Cornerstone OnDemand
VC Fund
Santa Monica, United States
Cornerstone OnDemand is a leading global provider of a comprehensive learning and talent management solution delivered as Software-as-a-Service (SaaS). The company enables organizations to meet the challenges they face in empowering their people and maximizing the productivity of their human capital. Cornerstone currently empowers over 19.1million users across 191 countries and in 42 languages.Their integrated cloud-based software offering consists of Cornerstone Onboarding, Cornerstone Recruiting, Cornerstone Performance, Cornerstone Learning, Cornerstone Connect, Cornerstone Succession, Cornerstone Compensation and Cornerstone Extended Enterprise. Their clients use their solution to develop employees throughout their careers, engage all employees effectively, improve business execution, cultivate future leaders, and integrate with their external networks of customers, vendors and distributors.The company has more than 2,100 clients, including multi-national corporations, large domestic enterprises, mid-market companies, state and local public sector organizations, higher education institutions and non-profit entities. Clients include BJC HealthCare, Flextronics, Kelly Services, Pearson, Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Teach for America and Virgin Media Limited, among many others. Cornerstone supports multiple client deployments of more than 150,000 users, including one client with more than 700,000 users. Cornerstone is headquartered in Santa Monica, California, with offices in Auckland, Hong Kong, London, Mumbai, Munich, Madrid, Paris, Rome, Sydney and Tel Aviv.
- Total investments:
- 16
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 6%
Last updated:
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Industries Cornerstone OnDemand invests in
Stages Cornerstone OnDemand invests in
Countries Cornerstone OnDemand invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
| See all 12 contacts → | |||
Round size
- Seed
- $1.1M–$1.9M
- Series A
- $3.5M–$8.6M
- Venture - Series Unknown
- $7.3M–$8.2M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Internet 4 (25%)
- Software 4 (25%)
- Skill Assessment 3 (19%)
- SaaS 2 (13%)
- EdTech 2 (13%)
Stage
- Series A 5 (31%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 4 (25%)
- Seed 3 (19%)
- Pre-Seed 2 (13%)
- Series B 1 (6%)
Country
- United States 9 (56%)
- India 1 (6%)
- Israel 1 (6%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Bernd Leger
Chief Marketing Officer
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Chief Marketing Officer | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Jonathan Epstein
Managing Director
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Managing Director | Total investments: 2 | Find email | |
Mark Goldin
Chief Technology Officer
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Chief Technology Officer | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Robert Cavanaugh
Member of the Board of Directors
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Member of the Board of Directors | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Ajay Awatramani
Chief Product Officer
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Chief Product Officer | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
| See all 12 team members → | ||||
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cleardekho is the Uttar Pradesh based online eyewear marketplace. | $5M / Series A / Oct 18, 2022 | ||
| Talespin is building the spatial computing platform to power talent development and skills mobility for the future of work. Founded in 2015, the company leverages its proprietary platform to offer enterprise customers, partners, and individuals an end-to-end solution for creating, distributing, and measuring the impact of immersive learningcontent. Talespin is building a future of work where the distance between learning and execution is collapsed, enabling people to explore unique career paths that meet the needs of both businesses and individuals. | $15M / Series B / Mar 03, 2020 | ||
| Ubeya is a tech company providing a SaaS B2B platform built to streamline temporary workforce and vendor management. Ubeya bridges the gap between staffing firms, businesses, and temp workers. It automats and optimizes work processes with AI-driven solutions for scheduling, communication, payroll, compliance and supplier management. Ubeya serves asa network hub for the entire staffing ecosystem, enhancing communication, strengthening loyalty, boosting engagement and increasing transparency between staff providers and clients. Ubeya’s mission is to reshape temp work experience for managers, internal workers and on demand temp workers all together. | $3.5M / Series A / Jan 23, 2020 | ||
| Ubeya is a tech company providing a SaaS B2B platform built to streamline temporary workforce and vendor management. Ubeya bridges the gap between staffing firms, businesses, and temp workers. It automats and optimizes work processes with AI-driven solutions for scheduling, communication, payroll, compliance and supplier management. Ubeya serves asa network hub for the entire staffing ecosystem, enhancing communication, strengthening loyalty, boosting engagement and increasing transparency between staff providers and clients. Ubeya’s mission is to reshape temp work experience for managers, internal workers and on demand temp workers all together. | Seed / Jan 23, 2020 | ||
| Ready, Set, Food! makes it easy for parents reduce their baby's risk of developing peanut, egg, and milk allergies by up to 80% with our gentle, daily system. | $1.5M / Pre-Seed / Jul 19, 2019 | ||
| Comparably provides the most accurate and comprehensive compensation and culture data, to understand employees' true value and needs to make work better. | $7.3M / Venture - Series Unknown / Jan 30, 2017 | ||
| Portfolium partners with colleges and universities to help students connect learning with opportunity. The ePortfolio network helps connect 3.75M+ students from over 190 partner institutions with 50,000+ employers based on their proven skills and competencies. Portfolium's cloud-based platform empowers students with lifelong opportunities tocapture, curate, and convert skills into job offers while giving learning institutions and employers the tools they need to assess competencies and recruit talent.The platform is used by over 3600 institutions to help assess the effectiveness of their programs and courses, certify students’ competencies, and empower students to showcase their achievements and skills with evidence.It was founded in 2014 by Aerospace Engineer, Adam Markowitz and is based in San Diego, California. | $5.4M / Series A / Sep 12, 2016 | ||
| Qualified is the most effective platform for evaluating and training world-class engineers. Utilizing real-world assessment methodology we enable companies to identify high-performing hires. | Pre-Seed / Aug 08, 2016 | ||
| Workpop is the world's first Applicant Hiring System that doesn't just track applicants, but delivers the best candidate experience required to win in today's competitive talent market. While other hiring software focuses on tools that help you screen candidates, we know that top candidates are evaluating YOU on your applicationand hiring process. Through modern design that showcases your brand and intuitive software that encourages candidate interaction rather than hindering it, Workpop helps you attract and hire the best.Our technology automates sourcing, removes friction and engages candidates from the moment they see your job post. Our user-friendly screening tools empower managers and collaborators to meaningfully communicate with applicants and to make thoughtful decisions faster. And our paperless onboarding system drastically reduces costs while allowing new hires to contribute immediately on day one of the job. With Workpop, you don’t track applicants; you engage and hire them. | $8.2M / Venture - Series Unknown / Apr 01, 2016 | ||
| Comparably provides the most accurate and comprehensive compensation and culture data, to understand employees' true value and needs to make work better. | $6.5M / Mar 03, 2016 | ||
| See all 16 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does Cornerstone OnDemand invest in?
Cornerstone OnDemand invests primarily in Internet, Software and Skill Assessment startups, most often at Series A and Venture - Series Unknown stage. Most of the 16 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What round sizes does Cornerstone OnDemand invest in?
Cornerstone OnDemand typically joins rounds of $1.1M–$1.9M at Seed, $3.5M–$8.6M at Series A and $7.3M–$8.2M at Venture - Series Unknown. These are whole funding-round sizes, not Cornerstone OnDemand's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds Cornerstone OnDemand took part in.
How do I contact Cornerstone OnDemand?
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Who are the partners at Cornerstone OnDemand?
The team at Cornerstone OnDemand includes Bernd Leger (Chief Marketing Officer), Jonathan Epstein (Managing Director) and Mark Goldin (Chief Technology Officer), among 12 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Oct 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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