# Randstad Innovation Fund

> Randstad Innovation Fund is a VC fund backing Recruiting and Human Resources. See 24 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- Total investments: 24
- Last investment: Dec 2022
- Lead investor: 13%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/randstad-innovation-fund/
- Website: https://www.randstad.com/

Randstad Innovation Fund is a VC fund in Amsterdam focused on Recruiting and Human Resources. Randstad Innovation Fund is investing in and/or cooperating with innovative companies that will support Randstad in shaping the world of work. The mission of the Fund is to contribute to corporate technology innovation to deliver customer value and accelerate corporate growth. The depth to which we understand the HR industry combined with aglobal brand and customer base provides unique value to the right partner. Representative areas of current investment interest:• Online platforms• Recruiting via social media• Candidate search and interviewing tools• Talent & referral communities• Mobile solutions• Applicant tracking systems• Sales support tools

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1.8M–$7.4M |
| Series A | $2.2M–$16M |
| Series B | $4.7M–$45M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Recruiting | 10 | 42% |
| Human Resources | 7 | 29% |
| Software | 6 | 25% |
| SaaS | 5 | 21% |
| Employment | 4 | 17% |

46 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 8 | 33% |
| Series B | 4 | 17% |
| Seed | 3 | 13% |
| Series C | 3 | 13% |
| Series D | 2 | 8% |

7 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 12 | 50% |
| Spain | 2 | 8% |
| The Netherlands | 2 | 8% |
| Germany | 1 | 4% |
| Switzerland | 1 | 4% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Florian Chilla | Investment Manager | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/florian-chilla |
| Frits Goldschmeding | Founder | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/frits-goldschmeding-7da1 |
| Ilonka Jankovich | Venture Partner | 2 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ilonka-jankovich |
| Katherine Salguero | Analyst | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/katherine-salguero |
| Michael Smith | CEO | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/michael-smith-7bbc |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Alicia Insurance | Embedded Insurance for freelancers and Digital MGA | $7.4M | Seed | Dec 13, 2022 |  |
| HackerRank | HackerRank provides a platform that helps companies to evaluate technical skills and create opportunities. The company helps in hiring skilled developers by allowing tech recruiters and hiring managers to evaluate talent at every stage of the recruiting process. | $60M | Series D | Mar 29, 2022 |  |
| Brazen | Brazen is a virtual event platform that helps organizations create better engagement through chat-based online events. The platform also helps hundreds of employers identify, engage with, and hire top talent universities to connect their students and alumni with each other and with top employers around the world.Brazen has continued to evolveover the years but has stayed true to its original mission of helping professionals achieve their career goals with a unique mix of brazen career content and state-of-the-art technology. They have helped countless professionals discover new career interests, find new job opportunities, network with employers and colleagues, and gain the skills necessary to succeed in today's market.Brazen was founded in 2007 and headquartered in Arlington, Virginia. | $3.2M | Series C | Sep 30, 2019 |  |
| ZAPinfo | ZAPinfo is an information automation and productivity tool that facilitates the recruiting and sales process by integrating contacts into the browser clipboard and helps finding direct contact information such as email address, resume, social profile information, allowing customers such as sales professionals to automate their daily tasks bysimplifying and speeding the process of capturing, enriching, and sharing information. | $1.8M | Seed | Aug 28, 2019 |  |
| Validated ID | Validated ID helps businesses bring security, trust, efficiency and legal compliance to customer identity verification and agreements in digital environments. With ViDSigner, it offers a SaaS multichannel eSignature platform that combines the security of cryptographic technology, biometrics and to cover all use cases. With ViDChain, it provides adecentralized self-sovereign digital ID solution based on blockchain targeting on-boarding and KYC procedures.The company was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Barcelona, Spain. | $2.2M | Series A | Jul 27, 2019 |  |
| Alice | Alice Financial is a financial services company that specializes in the fields of employee benefits and fintech. It helps its users to keep more of their paycheck by modernizing pre-tax spending while simultaneously helping employers save on payroll tax. The company was founded in 2015 and headquartered in New York, United States. |  |  | Jul 01, 2019 |  |
| AllyO | As the most funded and highest valued AI for HR company worldwide; AllyO has partnered with 15% of Fortune 50 to automate talent acquisition and management. Backed by tier 1 investors such as Google, SAP, Randstad, Bain and Cervin Ventures, we’ve demonstrated hyper-growth of 4.5X year over year. AllyO’s whip-smart technology delivers smartexperiences to HR teams and the audiences they serve.HR Communication is burdened with administrative routines, complicated and outdated systems, and lack of assistive resources — leaving both HR and the workforce frustrated. AllyO offers the world’s first HR Communications Platform with AI powered chatbots that help companies reduce manual work, time, and cost to engage candidates and employees, driving employee happiness, increased retention and higher and predictable staffing levels. Employers can choose across the spectrum from having manual conversations via AllyO Connect Platform to automating end-to-end Human Capital Management using AI powered Chatbots.Recruiting Automation Bots*Text to apply *Screen & Assess talent *Scheduling interviews *Talent pool engagement *Video interviewing *Employee referralsHR Automation Bots*Onboarding & training *Pulse check-ins *Ethics hotline *Internal mobility *Exit interviewsAllyO utilizes deep workflow conversational AI by intelligently engaging with the workforce through texting, website chatboxes, WhatsApp, voice, and email. End results include a 91% conversation completion rate, 94% Talent satisfaction score, 3X more talent-at-risk or ethics violation cases reported, and 80% reduction in human effort. Our proprietary AI platform is purpose-built for enterprise organizations as AllyO actively supports 92% of systems of records for talent acquisition and HR. Plus, we implement the most robust security safeguards to comply with the latest standards and regulations like SOC2 and GDPR.For more information, please visit www.AllyO.com or contact hello@allyo.com | $45M | Series B | Jun 05, 2019 |  |
| Wade & Wendy | Wade & Wendy offers machine intelligence personalities that aim to make hiring more human. It was launched by Josh Brandoff, Adrian von der Osten, and Drew Austin in June 2015 and is based in New York, United States. | $7.6M | Series A | Mar 05, 2019 |  |
| Goodwall | Goodwall is a social development platform for young people to connect over shared interests and discover opportunities. As the leading community for students and young professionals, Goodwall has a database of 5m+ job and internship opportunities, $1m+ in scholarships and awards, thousands of volunteer events and is made particularly to meet theneeds of Gen Z and millennials. | $10.8M | Series A | Jul 12, 2018 |  |
| HackerRank | HackerRank provides a platform that helps companies to evaluate technical skills and create opportunities. The company helps in hiring skilled developers by allowing tech recruiters and hiring managers to evaluate talent at every stage of the recruiting process. | $30M | Series C | Feb 13, 2018 |  |

10 of 24 investments shown.

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## FAQ

### What does Randstad Innovation Fund invest in?

Randstad Innovation Fund invests primarily in Recruiting, Human Resources and Software startups, most often at Series A and Series B stage. Most of the 24 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Randstad Innovation Fund's check size?

Randstad Innovation Fund typically joins rounds of $1.8M–$7.4M at Seed, $2.2M–$16M at Series A and $4.7M–$45M at Series B. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Randstad Innovation Fund participates in.

### How do I contact Randstad Innovation Fund?

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### Who are the partners at Randstad Innovation Fund?

The team at Randstad Innovation Fund includes Florian Chilla (Investment Manager), Frits Goldschmeding (Founder) and Ilonka Jankovich (Venture Partner), among 7 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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