Introduction
June 2026 has been an incredibly active month for HR Tech, with 5 companies raising a collective total of $184.1 million in funding.
This month marked a milestone for HR tech and workforce operations, with significant capital raises across multiple funding stages, from Pre-Seed, Series A & Series D, to streamline the employee lifecycle.
These deals were supported by strategic investments, which made June’s funding activity highlight a sharp market demand for AI-first solutions and talent acquisition optimization.
Let's discover more details about the deals made.
Factorial is an AI Workforce Operations Platform meticulously built to automate and optimize everyday HR tasks, talent management, and operational workflows. The software acts as a centralized operating system for businesses, integrating time tracking, payroll management, performance reviews, and expense tracking into a single intuitive portal.
By leveraging advanced artificial intelligence, the platform helps HR teams eliminate manual spreadsheet management, optimize shift scheduling, and extract actionable insights from employee data to maximize overall workforce productivity and engagement.
- Amount Raised: $150 Million
- Funding Round: Series D
- Investor: General Catalyst
Orbio AI is an all-in-one onboarding and management platform engineered specifically to address the unique complexities of managing frontline employees. The platform simplifies the entire employment lifecycle for shift-based and distributed workforces by streamlining automated hiring documentation, digitized compliance tracking, and immediate training delivery directly to mobile devices. By optimizing these critical touchpoints, the software drastically reduces initial applicant drop-off rates, cuts down administrative processing times for managers, and ensures that new hires are compliant, trained, and ready for their first shifts faster than traditional systems allow.
- Amount Raised: $21 Million
- Funding Round: Series A
- Investor: Dawn Capital
Sloneek is an AI-first HR system designed from the ground up to eliminate administrative paperwork and operational chaos by managing the entire employee journey from initial recruitment to final offboarding.
The platform leverages intelligent automation to handle contract generation, digital signatures, asset management, and time-off tracking within a unified dashboard.
By focusing on minimal friction and high automation, it frees internal HR teams and operational managers from repetitive tasks, allowing them to focus on employee retention, culture, and strategic team scaling without getting bogged down by bureaucratic overhead.
- Amount Raised: $6 Million
- Funding Round: Series A
- Investor: Orbit Capital, Venture to Future Fund
HeyMilo AI is a recruitment orchestration platform that empowers companies to seamlessly source, engage, and screen job candidates directly from their existing Applicant Tracking System (ATS) using a conversational AI interviewer.
The system serves as an autonomous recruiting assistant, conducting initial, interactive screening conversations with applicants at scale to assess skills and cultural fit in real time.
This allows talent acquisition teams to instantly identify top-tier talent from massive application pools, significantly accelerating the top-of-funnel hiring process while maintaining a personalized candidate experience.
- Amount Raised: $6 Million
- Funding Round: --
- Investor: Category Ventures
WhyBrilliant is a recruitment and talent matching platform that connects qualified candidates directly to ideal employers by bypassing traditional, time-consuming applications and resumes entirely.
By utilizing specialized matching algorithms that focus heavily on core competencies, workplace preferences, and verified skill sets, the platform automatically pairs talent with open positions that fit their background.
This modern approach effectively removes the initial friction of job hunting and talent sourcing, significantly shortening hiring timelines for companies while creating a much smoother, stress-free experience for active job seekers.
- Amount Raised: €1 Million ($1.1 Million)
- Funding Round: Pre-Seed
- Investor: Merantix
A massive shoutout to the investment firms backing this month’s rounds:
- Dawn Capital: Specialist B2B software venture capital fund, investing in early-stage founders building next-generation enterprise software.
- Orbit Capital: Growth-stage debt and equity investor, providing scaling capital to high-growth technology companies across the region.
- Venture to Future Fund: Venture capital fund investing in innovative tech companies to accelerate regional economic growth, competitiveness, and global scaling.
- General Catalyst: A global venture capital firm, investing from seed to growth stage across consumer and enterprise to drive enduring, systemic change.
- Category Ventures: An early-stage venture capital firm investing in visionary founders who are defining or entirely rewriting market categories across tech and software.
- Merantix Capital: Europe’s leading AI venture studio, investing in, incubating, and scaling early-stage artificial intelligence startups to transform legacy industries.
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