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European HR Tech Fundings 04/2025

The first month of Q2 2025 started a slower in terms of number of deals and investment than March 2025 in the European but also in the global #HRTech & #EdTech space. Still, there are several interesting deals in French, the UK and Germany in early stages. Most remarkable in Europe is the investment in frontline workers skills application Klara  whilst Larridin (US) starts out to enter/ open-up a new category of adressing organizational fitness.

⬇𝐈𝐧𝐯𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬:

💵 Job&Talent (ES) announced the closing of its Series F round securing €92M in equity financing to accelerate the next generation of bluecolor workforce management. The round valued the company at €1.3B (🦄) was raised from new and existing investors such as AtomicoBlackRockDN CapitalHercules CapitalInfraVia Capital PartnersKibo Ventures, and Kinnevikhttps://www.jobandtalent.com/news/series-f

💵 Klara (FR) raised an €10M venture round led by Endeit Capital with participation from SIDE Capital and Ankaa Ventures for its digital tools to manage and develop skills among frontline employees. Klara plans to use the funding to accelerate deployment, grow its commercial and product teams, and introduce new functionalities, including AI-powered features that align with the wider productivity tech trend: https://endeit.com/news/subject/investment-klara/

💵 ubiMaster (DE) raised a €7M Series-A from several investors including Owl Ventures, Bayern Kapital, amberra, Auxxo Female Catalyst Fund, Zanichelli Venture and MPA Capital for its personal online tutoring solution. With the funding the company plans to internationalize and extend its portfolio: https://www.ubimaster.com/de/neues/expansion-gesichert-ubimaster-erh%C3%A4lt-7-millionen-euro-in-series-a-finanzierungsrunde 

💵 PeopleForce (UA/PL ) raised a $5.38M pre-Series A co-led by Pracuj Ventures and u.ventures with participation from Dnipro VC. The all-in-one HR platform will use the funds to scale go-to-market teams in Poland and Latin America, enhance AI-driven HR analytics, localize platform features for regional compliance, and support enterprise onboarding and service: https://www.thesaasnews.com/news/peopleforce-raises-5-38-million-in-pre-series-a 

💵 Poppins (FR) raised a €5M venture round led by Racine2 with participation of Eurazeo, Verve Ventures, Kurma Partners, Bpifrance, BNP Paribas Développement. Poppins creates musical games for children based on neurologic music therapy methods. These games are designed to address learning dissabilities like dyslexia, providing a digital treatment at home and helping identify these conditions. The funding is used to scale its dyslexia therapy app and expand into the U.S. market: https://tech.eu/2025/04/24/poppins-raises-eur5m-to-expand-digital-therapy-for-children-with-dyslexia/

💵 Vizzy | B Corp™ (UK) raised a GBP 3.7M seed round led by Adjuvo with backing from a network of prominent angel investors, including former Workday executive Rob Wells and England Rugby coach Sir Clive Woodward. Vizzy aims to modernise job applications by enabling candidates to create digital profiles that showcase "not just experience, but interests, ambitions, and future potential". Vizzy plans to use the new funding to scale its platform globally and strengthen its product offering: https://tech.eu/2025/04/17/uk-based-vizzy-raises-3-65m-seed-to-streamline-early-career-hiring/

💵 Dex (UK) raised $3.1M pre-seed round led by Andreessen Horowitz and Concept Ventures with participation from various investors angel investors. Dex is a developer of an AI voice talent agent and Machine Learning recruitment matchmaking engine. The company intends to use the funds to accelerate its product development and international expansion: https://www.finsmes.com/2025/04/dex-raises-3-1m-in-pre-seed-funding.html

💵 Pro Parents Workplace Wellbeing (NL) raised a €1M venture round from Quantum Leap Capital, Peakfijn, OostNL and various business angels. Pro Parents offers HRTech that helps employers support employees during pregnancy, the postpartum period, and while managing work and parenthood. Pro Parents will use the funds to support growth, expand collaborations with academic partners such as Radboud University, and enable entry into other European markets: https://siliconcanals.com/female-led-startup-pro-parents-bags-e1m/

💵 Cruit (NL) raised an undisclosed funding round from Slingshot Ventures, Arches Capital and angel investors for its employee referral solution that activates the networks of employees to source high-quality candidates: https://www.cruit.work/changelog/cruit-raises-seed-investment-round

Additional start-ups reported smaller or undisclosed funding including Alike (UK) and Drill App (UA).

🌏 Globally, some notable rounds include:

Let me know if I overlooked something in the comments below! 👇

Congrats to the startups, their teams and the founder including Nazim Chibane, Jana Krotsch, François Vonthron, Chris Woodward-Jones, Paddy Lambros, Joyce Knappe, Thijs Visser, Steye Kaersenhout, Martijn Hamann, Niclas Englert, Elise Stern and their teams as well as to the investors!

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