Top HRTech Startup News | September 11 - September 18, 2024
Gloat rebranded its Skills Foundation to Gloat Skills Foundation and updated its description to emphasize skills and work orchestration and infrastructure...
Using RivalSense, we have discovered last week's most important developments and news on companies like Eightfold, HiBob, Effy AI, Beamery, Phenom People, Gloat, TalentGuard, Legion, 15Five, and other trending HRTech companies.
Brought to you by RivalSense - an AI tool for monitoring any company.
RivalSense tracks the most important product launches, fundraising news, partnerships, hiring activities, pricing changes, tech news, vendors, corporate filings, media mentions, and other developments of companies you're following 💡
🚀 New Product Offerings
- Gloat rebranded its Skills Foundation to Gloat Skills Foundation and updated its description to emphasize skills and work orchestration and infrastructure.
- Eightfold has introduced 'The Global Workforce Intelligence Project' and updated its focus to 'A new look at talent intelligence'.
- TalentGuard now emphasizes accelerating the transition to a skills-based organization using AI and has updated its offerings to include job and career architecture, skill inventories, competency models, and certification tracking.
- TalentGuard now offers a free trial of WorkforceGPT Copilot, which builds a custom skills taxonomy and job ontology using AI.
- HiBob announced a new global integration with NetSuite to automate processes like payroll, onboarding, and compliance.
- HiBob is launching a new hiring platform to transform recruitment management, announced by Global Talent Sourcer Maya Alfie.
- HR Signal will unveil a new product at Ohio VC Fest on September 17-18, 2024.
- 15Five has rebranded to position itself as a holistic solution for modern workplaces.
- ClearCompany will launch new in-house AI capabilities at the Talent Success Conference on October 2nd.
- Phenom introduces Interview Intelligence to improve collaboration, run better interviews, and make faster hiring decisions.
🤝🏻 New Partnerships and Vendors
- Deloitte US announced a collaboration with Eightfold to enhance employee experience using Eightfold's platform.
- Phenom partnered with SAP SuccessFactors ANZ to enhance talent experiences using AI at SAP HRConnect in Sydney last week.
- Eightfold partnered with The Josh Bersin Company to launch the HR Career Navigator.
- Talkpush has increased the candidate experience satisfaction score to 93% and reduced the application abandonment rate by 5% for McDonald's Filipinas.
- Talkpush increased Walmart's recruitment efficiency by 28% and reduced the time to hire from 14 to 7 days.
- Chris Morton introduced ClearCompany to a municipal client, helping them improve recruiting with ADP integration.
- ChapmanCG uses Gloat to provide a Talent Marketplace for accessing new projects and learning opportunities.
- Phenom's technology supports Merck Group's Strategic Workforce Planning approach to SmartManufacturing, as discussed by Marco Höpfl at Gartner’s ReimagineHR conference.
- Phenom's AI-powered platform helped the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society reduce their time-to-accept from 80 to 50 days and capture 350+ candidate leads in six months.
- Johnson & Johnson uses Beamery TRM system to drive their talent attraction strategy and build talent pipelines.
- Talkpush helped Afni, Inc. cut candidate fallout by 50% and achieve one-day hiring.
- Vodafone decreased their cost to hire by 50% using Eightfold's Talent Intelligence Platform.
- The Dufresne Group uses ClearCompany as part of its technology stack to enhance customer interactions and streamline operations.
💡 Other Notable News
- Eightfold appointed Chano Fernandez as Co-CEO.
- HiBob CEO Ronni Zehavi says Pento acquisition is a significant payroll services expansion.
- Xavier Langlois, Chief Legal Officer and Chief Talent Officer, announced his departure from Beamery, with Nicolette Nowak promoted to General Counsel, Debbie Doyle to VP People, and Vidya Bhavana to CISO.
- ClearCompany is hiring international project managers for energy projects in Brisbane with a salary package of $180k to $200k and a $25,000 car allowance.
- Phil Rodriguez has joined Eightfold as Enterprise Regional Vice President - Central Territory, previously serving as RVP Enterprise Account Management at iCIMS in the United States.
- Chris Browne has joined HiBob as Senior Director, Sales Engineering in the United States, previously serving as Senior Director of Solutions at Lattice.
- Callum Craig has left HiBob as a Senior Account Executive in the United Kingdom to join Thrive as the Director of Enterprise Sales.
- HiBob is hosting a dinner event with StartupExperts on September 18 at Hive & Honey in Irvine.
- Phenom presented a session on 'Blueprint for Future-Proof Workforce Planning' with Merck Group at Gartner ReimagineHR UK, emphasizing the importance of prioritizing skills in talent strategies.
- Gloat is hosting Gloat on Location London on September 17-18, and the event is sold out.
- Phil Rodriguez has joined Eightfold as an Enterprise Regional Vice President for the Central Territory.
- Phenom India hosted the Global Leadership Summit in Hyderabad, focusing on AI's impact on HR tech.
- HR Signal is showcasing their real-time predictive AI at their booth in the Demo Hall to help companies retain top talent, energize career development, and strengthen talent growth strategies.
- HR Signal is live at JumpStart Inc.'s Ohio VC Fest on September 17-18 at Huntington Convention Center, Cleveland.
- Kelly Lichtenberger, Vice President of Sales Development at HiBob, is advancing women in the sales industry and changing the conversation around emotional intelligence.
- September 17: Ashutosh Garg, Co-Founder of Eightfold, will speak at the SaaS From Scratch session hosted by Vani Kola, Managing Director of Kalaari Capital.
- HiBob will host a live session with Sarah Collins and a breakfast roundtable featuring Justin Siu at the HR + L&D Innovation & Tech Fest on September 17-18.
- HiBob sponsored the Corporate Talent Professional of the Year Award at the Internal Talent Award Gala, presented by Customer Success Manager Sabrina A. Scherm.
- Beamery will be a Gold sponsor at Workday Rising in Las Vegas next week, featuring sessions with Tom Shurrock, Product Director at Beamery, and Michael Rizzi, Senior Manager, Recruitment Marketing at DraftKings Inc.
- Jeff Schwartz, VP of Insights and Impact at Gloat, will join a webinar on October 8 to discuss building and optimizing enterprise talent marketplaces.
- Leigh Elena Henderson, Founder and CEO of HRManifesto, will speak at ClearCompany's TSC24 event on September 3-4.
- Vishal Wadher has started a new position as VP, Solution Readiness & Success at Eightfold.
- Gloat will host 'Gloat on Location' in London with skills strategy experts Marcus Downing, Laurie Padua, and Claire Tunley on September 13.
- Michael Rizzi will speak about using Beamery AI to enhance talent experiences at WDAYRising in Las Vegas next week.
- Legion Technologies was recognized as a Sample Vendor in the Gartner Hype Cycle for HR Technology and Workforce Transformation 2024.
What did you think of today's newsletter?
If you liked this report, consider following your competitors, key accounts, target accounts, or investors. Receive weekly insights directly to your inbox using RivalSense.