Global Founders Capital

Global Founders Capital is a venture capital firm established in 2013 and based in Berlin, Germany. The firm focuses on investing in innovative companies at various stages of development, from early-stage ventures to those preparing for an initial public offering. With a global outlook, Global Founders Capital seeks to empower entrepreneurs across all continents, particularly in the software and technology, media, and telecommunications sectors. The firm evaluates investment opportunities based on their potential impact and feasibility, aiming to support individuals with transformative ideas.

Cedric Asselman

Partner

Leonardo Banchik

Partner

David Citron

Partner

Tito Costa

Partner

Onur Erbay

Partner

Melvin Hade

Partner

Roel Janssen

Partner

Kendrick Geluz Kho

Investor

Benedikt Körling

Partner

Soheil Mirpour

Partner, Head of Growth and PE and COO

Matthias Müller

Partner

Fabricio Pettena

Partner

David Sainteff

Partner

Donald Stalter

Partner

Sebastian Waldmann

Principal

Past deals in Recruiting

Maki

Series A in 2025
Maki is a recruitment hiring tools to find and hire talents. They develop data and analysis tools for recruiters to find top talents. They save time and replace CV screenings using bias-free recruitment tool.

Carv

Seed Round in 2024
Carv is a technology company focused on transforming the talent acquisition process through innovative AI solutions. Its platform aims to enhance collaboration between recruiters and artificial intelligence by automating administrative tasks related to interviews and intake processes. This automation allows recruiters to concentrate on more human-centric activities, thereby improving efficiency and effectiveness in recruitment. Additionally, Carv has developed a feature that records meeting minutes by integrating with employees' calendars, enabling them to manage their workload without being physically present in meetings. Overall, Carv seeks to streamline recruitment and office productivity, fostering a more effective work environment.

Simplify

Seed Round in 2024
Simplify is a common application for jobs and internships.

Personio

Series E in 2022
Personio GmbH, established in 2014 and headquartered in Munich, Germany, specializes in providing comprehensive HR management and recruiting software solutions for small and medium-sized businesses with 10 to 2,000 employees. Its all-in-one platform streamlines HR processes by offering features such as digital employee files, time off management, performance tracking, reporting, and onboarding, enabling HR teams to focus on strategic people management.

Candor

Seed Round in 2022
Candor is a professional network designed to enhance collaboration within teams by offering a variety of culture-building tools. The platform enables users to create personalized user manuals that outline their work preferences, such as communication styles and feedback preferences. It facilitates shoutouts, check-ins, and peer-to-peer feedback, along with structured 1-on-1 meetings. Additionally, Candor allows for the collection and verification of reviews on employees, highlighting their strengths and areas for growth. By providing actionable insights, Candor aims to help individuals learn and improve their contributions to their teammates, fostering a more engaged and effective work environment.

Atma

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Atma is an Indonesia-based social job platform that addresses the challenges faced by job seekers in the country, particularly those from lower and middle-income segments. The platform offers a comprehensive ecosystem that includes a job marketplace, an upskilling institute, and a community-based support system. By focusing on these areas, Atma aims to enhance the job search experience for individuals while simultaneously improving the candidate search process for companies and businesses. Through its community-driven approach, Atma seeks to empower job seekers and facilitate meaningful employment opportunities.

BarRaiser

Seed Round in 2022
BarRaiser is a company established in 2020 in Singapore that focuses on creating a standardized and unbiased interviewing process for organizations. Their AI-powered platform facilitates video interviews conducted by domain experts, allowing for a fair evaluation of candidates' skills, aptitude, and knowledge. By emphasizing a structured approach, BarRaiser aims to enhance the hiring experience for candidates while providing companies with reliable, data-driven assessments to ensure they select the most suitable hires. The company is dedicated to ensuring that every individual has an equitable opportunity during the hiring process.

Kula

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Kula is a recruitment automation platform designed to support hyper-growth companies in developing extensive talent pipelines efficiently. The platform consolidates various candidate sources and automates outreach and engagement, allowing organizations to connect with the most suitable talent. By utilizing automated nudges across multiple channels, Kula facilitates employee referrals and provides leadership teams with a consistent and reliable view of the talent pipeline. This approach enables companies to streamline their recruitment processes and enhance their ability to attract and retain top talent.

Maki

Seed Round in 2021
Maki is a recruitment hiring tools to find and hire talents. They develop data and analysis tools for recruiters to find top talents. They save time and replace CV screenings using bias-free recruitment tool.

TalentHack

Series A in 2021
TalentHack is a health platform that connects directly with the fitness professionals and industry. They exist to redefine what a career in fitness can be, by providing opportunities to propel you forward. It takes hours for companies to find a single potential lead, let alone a candidate. The company was founded in 2018 and is based in New York, NY, United States

Personio

Series E in 2021
Personio GmbH, established in 2014 and headquartered in Munich, Germany, specializes in providing comprehensive HR management and recruiting software solutions for small and medium-sized businesses with 10 to 2,000 employees. Its all-in-one platform streamlines HR processes by offering features such as digital employee files, time off management, performance tracking, reporting, and onboarding, enabling HR teams to focus on strategic people management.

Talentdrop

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Talentdrop is a recruiting software platform designed to enhance the hiring process by enabling hiring managers to tap into their personal networks for candidate referrals. By providing tools that allow users to create and share personalized hiring pages across various platforms, Talentdrop facilitates a more engaging and human-centric approach to recruitment. This method helps streamline the referral tracking process, ensuring that valuable leads do not get lost in the shuffle. The platform empowers companies to scale their recruiting efforts efficiently without the need for an expanded team, allowing them to incentivize industry experts to refer potential candidates. Founded by experienced professionals from notable tech companies, Talentdrop aims to connect great talent with great people, moving away from the impersonal tactics often associated with traditional hiring practices.

BrioHR

Seed Round in 2021
BrioHR is a developer of a human resource management platform that provides a comprehensive suite of tools designed to streamline and automate various HR processes. The platform includes features for recruitment, onboarding, performance management, leave management, payroll, and employee file management, all of which are modular and affordable. BrioHR emphasizes ease of implementation and user-friendliness, allowing businesses to customize the platform to meet their specific needs. Additionally, the platform facilitates efficient management of employee information by storing, sorting, and filtering documents, while also providing reminders for updates. With dedicated live support, BrioHR aims to enhance productivity and save time for its clients by simplifying HR operations.

TalentHack

Seed Round in 2021
TalentHack is a health platform that connects directly with the fitness professionals and industry. They exist to redefine what a career in fitness can be, by providing opportunities to propel you forward. It takes hours for companies to find a single potential lead, let alone a candidate. The company was founded in 2018 and is based in New York, NY, United States

Personio

Series D in 2021
Personio GmbH, established in 2014 and headquartered in Munich, Germany, specializes in providing comprehensive HR management and recruiting software solutions for small and medium-sized businesses with 10 to 2,000 employees. Its all-in-one platform streamlines HR processes by offering features such as digital employee files, time off management, performance tracking, reporting, and onboarding, enabling HR teams to focus on strategic people management.

InterviewBit

Series A in 2020
InterviewBit is an online learning platform established in 2015, focusing on equipping students and young professionals with essential skills for technology jobs. It offers a structured 6-month program, taught by industry experts from leading tech companies like Google and Facebook. With over a million registered developers and 300,000 monthly active users, InterviewBit also facilitates mentorship and job referrals to global aspirational companies such as Google, Amazon, and Uber.

Personio

Series C in 2020
Personio GmbH, established in 2014 and headquartered in Munich, Germany, specializes in providing comprehensive HR management and recruiting software solutions for small and medium-sized businesses with 10 to 2,000 employees. Its all-in-one platform streamlines HR processes by offering features such as digital employee files, time off management, performance tracking, reporting, and onboarding, enabling HR teams to focus on strategic people management.

Scouta

Seed Round in 2019
Scouta operates as an online hiring platform that enhances the recruitment process for both companies and candidates. The platform incentivizes internal recruiters to share potential candidates, facilitating collaboration among hiring teams to identify suitable applicants. By streamlining candidate referrals, Scouta aims to reduce inefficiencies in the hiring process and improve the overall candidate experience. Additionally, Scouta offers personalized recommendations for video and podcasts tailored to users' interests, utilizing data from their bookmarked content and integration with iTunes. This dual focus on recruitment and personalized media recommendations positions Scouta as a versatile tool for enhancing both hiring and entertainment experiences.

Sonovate

Venture Round in 2019
Sonovate Limited, established in 2011 and headquartered in London, specializes in providing financing and back-office support services to the recruitment industry in the United Kingdom. The company caters to a diverse range of recruitment agencies, including start-ups, those placing contractors, and those using invoice finance products. Sonovate's core offering is a cloud-based placement management application that streamlines contract administration, financing, credit control, invoicing, payments, compliance, and timesheets, enabling these agencies to manage their freelance workforce more efficiently.

HeyJobs

Series A in 2019
HeyJobs operates a talent acquisition platform designed to streamline and automate the employee recruitment process. By leveraging artificial intelligence and machine learning, the platform effectively identifies and matches candidates to job profiles, enhancing the hiring experience for both employers and job seekers. HeyJobs facilitates a personalized application and assessment flow, allowing employers to recruit skilled workers efficiently and at a lower cost compared to traditional hiring methods. Through its innovative approach, the company has successfully facilitated over 100,000 hires, helping individuals find fulfilling job opportunities while meeting the needs of employers seeking quality candidates.

Personio

Series B in 2019
Personio GmbH, established in 2014 and headquartered in Munich, Germany, specializes in providing comprehensive HR management and recruiting software solutions for small and medium-sized businesses with 10 to 2,000 employees. Its all-in-one platform streamlines HR processes by offering features such as digital employee files, time off management, performance tracking, reporting, and onboarding, enabling HR teams to focus on strategic people management.

Talentry

Series A in 2018
Talentry provides an enterprise-ready software-as-a-service (SaaS) solution designed for recruiting, focusing on employee referrals and social recruiting. The platform serves as a talent relationship management tool, facilitating talent sourcing, candidate relationship management, recruitment events, and internal mobility. By leveraging employees' social networks, Talentry enables organizations to connect with potential applicants, offering them genuine insights into the company culture. This approach helps employers attract qualified candidates and improve their hiring success rates.

Personably

Seed Round in 2018
Personably is a SaaS company that specializes in enhancing the onboarding experiences for new hires in fast-growing organizations. By automating routine tasks such as account setup and meeting scheduling, the platform allows managers to concentrate on providing the necessary context and support for new employees to thrive in their roles. This not only saves valuable time for human resources teams and managers but also accelerates the productivity of new hires, ensuring they can contribute effectively from the outset. Through its innovative approach, Personably aims to foster happy and productive teams.

Seven Lanes

Series A in 2018
Seven Lanes GmbH is a career marketplace that specializes in online recruitment and job listing services, primarily targeting Europe's knowledge workers. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in Berlin, Germany, the company has expanded its presence with offices in several major cities, including Hamburg, Munich, and Frankfurt. Seven Lanes offers a diverse range of job opportunities, including permanent, freelance, and remote positions in fields such as online marketing, data science, product design, and software engineering. By focusing on general management and online marketing roles, the company aims to connect highly qualified professionals with suitable employers, enhancing the overall recruitment experience through dedicated talent advocates and account managers who provide objective guidance to both candidates and companies.

HireSweet

Venture Round in 2017
HireSweet is an AI-based hiring platform that assists tech companies in recruiting top developers and designers while streamlining their hiring processes. The platform utilizes artificial intelligence to analyze unstructured data from various technical platforms, including GitHub and Stack Overflow, to identify and categorize potential candidates based on their skills, project experience, and adaptability. By automating parts of the recruitment process, HireSweet enables companies to regain control over their hiring efforts and efficiently connect with the best talent in the industry.

Personio

Series A in 2017
Personio GmbH, established in 2014 and headquartered in Munich, Germany, specializes in providing comprehensive HR management and recruiting software solutions for small and medium-sized businesses with 10 to 2,000 employees. Its all-in-one platform streamlines HR processes by offering features such as digital employee files, time off management, performance tracking, reporting, and onboarding, enabling HR teams to focus on strategic people management.

Sonovate

Series B in 2016
Sonovate Limited, established in 2011 and headquartered in London, specializes in providing financing and back-office support services to the recruitment industry in the United Kingdom. The company caters to a diverse range of recruitment agencies, including start-ups, those placing contractors, and those using invoice finance products. Sonovate's core offering is a cloud-based placement management application that streamlines contract administration, financing, credit control, invoicing, payments, compliance, and timesheets, enabling these agencies to manage their freelance workforce more efficiently.

Talentry

Seed Round in 2016
Talentry provides an enterprise-ready software-as-a-service (SaaS) solution designed for recruiting, focusing on employee referrals and social recruiting. The platform serves as a talent relationship management tool, facilitating talent sourcing, candidate relationship management, recruitment events, and internal mobility. By leveraging employees' social networks, Talentry enables organizations to connect with potential applicants, offering them genuine insights into the company culture. This approach helps employers attract qualified candidates and improve their hiring success rates.

Apli

Seed Round in 2016
Apli is a software company that specializes in streamlining recruitment, onboarding, and learning processes for large employers in Latin America and the United States. The company offers an online end-to-end recruitment platform that utilizes AI technologies, including chatbots and machine learning tools, to enhance the efficiency of hiring. Apli’s solutions are designed to help recruiters easily find suitable candidates for various roles, including administrative assistants, sales personnel, and frontline workers. By focusing on user-friendly applications, Apli aims to improve the overall experience for both candidates and employees, ultimately boosting workforce productivity throughout the employee lifecycle.

Personio

Seed Round in 2016
Personio GmbH, established in 2014 and headquartered in Munich, Germany, specializes in providing comprehensive HR management and recruiting software solutions for small and medium-sized businesses with 10 to 2,000 employees. Its all-in-one platform streamlines HR processes by offering features such as digital employee files, time off management, performance tracking, reporting, and onboarding, enabling HR teams to focus on strategic people management.

HeyJobs

Seed Round in 2016
HeyJobs operates a talent acquisition platform designed to streamline and automate the employee recruitment process. By leveraging artificial intelligence and machine learning, the platform effectively identifies and matches candidates to job profiles, enhancing the hiring experience for both employers and job seekers. HeyJobs facilitates a personalized application and assessment flow, allowing employers to recruit skilled workers efficiently and at a lower cost compared to traditional hiring methods. Through its innovative approach, the company has successfully facilitated over 100,000 hires, helping individuals find fulfilling job opportunities while meeting the needs of employers seeking quality candidates.
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