HR and talent management platform. Claiming to be China's largest HR SaaS and talent management platform, this brings its total raised to $388 million. It is...
Legion Raises $50 Million for AI-powered Workforce Management
Legion announced a $50 million Series C round of venture capital for its AI-powered workforce management solution. This brings its total raised to $85.5 million. Workforce managment tech is core to getting work done. If you consider what the vast majority of jobs look...
UK-based Unmind Raises USD $47 Million to Tie Clinically-Backed Insights on Employee Mental Wellness to Business Impact
UK-based Unmind announced a USD $47 million Series B round of venture capital funding for its employee mental wellness app. This brings its total raised to $63.2 million. Unmind's co-founder and CEO Nick Taylor is a clinical psychologist. It's an important distinction...
Handshake Founder Dumpster Dives and They Emerge Work Tech’s Latest Unicorn Focused on Early Career Jobs and Internships
Years have passed since Handshake founder Garrett Lord's dumpster dive that he claims inspired the creation of the company and this week's announcement of its $80 million Series E round of venture capital funding with a new valuation of $1.5 billion. Still, it makes...
Zenovate Raises $1 Million for Employee Wellbeing
Zenovate announced a $1 million Seed round of venture capital as it pivots from providing on-demand physical wellness services like massage onsite to employers to a virtual wellbeing app providing teletherapy, physical wellness classes, and mental wellness in addition...
Collective Health Raises $280 Million for Integrated Health Insurance and Tech for Employers with Self-funded Benefits
Collective Health announced a $280 million Series F round of venture capital for its integrated health insurance and benefits platform for self-funded employers. This brings its total raised to $719 million. The Collective Health platform aims to help employees...
Australia-based SafetyCulture Raises USD $73 Million for Workplace Safety and Becomes Latest Work Tech Unicorn
Australia-based SafetyCulture announced a USD $73 million Series D round of venture capital for its workplace safety inspection and observation app. This brings its total raised to $222.8 million. The company also announced a valuation of $1.6 billion making it the...
WorkBoard Raises $75 Million for OKR-based Performance Management in A Crowded Category Where One Size Never Fits All
WorkBoard announced a $75 million Series D round of venture capital for its OKR-based performance management app. This brings its total raised to $131 million. Performance management has moved away from forced rankings and annual reviews to more goal-based approaches...
Fuel50 Raises $15.5 Million for Internal Mobility – A Category Without A Clear Owner
Fuel50 announced a $15.5 million Series B round of venture capital funding for its internal mobility app. This brings its total raised to $36.1 million. Positioning itself as a "talent marketplace," the company, from its inception, has been focused on career pathing...
Utmost Raises $21 Million to Become the Vendor Management System for Workday Customers but The Market Needs More Than That
Utmost announced a $21 million Series B round of VC for its vendor management system (VMS). This brings its total raised to $32.2 million. There's a renewed focus on the independent (aka contingent) workforce in the work tech market. Like many trends that were...
France-based PeopleSpheres Raises USD $10 Million for HR Platform as a Service
France-based PeopleSpheres announced a $10 million round of venture capital for its Platform as a Service (PaaS) solutions focused on integrating existing HR tech into a flexible and extendable platform. PaaS is an architecture in cloud computing that provides a...
Arc Crowdsourced $1M for Its Job Board Marketplace Focused on Remote Developers
Arc announced a crowdsourcing round of $1 million for its job board marketplace focused on remote developers. Arc has several of the elements of the emerging modern job board marketplace: Specialization: Remote developersValue add: Skills certification for developers,...