GroupBy HR, the company behind the Korea-based startup recruitment platform GroupBy, has secured pre-Series A funding. This investment round included participation from Primer Sazze Partners, Hallym University Technology Holdings, and Angel Lounge, though the investment amount remains undisclosed.

GroupBy is a recruitment platform designed to address the hiring challenges of startups, focusing on connecting IT talents such as developers, marketers, designers, PM/POs, business support, and business developers with startups. Within a year and a half of its launch, GroupBy has attracted 12,000 IT talents and over 700 startups, with its user base rapidly growing.

In 2022, GroupBy received seed investment from Primer Sazze Partners and The Ventures and was selected for the TIPS program. In February 2023, GroupBy launched the outbound recruitment service ‘Scout,’ which has resulted in over 200 successful hires to date.

With this new investment, GroupBy aims to automate tasks in the outbound recruitment process that do not require human intervention. Although the need for outbound recruitment, where companies proactively approach candidates, is increasing, the time and financial costs for companies are high. GroupBy plans to use its proprietary systems and AI to streamline the most time-consuming aspects of outbound recruitment: identifying desired candidates, sending proposals, and verification.