Introduction
December 2025 marked a period of high-impact activity across the recruitment and AI-driven HR sectors.
5 companies secured a combined $25.7 million in funding.
This month's funding landscape underscores a clear trend: investors are prioritizing tools that solve structural labor gaps through high-velocity matching, autonomous skills intelligence, and niche marketplace development.
From established players scaling their footprint to early-stage innovators redefining the interview process, these raises highlight the sectors poised to lead the future-of-work in 2026.
Below is a detailed breakdown of each company’s investment round, total capital raised, and the key investors behind the growth.
WorkIndia is one of India's largest recruitment ecosystems specifically designed for the blue-collar and grey-collar workforce. Unlike traditional white-collar platforms, WorkIndia leverages a geo-location-based algorithm to connect candidates—such as delivery partners, office assistants, and technicians—with local employers.
WorkIndia's platform is built to handle massive scale, utilizing automated matching technology that eliminates the need for middlemen, thereby reducing recruitment costs for SMEs and increasing transparency for job seekers.
- Amount Raised: $10.8M
- Funding Round: Series B
- Investor: Aavishkaar Capital
Buildforce is a career management platform dedicated exclusively to the construction trades. Recognizing the severe labor shortage in the building sector, Buildforce provides a streamlined marketplace where skilled tradespeople—like electricians and plumbers—can find consistent work with top-tier contractors. Beyond simple job matching, the platform acts as a career partner for "boots on the ground" workers, offering tools for automated payroll, credential tracking, and long-term placement, ensuring project managers have access to a vetted, reliable workforce.
- Amount Raised: $7.7M
- Funding Round: Series B
- Investor: --
LizzyAI is an end-to-end, AI-driven recruitment agent capable of managing the entire top-of-funnel hiring process without human intervention. The platform uses sophisticated Natural Language Processing (NLP) to conduct initial candidate screening, perform deep-dive technical interviews, and execute objective skills assessments.
By simulating human-like conversation and reasoning, LizzyAI helps talent acquisition teams drastically reduce time-to-hire while removing unconscious bias from the early stages of the interview process.
- Amount Raised: $5M
- Funding Round: Seed
- Investor: NEA
JOBOO! is an AI-powered platform that automates the early stages of recruitment. Using advanced Natural Language Processing (NLP) and machine learning, it screens candidates, evaluates resumes, and conducts preliminary assessments to identify the best-fit talent.
By handling high-volume top-of-funnel hiring tasks, JOBOO! helps HR teams reduce time-to-hire, improve candidate quality, and minimize bias in initial evaluations.
- Amount Raised: $1.17M (€1M)
- Funding Round: --
- Investor: Aaron Troschke
Soolv is an AI-driven knowledge management platform that organizes and surfaces information from multiple sources in real time. Leveraging semantic search and intelligent categorization, it allows teams to quickly find relevant insights, streamline decision-making, and turn scattered data into actionable knowledge without manual curation.
- Amount Raised: $1M
- Funding Round: Pre-Seed
- Investor: Likeminded VC, Arkwright X
These fundraisings wouldn’t have been possible without these investors:
- Aavishkaar Capital: Impact-focused venture capital firm investing in scalable businesses across emerging markets, with a strong emphasis on inclusion and access.
- NEA (New Enterprise Associates): Global venture capital firm investing across stages, known for backing category-defining technology and healthcare companies.
- Arkwright X: Norwegian early-stage VC specializing in pre-seed and seed B2B tech startups. They provide strategic capital, guidance, and network access to help enterprise-focused SaaS and IT ventures scale globally.
- Likeminded VC: Early-stage VC from Denmark investing in seed and pre-seed tech startups. They back founders with capital, mentorship, and operational support, focusing on AI, fintech, healthcare, and data-driven solutions.
- Aaron Troschke: Berlin-based entrepreneur, media personality, and investor. Co-founder of ReachHero and early investor in JOBOO!, supporting tech and digital media startups with strategic guidance and market insight.
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