Our weekly recap of fundings, mergers & acquisition, partnership and other interesting news from the human resource, recruitment and employee benefits marketplace.
FUNDINGS $300M+
- Triplebyte raises $35 million to match engineers with employers
- Salary Finance, a UK-based startup focused on salary-linked savings and loans for employees, raises $32.8m, hires SoFi co-founder for US push
- Embroker raises $28M led by Tola Capital to grow digital insurance platform
- Hireology raises $27M to help companies hire smarter
- LumApps, a social network-styled office communications tool, raises $24M
- Innovapptive Raises $16.3 Million in Series A Funding, Led by Tiger Global Management
- Owl Labs raises $15 million for its 360-degree meeting room camera
- Zippia, Provider of an Online Tool to Help People Plan their Careers, Raises $8.5m in Series A Funding
- Spur Raises $8 Million in Series A Financing to Improve the Employee Experience for Hourly Workers
- Hungary-based HR Tech Startup Talentuno Raises €4M in Funding
- Moonlighting, a Charlottesville, VA-based on-demand freelance platform, raised a funding round of undisclosed amount
- Howamigoing raises £1.1m in seed funding to transform employee performance
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Microsoft is overhauling how it investigates HR investigations — Quartz at Work
Microsoft employees have been telling executives in recent weeks how workplace harassment and discrimination has pervaded unchecked throughout the company.
In a letter to employees Monday (April 15), CEO Satya Nadella said that the company was making changes to how its human resources department investigates workplace incidents, including creating a new “Employee Advocacy Team.”
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Can the Occasional ‘Nudge’ Make You Better at Your Job? Yale Insights
As the head of People Operations at Google, Laszlo Bock ’99 applied data analytics to human resources questions that have long been answered with hunches. His company Humu is now extending that approach for other organizations by providing AI-generated prompts to their employees.
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