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

Onur Erbay

Partner

Melvin Hade

Partner

Roel Janssen

Partner

Kendrick Geluz Kho

Investor

Benedikt Körling

Investor

Maximilian Mayer

Investor

Matthias Müller

Partner

David Sainteff

Partner

Donald Stalter

Partner

Guilherme Steinbruch

Partner

Sarra Zayani

Partner

Soheil Mirpour

Partner, Head of Growth and PE and COO

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 focused on transforming the talent acquisition landscape through enhanced collaboration between recruiters and artificial intelligence. Its platform is designed to streamline the daily operations of recruiters by eliminating administrative tasks, allowing them to concentrate on more human-centric activities. At the heart of Carv's offering is an AI system that automates various interview and intake processes, promoting a more efficient recruitment experience. In addition, Carv has developed an intelligence platform that integrates with employee calendars to attend meetings and record minutes, converting them into short video content. This feature enables employees to manage their workloads more effectively by reducing the need to attend every meeting in person.

Simplify

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

Personio

Series E in 2022
Personio GmbH is a provider of HR management and recruiting software tailored for small and medium-sized enterprises with 10 to 2,000 employees. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in Munich, Germany, Personio aims to enhance the efficiency of HR processes, allowing organizations to concentrate on their workforce. The platform offers a comprehensive suite of features, including digital employee files, applicant tracking, attendance and absence management, payroll, and performance management. By streamlining these essential HR functions, Personio enables clients to simplify and digitalize their human resource operations effectively.

Candor

Seed Round in 2022
Candor does startup recruiting 10x faster than traditional firms. We place culture-aligned engineers and operators in venture-backed startups.

Atma

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Atma is an Indonesia based social job platform powered by community.

BarRaiser

Seed Round in 2022
BarRaiser plans to help each company create a global standard of interviewing process which is structured, un-biased and keeps candidates’ hiring experience at the centre. BarRaiser's AI powered interviewing platform ensures that every person is given a fair chance during the hiring process. BarRaiser was established in 2020 in Singapore

Kula

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Kula is a recruitment automation platform built to enable hyper-growth companies to build massive talent pipelines on autopilot. The company was founded in 2021 and is headquartered in Walnut, California.

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 is a provider of HR management and recruiting software tailored for small and medium-sized enterprises with 10 to 2,000 employees. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in Munich, Germany, Personio aims to enhance the efficiency of HR processes, allowing organizations to concentrate on their workforce. The platform offers a comprehensive suite of features, including digital employee files, applicant tracking, attendance and absence management, payroll, and performance management. By streamlining these essential HR functions, Personio enables clients to simplify and digitalize their human resource operations effectively.

BrioHR

Seed Round in 2021
Simple, modular, affordable, and intuitive HR management SaaS that provides end-to-end tools for digitizing and automating all HR processes such as Recruitment & ATS, Onboarding, Performance Management, Leave Management, Payroll, Employee Files, and more. Easy to implement, use, and scale, with live support from our team of experts helping you customize and configure to suit your needs.

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 is a provider of HR management and recruiting software tailored for small and medium-sized enterprises with 10 to 2,000 employees. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in Munich, Germany, Personio aims to enhance the efficiency of HR processes, allowing organizations to concentrate on their workforce. The platform offers a comprehensive suite of features, including digital employee files, applicant tracking, attendance and absence management, payroll, and performance management. By streamlining these essential HR functions, Personio enables clients to simplify and digitalize their human resource operations effectively.

InterviewBit

Series A in 2020
InterviewBit is an online platform designed to equip students and young professionals with the necessary skills for technology jobs. It offers tailored mentorship to help candidates navigate recruitment processes and gain referrals to top opportunities within the software industry worldwide. With over one million registered software developers and more than 300,000 monthly active users, InterviewBit has become a significant player in tech recruitment. The platform collaborates with over 600 prominent companies, including major firms like Google, Uber, and Amazon, to meet their hiring needs. Founded in 2015 by Abhimanyu Saxena and Anshuman Singh, InterviewBit continues to focus on enhancing the employability of aspiring tech professionals.

Personio

Series C in 2020
Personio GmbH is a provider of HR management and recruiting software tailored for small and medium-sized enterprises with 10 to 2,000 employees. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in Munich, Germany, Personio aims to enhance the efficiency of HR processes, allowing organizations to concentrate on their workforce. The platform offers a comprehensive suite of features, including digital employee files, applicant tracking, attendance and absence management, payroll, and performance management. By streamlining these essential HR functions, Personio enables clients to simplify and digitalize their human resource operations effectively.

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 provides financing and support services tailored for the recruitment industry in the United Kingdom. Established in 2011 and headquartered in London, the company serves a diverse clientele, including startup recruitment agencies and larger organizations looking to manage their freelance workforce. Sonovate's cloud-based placement management application offers a comprehensive end-to-end solution that streamlines back-office tasks such as credit control, invoicing, payments, contract management, compliance, and timesheet processing. By focusing on flexibility and security, Sonovate enables its clients to efficiently navigate the contractor payment cycle while moving away from traditional banking finance methods.

Personio

Series B in 2019
Personio GmbH is a provider of HR management and recruiting software tailored for small and medium-sized enterprises with 10 to 2,000 employees. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in Munich, Germany, Personio aims to enhance the efficiency of HR processes, allowing organizations to concentrate on their workforce. The platform offers a comprehensive suite of features, including digital employee files, applicant tracking, attendance and absence management, payroll, and performance management. By streamlining these essential HR functions, Personio enables clients to simplify and digitalize their human resource operations effectively.

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 is a career marketplace for 10% of Europe's knowledge workers. Focusing on general management and online marketing roles, it is connecting the most qualified professionals with great companies at scale. Its talent advocates and account managers are dedicated to providing candidates and employers with objective guidance and unparalleled user experience.

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 is a provider of HR management and recruiting software tailored for small and medium-sized enterprises with 10 to 2,000 employees. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in Munich, Germany, Personio aims to enhance the efficiency of HR processes, allowing organizations to concentrate on their workforce. The platform offers a comprehensive suite of features, including digital employee files, applicant tracking, attendance and absence management, payroll, and performance management. By streamlining these essential HR functions, Personio enables clients to simplify and digitalize their human resource operations effectively.

Sonovate

Series B in 2016
Sonovate Limited provides financing and support services tailored for the recruitment industry in the United Kingdom. Established in 2011 and headquartered in London, the company serves a diverse clientele, including startup recruitment agencies and larger organizations looking to manage their freelance workforce. Sonovate's cloud-based placement management application offers a comprehensive end-to-end solution that streamlines back-office tasks such as credit control, invoicing, payments, contract management, compliance, and timesheet processing. By focusing on flexibility and security, Sonovate enables its clients to efficiently navigate the contractor payment cycle while moving away from traditional banking finance methods.

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.

Personio

Seed Round in 2016
Personio GmbH is a provider of HR management and recruiting software tailored for small and medium-sized enterprises with 10 to 2,000 employees. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in Munich, Germany, Personio aims to enhance the efficiency of HR processes, allowing organizations to concentrate on their workforce. The platform offers a comprehensive suite of features, including digital employee files, applicant tracking, attendance and absence management, payroll, and performance management. By streamlining these essential HR functions, Personio enables clients to simplify and digitalize their human resource operations effectively.

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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