Leapsome
Founded 2016 Β· 142 employees on LinkedIn Β· 3 known investors
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Leapsome offers HR software that centralizes employee records β personal details, role history, compensation, documents, and job changes β into a single system for HR teams, replacing spreadsheets and paper files. Its platform connects HRIS and talent management with performance reviews, learning paths, and AI-driven analytics, including team-level "Resilience Signals" insights.
Also known as Leapsome GmbH
Founders & leadership
Leapsome was founded in 2016 by Jenny Podewils and Kajetan Armansperg.
Investors Β· 3
Company profile
researched Aug 2026Leapsome is a private SaaS company that sells an HR platform organized around two product pillars plus an AI layer. The HRIS pillar covers centralized employee records, absence management, time tracking, documents and e-signatures, pre-boarding and onboarding, workflows and approvals, payroll preparation (including DATEV export for the German market and a native ADP Workforce Now integration), and whistleblowing that the company states complies with the EU Whistleblower Directive. The Talent Suite covers performance reviews (self, manager, peer and 360Β°/upward feedback, competency-based assessments, calibration, cross-cycle analytics), engagement surveys (pulse surveys, eNPS, onboarding/offboarding surveys, DEI analytics, benchmarks, turnover analysis), goals and OKRs with goal trees and Jira integration, learning paths with LinkedIn Learning and GoodHabitz integrations and SCORM/AICC/xAPI/CMI5 upload, compensation and promotion reviews with salary and bonus bands and pay-gap analytics, instant feedback and recognition, 1:1 and team meetings, competency frameworks, form builder and Q&A boards. A recruiting module was in early access as described on the company's site.
Across both pillars the company offers analytics that join HRIS, performance, engagement, goal and learning data in one view, with custom and out-of-the-box reports, turnover prediction, manager dashboards and AI-generated dashboard widgets created from natural-language prompts. Leapsome AI Agents are marketed as answering cross-module questions with clickable citations, drafting reviews, summarizing meetings, generating workflows and forms from prompts, answering employee policy questions and recommending development actions; the company states AI is included in the base price rather than sold as a separate tier. Stated trust and compliance attributes include GDPR compliance, European hosting in Germany, ISO 27001 certification and alignment with EU AI Act guidelines, plus role-based agent permissions and human oversight of AI outputs.
The company positions the product as a consolidation play against both standalone HRIS tools and performance-focused platforms, and says it integrates with 70β100+ tools out of the box (payroll and benefits, ATS, SSO and communication platforms), with custom API and SFTP integrations available.
Founding story
Leapsome was founded in 2016 in Berlin by Jenny (von) Podewils and Kajetan (von) Armansperg, who serve as co-CEOs. The founders say they had witnessed the growing pains of fast-scaling companies and learned firsthand how important structured processes for feedback, alignment and engagement are, and built the company on the premise that connected people data leads to better HR decisions.
Business model
Software-as-a-service sold to employers, with modules spanning core HR administration and talent management. AI capabilities are stated to be included in the base price rather than priced as a separate tier. A "Leapsome for Startups" program offers new customers with fewer than 50 employees a 25% discount on their first module for up to three years, rising to 50% for companies affiliated with a Leapsome partner.
Subscription software, sold by module across HRIS and Talent Suite; discounts are offered to sub-50-employee startups through a dedicated program.
Traction
The company states more than 2,000 organizations use the platform, up from almost 1,500 at the time of the US launch in 2022, with named customers including Spotify, Notion, Bumble, Sony, Sony Music, Unity, Porsche Digital and commercetools. It cites a 4.9/5.0 user satisfaction rating from 2,200 verified G2 and OMR reviews, 98% customer satisfaction for success-team interactions, and customer-reported outcomes of 30% less time on admin work, 90% manager adoption of feedback tools, 5x faster reporting and 20% productivity lift. In 2022 the company said the US accounted for 20% of revenue and set a goal of 1.5 million platform users by 2025. Its HR community claims 9,000β10,000+ HR leaders.
Latest developments
The company markets itself as an AI-native HR platform, with Leapsome AI Agents spanning all modules, prompt-based workflow, form and dashboard generation, and proactive team insights. Leapsome Recruiting is in early access, extending the data foundation to the candidate stage. The company is scheduled to run live AI sessions at its booth at Zukunft Personal Europe 2026.
βΈFull profile β market position, technology, go-to-market, geography, history, risks & controversies
Market position
Positions itself as an AI-native platform that unites HRIS and talent management, presenting itself as a direct alternative to standalone HRIS products such as BambooHR, HiBob and Personio and to performance-focused platforms such as Lattice, 15Five and Culture Amp, and highlighting a natively included whistleblowing module as uncommon in the category. The company reports 2,000+ customer organizations and a 4.9/5.0 user rating based on 2,200 verified G2 and OMR reviews.
Combines a full core HR system with performance, engagement, learning, goals and compensation on one data foundation, enabling cross-module analytics and AI agents with full-employee context; AI is bundled into the base price; European data hosting in Germany with ISO 27001 certification and stated EU AI Act alignment; a native whistleblowing module compliant with the EU Whistleblower Directive; DATEV export for the German market.
Technology
Cloud HR platform built on a single people-data foundation spanning the employee lifecycle, with an AI layer ("Leapsome AI Agents") for cross-module question answering with citations, review drafting, meeting summarization, prompt-based workflow, form and dashboard generation, and development recommendations. The company cites European hosting in Germany, encryption, ISO 27001 certification, GDPR compliance and EU AI Act alignment, granular agent permissions, explainable outputs and human final decision-making, plus 70+ (site elsewhere states 100+) prebuilt integrations and custom API/SFTP connectivity.
Go-to-market
Direct sales driven by demo requests from the website, supported by content marketing, webinars, roundtables and in-person events, trade-show presence (Zukunft Personal Europe), a discount program for early-stage startups, a partner channel, and the "People over Perks" HR community with a Slack group, events and a weekly newsletter reaching 9,000β10,000+ HR leaders.
Employers needing formal HR processes and performance cycles, with the company describing its strongest fit as companies of 50 to 2,000 employees; the startup program targets early-stage companies with fewer than 50 employees. Named customers include Spotify, Notion, Bumble, Sony, Sony Music, Unity, Porsche Digital, commercetools, Mark43 and TicketSwap.
Geography
Headquartered in New York City and Berlin, with a US office at 330 Hudson Street, 12th Floor, New York, NY 10013 and a European office at Brunnenstr. 153, 10115 Berlin, Germany. Data is hosted in Germany. Customers are described as worldwide, with product localization for the German market (DATEV export) and events in Europe.
History
Founded in Berlin in 2016, the company was bootstrapped for six years before raising a US$60 million Series A from Insight Partners alongside Creandum and Visionaries Club in 2022, during which period the team grew from two to nearly 200 employees. In November 2022 Leapsome opened a New York City office to enter the US market, starting with a 25-person team intended to reach 50 by the end of that year, with co-CEO Jenny Podewils relocating from Berlin to New York. The company subsequently launched a Leapsome for Startups discount program, added an HRIS product to its original people-enablement modules, and later introduced AI agents and an early-access recruiting module.
Risks & controversies
Customer counts and integration counts differ between company pages (2,000+ organizations with 70+ integrations on one page versus 100+ tools on another), and reported outcome statistics such as 30% admin-time reduction and 20% productivity lift are company-supplied customer figures rather than independently verified metrics. The 2022 target of 1.5 million platform users by 2025 is a company goal for which no outcome is reported in the material.
Compiled by commissioned research from 8 cited public sources β announcements, filings, and press listed under research sources below.
Key figures
latest reportedCompany-reported or press-reported figures, each dated to when it was claimed β not independently audited.
Timeline Β· 4
launches, deals, and filingsThe company's site states Leapsome Recruiting is in early access, extending employee records to begin when a candidate applies.
Leapsome announced its expansion into the US market with the launch of an NYC office, beginning with a 25-person team expected to grow to 50 by the end of 2022. Co-CEO Jenny Podewils relocated from Berlin to New York to scale US operations. At the time the company said the US generated 20% of its revenue and set a goal of 1.5 million platform users by 2025.
As part of the US launch, co-CEO Jenny Podewils moved from Berlin to NYC while co-CEO Kajetan von Armansperg remained in Berlin, under the company's co-CEO model.
Leapsome launched a program giving new customers with fewer than 50 employees a 25% discount on their first module for up to three years, and 50% for companies affiliated with a Leapsome partner. Core modules cited were Reviews, Surveys, Learning, Goals and Compensation, plus Competency Frameworks, Instant Feedback and Meetings.
Dated company events from announcements, filings, and press; legal rows summarize public dockets and regulator releases.
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Frequently asked questions
- What does Leapsome do?
- Leapsome is a Berlin- and New York-based HR software platform combining HRIS, talent management and AI agents.
- Who founded Leapsome?
- Leapsome was founded by Jenny Podewils, Kajetan Armansperg in 2016.
- Who are Leapsome's investors?
- Leapsome's investors include Insight Partners, Creandum, Visionaries Club.