HRTech Capital Raises in the U.S. – February 1st – 15th, 2025

Several interesting transactions closed in the HRTech sector over the past two weeks. If you would like more info on these deals or would like to discuss the capital raising market for your company, please contact me.

Buyout/LBO

  1. LAUNCH Technical Workforce Solutions, provider of technical workforce recruitment services intended to serve aviation, manufacturing and ground transportation companies, acquired by Capitol Meridian Partners through an LBO.

Merger/Acquisition

  1. Healthcare Staffing Professionals, provider of staffing services intended for various industries, including healthcare, finance, information technology and education, acquired by TrueBlue.
  2. Eqtble, developer of a human resource analytics platform designed to help companies gain insights from employee data, acquired by Paradox.

Later Stage VC

  1. The Way Out, developer of a fair chance employment software platform intended to break the cycle of incarceration, raised $300,773 of venture funding.
  2. ConverzAI, developer of an AI-powered virtual recruiting platform designed to autonomously hire candidates for any job, raised $16 million through a combination of Series A and Series A-4 venture funding in a deal led by Menlo Ventures.

Early Stage VC

  1. Wrangle, developer of an artificial intelligence-driven platform designed to simplify and accelerate the job application process, raised venture funding from Pear.

Seed Round

  1. SquarePeg, developer of a job matching platform designed to bring predictive data to job search, raised $3.5 million of seed funding in a deal led by Next Frontier Capital.

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Ken Margolis

Managing Partner

As one of the founders of Castle Placement, Ken is passionate about helping great companies grow. Over 25 years of experience in investment banking and raising capital from institutional private equity/venture investors, family offices, foundations, endowments, hedge funds, banks and specialty finance lenders. Co-founded Castle Placement in 2009, providing investment banking services and raising private equity/debt capital for early-stage and middle market companies across a wide range of industries including financial services/fintech, real estate, technology, business services, energy/real assets and consumer/retail. In 2007, created a platform providing advisory and capital formation services to financial institutions and private equity funds investing in distressed bank portfolios and community banks which was merged into Castle Placement*. From 1999 to 2007, at Merrill Lynch was co-head of the 50+ person global structured credit products investment banking, sales and syndicate and head of the U.S. alternative investment group raising capital for alternative investment funds in financial services and asset management. From 1991 to 1999, was at Credit Suisse First Boston as a senior trader on a principal transaction desk responsible for managing a proprietary position of credit sensitive commercial/residential real estate and asset-backed securities and head of CSFB’s new issue whole loan and agency CMO desk. Began his career in 1985 at Arthur Andersen where he managed their structured finance group consulting on ground breaking securitizations of residential mortgages, credit cards, auto loans, corporate loans and other financial assets. FINRA Series 7, 24, 63, and 79 licenses.

Ken Margolis

Ken Margolis

Managing Partner

Ken Margolis

Managing Partner

Please contact me if you have any questions or would like to discuss your capital raise:

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