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Venture Capital

RefAssured Raises $3.3M Seed Round to Build “Back of a Baseball Card” for Talent Performance

RefAssured , a San Francisco-based provider of automated reference checking and talent performance insights, has raised a $3.3 million oversubscribed seed round led by Dogwood Ventures with support from HighSage Ventures and strategic inves

Sep 23, 2025
Product News

HiBob Launches Native US Payroll to Cut Complexity and Build Confidence for SMBs

HiBob has launched its native US Payroll and Benefits Administration solution, integrating payroll, benefits, and HR into one unified platform. Backed by Gusto Embedded Payroll technology, this AI-powered solution offers real-time analytics

Sep 16, 2025
Venture Capital

Payscale Acquires Datapeople to Bridge Recruiting and Compensation Strategies

Payscale, a leading compensation intelligence provider, has acquired Datapeople, an AI-powered recruiting platform, to align talent acquisition with compensation strategies. This move enables organizations to ensure pay transparency complia

Sep 16, 2025
Company News

Josh Bersin Company Research Reveals How Talent Acquisition Is Being Revolutionized by AI

The Josh Bersin Company has released new research, in collaboration with AMS, revealing how AI is revolutionizing talent acquisition (TA). The $850 billion global recruiting market is undergoing a seismic shift from manual, fragmented recru

Sep 16, 2025
Venture Capital

Workday Signs $1.1B Deal to Buy Sana, Bringing AI Agents and Learning Tools to 75M Users

Workday has announced a definitive agreement to acquire Sana, an AI-driven enterprise knowledge platform, for approximately $1.1 billion . Founded in 2016, Sana is known for its AI-powered products—Sana Learn and Sana Agents—used by over on

Sep 16, 2025
Venture Capital

iCIMS Acquires Apli to Launch Frontline AI Platform for High-Volume Hiring

iCIMS has acquired Apli, a Latin America-based AI recruitment automation company specializing in frontline hiring, to enhance its enterprise talent acquisition platform with powerful conversational AI and assessment tools. This move aims to

Sep 11, 2025
Venture Capital

Radancy Acquires myInterview to Deliver End-to-End AI Recruiting Platform

Radancy , a global leader in talent acquisition software, has acquired myInterview to enhance its AI-powered Talent Acquisition Cloud. The integration adds recruiter and candidate AI agents designed to reduce manual work by 90%, cut hiring

Sep 9, 2025
Company News

ADP Unveils AI Features Built for HR's Biggest Challenges at Innovation Day 2025

At its 2025 Innovation Day, ADP unveiled new AI-powered features across Workforce Now®, ADP Global Payroll®, and ADP Lyric HCM®, designed to solve HR’s biggest pain points. The enhancements, built on ADP Assist, focus on proactive payroll a

Sep 3, 2025
Venture Capital

Laborup Secures $7.7M to Tackle U.S. Manufacturing Labor Shortage with AI Recruiting

Laborup , an AI recruiting startup focused on America’s manufacturing workforce, has raised a total of $7.7 million, including a $5.8 million seed round led by NVP. The company is building “agentic recruiting” infrastructure with voice-firs

Aug 29, 2025
Product News

Fountain Launches Frontline OS to Cut New Hire Screening Time of Frontline Workers by up to 98% and Boost Retention by 50% Through Agentic AI

Fountain has launched Frontline OS , an AI-native operating system designed for the world’s 2.7 billion frontline workers. Powered by Copilot AI with Anthropic’s Claude models, the platform automates hiring, onboarding, scheduling, complian

Aug 26, 2025
Venture Capital

zvoove Acquires Spain's Market Leader for Temporary Staffing Solutions, Nivel IV

zvoove, a leading European software and AI provider for temporary staffing, cleaning, and security industries, has acquired Spain’s market leader, Nivel IV. Following its 2024 acquisition of Freematica, this deal positions zvoove as the top

Aug 22, 2025
Company News

Workday Q2 FY26 Revenue Rises 12.6% to $2.35B, Raises Full-Year Guidance

Workday reported strong fiscal 2026 Q2 results with total revenue of $2.35 billion, up 12.6% year-over-year, driven by 14% growth in subscription revenue. Operating income more than doubled, while non-GAAP operating margin reached 29%. Net

Aug 21, 2025
Company News

UKG Appoints Jim Joudrey as Chief Technology Officer

UKG , a global leader in AI-first HR, payroll, and workforce management solutions, has appointed Jim Joudrey as Chief Technology Officer. With over two decades of experience at Amazon, Salesforce, and AWS, Joudrey will lead UKG’s 4,000+ eng

Aug 20, 2025
Product News

Deel Launches AI Workforce with 7 Specialized Agents to Transform HR and Payroll

Deel has launched its AI Workforce , a new platform feature designed to help global HR and payroll teams manage administrative workloads through AI-powered agents. With seven specialized AI agents for functions like hiring, payroll, complia

Aug 18, 2025
Company News

Upwork Reports Second Quarter 2025 Financial Results

Upwork reported strong Q2 2025 financial results, with record revenue of $194.9 million , GAAP net income of $32.7 million , and adjusted EBITDA of $57.1 million , marking a 17% profit margin and a record 29% EBITDA margin. The company rais

Aug 8, 2025
Earnings

Adecco Group H1 2025 Results: Market Share Rises Despite Revenue Decline and Margin Pressures

The Adecco Group, a global leader in workforce solutions, released its Half-Year 2025 results today, showing a strong gain in market share amid continued macroeconomic uncertainty and structural headwinds in key markets such as Germany. Whi

Aug 5, 2025
Company News

Paylocity Announces Fourth Quarter and Full Fiscal Year 2025 Financial Results

Q4 2025 Recurring & Other Revenue of $369.9 million, up 14% year-over-year Q4 2025 Total Revenue of $400.7 million, up 12% year-over-year FY 2025 Recurring & Other Revenue of $1,471.8 million, up 15% year-over-year FY 2025 Total Revenue of

Aug 5, 2025
Company News

Fiverr Q2 2025 Earnings: $108.6M Revenue Driven by AI & Managed Services

Fiverr reported solid second-quarter 2025 results, with total revenue reaching $108.6 million, up 14.8% year-over-year. The growth was driven primarily by AI-related services, the strong performance of Fiverr Pro’s Managed Services, and a s

Jul 30, 2025
Venture Capital

San Francisco’s Sparrow Secures $35M Series B to Tackle Global Leave Compliance with AI

Sparrow , the first end-to-end leave management platform designed for modern, global companies, has raised $35 million in Series B funding led by SLW, bringing its total funding to $64 million. The company leverages AI and compliance expert

Jul 29, 2025
Company News

Kforce Posts $334M Q2 Revenue, EPS Up 31% QoQ Despite Demand Constraints

Kforce Inc. reported Q2 2025 revenue of $334.3 million and diluted EPS of $0.59, representing a sequential increase amid ongoing macroeconomic uncertainty. Technology and Finance & Accounting (FA) Flex segments both saw modest growth from Q

Jul 28, 2025
Product News

Leena AI Announces the Launch of Voice-Enabled, Agentic AI Colleagues to Revolutionize Employee Centricity and Enterprise Productivity

Leena AI has launched voice-enabled Agentic AI colleagues to revolutionize employee support and workplace productivity. These AI agents use natural voice interactions to assist employees across HR, IT, Sales, Finance, and more—anytime, anyw

Jul 24, 2025
Venture Capital

San Francisco-Based CandorIQ Raises $4.8M Seed Round to Reinvent Compensation and Workforce Planning with AI

CandorIQ , an AI-powered compensation and workforce planning platform based in San Francisco, has raised $4.8 million in seed funding led by Array Ventures with participation from Y Combinator, CRV, and Switch Ventures. The platform helps H

Jul 22, 2025
Product News

Paylocity Advances One Unified HCM and Finance Platform with Launch of Integrated Spend Management Solution

Paylocity has launched “Paylocity for Finance,” expanding its modern HCM platform into the Office of the CFO by integrating Airbase’s award-winning spend management technology. This unified solution enables organizations to manage payroll a

Jul 22, 2025
Product News

iCIMS Introduces New AI Capabilities for Smarter Sourcing and Recruiting

iCIMS has launched a new wave of AI-powered enhancements to streamline talent acquisition workflows, reduce manual effort, and improve candidate and recruiter experiences. The summer release introduces three key AI assistants—for candidate

Jul 9, 2025
Venture Capital

zvoove Acquires mywage to Expand into UK with AI-Powered Payroll Platform

zvoove , a European leader in cloud solutions for the staffing and service industries, has announced its acquisition of mywage , a UK-based HR and payroll SaaS provider. This strategic move expands zvoove's presence into the UK — the third-

Jul 1, 2025
Product News

CoachHub Announces Official Rollout of AIMY™, Empowering the Global Workforce with an AI-driven Coaching Solution Accessible to Employees of All Levels

CoachHub has officially launched AIMY™, its AI-powered coaching solution now available to all clients. Rooted in behavioral science and built on a foundation of real coaching frameworks, AIMY™ delivers continuous, personalized guidance—voic

Jun 30, 2025
Venture Capital

AI-Native Platform Niural Secures $31M to Automate Payroll and Global Ops

Niural, an AI-native global PEO platform, has raised $31 million in Series A funding to reinvent financial operations for modern CFOs. By combining proprietary infrastructure with executional AI agent EMMA, Niural transforms traditional pay

Jun 26, 2025
Venture Capital

San Francisco-Based VoiceCare AI Secures $4.54M to Automate Complex Healthcare Conversations

Voicecare AI , a healthcare-focused agentic AI startup, has raised $4.54 million in a seed round led by Caduceus Capital Partners, with participation from Mayo Clinic and others. The San Francisco-based company is pioneering healthcare admi

Jun 23, 2025
Venture Capital

Aya Healthcare Acquires Locum’s Nest to Advance Innovative Workforce Solutions in the UK

Aya Healthcare, the largest healthcare staffing and talent software company in the U.S., has acquired Locum’s Nest, a leading U.K.-based digital workforce platform that connects clinicians with open NHS shifts. This acquisition aims to comb

Jun 20, 2025
Venture Capital

ai.work Launches from Stealth with $10M Seed to Build Autonomous AI Employees for Enterprises

Tel Aviv- and New York-based startup ai.work  has emerged from stealth with a $10 million seed round led by A * and lool ventures , unveiling a new AI Worker platform built to automate internal enterprise operations. Founded by Maor Ezer an

Jun 10, 2025
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