Global Founders Capital

Founded in Berlin in 2013, Global Founders Capital is a venture capital firm supporting entrepreneurs across various stages and global markets. It focuses on software and TMT sectors, investing based on potential impact and feasibility.

Cedric Asselman

Partner

Leonardo Banchik

Partner

Philippe Collet

Partner

Tito Costa

Partner

Onur Erbay

Partner

Roel Janssen

Partner

Mariam Kremer

Partner

Benedikt Körling

Partner

Soheil Mirpour

Partner, Head of Growth and PE and COO

Matthias Müller

Partner

Fabricio Pettena

Partner

David Sainteff

Partner

Oliver Samwer

Investor

Donald Stalter

Partner

Dominik Unuetzer

Partner

Sebastian Waldmann

Principal

Past deals in Human Resources

Carv.com

Seed Round in 2024
Carv is a talent acquisition platform that empowers recruiters by automating administrative tasks through AI collaboration. Its core functionality includes automating interview and intake-related admin tasks, aiming to provide comprehensive autonomous recruitment solutions.

Culture Amp

Series E in 2023
Founded in 2009, Culture Amp develops a platform that enables companies worldwide to collect, understand, and act on employee feedback. Its platform focuses on employee engagement, experience, and effectiveness, serving businesses ranging from startups to Fortune 500 companies.

Personio

Series E in 2022
Personio develops an all-in-one HR software for small to medium-sized companies with 10 to 2,000 employees. Its platform streamlines HR management, recruiting, talent management, and payroll processes.

The Mintable

Seed Round in 2022
The Mintable is a community-based learning and growth platform designed specifically for managers. It offers practical training programs that focus on essential soft skills, such as feedback, delegation, and motivation, equipping managers with the tools and resources necessary to enhance their leadership capabilities. The platform facilitates cohort-based learning, allowing managers to connect with peers and gain insights from a global community. By providing templates and guides, The Mintable aims to support managers in navigating challenges and improving team performance through the cultivation of a feedback-driven culture.

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.

Aman

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Aman specializes in modern technology solutions for employee benefits management, aiming to streamline the complexities associated with benefits administration. Its platform is designed to help companies efficiently manage their employee benefits, allowing for customization and easy tracking of claims status. By automating reporting and enhancing employee engagement, Aman’s software empowers organizations to effectively recruit and retain top talent. The company's offerings focus on delivering a superior experience for both employers and employees, simplifying the task of managing health benefits and enhancing overall satisfaction.

Atma

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Atma is an Indonesian social job platform powered by community. It focuses on lower and middle-income job segments, offering a comprehensive ecosystem that includes a job marketplace, upskilling institute, and community-based support system.

BarRaiser

Seed Round in 2022
BarRaiser is a Singapore-based company established in 2020 that specializes in creating a standardized interviewing process aimed at enhancing fairness and reducing bias in hiring. The company offers an AI-powered platform that facilitates video interviews conducted by domain experts, enabling a comprehensive evaluation of candidates' skills, aptitude, and knowledge. By leveraging this proprietary technology, BarRaiser ensures that all candidates are assessed equitably, providing organizations with reliable, data-driven insights to make informed hiring decisions. The focus on improving the candidate experience and establishing global interviewing standards positions BarRaiser as a key player in modern recruitment practices.

Pando

Seed Round in 2022
Pando is bringing equity, inclusion, and structure to employee progression. Employee progression is often opaque, unstructured, uninformed, and subjective. As a result, many employees get overlooked, feel stuck, become disengaged, and eventually leave. They believe that structured, transparent, and actionable career ladders drive equity, empower teams and create purpose for all employees. Pando HR was founded in 2020 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

symmetrical.ai

Series A in 2022
Symmetrical.ai is the first payroll solution users don't hate. We enable fast-paced companies to onboard at scale and run their payroll invisibly. Instead of countless, complicated processes and (Excel) spreadsheets involving a high risk of human error, we make payroll and onboarding automated. We helped rapidly developing companies scale up by speeding up onboarding, reducing onboarding churn, and providing mistake-free payroll, ready to payout (real-time, daily, weekly, and monthly). Our mission is to eliminate borders for employment, time constraints on getting paid, and reduce the complexity of payroll across the board.

Skillup

Venture Round in 2022
Skillup is a developer of educational training and talent management software that enables researching, comparing, and booking professional training courses. The platform includes a reservation engine, online publication, and SaaS tools to streamline the management of training, interviews, and skills. It serves employers and HR managers by simplifying the design and implementation of company training plans, supporting talent engagement, growth, and retention. The platform also operates a marketplace-style service hosting thousands of trainings and reviews to help users identify suitable programs for employees.

Flash

Series C in 2022
Flash offers a unified HR platform that consolidates employee benefits into a single location. By combining a MasterCard, an app, and an HR platform, Flash provides flexible benefits solutions, enhancing control over corporate expenses while boosting employee satisfaction.

Humu

Series C in 2022
Humu, Inc., founded in 2017 and based in Mountain View, California, specializes in developing behavioral-change software for human resources. The company's technology leverages scientific research and machine learning to help individuals become better leaders, managers, or teammates. Humu's software enables companies to recognize employee efforts, measure key aspects of workplace dynamics, and foster positive behavioral changes, ultimately aiming to increase productivity and improve the overall work environment.

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 develops an all-in-one HR software for small to medium-sized companies with 10 to 2,000 employees. Its platform streamlines HR management, recruiting, talent management, and payroll processes.

Talentdrop

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Talentdrop is a recruiting software company that aims to improve the hiring process by enabling hiring managers and recruiters to tap into their personal networks for sourcing candidates. By facilitating the sharing of open roles across platforms like LinkedIn, Slack, and Twitter, Talentdrop enhances the recruitment experience through a more personalized approach. The platform allows users to create customized hiring pages and drop referrals into a private pipeline, thus incentivizing industry experts to assist in the recruitment process without incurring additional costs. Founded by experienced professionals from high-growth consumer tech companies, Talentdrop focuses on transforming traditional hiring methods by fostering a collaborative environment that prioritizes human connections and effective talent sourcing.

Culture Amp

Series F in 2021
Founded in 2009, Culture Amp develops a platform that enables companies worldwide to collect, understand, and act on employee feedback. Its platform focuses on employee engagement, experience, and effectiveness, serving businesses ranging from startups to Fortune 500 companies.

Flash

Series B in 2021
Flash offers a unified HR platform that consolidates employee benefits into a single location. By combining a MasterCard, an app, and an HR platform, Flash provides flexible benefits solutions, enhancing control over corporate expenses while boosting employee satisfaction.

BrioHR

Seed Round in 2021
BrioHR offers a comprehensive HR management SaaS platform that digitizes and automates various HR processes such as recruitment, onboarding, performance management, leave tracking, payroll, and employee file management. It is designed to be intuitive, affordable, and scalable, with live support for customization.

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 develops an all-in-one HR software for small to medium-sized companies with 10 to 2,000 employees. Its platform streamlines HR management, recruiting, talent management, and payroll processes.

Pando

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Pando is bringing equity, inclusion, and structure to employee progression. Employee progression is often opaque, unstructured, uninformed, and subjective. As a result, many employees get overlooked, feel stuck, become disengaged, and eventually leave. They believe that structured, transparent, and actionable career ladders drive equity, empower teams and create purpose for all employees. Pando HR was founded in 2020 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Welcome

Seed Round in 2020
Welcome is a company that specializes in designing and developing an offer management and compensation platform tailored for human resource teams. Founded in 2019 and based in New York, the platform facilitates collaboration and approval workflows among team members, while providing real-time insights and notifications regarding candidate engagement. It allows HR teams to set clear expectations concerning roles, compensation, equity, benefits, and organizational mission. In 2022, Welcome was acquired by BambooHR, enhancing its ability to benchmark and communicate compensation effectively using real-time compensation and equity data.

Arist

Seed Round in 2020
Arist is a company that offers a remote learning platform specifically designed to deliver bite-size courses via text messages and social media channels such as SMS, Slack, and MS Teams. This approach caters particularly to frontline employees who may lack access to traditional learning management systems. Arist enables enterprise learning and development (L&D) and human resources (HR) teams to rapidly create, deliver, and analyze these courses on various topics, including diversity and inclusion, compliance, sales enablement, and safety training. By facilitating efficient training, Arist helps organizations save over $200 per employee annually while achieving high adoption rates and clear outcomes in behavior change and performance improvement, with a notable Net Promoter Score exceeding 90.

Arist

Seed Round in 2020
Arist is a company that offers a remote learning platform specifically designed to deliver bite-size courses via text messages and social media channels such as SMS, Slack, and MS Teams. This approach caters particularly to frontline employees who may lack access to traditional learning management systems. Arist enables enterprise learning and development (L&D) and human resources (HR) teams to rapidly create, deliver, and analyze these courses on various topics, including diversity and inclusion, compliance, sales enablement, and safety training. By facilitating efficient training, Arist helps organizations save over $200 per employee annually while achieving high adoption rates and clear outcomes in behavior change and performance improvement, with a notable Net Promoter Score exceeding 90.

Welcome

Seed Round in 2020
Welcome is a company that specializes in designing and developing an offer management and compensation platform tailored for human resource teams. Founded in 2019 and based in New York, the platform facilitates collaboration and approval workflows among team members, while providing real-time insights and notifications regarding candidate engagement. It allows HR teams to set clear expectations concerning roles, compensation, equity, benefits, and organizational mission. In 2022, Welcome was acquired by BambooHR, enhancing its ability to benchmark and communicate compensation effectively using real-time compensation and equity data.

symmetrical.ai

Seed Round in 2020
Symmetrical.ai is the first payroll solution users don't hate. We enable fast-paced companies to onboard at scale and run their payroll invisibly. Instead of countless, complicated processes and (Excel) spreadsheets involving a high risk of human error, we make payroll and onboarding automated. We helped rapidly developing companies scale up by speeding up onboarding, reducing onboarding churn, and providing mistake-free payroll, ready to payout (real-time, daily, weekly, and monthly). Our mission is to eliminate borders for employment, time constraints on getting paid, and reduce the complexity of payroll across the board.

Personio

Series C in 2020
Personio develops an all-in-one HR software for small to medium-sized companies with 10 to 2,000 employees. Its platform streamlines HR management, recruiting, talent management, and payroll processes.

Repute Network

Seed Round in 2020
Repute Network is a Bangalore-based company that builds a blockchain-based Open Network to enable trust-free collaboration among diverse stakeholders and secure exchange of permissible information and insights, as well as seamless transactions. It operates the Repute Talent Network, India's first blockchain-based Open Talent Network, connecting HR software providers, HR professionals, and organizations across industries to enhance talent management, improve employee experience, accelerate KYC, and automate offers and loan disbursal while protecting data privacy. The platform allows individuals to establish a secure digital identity, manage consent-based data sharing with businesses, and build a reputation profile that supports personalized opportunities. It promotes a decentralized data-sharing ecosystem to prevent data monopolies and give users ownership of their data and its usage. The company has pursued rapid growth in India and aims to scale its network globally.

Scouta

Seed Round in 2019
Scouta is an innovative online hiring platform focused on enhancing the recruitment process for both companies and candidates. It rewards internal recruiters for sharing candidate referrals, thereby fostering collaboration among hiring teams to attract a wider pool of applicants. The platform streamlines the hiring experience by providing tools that help companies efficiently manage candidate leads and reduce inefficiencies in the recruitment process. In addition to its hiring solutions, Scouta offers personalized recommendations for videos and podcasts, tailoring suggestions based on users' preferences and viewing history. This dual focus on recruitment and content personalization positions Scouta as a versatile tool for enhancing both hiring outcomes and user engagement.

Iziwork

Series A in 2019
Iziwork is a technology-driven company that offers a temporary employment platform, established in 2018 and headquartered in Clichy, France. The platform serves as an alternative to traditional temporary employment agencies, connecting job-seekers with a variety of assignments. Iziwork enhances the temporary employment experience by providing support throughout the onboarding process and during assignments, utilizing an AI-based system to match candidates with suitable opportunities. Temporary employees benefit from features such as instant payment deposits, a paid time savings account, personalized professional training, and access to medical teleconsultation. By streamlining the recruitment process and offering tailored support, Iziwork enables businesses to efficiently access skilled specialists while also improving the overall work experience for temporary workers.

Culture Amp

Series E in 2019
Founded in 2009, Culture Amp develops a platform that enables companies worldwide to collect, understand, and act on employee feedback. Its platform focuses on employee engagement, experience, and effectiveness, serving businesses ranging from startups to Fortune 500 companies.

Leve

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Leve is a company focused on improving the financial well-being of employees, recognizing that they are individuals with diverse needs beyond their professional roles. It has developed a financial well-being platform that combines personalized assistance with a network of financial solutions. Leve offers financial advice to help employees navigate their financial challenges while monitoring their financial health. The company also provides insights to human resources departments, enabling them to identify underlying financial issues and implement tailored solutions. By prioritizing the financial empowerment of workers, Leve aims to foster a more supportive environment that allows employees to achieve their full potential.

Personio

Series B in 2019
Personio develops an all-in-one HR software for small to medium-sized companies with 10 to 2,000 employees. Its platform streamlines HR management, recruiting, talent management, and payroll processes.

Flash

Seed Round in 2019
Flash offers a unified HR platform that consolidates employee benefits into a single location. By combining a MasterCard, an app, and an HR platform, Flash provides flexible benefits solutions, enhancing control over corporate expenses while boosting employee satisfaction.

Iziwork

Seed Round in 2018
Iziwork is a technology-driven company that offers a temporary employment platform, established in 2018 and headquartered in Clichy, France. The platform serves as an alternative to traditional temporary employment agencies, connecting job-seekers with a variety of assignments. Iziwork enhances the temporary employment experience by providing support throughout the onboarding process and during assignments, utilizing an AI-based system to match candidates with suitable opportunities. Temporary employees benefit from features such as instant payment deposits, a paid time savings account, personalized professional training, and access to medical teleconsultation. By streamlining the recruitment process and offering tailored support, Iziwork enables businesses to efficiently access skilled specialists while also improving the overall work experience for temporary workers.

Personably

Seed Round in 2018
Personably is a SaaS company that specializes in enhancing the onboarding experience for new hires at fast-growing organizations. The company's platform streamlines and automates various aspects of the onboarding process, such as setting up accounts and scheduling meetings, which allows managers to concentrate on providing the necessary context for new employees to thrive. By reducing manual tasks, Personably facilitates quicker productivity for new hires while saving time for both human resources teams and managers.

Seven Lanes

Series A in 2018
Seven Lanes GmbH, founded in 2016 and headquartered in Berlin, Germany, operates as a career marketplace that connects highly qualified professionals with employers across Europe. The company specializes in online recruitment and job listing services, catering to approximately 10% of Europe’s knowledge workers. It offers a diverse range of job opportunities, including permanent, work-from-home, and freelance positions primarily in online marketing, data science and analytics, product and design, and software engineering. With additional offices in major German cities such as Hamburg, Munich, Frankfurt am Main, Stuttgart, Dusseldorf, and Cologne, Seven Lanes emphasizes a commitment to delivering objective guidance and an exceptional user experience for both candidates and employers.

Personio

Series A in 2017
Personio develops an all-in-one HR software for small to medium-sized companies with 10 to 2,000 employees. Its platform streamlines HR management, recruiting, talent management, and payroll processes.

Personio

Seed Round in 2016
Personio develops an all-in-one HR software for small to medium-sized companies with 10 to 2,000 employees. Its platform streamlines HR management, recruiting, talent management, and payroll processes.
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