Recruit Holdings
VC Fund
Tokyo, Japan
Recruit Holdings is a VC fund in Tokyo focused on SaaS and 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:
- 30
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 43%
- Last fund:
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 A
- $1.5M–$7M
- Series B
- $3.3M–$15M
- Venture - Series Unknown
- $2.6M–$7.5M
Investment Focus
Industry
- SaaS 8 (27%)
- Software 6 (20%)
- Artificial Intelligence 5 (17%)
- Recruiting 4 (13%)
- Enterprise Software 4 (13%)
Stage
- Series A 8 (27%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 5 (17%)
- Series B 4 (13%)
- Series D 4 (13%)
- Series C 3 (10%)
Country
- United States 9 (30%)
- Japan 6 (20%)
- China 5 (17%)
- India 2 (7%)
- Israel 1 (3%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Masumi Minegishi
CEO; President and Representative Director, CEO
|
CEO; President and Representative Director, CEO | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Mizuho Hiraguri
Corporate Development
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Corporate Development | Total investments: 1 | Find email | |
Shotaro Tanaka
Business Development
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Business Development | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Yoshihiro Kitamura
President & CEO
|
President & CEO | Total investments: 0 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
CleverTap
|
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
|
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
|
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
|
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
|
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
|
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
|
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
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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
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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 | |
Conversica
|
Conversica specializes in Intelligent Virtual Assistants for Customer Engagement. By automating routine business conversations, and personalizing interactions at scale, Conversica augments the workforce allowing business professionals and AI Assistants to work together harmoniously. The flagship Conversica Sales AI Assistant helps companies findand secure customers more quickly and efficiently by automatically contacting, engaging, qualifying, and following up with leads via natural, multi-channel, two-way conversations. With its large library of purpose-built and ready-to-use conversational skills backed by our patented conversational AI platform, Conversica’s AI Assistants can be deployed quickly, are human-like and personal, and provide superior conversational accuracy and autonomy. | Series C / Aug 18, 2018 | |
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FAQ
What does Recruit Holdings invest in?
Recruit Holdings invests primarily in SaaS, Software and Artificial Intelligence startups, most often at Series A and Venture - Series Unknown stage. Most of the 30 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 $1.5M–$7M at Series A, $3.3M–$15M at Series B and $2.6M–$7.5M at Venture - Series Unknown. 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), Mizuho Hiraguri (Corporate Development) and Shotaro Tanaka (Business Development). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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