The investment round was led by 24Haymarket with participation from angel investors and Innovate UK.
"We’re delighted to announce Lori as the new Chair of our Board. The wealth of her strategic experience in the digital space coupled with her sales expertise and commitment to diversity and inclusion, will support myGwork’s ambitious international growth targets,"
The financing includes a £300k equity investment from the Enterprise M3 Growth Fund alongside private backers.
"MyPeople enables recruiters and talent acquisition managers to move away from a binary choice of 'suitable or unsuitable' candidates by providing them with the tools for more meaningful metrics to assess which candidates to put forward. The sector's current focus is on whether a candidate currently has the skills required, usually shown via a CV with little thought given to how a candidate will perform in the environment in which they will work; their new team! We are honoured to help people find jobs that provide them with meaning and purpose. Thank you to Paul and everyone at The FSE Group for understanding our ethos and supporting us through this funding round."
The London human resources platform raised the capital from backers including Episode 1 Ventures and Village Global.
"Until now, companies needed to piece together a number of different tools in order to run even basic people operations, due to the limited scope of the existing tools available. This made it difficult for companies to take a holistic approach, not to mention facilitate automation and self-service options,"