Introduction
In February 2026, the HrTech sector demonstrated strong investor interest with 4 companies raising a total of $61 million in funding.
This month's fundraising shows strong investor appetite for tools that make work smarter. These companies are building solutions across pre-employment screening, AI-powered recruiting, and HR infrastructure to automate HR workflows that solve real challenges for teams and employees.
Investors are backing platforms that combine data, automation, and insights to scale HR operations and improve decision-making fast.
Below, we break down the fundraising made in February.
Veremark is a global background screening and pre‑hire checks platform that helps employers verify candidate credentials, employment history, and other risk indicators to hire with confidence.
- Amount Raised: $26M
- Funding Round: Series B
- Investor: Gresham House Ventures
Kombo is a unified API provider for HRIS, ATS, LMS, and Payroll integrations. Kombo's platform simplifies complex integration challenges for businesses, allowing recruitment tools to instantly sync candidate data, job postings, and hiring workflows with a single API.
- Amount Raised: $25M
- Funding Round: Series A
- Investor: Volition Capital
Elly is an AI‑native hiring platform that supports recruiting teams by combining sourcing, interviewing, and applicant tracking in one system, helping teams make better hiring decisions and improve candidate experiences.
- Amount Raised: $8M
- Funding Round: Seed
- Investor: Sorenson Capital
HireBound is a conversational AI‑powered recruiting platform that helps employers automate sourcing, candidate engagement, screening, and interview scheduling to make hiring faster and more efficient.
- Amount Raised: $2M
- Funding Round: Seed
- Investor: Kalaari Capital
These fundraisings wouldn’t have been possible without these investors:
- Kalaari Capital: An early-stage venture capital firm based in India. It invests in tech startups across sectors like e-commerce, fintech, healthtech, and SaaS, supporting founders from seed to growth stage.
- Gresham House Ventures: The venture investment arm of Gresham House in the UK. It invests in fast-growing small and medium-sized businesses across sectors like consumer, healthcare, and technology.
- Sorenson Capital: A U.S.-based private equity firm that focuses on investing in growing B2B software and technology companies, helping them scale and expand.
- Volition Capital: A Boston-based growth equity firm that specializes in partnering with high-growth, founder-owned technology companies, focusing on businesses that are bootstrapped, owner-led, and exhibit durable growth.
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