Recruit Holdings
VC Fund
Tokyo, Japan
Recruit Holdings is a VC fund in Tokyo focused on SaaS and Mobile. 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:
- 7
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 29%
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 | |
|---|---|---|---|
2 more contacts available
Round size
- Series D
- $60M–$105M
Investment Focus
Industry
- SaaS 2 (29%)
- Mobile 2 (29%)
- Travel 2 (29%)
- Software 2 (29%)
- Enterprise Software 2 (29%)
Stage
- Series B 2 (29%)
- Series D 2 (29%)
- Series A 1 (14%)
- Series C 1 (14%)
- Corporate Round 1 (14%)
Country
- United States 3 (43%)
- Japan 2 (29%)
- Australia 1 (14%)
- Singapore 1 (14%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Masumi Minegishi
CEO; President and Representative Director, CEO
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CEO; President and Representative Director, CEO | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Shotaro Tanaka
Business Development
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Business Development | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Yoshihiro Kitamura
President & CEO
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President & CEO | Total investments: 0 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
CleverTap
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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
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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
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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 | |
Mystifly
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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
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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 | |
milog
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-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 | |
Tonchidot
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Social Augmented Reality Mobile Location-based Service"Sekai Camera" (World Camera)Their client-side software and web service enable camera-equipped mobile devices (such as iPhones, Android "Google Phones", and other smart-phones) to access informational and entertainment services by creating a "Clickable World"via the use of Augmented Reality (AR) hyper-tags. These user-clickable tags, which they call "AirTags", are location-based and mapped in the real world. These AirTags can be seen and accessed through the camera view of mobile devices with Sekai Camera software. Sekai Camera is realized though a combination of technologies, including client-side software deployed on iPhone, Android and other OS platforms, and also highly scalable web computing systems. In addition, Sekai Camera integrates with services provided by mobile carriers, existing data/service providers, and location technology companies, which combined, enable this dynamic location-based information retrieval service. | $12M / Series B / Sep 30, 2010 |
Co-Investors
La Caisse
3 deals together
Counterpart Ventures
1 deal together
Cultivation Capital
1 deal together
DCM Ventures
1 deal together
360 ONE Asset
1 deal together
ITOCHU Technology Ventures
1 deal together
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FAQ
What does Recruit Holdings invest in?
Recruit Holdings invests primarily in SaaS, Mobile and Travel startups, most often at Series B and Series D stage. Most of the 7 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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