Bessemer Venture Partners helps entrepreneurs lay strong foundations to build and forge long-standing companies. Their portfolio includes pinterest, shopify, twilio, yelp, linkedin, pagerduty, docusign, wix, fiverr, and toast, and has $19 billion of assets under management.

Bessemer Venture Partners

Entrée Capital provides multi-stage funding for innovative start-ups and companies all over the world.

Entrée Capital

LocalGlobe is a UK-based venture capital firm that focuses on seed and impact investments. Seeding ambitious UK founders since 1999 inc Citymapper, Improbable, Lovefilm, Moo, Tweetdeck, Transferwise, and Zoopla.

LocalGlobe

Cerca Partners is a leading co-investment VC fund with a sustainable advantage of unique insights and access to the best startup investment opportunities in Israel. Powered by a community and network of global tech entrepreneurs and top-tier Venture Capital funds, the fund provides both the expertise and the finesse required in an innovative and fast paced international market. Cerca's strong network and community comprises Israel’s most successful tech entrepreneurs as well as tech and business executives in a variety of verticals. Their accumulated experience helps us make smart investment decisions and provides our entrepreneurs with invaluable guidance and mentorship.

Cerca Partners

Battery Ventures is a investment firm that focuses on technology. It invests in potentially, category-defining businesses in markets including application software, IT infrastructure technologies, consumer-internet and mobile services, and industrial technologies.

Battery Ventures

Arbor Ventures invests in companies that leverage advanced technologies to facilitate, broaden or fundamentally change the way financial services are served, consumed, and managed. The firm's partners bring extensive sector and market knowledge, together with vast strategic networks, creating a unique platform to recruit world-class board members, investors, and strategic partners from across the globe. Arbor’s global perspective allows it to accelerate impact and reach globally.

Arbor Ventures

Eight Roads Ventures is a global venture capital firm managing $11bn of assets across offices in the UK, China, India, Japan, and the US. Together with our associated funds, including our US sister fund F-Prime Capital, our 50-year history of investing includes partnerships with over 500 companies such as Alibaba, AppsFlyer, Chewy, Fareye, Fever, Flywire, Fireblocks, Funnel.io, Gloat, Hibob, Icertis, Neo4j, Otrium, Owkin, Paidy, Spendesk, Tibber, Toast, Wallapop and Xoom.

Eight Roads Ventures

Presidio Ventures is the corporate venture capital arm of Sumitomo Corporation, one of the world’s leading integrated trading companies. Presidio helps the technologies of tomorrow secure their place in the global market, offering solid financial support, and expertise in business development. With offices in Silicon Valley and Boston, Presidio Ventures has invested in more than 160 companies over the past twenty years. Presidio's expansive network of Sumitomo affiliates and subsidiaries helps it in tailoring support for start-ups, ensuring that new companies can succeed from early-stage investment all the way to IPO. Presidio looks for opportunities to partner with entrepreneurs in key industries that shape the way people live.

Presidio Ventures

Perpetual Investors is a proprietary investment and consulting firm that provides solutions and services.

Perpetual Investors

Israel Growth Partners (IGP) is a technology growth fund established with a mission to provide growth capital to Israel-related technology companies. With over $600 million in AUM, IGP seeks to partner with exceptional companies and management teams who are eager to accelerate their growth and reach category leadership in their respective markets. For more information on IGP, please visit www.igpcapital.com

Israel Growth Partners

General Atlantic is a private equity firm that provides capital and strategic support for growth companies. General Atlantic combines a collaborative approach, sector-specific expertise, a long-term investment horizon, and a deep understanding of growth drivers to partner with great entrepreneurs and management teams to build market businesses.

General Atlantic

Farallon Capital Management, L.L.C. is an American capital management firm that manages funds on behalf of institutions and individuals with significant capital. Based in San Francisco, the firm was founded by Thomas F. Steyer in March of 1986. As of September 2008, it has around 150 employees.  While it invests across the capital structure and in all asset classes, a large amount of its investments are in risk arbitrage, restructuring and recapitalization. Investments include public and private debt and equity securities, direct investments in private companies, and real estate. Farallon's real estate investments span the United States, Europe, Latin America and India.

Farallon Capital Management

Alpha Wave is an investment company that has three main verticals; private equity, private credit, and public markets. The objective of the private equity partnerships is to invest in best-in-class venture and growth stage companies and endeavors to be helpful, long-term partners to these exceptional founders and management teams; credit, which includes direct private lending to businesses looking for funding solutions; and public markets in an uncorrelated strategy. Alpha Wave has offices in New York, Miami, London, Monaco, Madrid, Abu Dhabi, Tel Aviv, Bangalore, and Sydney.

Alpha Wave Global

HiBob

Hibob was founded to modernize HR tech. Hibob's intuitive and data-driven platform, Bob, was built for the way people work today: globally, remotely, and collaboratively. Since its launch in late 2015, Bob has achieved consecutive triple-digit year-over-year growth and become the HRIS of choice for more than 1,000 modern, midsize, and multinational companies that understand that a powerful, agile HR tech suite is mission critical and a key driver of organizational success. Fast-growing companies across the globe such as Monzo, Happy Socks, Gong, Fiverr, and VaynerMedia rely upon Bob to help HR and managers connect, engage, develop, and retain top talent. Learn more at www.hibob.com

Hibob provides an end-to-end HR software platform which provides tools for onboarding, measuring employee engagement and performance, payroll reports, workforce planning, talent acquisition, third-party software integrations, among other HR-related features.&nbsp;In&nbsp;<a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/35426">October 2024</a>, HiBob launched Bob Learning, an integrated learning and development module within its HCM platform Bob.&nbsp;

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Hibob provides an end-to-end HR software platform which provides tools for onboarding, measuring employee engagement and performance, payroll reports, workforce planning, talent acquisition, third-party software integrations, among other HR-related features.&nbsp;In&nbsp;<a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/35426">October 2024</a>, HiBob launched Bob Learning, an integrated learning and development module within its HCM platform Bob.&nbsp;In February 2024, HiBob acquired payroll automation platform Pento, broadening the company’s suite of payroll processing solutions. Previously, in June 2021, the company announced that it had acquired the people analytics platform Cassiopeia. Cassiopeia is an AI-based startup that provides relationship analytics to help remote and hybrid teams improve communication and collaboration.&nbsp;Key customers and partnershipsAs of April 2024, over 2,500 multinational organizations used HiBob’s platform. Notable enterprises using the platform included VaynerMedia, Fiverr and OnePlus, among others.In September 2023, HiBob entered into a partnership with Papaya Global to integrate their respective HR and payroll platforms and streamline data synchronization for multinational companies. Previously, in September 2022, the company partnered with global consulting firm Mercer to make its Compensation and Benchmark data available through its platform, providing data-driven insights for compensation planning and budgetary planning.&nbsp;

ActivTrak is a cloud-based productivity monitoring software provider. The platform offers data and analytics which can be used to detect workplace productivity gaps. The platform collects data from employee activity logs and computer screenshots, although it does not log keystrokes or record video of a user’s screen. ActivTrak also facilitates a range of tasks for admins such as blocking websites, flagging suspicious activities, IP address connections, and monitoring web, and app traffic.Other features offered include productivity reports and coaching, headcount and workload management and personal insights. In November 2023, the company added capabilities to measure the usage of AI tools, automatically detecting and classifying the use of such tools and websites to help organizations manage and improve AI adoption across the workforce.Activtrak generates revenue via monthly subscriptions (USD 10 and USD 17) per user, and custom pricing for larger enterprises.Key customers and partnershipsAs of April 2024, over 9,500 enterprises used ActivTrak’s platform, notably including Allstate, asembia and Nobu. ActivTrak closed 2023 with a 40% growth in its customer base (adding ~2,200 customers).Funding and financialsIn November 2020, ActivTrak raised USD 50 million in a Series B round led by Sapphire Ventures. Sapphire Ventures CEO and managing director joined ActivTrak’s board as part of the deal. The new proceeds were earmarked for scaling global sales and marketing campaigns, expansion of its platform using AI driven analytics, and improving integration with its technology partners.

ActivTrak

inFeedo is a people predictive analytics company based in India. The Y Combinator-backed startup founded in 2013 is currently focused on “Amber” (launched in 2016), an AI-enabled bot that helps manage employee engagement, predict attrition, and get a pulse on company culture in real time. The company also offers AI-driven exit surveys and analytics to improve retention.Key customers and partnershipsAs of April 2024, over 700,000 users across 250 organizations utilized inFeedo’s platform. Notable clients included GE Healthcare, Puma, Tata Group, and Lenovo.Funding and financialsIn its latest funding round (<a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/9099">March 2022</a>) inFeedo raised USD 12 million in Series A funding led by Jungle Ventures, reportedly tripling its valuation from less than 18 months ago. The fresh funds will be used for its second employee stock ownership plan (ESOP) buyback for all employees and its go-to-market activities in North America. Further, the company claims it has achieved annual revenue of USD 1.6 million as of November 2020.

inFeedo

Donut provides solutions to keep employees engaged with casual conversations. Its first product, Intros, makes connections between teammates via Slack to emulate quick meetups and in-person introductions at work, which are now virtual.Donut’s new product, Watercooler, launched in October 2020. It attempts to reinvent the micro-interactions between employees at the office watercooler online. The product will integrate with Slack, where a newly-designated channel for Watercooler will be created. The product will post questions automatically within the customers’ desired frequency and pre-selected topics.The company uses a freemium subscription model with paid plans starting at approximately USD 2 per user per month.Key customers and partnershipsThe company claims it has supported four million connections (one million since the Covid-19 pandemic) across its 12,000 customers, including companies such as Okta, Zapier, Slack, The New York Times, and Invision.Funding and financialsDonut announced a USD 12 million funding round led by Accel, along with its new product, Watercooler. The USD 12 million raised was accumulated over multiple rounds before the Covid-19 pandemic, with proceeds earmarked for product development.

Donut

Matter is an employee feedback platform founded by Brett Hellman. Hellman was the founder of messaging app “Hall”, which was founded in 2011 and later sold to Atlassian for USD 20 million in 2015.Matter uses 360-degree feedback to evaluate skills in employees which are linked to career success. The platform links skills such as influence, inclusiveness, empathy, resourcefulness, and multitasking to evaluations. Matter is currently available in beta.

Matter

Mesh is a Y Combinator-backed company that allows employees to set goals, track tasks, share feedback, and engage in one-on-ones. The company also offers an AI coach (Mesh Maven) to help employees stay in line with their key objectives, improve the quality of feedback provided and summarize 1:1s. Mesh also offers nudges and surveys to improve employee engagement alongside relevant analytics.The company generates revenue via monthly subscriptions per user, priced at USD 4 (Base) and USD 7 (Premium).&nbsp;Key customers and partnershipsAs of April 2024, the company served over 100+ enterprises, including NTT Data, Grant Thornton and Groww. The platform also offers integrations with third-party software such as Gmail, Microsoft Teams and Slack, among others.Funding and financialsIn its most recent funding round (<a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/9768">April 2022</a>) Mesh raised USD 11 million in Series A funding led by RTP Global. The fresh funds were earmarked to expand its global footprint across the US and APAC regions. In line with this, the company planned to expand its headcount across the engineering and sales departments.

Mesh

Companies offering tools to infer employee morale (through surveys and quick assessments) and productivity, including functions for goal setting, review, and feedback.

Companies that offer the entire spectrum of HR tools including payroll processing benefits, onboarding, compliance, analytics, scheduling etc

Companies providing either standalone or combined payroll and benefits services to businesses.

EoR - Companies that assist businesses in hiring distributed teams globally in compliance with foreign labor laws. EoRs become the legal employer of offshore employees. Solutions include payroll, benefits, and taxes.

PEO - Companies that offer similar services to EoRs but establish a co-employment arrangement with businesses and do not become the legal employer.

Companies offering tools such as chatbots, surveys, games, and other activities to infer, assess and improve employee morale and sentiment.

Companies that provide a centralized space for employees to access internal and external resources, enterprise applications, and enable workers to communicate across departments, and stay up to date on organizational announcements.

Solutions in this industry hub are predominantly offered under a B2B SaaS model

Employee and performance management solutions use AI/Ml to infer engagement insights and sentiment analysis

Offers tools for companies to hire contractors globally, and conduct employee and performance management

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<div>
 HiBob, a provider of a human resource management platform, has introduced Bob Learning, a new module within their platform Bob that is aimed at learning and development. This module can be combined with external course providers such as Udemy, LinkedIn Learning, and Go1.
 The unique offering of Bob Learning is its ability to combine both in-house and external courses along with its AI-powered course creating ability. It offers personalized learning paths, supports multiple media formats, provides central progress tracking, and can be seamlessly combined with other modules in the Bob HR platform. This facilitates optimum use of existing employee data for their development goals.
 According to HiBob, this centrally managed learning solution is designed to enhance the capabilities of the workforce, increase employee satisfaction and retention, aid in succession planning, and contribute to creating a culture focused on high performance and learning.
 
</div> Analyst QuickTake: 
 The newly launched "Bob Learning" module aims to enhance employee skill-building through a streamlined, accessible learning system. This addition could strengthen HiBob’s platform by centralizing L&amp;D efforts, likely boosting engagement and supporting long-term workforce development initiatives.

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