HR Disruptors in Europe

Personio: Munich, Germany

Munich-based Personio, founded in 2015, is a holistic HR software for companies from 10 - 2000 employees. Its product features include applicant sourcing, on/off boarding, performance tracking etc. Almost 2,000 customers in over 40 countries have already simplified their HR work with the software.  

FunctionHR: Munich, Germany

FunctionHR, founded in 2016, helps companies leverage the power of analytics across the entire HR value chain. Their product ‘HR Keyboard’ enables real-time reporting with integrated data records and optimizes operative reporting cycles, and thus increases the agility of the personnel management.

Tandemploy: Berlin, Germany

Founded in 2013 by Jana and Anna, Tandemploy is a German job sharing platform for promoting job sharing.

iziwork: Paris, France

French startup, founded in 2018, is a digital employment platform that connects temporary workers to a wide range of jobs and assignments. Using artificial intelligence and an e-commerce recommendation system, the platform matches temporary workers with the mission provided by clients, in just a few clicks. The result: 95% of positions are filled in less than 4 hours.

Payfit: Paris, France

PayFit’s software, a french HR startup that was founded in 2016, digitalizes everything from payslips, social statements, absences and expenses, to holidays and RTI submissions. Annual interviews, talent management, and career management modules, are also part of the solution.

Stakha: Paris, France

A young startup founded in 2020, is a recruiting platform that is connecting tech professionals with companies who are familiar with remote tech teams. Stakha believes that remote work should be made accessible to any individual, anywhere in Europe.

Humaans: London, UK

This newly launched HR tech startup, based in London, aims to simplify the otherwise manual process of onboarding, offboarding, promotions, and others by integrating an advanced HRIS (Human Resource Information System). Humans recently raised USD 5 million in seed funding to enhance the development of its platform.

Beamery: London, UK

In 2013 Beamery, a talent operating system, which enables companies to approach their applicants like a customer, was founded. This approach depends on disruptive technologies like data mining, predictive marketing, and AI. Beamery is funded bz Microsoft Ventures and Workday Ventures and currently announced a partnership with SAP.

Headstart: London, UK

Headstart, founded in 2015 in London, is an early Talent Recruitment software that aims to enable clients to hire a more diverse workforce and level the playing field for all candidates. It uses machine learning to discover candidate information and check whether they have the right expertise and cultural fit, regardless of gender, age, sexual orientation or ethnic status.

ClearReview: London, UK

Clear Review was founded in 2015 and is a cloud hosted continuous performance management platform promising a more agile and regular manager-employee check-in than traditional annual appraisals for companies across diverse industry sectors, employing anything from 50-50,000 people.

Forecast: Copenhagen, Denmark

Forecast, a global software company founded in 2016, is delivering an AI-native platform for profitable Project & Resource Management. The Forecast AI-native platform represents the most advanced technology ever applied to managing projects, resources and finances.