SplendUp raises €500k to turn cold candidate pools into placements 🎉

In the hyper-competitive world of recruiting, a well-maintained candidate pool isn't just a competitive advantage - it's a necessity. SplendUp has just secured €500k in funding to address this critical need.

Our focus? To empower recruiters to unlock their candidate pool value, transforming their cold database into placements. While the industry has been obsessing over sourcing, nurturing existing candidate relationships has often been overlooked - until now. SplendUp is here to change that.

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💡 Why SplendUp?

Recruiters today face a significant new challenge: cutting through the noise of automated AI outreach to connect with candidates (yes, developers do receive 15+ weekly inmails!) Relying solely on endless sourcing is a recipe for burnout - impacting your reputation, margins, and team motivation.

Even when great candidates are met, they often vanish into the void of cold databases. That's many potential placements missed - and a lot of $$$ left on the table. Keeping talent pools engaged, data fresh, and knowing when and where to redeploy candidates feels like mission impossible.

That’s where SplendUp comes in. We empower recruiters to build, nurture, and activate talent pools at scale, while keeping that human touch (community approach 👌)

Rather than starting from scratch, Recruiting Firms can redeploy and showcase candidates within their network to upsell existing clients and attract new ones. With SplendUp, they reduce sourcing time and make faster, more strategic placements. The perfect solution for niche recruiters looking to stand out and monetize their distinct candidate pool.

Corporate Talent Acquisition Teams can also use SplendUp to hit their hiring and DE&I goals, leveraging more cost-effective and reliable talent sources like silver medalists, referrals, and past applicants. They'll never miss a great candidate again.

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🛣️ Our Journey So Far

SplendUp was founded by Laurie Guillodo and Eugénie Néau Chaltiel, bringing deep expertise in recruitment and tech to solve one of the industry's biggest challenges: nurturing relationships rather than relying on transactional CV submissions. In just over a year, we’ve validated the market opportunity, securing paying customers in the USA, UK, and across Europe.

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🎯 What's Next for SplendUp

This €500k funding round was led by a group of business angels bringing invaluable expertise in recruitment and entrepreneurship. We’re proud to have the support of stellar investors including: Axel & Hugo Manoukian, founders of MoovOne (HRTech); Guillaume Moubeche, CEO of Lempire; Clément Galopin, founder of Octolis (Customer Data); Eliott Reilhac, a repeat founder, now CEO of Formality; and Domino RH, a leading French HR & recruitment group.

We’re also backed by US recruitment experts like Donald Knight (SVP of People & Culture at Warner Bros), and JT Haskell (Director of TA at Reddit) and Josh McAfee (founder of multiple recruiting firms, including Humans Doing).

With this new funding, we’ll be laser-focused on hitting product-market fit and growing towards €1M ARR. Our immediate priority?  First, growing our team! We’ve hired our Founding Engineer and will soon open roles in Sales and Customer Success. We’ll also ramp up our go-to-market efforts and evolve our platform into an AI-powered, data-driven recruitment solution.

🔮 Looking ahead

We're working towards more efficient, human-centric recruitment. We’re enabling a world where every great candidate finds their perfect role, and every recruiter unlocks the full potential of their talent pool through genuine relationships. We’re just getting started here!

P.S. If you're a recruiter tired of sourcing but not placing candidates over and over (we feel your pain), let's talk. 😉