Introduction

As we reach the end of Q3, the fundraising scene is showing new momentum.

In September 2025, 11 HrTech companies raised a whopping $105 million in funding.

This is a clear sign of renewed investor confidence in AI-powered hiring, onboarding, and workforce management solutions.

From healthcare recruitment to scheduling optimization, these rounds highlight growing interest in the next wave of talent-tech innovators.

Below is the full breakdown of fundraises, funding rounds, and key investors.

HrTech Fundraising of the month - September 2025

Juicebox is an AI-powered search engine that leverages natural language to analyze professional profiles. It enables recruiters and companies to discover top talent faster by decoding context and skills beyond traditional keyword matching.

  • Amount Raised: $36M
  • Funding Round: Series A + Seed
  • Investor: NFDG, Sequoia Capital

Tern is an AI workforce platform focused on healthcare recruitment. Tern uses advanced AI to match healthcare professionals, like doctors, nurses, and specialists, with hospitals and clinics, streamlining the hiring process while ensuring compliance with healthcare regulations.

  • Amount Raised: $24M (€20M)
  • Funding Round: Series A
  • Investor: Notion Capital

Alex AI is an AI recruiter built to automate job recruiting and interviewing processes. By streamlining candidate screening and assessments, Alex AI helps companies save time and improve hiring decisions.

  • Amount Raised: $17M
  • Funding Round: Series A
  • Investor: Peak XV Partners

Wokfully is a recruitment platform designed to help companies hire and upskill talent globally. Workfully combines AI screening with interactive training modules, enabling employers to build talent pipelines and retain employees in competitive markets.

  • Amount Raised: $4.71M
  • Funding Round: Series A
  • Investor: Shilling VC

Pack is an all-in-one HR platform offering recruitment, onboarding, and employee engagement tools. Pack centralizes HR processes for growing companies, providing analytics dashboards to improve retention and track workforce performance across departments.

  • Amount Raised: $4.14M (€3.5M)
  • Funding Round: Series A
  • Investor: Rialto VC

Diana HR is an AI-driven onboarding platform tailored for startups and scaling companies.

Diana HR provides automated workflows, compliance tracking, and intelligent insights to help small teams bring new hires up to speed efficiently.

  • Amount Raised: $3.7M
  • Funding Round: Seed
  • Investor: Kevin Mahaffey of SNR Ventures

Mappa is a behavioral-intelligence recruitment platform using AI-powered vocal mapping to decode candidate communication styles and predict workplace fit.

Mappa aims to improve hiring outcomes by focusing on behavioral data rather than just CVs.

  • Amount Raised: $3.4M
  • Funding Round: Seed
  • Investor: Draper Associates

RefAssured is a cloud-based reference check platform built for staffing agencies. It automates the verification process, ensuring reliable insights into candidates’ past performance.

  • Amount Raised: $3.18M
  • Funding Round: Series A
  • Investor: --

Pactos is an AI-powered platform for managing contingent workforce operations. It ensures compliance and efficiency for businesses handling external and freelance talent.

  • Amount Raised: $3.17M (€2.7M)
  • Funding Round: Seed
  • Investor: HGTF

Willo is a candidate assessment platform that helps employers evaluate applicants with video-first technology. It aims to improve hiring fairness while reducing time-to-hire.

  • Amount Raised: ~$3M (£3M)
  • Funding Round: Angel
  • Investor: Peter Bauer

Hubert is an AI-first hiring platform specializing in high-volume recruitment. Hubert uses conversational AI to screen large applicant pools, conduct initial interviews, and deliver shortlists of qualified candidates to recruiters.

  • Amount Raised: €2.5M (~$2.7M)
  • Funding Round: Pre-seed
  • Investor: Spintop Ventures

These fundraisings wouldn’t have been possible without these investors:

  • Sequoia Capital : One of the most influential VC firms worldwide, known for investing early in iconic technology companies and scaling them into global leaders.
  • Peak XV Partners: An independent investment firm spun out from Sequoia Capital, Peak XV backs high-growth companies across India, Southeast Asia, and beyond, with a focus on ambitious technology ventures.
  • Notion Capital: A leading European venture capital fund specializing in B2B SaaS and cloud-first startups. Notion is well-known for supporting founders building international software companies.
  • Draper Associates : Founded by Tim Draper, Draper Associates is a well-known Silicon Valley VC firm that backs early-stage companies with disruptive technologies and bold visions for the future.
  • Shilling VC : A Portugal-based VC fund that invests in early-stage European startups across technology and digital industries, supporting founders through hands-on mentorship and capital.
  • HGTF (High-Tech Gründerfonds): Germany’s largest seed-stage venture capital firm, backing innovative, technology-driven startups with strong growth potential at their earliest stages.
  • Rialto VC : An Italian growth equity fund that invests in startups and scale-ups across Europe, with a focus on innovative HR, tech, and digital platforms.
  • Spintop Ventures : A Nordic VC investing in early-stage technology companies with global ambitions, supporting founders across Sweden and the broader Nordic region.

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