European HR Tech Fundings 10/2025

In October, HR Tech fundings for new start-ups or uprising scale-ups in Europe were not as notable in size compared to some previous months, while US showed some additional very significant rounds. The stream for additional fundings for AI-based talent acquisition, learning and benefits startups continues, thus investments again underlining that AI is driving innovation across HRTech disciplines. 

Here are the details:

⬇𝐈𝐧𝐯𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬:

💵 Jack & Jill (UK) raised an impressive $20M seed-round led by led Creandum, with participation from DIG Ventures, Ada Ventures, firedrop, Repeat Ventures, Entrepreneurs First, Episode 1 Ventures and Playfair, and a group of angels. Their approach two talent acquisition is two conversational AI recruiters. Jack gets to know candidates, understanding their skills and experience, and what they really want from their careers. With that context he works for them helping them find the perfect next step. And Jill speaks to companies, to deeply learn who they're looking for. Once she's fully briefed she helps them find brilliant people: https://creandum.com/stories/backing-jack-and-jill/

💵 Edflex (FR) raised an $18M unknown venture round from Bpifrance via its Digital Venture fund and from its historical investors Educapital, Ternel, and Wille Finance. Edflex reinvents the training experience to enable every employee to develop skills directly within their workflow. It aggregates proven online training content across more than 300 topics based on strategic partnerships with publishers and leading open-source resources: https://www.edflex.com/en/posts/edflex-raises-18m-to-accelerate-innovation-and-become-a-global-leader-in-digital-learning 

💵 Magma Math (SE) raised a $10M unknown venture round from current investor Five Elms Capital. This investment will fuel Magma Math’s mission to make math meaningful for every learner by equipping educators with intelligent tools that deepen student understanding and increase engagement in classrooms worldwide: https://www.magmamath.com/post/magma-math-secures-10-million-in-funding-to-accelerate-global-expansion-and-ai-innovation

💵 Cyberr® (LX) raised a €3M Series-A round for its cyber security focused hiring and recruitment platform. Funding does not seem to be broadly communicated and therefore no additional details. 

💵 Jint (ex-Mozzaik365) (FR) raised a €1.5M funding round from Christophe Karvelis-Senn. It offers collaboration solutions based on SharePoint and Teams and also changed its name to Jint, which stands for Intranet as a Journey. This latest funding will support its expansion in North America: https://www.distributique.com/actualites/lire-mozzaik365-se-renomme-jint-et-s-installe-a-montreal-36641.html

💵 Paul's Job (DE) raised a €1.4M pre-seed funding round led by SCALEHOUSE Capital joined by SaaS pioneer Alexander Bruehl (SaaSgarage ) and other angel investors. With this re-start Paul's Job aims to build a recruiting intelligence platform powered by agentic AI – automating applicant tracking and recruiting across WhatsApp, SMS, and voice channels: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/paulsjob_recruitingintelligence-agenticai-hrtech-activity-7379090539268173824-dRQO?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAAAAMpbwBFldYms8LxwVNlenzoGlOMeLPbmw

Additional start-ups reported smaller or undisclosed funding including BiMA (DE), ivee | The job platform for everyone else (UK), WorkUgo (UK), WiseWorld.ai (PT) and Squarepoint (ES). Furthermore, vendors like ESSA.app Personal Career Assistant (PL) and Near-Life™ (UK) reported grants. Sesame HR (ES) reported €50M and Grupa Pracuj (PL) €18M in debt-funding.

🌎 Interesting global fundings include: 

• Mercor's (US) impressive $350M (💸💸💸) Series-C round at a 9.7B valuation (🤯) 

• Deel's (US) impressive $300M (💸💸💸) Series-E round at a $17B valuation (🤯)

• The highest seed funding for a (partly) European-based company with General Intuition's (US/ CH) €114M seed round. Unlike typical AI startups that rely on curated training data, the company leverages organically uploaded content featuring dramatic successes and failures – ideal edge cases for training systems with spatial and temporal awareness.

• Further Talent Acquisition focused fundings besides Mercor, Juicebox and Alex AI: Findem's (US) $36M Series-C 

• Further Benefits focused fundings: Human Interest's (US) $100M unknown venture series, OneImaging (US) $31M Series-A and Nava Benefits (US) $30M Series-C

Also interesting is that next to SAP, Workday Ventures, ServiceNow, ADP Ventures now also UKG launched its own UKG Ventures arms and announced its first three investments in startups like Financial Wellness Labs and Intermezzo as well as in Acadian Ventures's Fund III: https://www.ukg.com/company/newsroom/ukg-launches-venture-fund

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

Congrats to the startups, their teams and the founder including Matthew Wilson, Clément Meslin, Henrik Appert, Laurent Halimi, Florian Bouron, Dominik Faber, Brendan Foody, Alex Bouaziz, Pim de Witte and their teams as well as to the many familiar investors involved!