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June 22, 2022

Inside Personio: Europe’s most valuable private HR tech company

Personio has just raised €200m at a valuation of $8.5bn


Hanno Renner, Personio cofounder and CEO

Fresh out of business school in 2015, 25-year-old Personio CEO Hanno Renner had never had a real job before cofounding the company, besides a part-time gig as a skipper. He says it made him both utterly naive and hungry to solve a “real” problem — he just didn’t know it would become a billion-dollar business.

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Personio's Munich HQ
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Personio's kitchen, where employees can get free breakfast and healthy snacks throughout the day
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Miriam Partington

Miriam Partington was a senior reporter at Sifted, based in Berlin. She covered the DACH region and the future of work, and wrote Startup Life , a weekly newsletter on what it takes to build a startup.

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