Rotterdam-based Equalture, an HRtech startup has secured €2.5M in funding led by serial entrepreneur Pieter Schoen’s Shoe Investments.
Existing investors 4impact and InnovationQuarter Capital, and two angels, also participated in the round.
The Dutch company says it will use the funds to develop its neuroscientific games and platform, reports mtsprout.nl.
The announcement comes around a year after raising €2.75M in February 2022.
“We raised this funding purely and solely to increase our impact,” says Charlotte Melkert, co-founder of Equalture.
Twin sisters Charlotte and Fleur Melkert got their Eureka moment for Equalture after witnessing a series of biases in the hiring process.
According to the founders, potential employers unfairly judge candidates based on their resume and appearance rather than their personality, passions, and talents.
Equalture is on a mission to provide all candidates with an equal opportunity to get hired by getting to know them beyond what’s written on their CVs.
The Dutch platform does this by building a library of scientifically-validated gamified assessments, which enables companies to get to know both their teams’ and their candidates’ cognitive skills, cultural preferences, and behaviors.
Candidates are asked to complete these gamified assessments, which take around 15 minutes to complete, at the start of the hiring process, which ensures a first impression based on science instead of gut.
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