🚀 March 2026 | HRTech Funding Highlights 🌍

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 in the frontline payroll, benefits, learning and talent acquisition space.

Here are the details:

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💵 WorkFlex (NL) raised a €37M Series-B funding round led by Spectrum Equity, a Boston-based growth equity firm for international travel compliance management software. The new investment will enable WorkFlex to accelerate its expansion across Europe, enhance product capabilities, and venture into related areas of mobility risk management: Currently, WorkFlex processes more than 100,000 cross-border trips annually, with volume growing more than 250% year-over-year across over 1,000 distinct country combinations: https://www.workflex.com/post/workflex-secures-growth-investment-from-spectrum-equity-to-scale-automated-cross-border-compliance-platform

💵 Origin (UK) raised a $30M Series-A+ round led by Notion Capital, which also participated in Origin’s Series A round. Felix Capital, which led the Series A round, Acadian Ventures and all existing investors, are participating in the Series A+ that was raised at a higher valuation than the Series A. Alongside, Origin secured growth capital from HSBC Innovation Banking UK. For decades, global benefits have remained fragmented across countries, vendors, brokers, insurers, consultants, retirement providers, and point solutions. Origin addresses this with what it calls the first Enterprise Benefits Intelligence platform, a trusted system of record, insight, and action for global benefits, powered by AI: https://originbenefits.com/series-a-plus-funding?hsCtaAttrib=369349648584

💵 OpenUp (NL) raised a €20M unknown venture round from Smartfin and Rubio Impact Ventures for their employee mental health plaform operating across the Netherlands, Germany, the United Kingdom, France, and Belgium, serving more than two thousand companies. The capital injection will allow the company to accelerate its European expansion strategy: https://openup.com/press/e20-million-capital-injection-for-openup/

💵 Flexzo Ai (UK) raised a GBP9M Series-A round led by Octopus Ventures. The company states that the funding round drew a combination of venture capital firms and strategic investors. The hospital workforce management tool provider said the financing will support the rollout of its platform across NHS Trusts and accelerate expansion in the US. Founded in 2023, Flexzo AI was launched to address the outdated processes, poor visibility, and fragmented compliance workflows present in NHS locations. With Flexzo, hospitals can source temporary and permanent staff from its talent pool. The platform also contains rostering tools, staff bank ad float pool management and a national database of pre-verified healthcare professionals: https://www.uktech.news/ai/agentic-healthcare-platform-flexzo-ai-raises-9m-20260320

💵 Bounti (DE) raised a €4M Seed-round led by Ventech with participation from IBB Ventures, Festina, Robin Capital, Common Magic and angels including Paul Forster (Indeed), Koen Bok and Jorn van Dijk (Framer) and various HR Angels Club members for its frontline worker focused AI-training and onboarding solution in hospitality, logistics & multi-site businesses across Europe. Bounti’s goal is to assist decentralised organisations in maintaining consistent quality and execution across numerous locations. Its AI-powered platform automates core management tasks such as identifying operational issues, analysing their root causes, and triggering concrete actions: https://bounti.co/blog/bounti-raises-4m

💵 heycare (DE) raised a €4M extended Seed-round led by SCALEHOUSE Capital with participation from Swiss Post Ventures for its platform for various services related to employee assistance and family support. The platform connects people with care needs, including those requiring care and pets. This helps the company support its employees in better balancing their work and private lives. Since the beginning of 2026, the platform has also integrated the Urban Sports Club sports and wellness network. This allows corporate clients to access additional exercise and health-related offerings and create a comprehensive health ecosystem for their employees: https://www.heycare.com/heycare-sichert-sich-rund-4-millionen-euro-fur-weiteres-wachstum

💵 Surveily (PL) raised a €2.5M Series-A round led by Industrial Impact® VC Momenta, with participation from Look AI Ventures, and a second close is expected from a Polish investment fund. Surveily turns CCTV systems in factories into active safety systems. Its software runs locally at the edge, analyzes video in real time, and flags unsafe behavior the moment it happens. The company plans to use the capital to build out its product and expand internationally, with the United States high on its list: https://techstartups.com/2026/03/17/poland-based-surveily-raises-e2-5m-series-a-to-bring-edge-ai-to-industrial-safety/

💵 Blify (FR) has raised a $2.1M Pre-Seed funding round led by AFI Ventures (Ventech’s impact fund) and included Kima Ventures, Better Angle, Fair Equity, and over 50 business angels, including founders and executives from Maki People, Alan, Doctolib, JobTeaser, and ABB.investment to accelerate development of its AI-native Learning Operating System. Companies spend heavily on employee training each year, but traditional LMS and LXP platforms often fail to maintain engagement. Many employees forget what they learn shortly after completing training, and monthly participation rates remain low. Blify plans to solve this by embedding learning directly into the tools employees already use, such as Microsoft Teams, Slack, and WhatsApp: https://startuprise.co.uk/blify-raises-2-1m-to-build-ai-powered-workplace-training-platform/?ts=1773823072

💵 TuringDream (ES) has raised a €2M investment from Spanish Society for Technological Transformation (SETT) for promotes the “democratization” of Artificial Intelligence through its “agent” technology or technology managed through so-called “autonomous agents”. Located in Madrid, the TuringDream project represents a shift in the development of artificial intelligence, moving from a language-based model to one based on agentic systems. Through a cloud platform, these agents allow users to configure the AI themselves, without the need for engineers. Hence, the "democratization" of the system: https://capital-riesgo.es/en/articles/sett-promotes-the-democratization-of-ai-with-a-two-million-euro-investment-in-turingdream/

💵 Ringtime (BE) raised a €1.8M Seed-seed round led by Volta Ventures with participation from Syndicate One, JK INVEST, New School VC and Allusion.be for its AI-solution to accelerate blue-collar recruitment. With this capital Ringtime plans to expand their product team, accelerate growth and build towards expansion into the Netherlands, the UK and Germany. The interest from customers and prospects shows market readiness: https://www.vestbee.com/insights/articles/slashwork-secures-3-5-m

💵 Elva (SE) raised a €1.3M Pre-Seed-funding round led by Lifeline Ventures with participation from Tiny VC, Wave Ventures, and First Fellow Partners, alongside several angel investors for simplifying cross-border hiring and extending their platform designed to streamline the relocation process: https://techfundingnews.com/slack-co-founder-backs-elvas-e1-3m-round-for-seamless-global-hires/

💵 bcount (ES) raised a €1M Seed-funding round led by Archipélago Next, with participation from Encomenda Capital Partners SGEIC, Draper B1, Coben Ventures and the business angel Juanjo Mostazo : https://elreferente.es/inversiones/bcount-cierra-una-ronda-de-financiacion-de-un-millon-de-euros/

💵 ivee (UK) raised a €1M Seed-funding round from some social impact enterprises as well as leading angels (including Steven Bartlett and partners from some of the UK’s top VCs) for their AI up-skilling and talent platform. Ivee works with dozens of customers and over 80k+ candidates who feel ill-equipped to adapt to the age of AI: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/seb-johnson_breaking-ivee-has-raised-1m-to-upskill-activity-7434175680487043072-F4GK/

Additional start-ups reported smaller (below €1M) or undisclosed funding including Graddus (ES), Bulbi (TK) Aidea (TK), CrawlJobs (UK) and Solidroad (IE). Additional start-ups reported grants incl. Vinter AI Recruitment Platform (UK), GIFTED CARE SERVICES (UK). Further, debt funding was reported by Sapphire HR (UK), Origin (UK), and bcount (ES).

🌎 Interesting global fundings include:

• Juicebox's (US) impressive $80M Series-B for their AI-powered outbound talent sourcing and recruiting platform

• Paraform's (US) $40M Series-B for their AI-powered recruitment marketplace platform

• Plum's (IN) $20M Series-B for their AI-driven claims and employee benefits solutions

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

Congrats to the startups, their teams and the founder including Patrick Koch, Pieter Manden, Chris Bruce, Jack Henderson, Deniz Bayraktaroğlu, Ziar Khosrawi, Anna Schneider, Julia Kahle, Clement Lhommeau, Antonia Eneh, Lydia Miller, Amelia Miller and their teams as well as to the investors involved!

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