Recruit Holdings
VC Fund
Tokyo, Japan
Recruit Holdings is a VC fund in Tokyo focused on Software and Enterprise Software. Recruit Co., Ltd. (株式会社リクルート) is a classified advertisement, publication and human resources company in Japan, founded in 1963 originally as an advertisement company specialized in university newspapers. (Source: Wikipedia)
- Total investments:
- 11
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 27%
Last updated:
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Industries Recruit Holdings invests in
Stages Recruit Holdings invests in
Countries Recruit Holdings invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
Round size
- Series D
- $60M–$105M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 4 (36%)
- Enterprise Software 4 (36%)
- SaaS 3 (27%)
- Information Technology 3 (27%)
- Mobile 2 (18%)
Stage
- Series D 3 (27%)
- Series B 2 (18%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 2 (18%)
- Series A 1 (9%)
- Series C 1 (9%)
Country
- United States 6 (55%)
- Japan 2 (18%)
- Australia 1 (9%)
- Singapore 1 (9%)
- United Arab Emirates 1 (9%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Masumi Minegishi
CEO; President and Representative Director, CEO
|
CEO; President and Representative Director, CEO | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Shotaro Tanaka
Business Development
|
Business Development | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Yoshihiro Kitamura
President & CEO
|
President & CEO | Total investments: 0 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| CleverTap is the all-in-one engagement platform that helps brands unlock limitless customer lifetime value and helps them create personalized experiences to retain their most valuable customers. The platform empowers businesses to orchestrate experiences for individuals across their lifecycles and design personalized journeys that span a lifetime.It offers analytics that encompasses every aspect of the lifecycle, enabling businesses to measure and optimize each experience in real-time. | $105M / Series D / Aug 09, 2022 | ||
| 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 | ||
| Aurion is a pioneer of integrated HR and payroll software and outsourced payroll services. For 30 years they’ve been helping their customers simplify HR & Payroll driving business efficiency and automation.Keeping pace with technology Aurion has been through five technology paradigm jumps and remained a market leader all the way. Today Aurionis a fully mobile Self Service enterprise Human Resource Information System (HRIS) with one of the most powerful payroll super-engines available anywhere in the world. They manage the entire employee lifecycle as well as all salary, superannuation and employee benefits. | $32.3M / Corporate Round / Jan 21, 2022 | ||
| Turing.com connects world-class remote software engineers with world-class companies. 200+ companies, including those backed by Google Ventures, Andreessen, Founders Fund, Kleiner, and Bloomberg, have hired Turing developers. Over 1M+ developers from across 150+ countries have chosen Turing as their preferred platform for landing remote jobs. | $6.2M / Convertible Note / Dec 09, 2020 | ||
| Mystifly is an anywhere-to-anywhere B2B global airfare marketplace with fares from 900+ airlines, multi-GDS and also 170+ LCCs, across 70+ points of sale countries across the Americas, EMEA and APAC. The company focuses on applying the right mix of technology and inventive thought process to disrupt the air travel industry. | $3.3M / Series B / Jul 13, 2020 | ||
| Cloudbeds is a vertical SaaS business that creates cloud-based hospitality management software that simplifies the working lives of professional property owners, operators, and employees. It helps with OTAs, payments, reservations, and reporting so its clients can spend time on their most important job, taking care of their guests. Cloudbeds wasfounded in 2012 and is headquartered in San Diego, California. | $82M / Series C / Mar 11, 2020 | ||
| SKALE Labs is a blockchain scalability platform that provides high-speed consensus and empowers dApps to run smart contracts.SKALE acts as a middle-ware layer which provides high-speed consensus and empowers dApps to run smart contracts at the rate of millions per second on platforms such as Ethereum, EOS, and other Smart Contract Blockchainplatforms. The SKALE Network is a fully decentralized, open-source P2P network that is run using the SKALE utility token which is staked by dApps and supported by SKALE Mining nodes. | $7.5M / Venture - Series Unknown / Oct 01, 2019 | ||
| Loyyal leverages blockchain and smart contract technology to provide loyalty and rewards network infrastructure solutions. It introduces interoperability to the currently fragmented industry, multi-branded coalitions, superior program liability management and dynamic issuance/redemption options customized for each unique relationship. | Venture - Series Unknown / Aug 01, 2019 | ||
| Presto overlays next-gen digital solutions onto the physical world. Presto’s enterprise-grade voice, vision, and touch technologies help hospitality businesses thrive while delighting guests. With over 250,000 systems shipped, Presto is one of the largest labor automation technology providers in the industry. Founded at M.I.T. in 2008, Presto isheadquartered in Silicon Valley, Calif. with customers including many of the top 20 restaurant chains in the U.S. | $30M / Series D / Feb 27, 2019 | ||
| -Milog inc is founded in April 2009, aiming to focus on Android platform on smartphone. Business domain is an intelligence of application usage data on Android OS platform to provide worldwide handset companies and telecom operators, employing high-level statistical analysis, with Harvard Physics Team. Milog has raised $5 million (1.2 million USDin a seed round, 3.8 million USD in Series A). Acquired on March 2012.-Milog is founded by Yohei Kiguchi, Co-Founder/ CEO in April 2009, and his friends, then sold the entire business in March2012. Milog has the headquarter in Tokyo, and also have contractors across the world, mainly in Shanghai, San Francisco. In Japan, milog patented a core programme for this field, and was widely recognized as a top runner and innovative challenger in IT field. Milog developed "AppLog", which was an embedded software to monitor application’s battery and data consumption on an android device, and automatically optimise the application’s running task to improve the battery life. To address the battery life problem, which is the most common users concern in many polls, the demand side approach was unique and more efficient, while a lot of hardware companies tackled the issue by improving the battery size or efficiency.Milog raised total 5 million USD(1.2 million USD in a seed round, 3.8 million USD in Series A) from JAFCO, No.1 Japanese VC, and OPT, No.1 advertising agency, and RECRUIT, No.1 Japanese Human Resource company. | $3.8M / Series A / May 24, 2011 | ||
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FAQ
What does Recruit Holdings invest in?
Recruit Holdings invests primarily in Software, Enterprise Software and SaaS startups, most often at Series D and Series B 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.
What is Recruit Holdings's check size?
Recruit Holdings typically joins rounds of $60M–$105M at Series D. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Recruit Holdings participates in.
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Who are the partners at Recruit Holdings?
The team at Recruit Holdings includes Masumi Minegishi (CEO; President and Representative Director, CEO), Shotaro Tanaka (Business Development) and Yoshihiro Kitamura (President & CEO). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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