Berlin-based HR start-up HiPeople raises $3m
The HR tech company was founded in 2019 and helps recruiters to hire remotely using automated reference checks.
HiPeople has raised $3m in seed funding to develop its recruitment tool. The investment comes from Atomico co-founder Mattias Ljungman’s new venture firm, Moonfire, as well as Capnamic Ventures and Cherry Ventures.
The Berlin-based start-up was founded in 2019 by Jakob Gillmann and Sebastian Schüller. Gillmann had previously worked for tech companies Peakon, Optimizely and Adjust. Schüller previously worked at Google in Dublin as a growth strategist and ran the Berlin office of an early-stage VC firm.
HiPeople picks up $3M seed to automate reference checks
HiPeople, an HR tech startup based in Berlin that wants to automate the reference checking process, has raised $3 million in seed funding.
Leading the round is Mattias Ljungman’s Moonfire, with participation from Capnamic Ventures and Cherry Ventures. It follows a $1.1 million pre-seed in late 2019. Notably, the seed round was closed fully remote, without any in-person meetings. “Just like the hiring processes of HiPeople’s clients,” founders Jakob Gillmann and Sebastian Schüller told me in an email.
HiPeople says the investment will be used to support growth so that more recruiters can hire remotely using automated reference checks. Longer term, the company is developing a candidate analytics platform to provide rich data and insights on each candidate and enable what it frames as “data-driven” hiring.