Analysis

March 21, 2022

Europe's budding recruitment tech platforms, compared

Who is in the running? Which markets are they trying to win? And who’s got the most cash? We look into the growing number of recruitment tech platforms in Europe.


A flurry of recruitment tech startups — businesses that help prospective candidates find jobs online — have popped up in recent years, and are beginning to raise significant amounts of cash.

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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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