HR Tech startup ecosystem
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50skills
50skills is a Reykjavik-based HR SaaS platform that streamlines the full employee journey — from hiring through onboarding, crossboarding and offboarding — in a single workspace. The platform centralises employee data, eliminates repetitive data entry across HR systems, and integrates with the tools employers already use. Founded in 2017, the company raised €2.5M from Frumtak Ventures in 2022 and has since grown to approximately 22 employees serving customers in over 20 countries. Major Icelandic clients include Icelandair, PLAY Airlines, IKEA, Vodafone, Securitas and Domino's. The company reported $2.1M in annual revenue in 2024.
Alda
Alda is an Icelandic HR-tech startup founded in 2022 that provides a culture intelligence platform for measuring and improving workplace diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI). The platform combines inclusion surveys, gamified micro-learning, AI-powered action plans, and real-time DEI dashboards. Alda has raised €2.9 million from Frumtak Ventures and Tennin, and counts Aker Solutions, Icelandair, and Avalanche Studios among its clients. It was named a Gartner Cool Vendor in 2025.
Bernat Farrero
Co-founder of Factorial and a partner in the Itnig startup ecosystem in Barcelona, where he has founded and backed multiple SaaS companies. He focuses on company-building and operations across the Itnig portfolio.
CAKE.com (Clockify)
CAKE.com, formerly COING, is a bootstrapped productivity software company founded in Novi Sad in 2009 by Nenad Milanovic. It is best known for Clockify, the world's most widely used free time-tracking app, launched in 2017 and now used by over 5 million users globally including HP and American Express — voted best overall time-tracking app by Forbes. The company expanded its product suite to include Pumble (team messaging) and Plaky (task management), rebranding the family of tools under the CAKE.com umbrella in 2023. The company reached $25M+ ARR entirely bootstrapped without venture capital.
Catalyst Solutions
Catalyst Solutions is a Bucharest-based recruitment, employer-branding and events company founded in 2005. It produces several of Romania's largest technology and careers events, including the DevTalks conference series in Bucharest and Cluj-Napoca, the DevCon IT conference, the DevHacks hackathon and the Angajatori de TOP career fair, alongside the Top Talents Romania and Most Desired Employers research programmes. Its events connect Romanian engineering talent with local and international employers.
Cobee
Cobee is a Madrid-based digital employee benefits and flexible compensation platform that lets companies offer and employees manage benefits such as meal vouchers, training, health and life insurance, wellbeing and discounts through a single app and card. The company expanded beyond Spain into Portugal and Mexico, serving over 1,500 clients. In 2024 global employee-benefits company Pluxee acquired Cobee, which continues to operate as part of the Pluxee group.
Combo
Combo (formerly Snapshift) is a Paris-based HR software company for deskless workforces in hospitality, retail, food service, and other frontline industries. Its platform covers staff scheduling and time tracking, leave management, digital time clocks, contract generation with electronic signatures, HR dashboards, and payroll preparation exports. Combo reports more than 10,000 companies and 150,000 employees using the platform daily, and it operates from offices in Paris and Madrid.
Coverflex
Coverflex is a Portuguese startup that builds a compensation management platform bringing together every part of employee compensation beyond salary, including flexible benefits, insurance, meal allowance and exclusive discounts in a single product. Employees manage their benefits, meal allowance, insurance and discounts through the Coverflex app and card, and can direct part of their balance toward savings products. Founded in 2019, it operates across European markets including Portugal, Italy and Spain. In February 2023 it raised a €15 million Series A round to support its European expansion.
DevSkiller
Technical skills assessment platform used by enterprise engineering teams to screen, interview, and upskill developers with real-world coding tasks. Pivoted in recent years toward developer skills management and internal capability mapping alongside hiring. Backed by Movens Capital.
Epignosis (TalentLMS)
Epignosis is an Athens-based learning technology company behind TalentLMS, one of the most widely used cloud learning management systems for SMBs and mid-market companies. TalentLMS enables organizations to create, deliver, and track employee training programmes with minimal setup and a strong focus on usability. The company also offers eFront for enterprise and compliance-heavy training requirements. With tens of thousands of organizations using its products across 150+ countries, Epignosis is a major Greek SaaS success story that proves deep product focus in a mature category can yield global reach from a non-traditional startup geography.
Factorial
Factorial is an all-in-one HR & business management platform built for SMBs and mid-market companies. Founded in 2016, it unifies time tracking, payroll, recruitment, performance reviews, and document management into a single cloud product. The company hit $100M ARR in 2024 and achieved a $1B valuation backed by Atomico, Tiger Global, and CRV. In 2025 General Catalyst injected $120M to fund expansion into Germany, France, and Italy. As of 2026 the company employs ~2,000 people and is exploring a $200M round at a $2B valuation.
Felipe Navío
Co-founder and co-CEO of Jobandtalent, the staffing-marketplace unicorn he started in 2009. He leads the company alongside co-founder Juan Urdiales, scaling its on-demand workforce platform internationally.
Glorri
Glorri is a Baku-based HR operating system that unifies sourcing, applicant tracking, interview collaboration, offer management, and onboarding inside a single workflow, with an explicit focus on fast-growing teams in the Caucasus and broader CEE region that have outgrown spreadsheets but can't justify seat pricing from Workday or Greenhouse. The product layers company-branded career pages, a candidate CRM, scorecards, and automated stage progressions onto a mobile-first recruiter experience, and connects to local job boards where traditional global ATS vendors have poor coverage. Glorri gained regional visibility through the 500 Global Eurasia accelerator and is notable as one of the first Azerbaijani HR-tech startups trying to serve the entire hiring funnel rather than just the top-of-funnel sourcing problem.
Hanno Renner
Hanno Renner is Co-founder & CEO of the HR software unicorn Personio. A founder in the German startup ecosystem, Hanno leads the HR software unicorn Personio.
HappySignals
HappySignals is the leading SaaS platform for IT Experience Management (ITXM), measuring how employees perceive IT services and translating that data into productivity and service quality improvements. Founded in Helsinki in 2014, the platform covers over one million employees across 130 countries and integrates with major ITSM tools. In 2024 the company raised €12 million led by Mandatum Asset Management to fund global expansion. Customers using the platform report an average 26% increase in end-user productivity, and the company hosted the inaugural ITXM Summit in London in May 2026.
HCM Deck
HCM Deck was founded in 2016 in Kraków by Szymon Janicki and Rafał Nieśluchowski. The company offers a cloud-based employee development platform covering learning, communications, and feedback, serving enterprise clients such as Rossmann, Leroy Merlin, Decathlon, and Allianz. It raised a total of roughly $4M, including a 2019 round led by mAccelerator (mBank's VC fund) with co-investment from Innovation Nest.
Helio.ai
Helio.ai is an AI-powered recruiting platform from Tbilisi focused on automating candidate screening and improving hiring quality. The product combines ATS workflows, multilingual CV matching, and behavioral assessment tools to help teams make faster, less biased hiring decisions. The company has expanded across regional markets with backing from Georgian and international investors.
HiBob
All-in-one HR platform ('Bob') for mid-sized and multinational companies covering core HR, talent, payroll, benefits, workforce planning and an embedded AI assistant. Founded 2015 with London and Tel Aviv roots.
Homerun
Homerun is an Amsterdam-based recruitment and applicant tracking system (ATS) founded in 2015, purpose-built for small and medium-sized businesses that prioritise employer branding and candidate experience. The platform enables companies to create customised career pages, manage candidate pipelines, and collaborate on hiring decisions. In January 2024 Homerun was acquired by ISH Holding, a B2B SaaS group, while continuing to operate independently under its own brand.
Hyperjob
Hyperjob is a recruitment SaaS platform that lets companies create branded, interactive job-ad microsites reported to achieve up to six times higher candidate conversion rates than plain job board listings. Founded in 2021 by Janis Kreilis, Juris Sorokins, and Roberts Tomme, the company raised €435k in a seed round led by SMOK Ventures in 2023. The platform also offers automated, personalised LinkedIn and email candidate outreach.
