Pear is an early-stage venture fund founded by Pejman Nozad and Mar Hershenson. Their co-founding managers have historically seeded very early stage tech start-ups such as Doordash, Guardant Health, Gusto, Viz.ai, Dropbox, Lending Club, Vanta, Zoosk, Addepar, Path and many others. Their motto is simple: they invest in exceptional founders who are building amazing companies. They utilize every resource they have to assist their founders and entrepreneurs shape the future.

Pear VC

Graph Ventures is an investment group that specializes in seed and early-stage venture investments. It was founded in 2011.  Investments include:  * BetterUp * Birdies  * BlueApron * Dapper Labs * Earnin * Envoy * Hinge * Houseparty * Ipsy * Loft * Lever * Lingokids * Moon Express * Papaya * PicsArt * Porch * Quinto Andar * RideOS * Saildrone * Very Good Security * VivaReal  * Zeplin

Graph Ventures

Dig Ventures is a pre-seed and seed-stage fund investing in cloud infrastructure and B2B SaaS companies in Europe, Israel and the US. Founded by Ross Mason, founder of Mulesoft, and managed by an all operator partnership, Dig runs an unparalleled portfolio success model, focused on clearing the hurdles of early technical company building.

Dig Ventures

Accel is an early and growth-stage venture capital firm that powers a global community of entrepreneurs. Accel backs entrepreneurs who have what it takes to build a business.  Accel’s vision for entrepreneurship and business enables it to identify and invest in the companies that will be responsible for the growth of next-generation industries. Accel-backed companies include Atlassian, Braintree, Cloudera, DJI, Dropbox, Dropcam, Etsy, Facebook, Flipkart, Lookout Security, MoPub, Qualtrics, Slack, Spotify, Supercell, Vox Media, and others.

Accel

EQT Ventures is a European VC fund with just over €2.3 billion in total capital raised. EQT Ventures I launched in May 2016, with commitments totaling €566 million and a simple mission - to be the kind of VC the team would have liked to have had on their own startup journeys. Recognizing that building and growing a company takes more than just capital, the EQT Ventures team provides founders with support and advice throughout different stages of growth. EQT Ventures doesn't focus on particular markets or industries, but on bold and ambitious founders who have the grit and determination to build global success stories. EQT Ventures II launched in November 2019, with commitments totaling €660 million. EQT Ventures III launched in 2022, with commitments totaling €1.1 billion, making it the biggest European Venture Capital fund committed to early-stage tech startups. The EQT Ventures team is based across six offices in London, Stockholm, Berlin, Paris, Amsterdam, Paris, and San Francisco, taking a locals-with-locals approach and supporting founders on the ground. Motherbrain, EQT Ventures'  in-house-developed artificial intelligence (AI) platform, ensures the team has a data-driven approach and has driven more than $100 million in portfolio company investments.

EQT Ventures

Menlo Ventures provides capital for multi-stage consumer, enterprise, and life sciences technology companies. Since 1976, the firm’s market-driven analysis has led to the identification of opportunities and successful investments in innovative markets. Notable areas of investment include Marketplaces (Uber, Rover.com, Poshmark); Consumer Services (Tumblr, Betterment, Roku, Siri); Dev/Ops (Harness, Edge Delta, Fire hydrant); SaaS (Carta, ScoutRFP, Qualia, Benchling, Everlaw); Fintech (Betterment, Bluevine, Chime); Cybersecurity (Cavium, IronPort, BitSight, Abnormal, StackRox); and Life Sciences Technology (Synthego, Cofactor Genomics, Recursion Pharmaceuticals, 3T Biosciences). Menlo’s portfolio includes more than 70 public companies, and more than 100 mergers and acquisitions, with $5 billion under management. The firm is currently investing in Menlo Ventures XV, a $500 million early-stage fund, as well as its $500 million Inflection Fund, which targets early-growth investments.

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Knoetic

Knoetic is an online platform built for chief people officers and unify a social network and a SaaS analytics tool in the same platform. Knoetic, a startup ''built with Chief People Officers, for Chief People Officers,'' announced an $18M Series A round of funding led by Accel. Over 100 angel investors also participated in the round, including New York Times bestselling author Adam Grant, and executives from Box, Figma, Johnson & Johnson, LinkedIn, Scale, Pinterest, Calm, Front, and more.  Knoetic is the first company to unify a social network and a SaaS analytics tool in the same platform. By embedding its exclusive social network of 1,000+ world-class Chief People Officers, CPOHQ, directly into its people analytics software, the resulting ''Insight Engine'' gives CPOs both quantitative and qualitative insights, enabling them to make smarter, holistic decisions about their workforce.  Chief People Officers use Knoetic to build their board decks, present data to their CEOs, solve challenges with peers, and improve their employee retention, compensation, and hiring.  The rapidly-growing startup's customer + community base includes many of the world's top technology companies, including Lyft, Squarespace, Amplitude, Snyk, Dollar Shave Club, and Zapier.  Over 1,000 other Chief People Officers use Knoetic's exclusive, referral-only community (named CPOHQ) to discuss their most pressing challenges. These include navigating the COVID delta variant, transitioning to remote work, and scaling through hypergrowth.

Knoetic is a people analytics platform that combines data analytics software with a social network for Chief People Officers (CPOs) and HR leaders. Founded in 2020 and headquartered in New York City, Knoetic's platform integrates with over 60 HR systems to provide a centralized dashboard for workforce insights on metrics like attrition, diversity and inclusion, performance, and compensation. The company's analytics tool aims to save HR teams hundreds of hours typically spent compiling data manually, allowing them to focus on more strategic work. Knoetic's platform features AI-powered capabilities that can predict employee turnover risks and provide recommendations on improving retention. As of September 2022, Knoetic reported 5X year-over-year revenue growth and serving over 2,000 CPOs from companies including Lyft, Credit Karma, Box, NerdWallet, and OpenAI.

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Knoetic is a people analytics platform that combines data analytics software with a social network for Chief People Officers (CPOs) and HR leaders. Founded in 2020 and headquartered in New York City, Knoetic's platform integrates with over 60 HR systems to provide a centralized dashboard for workforce insights on metrics like attrition, diversity and inclusion, performance, and compensation. The company's analytics tool aims to save HR teams hundreds of hours typically spent compiling data manually, allowing them to focus on more strategic work. Knoetic's platform features AI-powered capabilities that can predict employee turnover risks and provide recommendations on improving retention. As of September 2022, Knoetic reported 5X year-over-year revenue growth and serving over 2,000 CPOs from companies including Lyft, Credit Karma, Box, NerdWallet, and OpenAI.
Key customers and partnerships
Knoetic has built up a customer base that includes notable companies such as Squarespace, Amplitude, Discord, Dollar Shave Club, Zapier, MURAL, Dashlane, and Calm. The company has also developed a community of over 2,000 HR professionals who are members of its CPOHQ social network as of September 2022. This network allows CPOs and HR leaders to connect, share best practices, and discuss industry challenges. Knoetic has partnered with over 100 angel investors, including executives and former CPOs from companies like Mozilla, Pinterest, Gusto, Box, Twilio, Fitbit, Kickstarter, Looker, and GitHub.

Filtered is a skill-based hiring platform that leverages AI technology to revolutionize the technical hiring process. The company's core offering is a system that assesses candidates' fit for job roles, teams, and companies through capabilities-based hiring methods. Filtered's platform employs proprietary remote desktop technology to enable candidates to complete assessments for various technical skills, including cloud-related competencies. The company's services include candidate authentication, fraud detection, video interviews, and code challenges, all designed to provide a comprehensive evaluation of potential hires. Filtered's technology aims to overcome common challenges in tech hiring by focusing on practical skills rather than traditional credentials. The platform also offers reporting tools to help employers monitor hiring-related performance metrics and identify procedural gaps.
Key customers and partnerships
Filtered's client base includes several high-profile tech companies. The platform was being utilized by prominent companies such as Lyft, Cengage, Facebook, and Informatica for their technical hiring needs. The company's focus on skill-based hiring has attracted employers seeking to move beyond traditional hiring methods that rely heavily on academic credentials.

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Metaview.ai is an AI recruiting technology company that focuses on improving the quality and efficiency of interview processes. The company's core product leverages advanced large language models, including OpenAI's GPT-4, to provide AI-powered interview summarization and a conversational interface for interviews. Metaview's technology eliminates the need for manual note-taking during interviews, allowing recruiters to focus on engaging with candidates. The platform offers features such as Metaview Answers, which enables recruiters to ask questions about candidates and receive instant summaries of key details, exact data points, and underlying insights based on interview discussions. This AI-enabled model helps recruiters extract data from unstructured, information-dense interviews, saving time and improving decision-making. Metaview's customers save an average of 5-10 hours per week per recruiter and experience a 20% reduction in time-to-hire due to higher-quality interviews. The company was founded in 2018 by Siadhal Magos and Shahriar Tajbakhsh.

Metaview

TalentGuard, founded in 2009, is a talent management company that offers an AI-powered workforce intelligence platform called WorkforceGPT. The company's platform helps organizations uncover and foster talent within their workforce, simplifying complex information and making it actionable. TalentGuard's technology focuses on assessing employees' current skills and proficiency levels, developing those skills, and cataloging skill data to determine successful career paths and succession proposals. The platform utilizes artificial intelligence to identify and develop employees' skills and proficiencies, which can increase productivity and improve work quality.
In November 2023, TalentGuard introduced two significant enhancements to WorkforceGPT: Skill Builder and Skill-Based Learning Link Builder. Skill Builder generates technical, leadership, and soft skills with comprehensive definitions and behavioral indicators across four proficiency levels. The Skill-Based Learning Link Builder identifies relevant learning resources, bridging the gap between skill development and practical learning opportunities. These tools aim to help organizations customize and expand their skill libraries, fostering a more dynamic approach to talent development.
TalentGuard's software provides organizations with insights about employee proficiencies, qualifications, experiences, certifications, and work-style preferences. The company's solutions are designed to help businesses reinvest in their employees, offering tools for reskilling and upskilling existing staff. TalentGuard's platform also assists in ensuring workforce compliance with industry regulations and promotes diversity and inclusivity in the workplace.

TalentGuard

Talkpush is a recruitment automation platform that leverages chat interfaces and conversational AI to streamline high-volume hiring processes. Founded in 2014, the company's software enables employers to automate engagement with candidates at scale, handling millions of conversations with job seekers worldwide. Talkpush's technology allows for both automated and human-assisted interactions, with the majority of candidate conversations being fully AI-driven. The platform integrates with leading applicant tracking systems and supports various communication channels including WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, and Instagram.
Talkpush's product offerings include automated workflows that eliminate up to 95% of top-of-funnel manual tasks in recruitment. The system allows candidates to bypass traditional email and web procedures, reducing the number of face-to-face interviews recruiters need to conduct. Features include the ability to capture voice, video, and other rich media from candidates, as well as tools for recruiters to set up automated shortlisting, rejection, and interview scheduling based on predetermined criteria. In October 2020, Talkpush reported that its users saw a 250% increase in productivity, as measured by hires per recruiter.
The company has expanded its services to include an Automated Onboarding platform, helping new hires prepare for their first day on the job. Talkpush's technology was used to automate more than 10 million conversations with candidates in 2019, surpassing any other recruitment platform globally. The company operates primarily in emerging markets, with a focus on Southeast Asia and Latin America.
Key customers and partnerships
Talkpush serves leading employers in the retail, business process outsourcing (BPO), and staffing sectors. Notable clients include Walmart, McDonald's, Adecco, Concentrix, Teleperformance, and Accenture. The company has also worked with VXI Philippines to implement recruitment chatbots on Instagram.
In April 2020, Talkpush secured funding from Latin Leap, a Colombia-based venture capital studio, to accelerate its growth in the Latin American market. The company has customers in over 10 countries, including Costa Rica, Mexico, Colombia, and Argentina. Talkpush has partnered with various companies to enhance its offerings.

Talkpush

Worklytics is a B2B analytics company specializing in employee engagement and workplace optimization. The company offers a platform that analyzes anonymous collaboration data across various tools such as Office 365, Google Calendar, Drive, Slack, Zoom, GitHub, and JIRA to provide insights into team effectiveness and work patterns. Worklytics' technology focuses on improving how employees spend time, coordinate tasks, and balance individual work with collaboration. The platform utilizes techniques like organizational network analysis (ONA) and predictive analytics to gain insights into team collaboration while prioritizing employee privacy. Worklytics does not store or analyze any work content, instead using only exhaust/log data to understand workflow and collaboration patterns. The company's services are adaptable to diverse working environments, including remote and hybrid setups. Worklytics offers real-time insights through its DataStream work data pipeline and provides organizational benchmarks for companies to compare their metrics with industry peers. The platform also aims to drive positive organizational change through targeted nudges to leaders and managers. As of February 2024, Worklytics operates with a team of nine employees and is based in Seattle, Washington. The company was part of the Y-Combinator Winter 2018 batch.
Key customers and partnerships
Worklytics has established a clientele that includes prominent companies such as Uber, Boston Dynamics, and Nutanix. The company serves clients across the US, Canada, and other remote work setups. Worklytics integrates with popular tools including Google Workspace, Slack, Microsoft Teams, Zoom, and Salesforce to collect collaboration data and provide comprehensive insights into workforce dynamics.

Worklytics

Companies that offer AI-powered tools to support interview-related activities, including interview note-taking, candidate screening, skills testing, and other behavioral insights

Companies that develop AI-powered tools to streamline skill management tasks, including developing training flows, managing employee learning, and creating personalized training and coaching programs. This segment also includes companies that develop GenAI assistants to handle employee queries related to the organization and related processes

Companies that utilize GenAI and machine learning to generate analytics, insights, and dashboards related to human resource management, including employee lifecycle, recruitment, retention, behavioral and social insights, inclusion, compensation, rewards, workforce engagement

Companies that develop AI solutions to manage the employee feedback cycle, including feedback cycle setting, goal setting, developing feedback surveys, analysis of surveys, maintaining job descriptions, and career progression mapping. This segment also includes companies that utilize AI tools to analyze and maintain workplace diversity and inclusiveness

Companies that offer AI-powered tools to recruitment-related activities, including creating job descriptions, sourcing talent via various channels such as social media, carrying out background checks, candidate tracking, and engaging with potential candidates. This segment also includes freelance recruitment platforms that utilize AI-powered tools to match candidates with suitable roles

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