Hyrd receives €1.1 million in seed funding round

The Frankfurt-based start-up connects young professionals with companies. With its career network, Hyrd also convinced the state of Hesse.

The recruiting start-up Hyrd has raised 1.1 million euros. The Beteiligungs-Managementgesellschaft Hessen and several business angels participated in the seed financing round. Among them are Creditshelf co-founder Christoph Maichel and HR tech investor Andreas Burike.

Dennis Pfaff and Benjamin Weller founded Hyrd in 2019. The startup is based in the TechQuartier in Frankfurt. With the new funding, Hyrd aims to grow and further develop its eponymous platform. On the career network, students, young professionals and young professionals can network with each other and with companies. The startup wants to help them save time in their search for suitable jobs and quickly receive feedback on their applications.

With the help of an AI, companies should be able to find and recruit suitable applicants on the portal. "Hiring and recruiting processes are still clearly separate individual events in many companies. Instead, we see recruiting as a permanent process in which we help employers with hyrd to continuously build up a pool of suitable candidates," says Hyrd co-founder Benjamin Weller.