Laszlo Bock
CEO & Co-Founder @ Humu
San Francisco, United States
Laszlo Bock is a seed investor at Humu in San Francisco focused on Analytics and Artificial Intelligence. Laszlo Bock is the CEO and Co-Founder of Humu, a company that nudges people towards better work habits—unlocking the potential of individuals, teams, and organizations. His New York Times bestselling book, WORK RULES! Insights from Inside Google to Transform How You Live and Lead, has been published in more than 25 languages and garnered numerous“book of the year” honors. From 2006 to 2016, Laszlo was Senior Vice President of People Operations and a member of Google’s management team, growing the company from 6,000 to 72,000 employees. During his tenure, Google was recognized over 150 times as an exceptional employer, including being named the #1 Best Company to Work for in the United States seven times.Laszlo is credited with creating the field of “People Analytics”, the application of academic-quality rigor and Google-paced innovation to people management. He also led the development of what is now known as Google for Jobs.In 2010 he was named “Human Resources Executive of the Year” and in 2015 the “HR Professional of the Decade.” He (briefly) was ranked #1 in the world in the video game Assassin’s Creed.Laszlo earned a bachelor’s degree in international relations from Pomona College, graduating in three years, and an MBA from the Yale School of Management.
- Total investments:
- 11
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 9%
Last updated:
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Industries Laszlo Bock invests in
Stages Laszlo Bock invests in
Countries Laszlo Bock invests in
Investment Focus
Industry
- Analytics 3 (27%)
- Artificial Intelligence 3 (27%)
- SaaS 2 (18%)
- Software 2 (18%)
- Recruiting 2 (18%)
Stage
- Seed 3 (27%)
- Series A 3 (27%)
- Funding Round 2 (18%)
- Series B 1 (9%)
- Series C 1 (9%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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NinjaTech AI
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NinjaTech AI is a business developing the first genuine next-generation personal assistant using generative AI. | $6.7M / Seed / May 02, 2023 | |
BrightHire
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BrightHire develops a performance optimization technology for recruiting teams. Its platform unlocks hidden value from every candidate conversation to help your team fill roles faster, improve recruiter success, and capture candidate intelligence. | $12.5M / Series A / May 26, 2021 | |
Vincent
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Vincent is an alternative investment search engine offering investors access to private market investing. Vincent unifies the fragmented world of online investing, assisting everyday investors in locating investment opportunities to diversify their portfolios beyond traditional stocks and bonds. Vincent helps investors maximize their wealth throughexpertly selected investments in Venture Capital, Artwork, Real Estate, Collectibles, and More. | $2M / Seed / Dec 08, 2020 | |
Blendoor
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Blendoor is a computer networking company that specializes in recruiting, SaaS, Mobile, and People Analytics. It features a mobile-based application platform that specializes in people analytics that migrates candidates sourced from partners and universities and presented to recruiters without a name, photo or dates. The company was founded in2014 and headquartered in San Francisco, California. | Seed / May 04, 2017 | |
IVY
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IVY is poised to be the global 21st century version of a top University, with a decentralized lifelong member-base across 50 hub cities. We will disrupt the $4 trillion global education market as the leading platform mobilizing passionate individuals towards entrepreneurship, arts, social impact, policy, and wellness. The average IVY member is aninfluential high income millennial who is 31 years old. Our vision is to establish a lifelong membership spanning from adolescence to late adulthood.IVY has more than 20,000 members across 7 US cities and is hosting 1,000+ gatherings with foremost thought-leaders, cultural institutions, venues, and brands in 2017. It is the number one community that mobilizes the next generation towards entrepreneurship, art, philanthropy, policy and wellness. Founded by Harvard Business School classmates Beri Meric and Philipp Triebel, IVY is currently based across New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Washington D.C., Boston, Chicago and Miami, with upcoming international expansions scheduled for London, Hong Kong, and Dubai. | $3.1M / Jun 10, 2016 | |
Guardant Health
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Guardant Health is committed to positively and significantly impacting patient health through technology breakthroughs that pointedly address long-standing unmet needs in oncology. Guardant is backed by Sequoia Capital, led by a seasoned management team comprising thought leaders and successful serial entrepreneurs in next-generation sequencing andrare-cell diagnostics and is closely advised by an oncologist-led medical steering committee from leading cancer centers across North America and abroad. | $100M / Series D / Jan 07, 2016 | |
Honor
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Honor is the world’s largest senior care network and technology platform. They are fundamentally changing the way we care for parents and loved ones by helping improve the quality of life for more older adults, their families, our Care Professionals, and home care agency owners.In 2021, Honor acquired Home Instead. Honor’s technology andoperations platform, paired with Home Instead’s global network and relationship-based care, enables the combined company to solve how we care for aging adults and professional caregivers around the world.In 2014, Cameron Ring, Monica Lo, Sandy Jen, and Seth Sternberg co-founded the company in San Francisco, California. | $20M / Series A / Apr 02, 2015 | |
Addepar
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Addepar is a wealth management platform for investment advisors specializing in data aggregation, analytics, and portfolio reporting. It is the financial operating system used to bring common sense and ethical, data-driven investing in the financial world.Addepar handles all types of assets in any currency, so investors and advisors have aclearer financial picture at every level, all in one place. With customizable reporting, financial managers can visualize and communicate relevant information to anyone who needs it.Addepar was founded in 2009 and is headquartered in Mountain View, California with offices in Silicon Valley, New York, Chicago, and Salt Lake City. | $50M / Series C / May 13, 2014 | |
Boatbound
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Boatbound is leading "pier-to-pier" boat rental marketplace. Now, over 13 million registered boat owners can offset their boat ownership costs by renting their boat to pre-screened, qualified renters on Boatbound.No experience is necessary, as many of our boats come equipped with Captains. Grab your friends, choose from all kinds ofboats, and experience the water like never before. Boatbound is free to join and has no monthly or membership fees. | $2.5M / Apr 01, 2014 | |
Evolv
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Evolv is a big data company that helps solve workforce performance issues for the C-suite by utilizing a configurable cloud services platform. Evolv's patent-pending technology platform unifies and supplements existing data from current systems, then utilizes that dataset to identify fact-based workforce insights that drive measurable ROI. Byusing objective, data-driven methodology, Evolv helps companies uncover the core reasons behind workforce performance, enabling executives to make better operational business decisions that generally result in tens of millions of dollars in measureable value per year. | $8.2M / Series B / Oct 30, 2009 | |
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Co-Investors
About Humu
Humu is a human resource company that leverages science and machine learning. Its technology builds applies the findings of decades of research to help anyone grow into a better leader, manager, or teammate. The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Mountain View, California, United States.
Humu Contacts
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Annie Wickman
VP of Operations and People
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Jessica Wisdom
Co-Founder and Director of People Science
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Katherine Milkman
Advisor
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Kevin Ball
Engineering Manager, Data Action and Reporting
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Laszlo Bock
CEO & Co-Founder
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What does Laszlo Bock invest in?
Laszlo Bock invests primarily in Analytics, Artificial Intelligence and SaaS startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 11 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
When did Laszlo Bock last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Laszlo Bock closed in May 2023. Shizune tracks 11 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.
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