Founders, investors, and support organizations active in HR Tech.
Glorri is a Baku-based HR software platform that unifies sourcing, applicant tracking, hiring collaboration, and onboarding workflows into one system. The product targets fragmented recruiting stacks used by growing teams and enterprise HR units, with a focus on reducing time-to-hire and process overhead. It gained regional visibility through the 500 Global in Eurasia accelerator.
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.
Angel investor and host of the Zaprojektuj Swoje Życie podcast, Maciej is known as one of Poland’s most transparent private investors, openly sharing portfolio wins and failures. With prior senior leadership roles at Dell and NTT, he focuses on stable B2B SaaS models and healthtech opportunities. His publicly discussed portfolio includes Just Join IT, Booksy, and HiPeople.
Co-founder of Grupa Pracuj and managing partner at Pracuj Ventures, Maciej is one of the most active HR-tech focused investors in Poland with a portfolio spanning 40+ companies. He is known for scaling marketplace and B2B software models, and remains a key shareholder in Grupa Pracuj following its Warsaw Stock Exchange IPO. Notable startup involvements include Symmetrical.ai, Jutro Medical, and SonarHome.
Freelance talent marketplace active across France and Germany, connecting independent professionals with enterprise clients.
Personio is a Munich-based HR software company that has become one of Europe’s most valuable SaaS startups. Founded in 2015 by Hanno Renner (CEO) and three co-founders from the Technical University of Munich, Personio set out to streamline HR management for small and mid-sized businesses. Its cloud platform offers an “all-in-one” suite – from recruiting and applicant tracking to payroll, attendance, and performance management. Personio’s focus on Europe’s underserved SME segment paid off spectacularly: as of 2024, the company serves 12,000+ customers across 70 countries (primarily firms with 10–2,000 employees). This rapid growth attracted major VC funding. Personio became a unicorn in January 2021 with a $1.7 billion valuation, and by October 2022 it raised a $200 million Series E extension at a staggering $8.5 billion valuation – making it one of Europe’s most valuable private tech companies at the time. Investors like Index Ventures, Accel, Lightspeed, and Greenoaks have backed Personio. The company has since expanded to 8 offices (including London, Dublin and Amsterdam) and grown to about 2,000 employees. Despite the size, Personio continues to post strong metrics: in 2023, revenue reportedly doubled and the firm reached over 15,000 customers by 2025. Personio’s success is often attributed to its user-friendly, modular platform tailored to non-technical HR teams at smaller companies. It integrates with 100+ other business tools and emphasizes automation of routine HR tasks. Now valued at $8.5 billion+, Personio is widely seen as a future IPO candidate and a role model for Europe’s B2B SaaS boom – proving that an “SMB HR” niche can scale to a global category leader.
Employee experience platform blending benefits, rewards, and wallet tools for hybrid teams.
TechWolf builds an AI-based workforce intelligence platform that helps enterprises transition to skills-based operating models. By integrating with HR systems, it infers employee skills, identifies gaps, and supports internal mobility and planning decisions at large-company scale.