# Employment Hero funding: rounds and investors

> Employment Hero has raised $75M across 3 rounds since 2015. Investors include Airtree Ventures, Seek and Insight Partners. Every round with its source.

Source: https://millionrounds.com/company/employment-hero (Millionrounds; every figure on the page links to its filing or article)

Australia · [Funded startup](https://millionrounds.com/companies)

# Who invested in *Employment Hero*

3 rounds we have observed, with the 6 investors named in them. Every figure came from a named source, and where the company reported a raise to the SEC itself, that is shown beside it.

HR Tech

Valuation: $1.4B, Mar 2026

Funding summary Updated 26 Oct 2026

**$75M** raised across 3 rounds since 2015, from 3 sources

**$15M** Series C **$60M** Secondary

- **Latest round:** Secondary, $60M Feb 2025
- **Step-up i:** 4×
- **Investors:** 6 (1 led)

See who backed them

## The funding story

Each circle is a round, placed by date and sized by amount. The line above is the running total.

2015 2017 2019 2021 2023 2025

**?** Debt

**$15M** Series C

**$60M** Secondary

- **First round:** Debt
- **Biggest round:** $60M
- **Usual gap between rounds:** 5.6 years

## The rounds

- **Feb 2025** Secondary **$60M** *3 new* *1 returning* [Insight Partners](https://millionrounds.com/fund/insight-venture-partners) [Salesforce Ventures](https://millionrounds.com/fund/salesforce-ventures) [TCV](https://millionrounds.com/fund/tcv) [Airtree Ventures](https://millionrounds.com/fund/airtree) Source recorded
- **Jul 2019** Series C **$15M** *3 new* [Seek](https://millionrounds.com/fund/seek) Lead [Airtree Ventures](https://millionrounds.com/fund/airtree) [OneVentures](https://millionrounds.com/fund/oneventures) Reported by Tech in Asia
- **Jan 2015** Debt **Amount undisclosed** No investor was named in the report. From a historical funding record

## Who was in which round

The busiest backers across the latest rounds. A filled square is a round they joined; a dark one, a round they led.

**Debt** 2015 **Series C** 2019 **Secondary** 2025 [Airtree Ventures](https://millionrounds.com/fund/airtree) [Seek](https://millionrounds.com/fund/seek) L [Insight Partners](https://millionrounds.com/fund/insight-venture-partners) [Salesforce Ventures](https://millionrounds.com/fund/salesforce-ventures) [TCV](https://millionrounds.com/fund/tcv) [OneVentures](https://millionrounds.com/fund/oneventures)

## Everyone who backed them

[Airtree Ventures](https://millionrounds.com/fund/airtree) VC firm **2** rounds

[Seek](https://millionrounds.com/fund/seek) VC firm **1** round, led 1

[Insight Partners](https://millionrounds.com/fund/insight-venture-partners) VC firm **1** round

[Salesforce Ventures](https://millionrounds.com/fund/salesforce-ventures) Corporate VC **1** round

[TCV](https://millionrounds.com/fund/tcv) Private equity **1** round

[OneVentures](https://millionrounds.com/fund/oneventures) VC firm **1** round

Missing a round, or an investor who was in one? [Tell us](https://millionrounds.com/corrections?slug=employment-hero).

## Also claim to have backed them

These 3 firms list Employment Hero as a portfolio company on their own websites, but no report of a round names them. They are the firms' own claims, kept apart from the rounds above.

[Kensington Capital Partners Limited](https://millionrounds.com/fund/kensington-capital-partners-limited) VC firm Per its own site

[Partners for Growth](https://millionrounds.com/fund/partners-for-growth) VC firm Per its own site

[SEEK Investments](https://millionrounds.com/fund/seek-investments) Growth equity Per its own site

## Quick answers about Employment Hero

### Who invested in Employment Hero?

Employment Hero's investors include Airtree Ventures, Seek, Insight Partners, Salesforce Ventures and TCV, and 1 more on record.

### How much has Employment Hero raised?

Employment Hero has raised $75M across 3 rounds since 2015. One round did not disclose an amount, so the total is a floor.

### When did Employment Hero last raise?

Employment Hero's most recent round was a Secondary of $60M in Feb 2025.

### What was Employment Hero's biggest round?

Its most recent round, $60M in Feb 2025, is also its largest on record.

### Who backed Employment Hero first?

Employment Hero's first round on record, in Jul 2019, was backed by Seek, Airtree Ventures and OneVentures.

### What stage is Employment Hero at?

Employment Hero's latest named round is a Secondary, in Feb 2025.

### Where is Employment Hero based?

Employment Hero is based in Australia.

### Who led Employment Hero's rounds?

Seek led the Series C in 2019.

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