【美国】SmartRecruiters完成1.1亿美元E轮融资，估值15亿美元，晋级独角兽【旧金山】招聘科技公司SmartRecruiters近期宣布完成了1.1亿美元的E轮融资，由银湖水务牵头，现有投资者Insight Partners和Mayfield Fund参与。新的资本使该公司的融资总额达到2.05亿美元，估值为15亿美元，以向全球企业提供Hiring Success。
"随着就业市场变得更加多变和动态，公司在获取最佳人才时需要竞争优势，"SmartRecruiters公司首席执行官兼创始人Jerome Ternynck说。"企业的成功从来没有像现在这样依赖于招聘的成功。当你拥有正确的招聘平台和正确的人才时，你就能实现商业成功"。
本轮融资是在SmartRecruiters的强劲势头下进行的。在过去的12个月里，该公司增加了200多个企业客户，收入增长了50%，预订量增长了70%--在全球大流行的情况下。SmartRecruiters还被IDC认定为企业人才招聘领域的差异化领导者，被Fosway认定为高性能、高潜力的类别领导者；分析师一直将SmartRecruiters列为战略和能力方面的领导者。
随着公司在招聘流程自动化、入职培训、对话式智能、招聘营销和实现招聘成功等领域的不断创新，这笔资金将用于加速产品开发，增加200名工程师。SmartRecruiters还将继续扩大在美国、欧洲、中东和非洲以及亚太地区的市场推广工作，并将为其不断增长的客户群体和合作伙伴生态系统提供实地支持。
"银湖水务董事总经理兼集团负责人Shawn O'Neill说："招聘人才和建设人力资本比以往任何时候都更加复杂和重要，SmartRecruiters已经做好准备，帮助企业吸引和引进顶尖人才。"他们的规模和客户增长证明了他们强大的领导力和行业领先的平台。我们很高兴为SmartRecruiters的下一个增长篇章提供帮助。"
SmartRecruiters已经帮助一些世界上最知名的企业，包括Visa、Square、麦当劳、育碧、FireEye、Biogen、Equinox、Public Storage等。该公司的招聘成功框架已被全球数百家大型企业和高增长初创企业采用，作为改进招聘流程和改善招聘结果的基础。SmartRecruiters还为客户提供持续的快乐，CSAT为9.1，净留存率超过95%，在产品支持和客户满意度方面明显优于其他企业SaaS供应商。
SmartRecruiters认为，你就是你所雇用的人。公司各部门都在招聘，以推动下一阶段的快速增长。
一起阅读下其CEO Jerome Ternynck的公开信，谈及这次融资：
当我创立SmartRecruiters时，我的愿景很简单：通过使招聘更容易，大规模地将人们与工作联系起来。招聘是一个分散的、不透明的过程，它被过时的技术所破坏，使候选人和招聘经理感到失望。但它不一定是这样。
我想象着这样一个世界：寻找优秀的候选人很容易，人们很容易表现出对工作的兴趣，招聘团队很容易合作，而供应商只需点击一下就可以了。然后，我们开发了SmartRecruiters。
而在这个过程中，我们建立的不仅仅是招聘软件。我们建立了一个全新的功能，并创造了一个新的类别，不是基于招聘一直以来的工作，而是通过重新思考招聘可以是什么。
在1100万左右的招聘之后，我们已经证明Hiring Success是有效的，而且我们已经帮助重新定义了人才招聘的功能，从一个成本中心变成了全世界成千上万的雇主的利润驱动。
当然，他们的成功就是我们的成功。这就是为什么今天我们宣布了E轮融资的结果，由银湖沃特曼领投，现有投资者Insight Partners和Mayfield Fund参与，筹集了1.1亿美元。
在这些合作伙伴的支持下，我们能够继续并大大加快我们在北美、欧洲、亚太和其他地区的增长。我们正在加速对人才技术市场的颠覆，德勤预测该市场的全球支出为1400亿美元，这一数字在未来几个月和几年内只会继续增长。
当我们开始的时候，我从来没有想到这个公司的价值会达到15亿美元，而且会达到独角兽的地位。这是我非常自豪的事情，但我更自豪的是我们在帮助我们的客户和我们的候选人实现招聘成功方面所做的工作。我很高兴看到我们这么多人辛辛苦苦打造的产品得到了真正的市场验证。
但我更兴奋的是，在全球大流行病期间经历了许多个月的不确定性之后，我们能够继续发展我们的业务，扩大我们对客户和候选人的价值。我们不仅拒绝裁员，而且去年的业绩是我们所见过的最好的，在COVID危机期间，我们的收入和客户群几乎翻了一番。
这场大流行永远地改变了人才招聘的工作方式--全球的雇主和工人极大地改变了他们对工作意义的期望，以及什么是有意义的工作。
因此，超过800个世界上最知名的品牌和最大的雇主已经转向SmartRecruiters，为他们提供正确的工具以适应新常态，今天，成功招聘比以往任何时候都更重要。
随着今天的宣布，SmartRecruiters拥有资本，加上我们现有的技术和成熟的专业知识，可以帮助公司在一个前所未有的规模上实现招聘成功。
最重要的是，我们将坚持我们的使命，帮助世界重新开始工作。招聘的成功始于通过高效的流程在每个阶段吸引人们，重点是将候选人与他们想要的工作联系起来，同时为雇主提供他们需要的人才。
是什么阻碍了公司实现这一目标？成功招聘需要改变。如果说过去一年我们都学到了一件事，那就是变化是唯一不变的。
通过这轮最新的融资，我们在帮助推动这种变化方面处于独特的地位。对我来说，这就是我们首次推出SmartRecruiters时的愿景的实现--为每家公司提供他们所需的工具，以尽可能高效和有效地吸引和雇用最高质量的候选人，并为每个候选人提供他们喜欢的工作。
我们相信 "成功招聘"，因为我们知道这对我们来说有多么重要。当你大规模地将人们与工作联系起来并使招聘变得更容易时，对每个人来说都是好事。这就是为什么我们致力于帮助企业实现招聘成功的结果--因为最终，你就是你所雇用的人，而你所雇用的人就是你获胜的方式。
在过去的一年里，我们和几乎所有的公司一样，都面临着挑战，要在一个前所未有的变化和不确定性的世界中航行。虽然这并不容易，但我们也有机会重新定义我们想如何发展SmartRecruiters，我们可以为我们的客户释放价值，我们对人才招聘技术的未来有什么设想，以及我们需要为我们的业务带来什么来实现这些目标。
在逆境中，我们不仅生存下来，而且茁壮成长--通过坚持SmartRecruiters赖以建立的愿景和价值观，实现了今天的里程碑。感谢我的Smartians同事，感谢我们的客户、合作伙伴、投资者、候选人和其他所有在我们的旅程中帮助支持和合作的人。
我们每一个人都是帮助世界恢复工作的利益相关者，虽然我们在转变我们的使命方面已经走过了很长的路，但我们还是要感谢你们。
关于SmartRecruiters
作为企业招聘软件的全球领导者，SmartRecruiters提供基于云的全球人才招聘套件，使团队能够吸引、选择和雇用最好的人才。全球4000家公司依靠SmartRecruiters实现了招聘的成功--包括博世、LinkedIn、Skechers和Visa等品牌--利用招聘营销、CRM、AI、ATS和一个由600多家连接供应商组成的市场，所有这些都在一个可扩展的平台内。
SmartRecruiters忠实于其大规模连接人们与工作的使命，被福布斯评为2020年最佳雇主之一。
附录CEO的英文公开信：
When I founded SmartRecruiters, the vision was simple: connect people to jobs at scale by making hiring easier. Hiring is a fragmented, opaque process undermined by outdated technology that turns off candidates and hiring managers. But it doesn’t have to be.
I imagined a world where finding great candidates is easy, it’s easy for people to show interest in jobs, it’s easy for hiring teams to collaborate, and vendors are just a click away. And then we developed SmartRecruiters.
And in the process, we built more than just recruiting software. We built a completely new function, and created a new category based not on what recruiting had always done, but instead by rethinking what recruiting could be.
11 million or so hires later, we’ve proven that Hiring Success works, and that we’ve helped redefine the talent acquisition function from a cost center into a profit driver for thousands of employers all around the world.
Their success, of course, is our success. Which is why today, we announced the results of our Series E funding round, raising $110 million dollars led by Silver Lake Waterman, with existing investors Insight Partners and the Mayfield Fund participating.
With the support of these partners, we are able to continue, and greatly accelerate, our growth in North America, Europe, APAC and beyond. We are accelerating our disruption of the talent technology market that Deloitte forecasts as representing $140 billion in global spending, a number that’s only expected to continue to grow in the months and years ahead.
When we started, I never imagined this company would be worth $1.5 billion and that it would reach unicorn status. It’s something I’m extremely proud of, but I’m even more proud of the work we’ve done in helping our customers, and our candidates, achieve Hiring Success. I’m thrilled to see true market validation of the product so many of us worked so hard to build.
But I’m even more excited that, after many months of uncertainty during a global pandemic, we were able to continue growing our business, extending our value to both customers and candidates alike. Not only did we refuse to lay off any employees, our results last year were the best we’ve seen yet, with our revenues and customer base nearly doubling during the COVID crisis.
The pandemic changed how talent acquisition works forever – employers and workers across the globe dramatically shifted their expectations around what work means, and what makes work meaningful.
As a result, over 800 of the world’s best known brands and biggest employers have turned to SmartRecruiters to equip them with the right tools to adapt to the new normal, and today, Hiring Success is more important than ever.
And with today’s announcement, SmartRecruiters has the capital, along with our existing technology and proven expertise, to help companies achieve Hiring Success on a scale that’s never been done before.
Most importantly, we’re staying true to our mission and helping the world get back to work. Hiring Success starts with engaging people at every stage through an efficient process focused on connecting candidates with jobs they want while giving employers the talent they need.
What is blocking a company from getting there? Hiring Success demands change. And if there’s one thing we’ve all learned over the past year, it’s that change is the only constant.
With this latest funding round, we are uniquely positioned to help drive that change. And this, to me, is the realization of the vision we had when we first launched SmartRecruiters – to give every company the tools they need to attract and hire the highest quality candidates as efficiently and effectively as possible, and to give every candidate a job they love.
We believe in Hiring Success because we know how much is riding on getting this right. When you connect people to jobs at scale and make hiring easier, good things happen for everyone involved. That’s why we’re committed to helping companies achieve Hiring Success outcomes – because ultimately, you are who you hire, and who you hire is how you win.
Over the past year, we, like nearly every company, were challenged to navigate a world of unprecedented change and uncertainty. Though it wasn’t always easy, we were also given the opportunity to redefine how we wanted to grow SmartRecruiters, the value we could unlock for our customers, what we envisioned for the future of talent acquisition technology, and what we needed to bring to our business to accomplish these goals.
In the face of adversity, we not only survived, but thrived – and achieved today’s milestone by staying true to the vision and values on which SmartRecruiters was built. Thank you to my fellow Smartians, our customers, partners, investors, candidates and everyone else who’s helped support and collaborate with us on our journey.
Every one of us are stakeholders in helping get the world back to work, and while we’ve come a long way in transforming our mission and vision into a reality, today’s announcement is really just the beginning.
Now, the real work begins. And I couldn’t be more excited.
来自：https://www.smartrecruiters.com/blog/series-e-funding/
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