The HRTech Wire · auto-curated
Wednesday, September 30, 2026
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Leadership and workforce shifts headline today's HR-tech news, as JPMorgan Chase names its next HR chief, Workday moves to cut roughly 2.5% of its staff primarily in product and technology roles, and PowerToFly announces a pivot. On the AI front, PwC finds that skill levels are driving a growing workforce divide, while McLean & Company urges HR leaders to rethink their talent mix to navigate AI adoption, skills gaps, and rising costs. Investment activity remains active, with Metaview closing a $60M Series C, a construction workforce management platform raising $40M, and new entrants including Genius Match's hiring platform Geni and PitchMe's staffing-focused tool SONAR entering the market.
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💰 $60MATSMetaview· 8:33 AM PDT7 sources
Metaview has raised a $60 million Series C led by Insight Partners, with GV, Intrepid Growth Partners, Seedcamp, Vertex Ventures US, Plural and Garuda Ventures participating, bringing total funding to $110 million. The company, which says more than 7,000 companies hire with it, is expanding into an end-to-end agentic recruiting platform and plans to grow from 80 to 250 employees and open a New York office.
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Read the full storyATSSAP Community· 7:52 AM PDT
SAP Community has detailed a career site integration linking SmartRecruiters with SAP SuccessFactors, aiming to unify the candidate journey across two widely used recruiting and HCM platforms — a concrete product development relevant to HR teams running either system.
Read the full storyATSBusiness Wire· 7:36 AM PDT
Genius Match has launched Geni, an AI-powered hiring platform, according to Business Wire — though the announcement provides no detail on funding, pricing, or distinguishing technical features that would differentiate it in a crowded AI-recruiting market.
ATSHR Tech Feed· 7:14 AM PDT
PitchMe has launched SONAR, a talent-search tool now in early access that lets agency recruiters search the public web and enrich candidate profiles while sitting alongside — rather than replacing — their existing ATS or CRM. The product targets staffing agencies and signals PitchMe's push deeper into talent-intelligence infrastructure for the recruitment market.
ATSBusiness Wire· 6:30 AM PDT
HR-tech recruiting platform Phenom has partnered with nonprofit Opportunity@Work to bring skills-based hiring to state government employers, aiming to open public-sector career pathways for workers without traditional degree credentials. The integration targets a largely underserved segment — government HR teams — by applying Phenom's ATS/talent-intelligence tooling to skills-first hiring workflows.
Read the full storyATSHR Grapevine· 11:58 PM PDT
More than half of UK employers are not yet using AI in recruitment, according to the source, with concerns around candidate verification and trust cited as key barriers even as adoption slowly grows. HR-tech buyers will want to note that employer hesitancy — rather than technology availability — remains the primary friction point in AI-driven hiring in the UK market.
