HR Tech Startups

A talent operations platform that aggregates hiring and recruitment data across multiple systems, providing analytics on ATS performance, interview quality, candidate feedback, and hire quality to optimize recruitment processes.

4 investors

Searchlight built AI-based SaaS for recruiting. The company was part of Y Combinator's W19 batch and was acquired by Multiverse.

4 investors

Selenios is an AI-powered recruitment platform that automates hiring tasks for talent teams. It uses AI agents to perform recruitment workflows beyond traditional applicant tracking systems.

4 investors

Sense offers an enterprise recruiting platform for talent acquisition and staffing teams, combining a conversational CRM, AI recruiter, interview scheduling, automation, and SMS/WhatsApp messaging to engage candidates and speed up hiring. It serves industries including healthcare, manufacturing and warehousing, technology and IT, logistics, retail and hospitality, and financial services.

4 investors

Sharp Performance provides performance coaching and stress management training for professionals in high-stress roles, drawing on expertise from military special operations and sports psychology backgrounds.

4 investors

The She Matters Alliance collects insights from pregnant and postpartum mothers to improve maternal health outcomes through partnerships with hospitals and healthcare organizations. The organization focuses on advancing equitable, compassionate maternal care across the perinatal period.

4 investors

ShiftSmart connects workers with flexible employment opportunities and helps businesses manage labor on demand. The company operates a marketplace platform serving both workers seeking flexible work and employers needing staffing solutions.

4 investors

Simpplr provides an employee experience platform that consolidates internal communications, information sharing, and collaboration tools into a single workspace, helping organizations improve employee engagement and productivity across distributed teams.

4 investors

Simundia offers professional coaching for companies through its Coaching Situationnel method, delivering remote one-hour sessions (3 or 6) in which a coach helps employees observe, reflect, and act to change behaviors and build skills. It provides an HR dashboard that aggregates coaching impact via self-assessment and 360 interviews to measure organizational transformation.

4 investors

Skillfully provides verified skills data for workforce decisions through performance-based work simulations rather than proxy measures. The platform serves hiring, employee enablement, and internal mobility for enterprise teams.

4 investors

Skillvue offers a skills data platform that uses AI and scientific methods to give enterprises predictive data on employee talent and competencies, integrating with existing HR systems. It serves large global organizations to support evidence-based talent and HR decisions.

4 investors

Sloneek is an AI-first HR management platform that automates human resources processes from recruitment to offboarding for companies of all sizes. The system provides employee lifecycle management, timekeeping, leave tracking, payroll support, and performance analytics through a centralized interface.

4 investors

SmartBarrel builds a hardware time clock and time-tracking system designed for construction job sites, using a device with its own power source, internet connection, and worker verification to record on-site labor hours. It serves construction contractors and project managers tracking workers across multiple sites.

4 investors

SmartRecruiters provides a hiring platform that uses AI agents and autonomous talent acquisition capabilities to help organizations manage recruitment processes.

4 investors

SocialCrowd is a software platform that automates employee contests and incentive programs, tracking progress toward goals in real time and delivering rewards such as gift cards, prizes, or bank transfers. It supports use cases like sales contests, productivity incentives, and work anniversaries, connecting to a company's existing apps to track team performance.

4 investors

CareerExplorer is a career guidance platform powered by science and labor market data that helps individuals discover, plan, and achieve their ideal careers. The platform serves students, job seekers, and career changers with career assessments, profession profiles, and labor market information.

4 investors

Sonder is an app-based wellbeing service combining mental health, medical and safety support with 24/7 human care from specialists and clinicians, positioned as a replacement for traditional Employee Assistance Programs. It serves employers and their workforces, offering real-time alerts, de-identified risk reporting on psychosocial hazards, and early-intervention support, with a focus on the Australian market.

4 investors

Sorce helps job seekers discover positions by swiping through opportunities, with automated application submission powered by AI.

4 investors

Spotted Zebra provides an AI-powered interview intelligence and assessment platform that combines skills science with machine learning to help enterprise organisations identify and hire candidates based on skills rather than credentials. The platform targets large organisations seeking to address skills gaps and build future-ready workforces through data-backed, scalable hiring decisions.

4 investors

Staffinc provides comprehensive outsourcing and workforce management services, connecting businesses with a large pool of vetted workers across multiple cities. The platform enables companies to rapidly recruit and manage staff at scale.

4 investors

A hiring marketplace where autonomous agents represent both job candidates and companies, evaluate compatibility, and facilitate introductions when there's mutual interest, keeping candidates anonymous until they accept a match.

4 investors

Stay is a Brazilian financial wellness platform for companies that integrates private pension plans, group life insurance, financial health tools, and long-term incentive/executive compensation programs. It offers HR teams tax-efficient benefits management and real-time employee data, with onboarding and plan management delivered through WhatsApp.

4 investors

Suraasa is a teacher training and development platform that provides structured pedagogy training, career roadmap guidance, and professional networking opportunities for teachers. The platform aims to improve teacher career satisfaction, student learning outcomes, and make teaching a more attractive profession globally.

4 investors

Surfboard was a cloud-native workforce management platform for contact centers, offering scheduling, forecasting, and schedule adherence tracking for support teams. The company was acquired by Dialpad, and its technology now powers Dialpad's WFM software.

4 investors