HiPeople

HiPeople

AI-powered candidate assessments and reference checks

Overview

HiPeople provides a SaaS platform for talent acquisition that focuses on AI-powered candidate assessments and automated reference checks. It offers a library of validated tests to measure hard and soft skills, cognitive ability, personality, and culture fit, and can generate role-specific tests from a job description; it also automates the reference-check workflow, including fraud detection and benchmarking, with integrations to ATS like Greenhouse. The service aims to give deeper candidate insights beyond the resume, providing objective benchmarks and seamless HR-tech integration to replace traditional hiring methods. Its goal is to improve hiring outcomes by reducing bias, speeding up recruitment, and increasing the quality of hires through data-driven decisions.

About HiPeople

Simplify's Rating
Why HiPeople is rated
B-
Rated B on Competitive Edge
Rated B on Growth Potential
Rated C on Differentiation

Industries

Data & Analytics

Enterprise Software

AI & Machine Learning

Company Size

11-50

Company Stage

Early VC

Total Funding

$6.8M

Headquarters

Berlin, Germany

Founded

2019

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Simplify's Take

What believers are saying

  • HiPeople's blog was updated June 2026, showing active product marketing and SEO momentum.
  • The November 2025 Teamtailor pull integration expands distribution inside a major ATS ecosystem.
  • Moonfire, Capnamic, and Cherry back HiPeople, validating the category and team.

What critics are saying

  • Workday, Greenhouse, and ATS incumbents can bundle similar assessments and checks fast.
  • Reference-check automation faces fraud, privacy, and compliance scrutiny across Europe and the U.S.
  • If enterprise hiring budgets tighten in 2026, HiPeople's usage-based SaaS revenue slows hard.

What makes HiPeople unique

  • HiPeople owns both assessments and reference checks in one workflow.
  • Its Teamtailor pull integration, launched November 2025, deepens ATS stickiness.
  • The 2026 blog signals positioning around AI-ready hiring, not generic screening.

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Funding

Total Funding

$6.8M

Meets

Industry Average

Funded Over

3 Rounds

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Benefits

Stock Options

Professional Development Budget

Remote Work Options

Growth & Insights and Company News

Headcount

6 month growth

0%

1 year growth

0%

2 year growth

7%
RecruitingDaily
Jul 21st, 2023
HCM Talent Technology roundup july 21, 2023

Berlin-based HiPeople launched new AI-powered products designed to help employers in their talent acquisition efforts.

HiPeople
Nov 17th, 2021
HiPeople partnered with Teamtailor on Nov 17th 21'.

Now, HiPeople is excited to announce an additional native integration with Teamtailor.

HiPeople
Oct 7th, 2021
HiPeople launches candidate self-assessment feature

This is why HiPeople has released its new candidate self-assessment feature — to supercharge your hiring decisions with another powerful source of candidate insights.

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