Randstad Innovation Fund

Randstad Innovation Fund is a corporate venture fund that invests in technology for hiring, recruiting and workforce management. Its portfolio spans platforms used by employers and by job candidates.

What Randstad Innovation Fund does

• Recruiting technology investments: stakes in companies such as Brazen, which runs online recruiting events, and gr8people, an all-in-one recruiting platform.
• Workforce analytics: investment in Crunchr, which gathers people data for HR reporting.
• Assessment tools: backing for Pymetrics, which matches candidates through gamified tests, and HackerRank, which uses coding challenges.
• Identity and signing: holdings such as ViDSigner and ViDChain for electronic signatures and digital identity.
• Career and finance apps: Goodwall for young professionals and Alice for employee expense savings.

Clients

Startups in the HR and recruitment technology space. Founders can submit a business plan describing their operations and progress, ideally as an investor deck.