After a quiet August, September brought the momentum back that I had expected: HiBob kicked the month off, and European activity was headlined by a true mega-round, Wonderful's $550M Series C at a $5B valuation for its AI operating system for the enterprise. The UK led on the larger rounds with two agentic recruiting plays, Metaview ($60M Series C) and Jack & Jill ($40M Series A), while Germany delivered the highest number of deals, with Integral, mika and Ahron. A clear new

May has been a bit less busy on a global scale with not that many hyper-fundings around the world. However, there were several interesting investments from VCs into European HRTech and WorkTech startups and scaleups - with a strong focus on UK. We still see similar patterns of fundings in AI-first scale-ups disrupting traditional ways of learning, talent acquisition and employee benefits. Again several of those also had a focus on the operational/ frontline workforce. Here ar

With a bit of delay due to Easter location we are looking back fundings of European HRTech and WorkTech startups and scaleups. Whilst the market as well as the funding environment remains challenging for software vendors in the era of AI and SaaSpocalypse, March still showed that a lot of European scaleups with strong traction are also able to raise significant funding rounds. Again, topics that vendors that received investments operate in similar HR tech companies primarily

Whilst 2026 with a limited number of fundings announcements, February was much more busy with several companies communicating their funding rounds often still closed before Christmas / end of year. Similar to the last months of 2025, investments are again primarily in the frontline payroll, benefits, learning and talent acquisition space. Here are the details: ⬇𝐈𝐧𝐯𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬: 💵 Naboo (FR) raised a $70M Series-B round led by Lightspeed Venture Partners, with pa

For my first business trip in my new role as WorkTech/ HRTech advisor I travelled to Amsterdam 🇳🇱 today. The trip alone showed me why...