HRTech Capital Raises in the U.S. – January 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.

Merger/Acquisition

  1. Recroup, developer of a recruitment marketing platform designed to track career performance by replacing the traditional resume with a visual portfolio, acquired by Shaker Recruitment Marketing.
  2. Humi, developer of cloud-based software designed to automate human resources processes, acquired by Employment Hero for $112 million.

Early Stage VC

  1. EverlyHR, operator of an integrated human capital management and marketplace platform intended to transform how companies and benefits providers interact, raised venture funding from Openner.

Seed Round

  1. Holly, operator of a human resource technology platform intended to change public sector organizations’ recruitment, raised $2.2 million of pre-seed funding in a deal led by J2 Ventures.

Accelerator/Incubator

  1. Mentor Spaces, developer of mentorship networking platform designed to help recruiters find and hire diverse college students and grads from the comfort of their offices, joined Blackbaud Social Good Startup Program.

 

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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:

Email: kenneth.margolis@castleplacement.com

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