Workwise receives twelve million euros

After seven years of bootstrapping, the HR start-up is now attracting investors. LEA Partners and Armira Growth are among them.

The Karlsruhe-based recruiting start-up Workwise has raised twelve million euros in its Series A financing round. LEA Partners from Karlsruhe and Armira Growth from Munich are investing. Previously, the company, founded in 2015, was self-financed.

Martin Trenkle and Jannik Keller originally founded Workwise under the name Campusjäger. The founders provide a free applicant management system that can be used to digitize and accelerate recruiting processes. According to its own information, the company has almost 2,000 customers. Among them are mainly small and medium-sized companies. The job platform offered is used by more than 300,000 job seekers. So far, the start-up has 140 employees. With the new capital, Workwise wants to expand its staff and grow to 300 employees by next year.

"Now we want to take the next step in growth and are very happy to have such experienced partners at our side, who will help us financially and with know-how to reach a new level as a company and make Workwise the epitome of effective recruiting in the German-speaking job market," says CEO Trenkle.