Amsterdam-based Buddee, an HR-tech startup, introduced on Thursday that it has raised €1M in funding from a community of strategic angel buyers.
Buddee desires to make use of the capital to broaden the workforce and enhance companies and merchandise. Additional, the Dutch firm intends to make use of the funds to facilitate integration with workforce planning instruments equivalent to Shiftbase and recruitment instruments equivalent to Homerun and Recruitee.
Buddee is already simple to hyperlink to the Nmbrs payroll software program and varied accounting packages.
How was Buddee born?
Sometimes, small to medium-sized companies (SMEs) spend quite a lot of money and time on managing HR-related subjects, like HR and payroll administration, in addition to worker advantages.
When Buddee CEO Rob Toonen labored for a global administration workplace in the USA, he noticed how US SMEs had digitised their HR, payroll, compliance, and worker advantages processes.
“Again house, I couldn’t discover related options for Dutch SMEs. International HR software program corporations don’t contemplate Dutch laws, or they concentrate on corporates and develop software program with many additional options,” says Toonen.
In reality, Jasper Lammertink (CTO) skilled an analogous subject when he was COO of SEOShop/Lightspeed Netherlands.
And that’s how Buddee was born!
Buddee: What you must know
The Dutch HR-tech startup Buddee has developed an internet platform to streamline this course of for SMEs.
Based in 2020 by Rob Toonen (CEO) and Jasper Lammertink (CTO), Jean-Luc Bonnier (Head of Gross sales), Buddee is a cloud HR administration platform for SMEs.
The platform helps SMEs extra effectively by arranging and streamlining all of the processes and administration relating to HR, together with payroll, worker advantages, and employment legislation.
“We additionally assist smaller accounting and HR consultancy companies by taking the payroll administration out of their palms, or they use our platform to speak extra effectively and securely with their prospects,” says Jean-Luc Bonnier.
In keeping with Toonen, the platform has grown sooner because the pandemic outbreak.
“The lockdowns meant an enormous change for SMEs since their workers needed to do business from home. How ought to these corporations administrate journey prices, days off, and dealing from house? Our platform helps SMEs with these administrative challenges. Many corporations nonetheless deal with their administration in Excel sheets, electronic mail, and laborious copy information. We bundle every thing in a single digital ecosystem. This protects entrepreneurs, workers, and their accountants time and problem in order that they will concentrate on the well-being of their folks. That’s not a luxurious within the present job market,” Toonen says.
At the moment, the corporate works with purchasers, together with Day by day Paper, Tonny Media, Parfumado, Natuurhuisje.nl, Share Council, Intersport, Royal Jumbo Toys & Video games, Canon Medical, and Fest.