The Japan Times - HrFlow.ai Secures 7 Million Dollars (Pre-Series A) to Become the Global Standard for Artificial Intelligence (AI) Applied to HR Data

1. Fundraising and Objectives

HrFlow.ai, a pioneer in Artificial Intelligence applied to Human Resources data, announces its second fundraising round of $7M (pre-Series A) today.

This financing brings the company's total capital raised to $10 million. This new capital injection is designed to accelerate the company's core mission: building the Data & AI infrastructure of the labor market.

The round is led by 115K, La Banque Postale's venture capital fund, and EmergingTech Ventures (EmTech), alongside the company's existing investors including Xavier Niel (Free, Kima, Station F), Jean-Baptiste Rudelle (Criteo), Romain Niccoli (Pigment, Criteo), Franck Le Ouay (LIFEN, Criteo), Flavien Kulawik (KLB), Allen Penn (Uber), Dominique Vidal (Index Ventures), Thibaud Elzière (Hexa, Fotolia).

Building on rigorous execution and proven capital efficiency since its first funding round of $2.3M in 2018, HrFlow.ai now generates a margin of approximately 27%. While its cash generation guarantees full independence, the company is raising funds today as a strategic choice:

• Commercial: Dramatically accelerate its commercial expansion in the United States, where it has been present since 2022, and strengthen its position as a European champion, particularly in England, Germany, the Netherlands, and Italy.

• Product: Deploy the second generation of its AI platform to accelerate the AI transformation of the labor market.

2. The Company Vision

Principle 1: The labor market has exceeded the limits of human scale

HrFlow.ai is building safe Hiring SuperIntelligence to help reduce unemployment at global scale. Since 2016, HrFlow.ai has had a simple conviction: the labor market has outgrown human speed, human memory, and human coordination. There are too many people, too many jobs, too many cultures, too much fragmented data, and too many decisions happening too fast for human-only systems to keep up.

Principle 2: AI is the key fundamental force for the labor market

The bottleneck is no longer information. The bottleneck is human processing capacity. HrFlow.ai believes the only path forward is to place powerful, safe AI in the hands of recruiters, candidates, employers, and public institutions, not to replace human purpose, but to augment human decision-making at the scale the real world demands.

Principle 3: An "API-First" architecture is the only viable path for the entire HR ecosystem

The API-first choice is self-evident because such a capability must not be confined to a single company, a single product, or a single interface. Like critical infrastructure, it should be made available to the entire labor market and the HR ecosystem: public employment services, large employers, staffing agencies, recruiting firms, RPOs, PEOs, ATS providers, job boards, HCM platforms, and HRIS vendors. HrFlow.ai's mission is simple: build Hiring SuperIntelligence that helps the world reduce unemployment.

3. About the Company

HrFlow.ai is the Hiring SuperIntelligence: an AI algorithm and orchestration platform dedicated to human resources data. It is used by organizations with significant recruitment challenges (both quantitative and qualitative) and internal skills management needs, including:

• Staffing agencies (Crit, Samsic, Manpower, Staffmatch, Gojob),

• Recruiting firms and RPOs (Kelly Services, Fed Group, Uptoo),

• Job sites (Freework, freelance.com) and large employers (Sanofi, Safran, Enedis),

• ATS providers (Fountain, TeamTailor, Boondmanager, Tribepad),

• Governments and public services (Hauts-de-France Region, National Gendarmerie, French Army, Luxembourg, Mauritania).

Founded in 2016 by former researchers from École Normale Supérieure and École Polytechnique, the company surpassed the symbolic milestone of over 50 million candidate profiles and career paths processed in a single calendar year in 2025.

HrFlow.ai's offering is built on three complementary products :

• Data Studio: Unifies and orchestrates HR data through 200+ connectors (ATS, job boards, HRIS)

• AI Studio: Activates specialized and explainable AI algorithms to structure, normalize, and enrich candidate and job data to improve matching and profile prioritization

• App Studio: Enables the creation of AI agents and custom interfaces integrated into HR business tools

HrFlow.ai is powered by a dense and highly qualified team of 35 people, including 21 researchers and engineers. The team operates at the intersection of artificial intelligence, software infrastructure, product design, and labor market expertise.

The company brings together professionals trained at leading institutions (Stanford, ENS Ulm, École Polytechnique, Centrale Paris) and shaped by experience at global organizations such as Facebook, BCG, GoPro, CERN, Accenture, and Deloitte. This unique combination of research depth, engineering rigor, and operational experience enables HrFlow.ai to build AI systems for HR that are not only high-performing, but also reliable, explainable, and deployable at scale.

More information at: www.hrflow.ai

4. Statements from Investors and the CEO

"HrFlow.ai was born from a conviction: the labor market is now too complex to be managed effectively by human intelligence alone.

In the Global South, the core problem is access. Millions of people are denied access to work not because they lack ability, but because the road to opportunity has been closed, broken, or hidden from them. In developed economies, the problem is different: opportunity exists, but recruiters are overwhelmed by scale, speed, and complexity, and millions of opportunities are missed because human decision-making cannot keep pace. Two different realities. One shared conclusion: we need a new infrastructure for the labor market.

I came to understand the first reality growing up in Mauritania, a Sub-Saharan African country where unemployment exceeds 80% and 65% of the population is under 15. I came to understand the second while studying mathematics and AI in France at École Centrale Paris and École Normale Supérieure. That contrast clarified my mission.

I founded HrFlow.ai to build safe Hiring SuperIntelligence as infrastructure for the future of work: helping recruiters make better, faster decisions at scale, while expanding access to opportunity where it remains out of reach. Our mission is to help create, alongside the actors of the labor market, a job market that is more fluid, more fair, and better able to connect human potential with real economic opportunity."

Mouhidine Seiv, HrFlow.ai Founder & CEO

"At 115K, we are convinced of the key role HrFlow.ai plays in the transformation of human resources. Through state-of-the-art technology and an API-first approach, the platform enables the structuring and activation of HR data at scale, establishing itself as an essential building block of modern HR ecosystems."

Armelle de Tinguy, Managing Partner, 115K

"At EmTech, we are particularly proud to support founders from the diaspora who are building global technology leaders while creating value locally. HrFlow.ai is a powerful example of this."

Meriem Zairi Tlemçani, Managing Partner, EmTech VC

"HrFlow.ai is building a critical data and AI infrastructure for the HR ecosystem, transforming fragmented data into an actionable layer at scale. This positioning creates a strong structural advantage and reflects our conviction that the next major technology platforms will be shaped by hybrid dynamics between global excellence and regional anchoring."

Sidi Mohamed Zakraoui, Partner, EmTech VC

About 115K
115K, the VC fund of La Banque Postale, invests from Seed to Series B in French and European startups in the financial services space: FinTech, InsurTech, AI, Cybersecurity. With €150m in AUM, the fund acts as an active minority shareholder, supported by a long-term vision and evergreen positioning.

115K is a next-generation CVC combining Tier 1 VC expertise focused on financial performance with an hands-on approach, with the strength of a major group offering numerous commercial opportunities through its shareholder La Banque Postale, 12th largest European Bank, its subsidiaries (CNP Assurances, LBP AM...), and as part of La Poste group.

With 16 investments since 2022, 115K is one of the most active VC funds in the financial services industry.
More info at: www.115k.fr

About EmergingTech Ventures
EmTech is an asset management firm with over $60M in assets under management (AUM), investing at pre-Series A and Series A stages in deep tech and high-tech-intensity B2B startups, particularly in enterprise software and services, AI, data infrastructure, fintech, and climate tech.

The firm backs founders building differentiated and defensible technology assets with global ambition, especially at the intersection of emerging markets and diaspora dynamics. EmTech positions itself as an active minority shareholder, combining a hands-on approach with access to an international network of operators, talent, and strategic partners.
More information at: www.emtechvc.com

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SOURCE: HrFlow.ai

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K.Yoshida--JT