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September 7, 2023

Personio’s startup factory: meet 7 alumni turned founders

Meet the former Personio employees who now head up their own startups

Founded in 2015 by a young entrepreneur who had never had a real job before, Personio is one star of Germany’s HR tech scene. The scaleup employs over 1,800 people across seven offices in Europe and was last valued by investors at $8.5bn.

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A headshot collage of 7 former Personio employees who've set up their own companies.
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Elena Segura Sordo, former product owner at Personio
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Miriam Partington

Miriam Partington is a senior reporter at Sifted, based in Berlin. She covers the DACH region and the future of work, and writes Startup Life , a weekly newsletter on what it takes to build a startup. Follow her on X and LinkedIn

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