Randstad

Randstad is a prominent global provider of staffing and recruitment consultancy services, specializing in both temporary and permanent placements across various industries. The company leverages its expertise in selection, evaluation, and talent search to connect qualified candidates with job opportunities. With a deep understanding of the labor market and sector-specific skills, Randstad serves clients in finance, sales, engineering, and health and pharmaceuticals. The company also offers a range of services, including recruitment process outsourcing, managed services programs, and payroll services. Additionally, the Randstad Innovation Fund invests in innovative companies and technologies related to human resources, aiming to enhance corporate growth and customer value. Through its comprehensive approach, Randstad strives to support individuals in realizing their potential while assisting organizations in building agile and diverse workforces.

Paul Jacquin

Managing Partner, Randstad Innovation Fund

Venu Lambu

CEO, Randstad Technologies

Graig Paglieri

CEO of Randstad Digital Americas

34 past transactions

HackerRank

Series D in 2022
HackerRank is a skills-based tech hiring platform that assists businesses in attracting, evaluating, and hiring top technical talent globally. With over 2,000 clients across various industries, including a significant portion of the Fortune 100, HackerRank aims to enhance the hiring process. The platform specializes in automated skill assessments, allowing tech recruiters and hiring managers to objectively evaluate candidates at each stage of recruitment. More than 11 million developers utilize HackerRank to learn and practice coding skills, with developers completing assessments every eight seconds. The company's focus on skill-based evaluation positions it as a valuable resource for organizations seeking to improve their technical hiring processes.

Crunchr

Series B in 2022
Crunchr is an online solution for workforce reporting and people analytics. Organisations face the challenge to create useful insights from all the employee data that they have. This data is scattered across multiple sources and even when they have all data available, organisations find it difficult to actually use it effectively. Crunchr makes people analytics accessible to these organisations.

Brazen

Series C in 2019
Brazen Technologies, Inc. is a company that specializes in chat-based recruiting software and virtual event solutions. Founded in 2007 and based in Arlington, Virginia, Brazen offers a range of services including live chat, scheduled chat, chat events, and AI-powered chatbots. Its platform facilitates engaging online events, enabling organizations to connect with potential talent in a dynamic manner. The company also provides tools for career sites and job requisitions, enhancing the recruitment process for employers. Brazen's mission centers on helping professionals achieve their career objectives by leveraging advanced technology and providing resources that foster networking and skill development. Over the years, Brazen has maintained its focus on creating impactful connections between job seekers, employers, and educational institutions.

ZAPinfo

Seed Round in 2019
ZAPinfo is an information automation and productivity tool that facilitates the recruiting and sales process by integrating contacts into the browser clipboard and helps finding direct contact information such as email address, resume, social profile information, allowing customers such as sales professionals to automate their daily tasks by simplifying and speeding the process of capturing, enriching, and sharing information.

Validated ID

Venture Round in 2019
Validated ID is a technology company founded in 2012 and headquartered in Barcelona, Spain, with additional offices in Madrid, Paris, and Berlin. The company specializes in digital identity verification and agreement solutions, focusing on security, trust, efficiency, and legal compliance. Its main product, ViDsigner, is a mobile biometric signature system that allows users to securely sign documents while collecting biometric and contextual evidence to ensure legal guarantees. Validated ID also offers ViDChain, a decentralized self-sovereign digital ID solution based on blockchain technology, which is aimed at improving onboarding and Know Your Customer (KYC) procedures. The company serves various sectors, including healthcare, public administration, human resources, banking, and insurance, and maintains strategic partnerships with industry leaders such as Microsoft and Samsung.

Validated ID

Series A in 2019
Validated ID is a technology company founded in 2012 and headquartered in Barcelona, Spain, with additional offices in Madrid, Paris, and Berlin. The company specializes in digital identity verification and agreement solutions, focusing on security, trust, efficiency, and legal compliance. Its main product, ViDsigner, is a mobile biometric signature system that allows users to securely sign documents while collecting biometric and contextual evidence to ensure legal guarantees. Validated ID also offers ViDChain, a decentralized self-sovereign digital ID solution based on blockchain technology, which is aimed at improving onboarding and Know Your Customer (KYC) procedures. The company serves various sectors, including healthcare, public administration, human resources, banking, and insurance, and maintains strategic partnerships with industry leaders such as Microsoft and Samsung.

Alice

Venture Round in 2019
Alice, Inc. is a financial services company specializing in artificial intelligence-enabled payroll management software that automates pre-tax spending for employees. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in Brooklyn, New York, the company’s software integrates with payroll systems to identify eligible pre-tax expenses, such as commuting costs and medical expenses. It communicates with employees via text to confirm transactions and updates payroll records to reflect tax refunds. Additionally, Alice's platform supports human resource professionals during the onboarding process, streamlining benefits management. By modernizing pre-tax spending, Alice aims to help employees retain more of their paychecks while also assisting employers in reducing payroll tax liabilities.

AllyO

Series B in 2019
As the most funded and highest valued AI for HR company worldwide; AllyO has partnered with 15% of Fortune 50 to automate talent acquisition and management. Backed by tier 1 investors such as Google, SAP, Randstad, Bain and Cervin Ventures, we’ve demonstrated hyper-growth of 4.5X year over year. AllyO’s whip-smart technology delivers smart experiences to HR teams and the audiences they serve. HR Communication is burdened with administrative routines, complicated and outdated systems, and lack of assistive resources — leaving both HR and the workforce frustrated. AllyO offers the world’s first HR Communications Platform with AI powered chatbots that help companies reduce manual work, time, and cost to engage candidates and employees, driving employee happiness, increased retention and higher and predictable staffing levels. Employers can choose across the spectrum from having manual conversations via AllyO Connect Platform to automating end-to-end Human Capital Management using AI powered Chatbots. Recruiting Automation Bots *Text to apply *Screen & Assess talent *Scheduling interviews *Talent pool engagement *Video interviewing *Employee referrals HR Automation Bots *Onboarding & training *Pulse check-ins *Ethics hotline *Internal mobility *Exit interviews AllyO utilizes deep workflow conversational AI by intelligently engaging with the workforce through texting, website chatboxes, WhatsApp, voice, and email. End results include a 91% conversation completion rate, 94% Talent satisfaction score, 3X more talent-at-risk or ethics violation cases reported, and 80% reduction in human effort. Our proprietary AI platform is purpose-built for enterprise organizations as AllyO actively supports 92% of systems of records for talent acquisition and HR. Plus, we implement the most robust security safeguards to comply with the latest standards and regulations like SOC2 and GDPR. For more information, please visit www.AllyO.com or contact hello@allyo.com

Wade & Wendy

Series A in 2019
Wade & Wendy, Inc. is a New York-based company that specializes in developing software to enhance the hiring process. Founded in June 2015 by Josh Brandoff, Adrian von der Osten, and Drew Austin, the company offers two AI-driven chatbots: Wendy, which assists employers by screening job applicants on career websites and making recommendations, and Wade, which helps job seekers by recording their data and identifying suitable job opportunities. The company's innovative approach integrates machine intelligence to create a more human-centered hiring experience.

Goodwall

Series A in 2018
Goodwall SA is a social development platform designed for students and young professionals, facilitating connections over shared interests while providing access to various opportunities. Founded in 2014 and based in Geneva, Switzerland, Goodwall allows users to create profiles that highlight their academic achievements, skills, and ideas, making them visible to universities and employers. The platform boasts a database of over 5 million job and internship opportunities, along with more than $1 million in scholarships and awards, as well as numerous volunteer events. Goodwall specifically caters to the needs of Gen Z and millennials, positioning itself as a leading community for personal and professional development.

gr8 People

Series B in 2018
GR8 People, Inc. is a provider of a Software-as-a-Service collaborative talent acquisition platform designed to enhance the recruitment process for corporate and staffing organizations. The company's One-Experience Talent Platform enables users to cultivate, collaborate, engage, and hire talent effectively, while facilitating communication and boosting productivity. Established in 2009 and based in Yardley, Pennsylvania, GR8 People serves enterprise customers both in the United States and internationally. The platform integrates sourcing, marketing, hiring, and onboarding strategies, significantly improving the efficiency of talent acquisition and enabling better decision-making in the recruitment process.

HackerRank

Series C in 2018
HackerRank is a skills-based tech hiring platform that assists businesses in attracting, evaluating, and hiring top technical talent globally. With over 2,000 clients across various industries, including a significant portion of the Fortune 100, HackerRank aims to enhance the hiring process. The platform specializes in automated skill assessments, allowing tech recruiters and hiring managers to objectively evaluate candidates at each stage of recruitment. More than 11 million developers utilize HackerRank to learn and practice coding skills, with developers completing assessments every eight seconds. The company's focus on skill-based evaluation positions it as a valuable resource for organizations seeking to improve their technical hiring processes.

AllyO

Series A in 2017
As the most funded and highest valued AI for HR company worldwide; AllyO has partnered with 15% of Fortune 50 to automate talent acquisition and management. Backed by tier 1 investors such as Google, SAP, Randstad, Bain and Cervin Ventures, we’ve demonstrated hyper-growth of 4.5X year over year. AllyO’s whip-smart technology delivers smart experiences to HR teams and the audiences they serve. HR Communication is burdened with administrative routines, complicated and outdated systems, and lack of assistive resources — leaving both HR and the workforce frustrated. AllyO offers the world’s first HR Communications Platform with AI powered chatbots that help companies reduce manual work, time, and cost to engage candidates and employees, driving employee happiness, increased retention and higher and predictable staffing levels. Employers can choose across the spectrum from having manual conversations via AllyO Connect Platform to automating end-to-end Human Capital Management using AI powered Chatbots. Recruiting Automation Bots *Text to apply *Screen & Assess talent *Scheduling interviews *Talent pool engagement *Video interviewing *Employee referrals HR Automation Bots *Onboarding & training *Pulse check-ins *Ethics hotline *Internal mobility *Exit interviews AllyO utilizes deep workflow conversational AI by intelligently engaging with the workforce through texting, website chatboxes, WhatsApp, voice, and email. End results include a 91% conversation completion rate, 94% Talent satisfaction score, 3X more talent-at-risk or ethics violation cases reported, and 80% reduction in human effort. Our proprietary AI platform is purpose-built for enterprise organizations as AllyO actively supports 92% of systems of records for talent acquisition and HR. Plus, we implement the most robust security safeguards to comply with the latest standards and regulations like SOC2 and GDPR. For more information, please visit www.AllyO.com or contact hello@allyo.com

Pymetrics

Series A in 2017
Pymetrics, Inc. is a company that specializes in developing neuroscience-based assessment and prediction technology aimed at transforming the recruitment, retention, and development of employees. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in New York City, Pymetrics utilizes a combination of neuroscience and machine learning to create a talent matching platform. This platform collects behavioral data from successful professionals across various roles to identify key traits that distinguish top performers from the general population. By offering cognitive and emotional assessment solutions, along with a personalized recommendation engine, Pymetrics enhances the effectiveness and accuracy of the hiring process, while promoting unbiased recruitment practices.

Montage

Series D in 2017
Montage Talent, Inc. specializes in providing live and on-demand voice and video interviewing solutions tailored for large enterprises, healthcare sectors, and staffing and recruitment process outsourcing firms. Established in 2007 and based in Delafield, Wisconsin, the company was previously known as Expressume, Inc. and adopted its current name in 2001. Montage serves a diverse clientele, including numerous Fortune 500 companies, by delivering a modern hiring experience that combines advanced technology with personalized service. As a pioneer in purpose-built video interviewing, Montage's proprietary platform is designed for reliability, scalability, compliance, and security, ensuring it meets enterprise demands. The company emphasizes innovation driven by market needs and data, aiming to enhance the efficiency and predictability of talent acquisition. Additionally, Montage is dedicated to fostering long-term client relationships and providing exceptional support at every stage of the hiring process.

CornerJob

Series C in 2017
CornerJob is a Barcelona-based startup that operates as a job matching platform designed to streamline the recruitment process for both companies and candidates. Founded by Antai Venture Builder, it is part of a prominent digital ecosystem in Southern Europe. The platform allows users to find geolocated job offers, apply directly, and communicate with recruiters through a chat feature, ensuring responses within 24 hours. This approach offers companies an efficient recruiting channel characterized by simplicity and immediate interaction, while also assisting candidates in quickly identifying suitable job opportunities. By integrating mobile technology and innovative features, CornerJob aims to enhance the overall job search and hiring experience.

Pymetrics

Series A in 2016
Pymetrics, Inc. is a company that specializes in developing neuroscience-based assessment and prediction technology aimed at transforming the recruitment, retention, and development of employees. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in New York City, Pymetrics utilizes a combination of neuroscience and machine learning to create a talent matching platform. This platform collects behavioral data from successful professionals across various roles to identify key traits that distinguish top performers from the general population. By offering cognitive and emotional assessment solutions, along with a personalized recommendation engine, Pymetrics enhances the effectiveness and accuracy of the hiring process, while promoting unbiased recruitment practices.

Monster

Acquisition in 2016
Monster.com is a prominent online job recruitment platform that connects job seekers with employers in India and globally. Launched in 1994 by Jeff Taylor and Marc de Vries, the platform allows job seekers to search for job opportunities, create and post resumes, and access various career resources. Employers benefit from tools to post job listings, search resumes, screen candidates, and optimize their hiring processes. The platform encompasses a wide range of job categories, including IT, sales, marketing, finance, customer service, human resources, and more. By facilitating this connection, Monster.com enhances visibility for job seekers in the competitive job market while providing employers with access to a diverse talent pool.

careo.,Ltd

Acquisition in 2016
careo.,Ltd. provides temporary staffing of engineers, clerical workers, and telemarketers. The company was founded in 1972 and is based in Tokyo, Japan. As of July 1, 2016, careo.,Ltd. operates as a subsidiary of Randstad NV.

Twago

Acquisition in 2016
twago is the leading platform for online work in Europe. On twago, individuals or companies of all sizes find the experts they need for projects, and freelancers and agencies find work and grow their businesses. twago stands for “Teamwork Across Global Offices” and is at the forefront of the modern workplace, encouraging individuals and companies to go online to find experts and collaborate on projects. There are over 500,000 experts using the platform to find projects, and twago has generated over €400,000,000 in project volume since their inception. twago was founded in 2009 in Berlin – Europe’s new digital mecca – which is the perfect place to grow an international team for a service that operates across the globe. twago CEO and Founder Thomas Jajeh leads a team of over thirty talented individuals from seven different countries.

Team2Venture GmbH

Acquisition in 2016
Team2Venture GmbH provides a platform for online work for individuals or companies from small and medium-sized enterprises, large corporations, and startups to freelancers, self-employed persons, and agencies in Europe.

Pymetrics

Venture Round in 2016
Pymetrics, Inc. is a company that specializes in developing neuroscience-based assessment and prediction technology aimed at transforming the recruitment, retention, and development of employees. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in New York City, Pymetrics utilizes a combination of neuroscience and machine learning to create a talent matching platform. This platform collects behavioral data from successful professionals across various roles to identify key traits that distinguish top performers from the general population. By offering cognitive and emotional assessment solutions, along with a personalized recommendation engine, Pymetrics enhances the effectiveness and accuracy of the hiring process, while promoting unbiased recruitment practices.

Wade & Wendy

Debt Financing in 2016
Wade & Wendy, Inc. is a New York-based company that specializes in developing software to enhance the hiring process. Founded in June 2015 by Josh Brandoff, Adrian von der Osten, and Drew Austin, the company offers two AI-driven chatbots: Wendy, which assists employers by screening job applicants on career websites and making recommendations, and Wade, which helps job seekers by recording their data and identifying suitable job opportunities. The company's innovative approach integrates machine intelligence to create a more human-centered hiring experience.

Proffice

Acquisition in 2016
Proffice Group is one of the largest specialist companies within staffing and recruitment in the Nordic region.

RiseSmart

Acquisition in 2015
RiseSmart provides contemporary career transition services that strengthen employer brands, improve retention and re-engage talent. RiseSmart's contemporary approach to outplacement combines personalized services from trained professionals with unmatched technology delivered through a convenient, cloud-based platform. It was founded in 2007 and headquartered in San Jose, California.

Checkster

Series A in 2015
Checkster created a Personal Feedback Management engine. Individuals now have unprecedented access to tools that help them to grow and develop within their career. Employers can leverage Checkster to hire, retain, and grow the right talent. Checkster is revolutionizing traditional reference checks and 360 feedback methodologies.

Brazen

Series B in 2015
Brazen Technologies, Inc. is a company that specializes in chat-based recruiting software and virtual event solutions. Founded in 2007 and based in Arlington, Virginia, Brazen offers a range of services including live chat, scheduled chat, chat events, and AI-powered chatbots. Its platform facilitates engaging online events, enabling organizations to connect with potential talent in a dynamic manner. The company also provides tools for career sites and job requisitions, enhancing the recruitment process for employers. Brazen's mission centers on helping professionals achieve their career objectives by leveraging advanced technology and providing resources that foster networking and skill development. Over the years, Brazen has maintained its focus on creating impactful connections between job seekers, employers, and educational institutions.

Vonq

Series A in 2014
VONQ is a free recruitment system for companies looking to improve and maximize their recruitment efforts and activities. It offers customers an alternative to Outlook and Excel and over-expensive paid systems by providing a refreshingly easy to use online recruitment system. VONQ offers customers all the information and tools they need to create an effortless recruiting process. Customers can track and manage their applicants anytime, anywhere. An integrated intelligent recruitment campaign webshop advises customers based on benchmark data on how to increase the exposure of their vacancies online. VONQ supports the full recruitment cycle from vacancy management until the selection process and talent-pooling. Customers can sign up for free and get started without lengthy or complicated implementation projects. No extensive training is needed, a quick tour guides customers through the system, and customers are up and running in a matter of minutes.

Twago

Series A in 2014
twago is the leading platform for online work in Europe. On twago, individuals or companies of all sizes find the experts they need for projects, and freelancers and agencies find work and grow their businesses. twago stands for “Teamwork Across Global Offices” and is at the forefront of the modern workplace, encouraging individuals and companies to go online to find experts and collaborate on projects. There are over 500,000 experts using the platform to find projects, and twago has generated over €400,000,000 in project volume since their inception. twago was founded in 2009 in Berlin – Europe’s new digital mecca – which is the perfect place to grow an international team for a service that operates across the globe. twago CEO and Founder Thomas Jajeh leads a team of over thirty talented individuals from seven different countries.

Gigwalk

Series B in 2014
Gigwalk, Inc. is a San Francisco-based company that specializes in mobile workforce management. It offers two primary solutions: Gigwalk Enterprise, which helps businesses manage distributed teams by tracking worker availability and assigning tasks, and Gigwalkers, an on-demand workforce platform designed for crowdsourced data collection. This service enables companies to gain insights about their operational environments through a network of 1.2 million freelancers or by utilizing their existing teams. Founded in 2010, Gigwalk serves brands and retailers by enhancing their channel execution and operational efficiency. The company is supported by various investors, including August Capital and Greylock Discovery.

Start People Sp Z O O

Acquisition in 2013
Start People Sp Z O O is a provider of business management consultancy services.

RolePoint

Seed Round in 2013
RolePoint's mission is to rethink the way organizations access and retain the highest quality talent by driving the shift in how enterprises use data to hire.

Team HR Services Pvt. Ltd.

Acquisition in 2006
Team HR Services Pvt., Ltd. provides specialized staffing solutions to retail, fast moving consumer goods, telecom, financial services, and technology industries.
Randstad Financial & Professional Limited provides recruitment services for jobs in the financial services, professional services, commerce, industry, public, and not-for profit sectors in the United Kingdom.
Spot something off? Help us improve by flagging any incorrect or outdated information. Just email us at support@teaserclub.com. Your feedback is most welcome.