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THE GERMANY EDITION 2026

Germany’s
recruiting tech industry,
in focus.

The companies, capital and talent shaping recruiting tech in Germany. Find the leaders. Understand the segments. See where the activity is.

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COMPANIES · CAPITAL · TALENT

An industry ecosystem,
measured in context.

Recruiting Tech illustration
Companies tracked 454Recruiting Tech ecosystem in Germany Disclosed funding $467.46M32 companies · all recorded rounds Companies hiring 63With open roles at the snapshot Tracked open roles 2050 employers posted in the preceding 30 days
MEET THE COMPANIES

Explore Germany’s recruiting tech leaders

24 featured companies from the funding, hiring, revenue and team-size leaderboards.

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Recruiting Tech company highlights in Germany, snapshot 2 September 2026
Company
Atheneumatheneum.ai$173.89M—70—
HeyJobsheyjobs.co$59M—104Financial figure available in RadarView in Radar
PowerUspowerus.de$27.86M—106—
StepStonestepstone.com$22M—3,700—
WorkGeniusworkgenius.com$20.67M—8—
ExpertLeadexpertlead.com$19.24M—80—
jobvalleyjobvalley.com$17.32M—7,587Financial figure available in RadarView in Radar
COMATCHcomatch.com$14.37M—125—
Larson Maddoxlarsonmaddox.com—11 roles100—
engineering peopleep-group.de—10 roles——
DL Remotedl-remote.com—9 roles——
JOB AGjob-ag.com—9 roles242—
Perfect Jobsperfect-jobs.de—9 roles——
Teacherjobsteacherjobs.io—9 roles——
XINGxing.com—9 roles1,712Financial figure available in RadarView in Radar
vertical cloud solutionvc-solution.de—7 roles80—
ATOSSatoss.com——29—
AZUBIYOazubiyo.de——11—
Amadeus FiReamadeus-fire.de——4,022Financial figure available in RadarView in Radar
Clickworkerclickworker.com——24—
Clockinclockin.de——9—
Dialogdirectdialogdirect.de——142—
JobStairsjobstairs.de——14,868Financial figure available in RadarView in Radar
Jobs.czjobs.cz————
24 featured companies

Locked revenue figures are available in Radar; the eight company financial previews stay the same throughout this page. A dash means the figure is outside these featured lists. Revenue years vary by company; the figures are not a like-for-like revenue comparison. Compare annual accounts ↗

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THE KEY SIGNALS

Recruiting Tech industry KPIs in Germany

A few useful ratios bring the size of this ecosystem into perspective.

2 September 2026
Hiring participation13.9%

63 of 454 tracked companies have open roles.

Funding participation13.4%

61 of 454 tracked companies have a recorded round.

Top 3 funding share55.8%

Share of disclosed capital received by the three largest recorded recipients.

Median disclosed round$4.27M

Midpoint of 42 rounds with a disclosed amount.

Scale is concentrated. Opportunity is broader. The three largest funding recipients hold 55.8% of disclosed capital, while 86.6% of tracked companies have no recorded funding round.

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CAPITAL & COMPANY FORMATION

How Germany recruiting tech has grown

Recorded company formation and disclosed funding across the complete annual series shown.

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2016 — 2025

Disclosed funding by year

Sum of recorded funding rounds · USD

Germany recruiting tech
$0$51.33M$102.65M$153.98M$205.31M2016: $5.5M20162017: $25.63M20172018: $33.53M20182019: $22.21M20192020: $12.08M20202021: $180.1M20212022: $68.59M20222023: $27.78M20232024: $18.04M20242025: $14.9M2025
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Annual recruiting tech funding and company formation in Germany
YearFunding (USD)FoundedRaising
2016$5.5M242
2017$25.63M275
2018$33.53M325
2019$22.21M283
2020$12.08M353
2021$180.1M289
2022$68.59M235
2023$27.78M372
2024$18.04M193
2025$14.9M72
WHERE CAPITAL SITS

Funding concentration

Share of all disclosed company funding.

  • Atheneum37.2%
  • HeyJobs12.6%
  • PowerUs6.0%
  • Other companies44.2%

Funding by stage

79 recorded rounds since 2016

NUMBER OF ROUNDS
Seed & Angel43 54.4%
Series A–B25 31.6%
Series C+ / PE4 5.1%
Grants, debt & other7 8.9%

Recent recorded rounds

Latest recorded rounds · USD
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Largest and notable recorded rounds

Each card is one recorded round
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Series C08/2021
Atheneumatheneum.ai$151.04M

Backed by Guidepost Growth Equity and Vogel Communications Group and others.

THE BUSINESS BEHIND THE ACTIVITY

Revenue, profitability & financial strength

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Annual accounts availability

The measured Germany identity-to-filing probe did not produce a qualifying designated legal or national-ID join: designated German registry identities do not carry the LEI or ISIN used by bundesanzeiger facts; legal-name matching is prohibited.; The measured Germany identity-to-filing probe did not produce a qualifying designated legal or national-ID join: designated German registry identities do not carry the LEI or ISIN used by bundesanzeiger facts; legal-name matching is prohibited.

DIGITAL FOOTPRINT

Web traffic, app reach and release cadence

How the Germany companies on this page show up online: the sites people visit, the apps they install, and how often those apps ship.

Busiest websites

23 of the 454 companies on this page carry a measured traffic record (5.1%); these are the largest of those, by monthly visits. The median among them is 131,719 visits.

CompanyMonthly visitsAuthorityMobile
XINGxing.com8,150,8406852.3%
Clickworkerclickworker.com3,230,8215372%
MyHammermy-hammer.de1,132,8084967.6%
praktischArztpraktischarzt.de947,0876583.1%
AZUBIYOazubiyo.de858,0925555%
Instaffoinstaffo.com332,3803432.1%
Pflegiapflegia.de274,7983583.7%
Yourfirmyourfirm.de265,6223340.7%
Karriere-Suedwestfalenkarriere-suedwestfalen.de220,1703973.6%
Papershiftpapershift.com200,1974346%

Visits and authority are third-party web estimates, not company-reported figures.

Most-installed apps

53 of these companies (11.7%) publish at least one Android app — 70 apps in all, carrying 21M installs between them.

AppInstallsRatingStore category
clickworkerClickworker7.1M4.3Business
Stepstone Job AppStepStone5.8M4.1Business
XING – the right job for youXING4.2M4.1Business
MyHammerMyHammer641.5K—House & Home
truffls – Swipe Your JobTruffls428.7K4.1Business
ATOSS Staff CenterATOSS268.5K—Productivity
e2n persoE2N226.4K—Business
Earnings PlannerDavFla206K—Productivity
MyHammer für HandwerkerMyHammer171.5K—Business
jobvalley - student jobsjobvalley156.3K3.7Business

Installs are lifetime totals to date at the June 2026 store reading — a measure of reach, not of people using an app today.

App reach by segment

The busiest app inside each of this page’s own segments, with the quarterly release trend behind it (2023Q4–2026Q2).

SegmentAppsInstallsLeading appRelease trend
Hrtech7021Mclickworker 7.1M
Local Services2813KMyHammer 641.5K
Gig Employer It4494.1KATOSS Staff Center 268.5K
Field Force Automation7428.5KATOSS Workforce Management 88.1K
Enterprise Collaboration377.1KTIMIFY Mobile 73.6K

A company can carry several segment tags, so these rows overlap and should not be added together. Trend lines are zero-based and share one quarter grid, so a flat line is a quiet segment, not a missing one.

Release cadence by quarter

New apps published, beside apps whose most recent update landed in that quarter — the second bar is how much of the shelf is still being maintained.

2023Q1: 12023Q1: 02023Q12023Q2: 42023Q2: 02023Q22023Q3: 22023Q3: 12023Q32023Q4: 12023Q4: 02023Q42024Q1: 12024Q1: 12024Q12024Q2: 22024Q2: 22024Q22024Q3: 12024Q3: 22024Q32024Q4: 12024Q4: 02024Q42025Q1: 42025Q1: 12025Q12025Q3: 12025Q3: 92025Q32025Q4: 22025Q4: 92025Q42026Q1: 22026Q1: 72026Q1

Darker bars are new releases, lighter bars apps updated. 53 of 70 apps carry a release date. The series ends at 2026Q1, the last quarter that closed before the June 2026 reading.

INSIDE THE INDUSTRY

The Germany recruiting tech market map

Explore the segments behind the headline numbers.

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Where companies are building

Rank segments by scale, hiring or disclosed funding.

Enterprise tech432
B2c e-commerce360
Consumer digital316
Future of work124
Hr saas107
Saas107
Enterprise software92
Marketplaces90
Sharing economy64
Deskless workforce64
Film casting platforms11
Field workforce management9

Companies can sit in several segments. Counts and funding overlap.

SEGMENT TO EXPLORE

Enterprise tech

The largest measured segment in this report snapshot.

432companies
14.1%have hiring activity

61 companies hiring · $454.68M disclosed funding

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How companies make money

Common revenue models; a company can use more than one.

Subscription375
Commission on transaction206
Advertising196
E-commerce - service79
Fee-for-service49
Freemium24
Affiliate marketing7
Sponsorship5
THE COMPANIES IN MOTION

Who is listing, hiring leaders, launching and winning work

Recorded corporate activity linked to companies in this landscape.

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Recent corporate headlines 6 dated reports
Mergers & acquisitionspowerus.de ↗

Aureus Greenway, a golf club company backed by the sons of U.S. President Donald Trump, said on Monday it would merge with Powerus in a deal designed to take the drone technology company public.

Mergers & acquisitionsamadeus-fire.de ↗

The Amadeus Fire Group acquires 70 percent of the shares in eduBITES GmbH.

Mergers & acquisitionsstepstone.com ↗

US manager StepStone is in advanced discussions for the acquisition of 90% of the Spanish group of nursing homes Vitalia Home from CVC funds, which controls 80% of the group's shares, and Portobello Capital, which has another 10% in the company, according to several market sources consulted by EXPANSION.

Mergers & acquisitionsclickworker.com ↗

AI training data provider LXT has announced that it will acquire clickworker, a German platform that manages millions of freelancers working with data for AI.

Funding roundsatoss.com ↗

ATOSS Software SE's major shareholders, AOB Invest GmbH and General Atlantic Chronos GmbH, plan a private placement of shares totaling approximately €130 million.

Lawsuitemployee.to ↗

Al Ain court orders firm to pay Dh344,338 after firing employee over commission.

Full recorded event mix

Top 9 categories among 60 recorded events in the 24-month window.

Earnings
35
Mergers & acquisitions
9
Leadership moves
8
Lawsuit
2
Company announcements
2
Capital infusions
1
Funding rounds
1
New products
1
Asset acquisitions
1
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Leadership moves

2 tracked people moves

StepStone ↗
Christian Lindner

Appointment Shareholder Board Member

ATOSS ↗
Joachim Schreiner

Appointment Chief Revenue Officer

Litigation

1 tracked suits

Company
Employee, authorised representative of employees of Vadraj C v Nuvoco Vistas Corporation

bid approval appealCivil · Dismissed

Earnings pulse

Reported company results in the recorded window.

2companies
33period observations
-1.2%median reported growth

Median across 29 reported growth observations; companies may contribute multiple periods.

Mergers and acquisitions

Company-linked deal reports; status is preserved as recorded.

Acquirer → targetStatusDateValue / context
Aureus Greenway→PowerUs ↗Announced2026-03-10Not stated in snapshot
Na→PowerUs ↗Announced2026-03-09Not stated in snapshot
Amadeus FiRe→edubitesAnnounced2025-11-13Not stated in snapshot
Amadeus FiRe→masterplanAnnounced2025-10-01Not stated in snapshot
StepStone→vitalia homeRumored2025-05-01Not stated in snapshot
lxt→Clickworker ↗Announced2024-12-17Not stated in snapshot

A discussion or rumour is not a completed transaction. An unstated value is not zero.

PEOPLE & OPPORTUNITY

The talent market

2,433 postings in the preceding 12 months. The full 7,436-posting snapshot covers 55 employers.

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Most advertised job titles

Fachkraft Für Lagerlogistik (M/W/D)59
Account Executive (W/M/D)58
Elektroniker (M/W/D)50
Staplerfahrer (M/W/D)38
Machine Learning Engineer36
Senior Account Executive (W/M/D)35
0 internship postings

13 tracked postings mention remote work.

The seniority mix

1,278 postings specify a level.

unspecified
6,158
manager
675
senior
304
lead
181
entry
88
intern
30

Skills employers mention

Top skills across 7,436 tracked postings in the available jobs snapshot.

Gdpr
2
Reviewing
2
Commercial Law
2
Contract Drafting
2
Mlops
1
Data Science
1
Performance Marketing
1
Data Product Management
1
ADVERTISED PAY$41.5K/ year

Median across 64 postings with pay data, expressed in USD.

THE PEOPLE BUILDING THE FIELD

Founders and leaders

296 founders and chief executives across 193 companies.

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Education networks

14 profiles with education records.

London School of Economics and Political Science
2
Frankfurt School of Finance & Management
2
MIT Sloan School of Management
1
INSEAD
1
HEC Paris
1
BITS Pilani
1
Lund University
1
Technische Universität Berlin
1

Prior employers

4 profiles with prior-work records.

McKinsey
2
Google
1
Boston Consulting Group
1

Profiles cover recorded founders and leaders; contact details remain in Radar.

GEOGRAPHIC FOOTPRINT

Where companies are based

Company counts, hiring and disclosed funding across the recorded hubs.

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UNDERSTAND THE LANDSCAPE

Recruiting Tech in Germany: key questions

Clear definitions for making better comparisons.

What does this landscape measure?

It measures the tracked company ecosystem, recorded funding, hiring and other available evidence. It is not a market-size estimate.

Can segment counts be added together?

No. A company can belong to several segments, so segment counts and funding can overlap.

What does a missing figure mean?

A dash or unavailable panel means the current reviewed source snapshot does not support that figure.

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Put Germany in context

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Company ecosystem snapshot: 2 September 2026. Funding is recorded in USD; filed accounts retain their stated currency and reporting basis. Each section identifies its own coverage. The news and research behind these sections is explorable in Prism.

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