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SmartHR
Cloud HR software for labor and talent management
At a glance
- Founded
- 2013
- Headquarters
- Tokyo, Japan
- Sector
- Other B2B Software
- Power Law
- Unicorn$1–10B valuation tierThoroughbred$100M+ revenue
Latest news
Press, funding announcements and product moves mentioning SmartHR.
Investors
From Dealroom's funding and investor records, grouped by the round each investor first entered.
Seed4 investors entered at this stage
East Ventures- DVDG Ventures
Beenext- OLOpen Network Lab
Series A5 investors entered at this stage
- WLWorld Innovation Lab
- KCKotaro Chiba
500 Global- YAYu Akasaka
- JNJun Nishikawa
Series B and later9 investors entered at this stage
- SISignifiant
- SBShoko Chukin Bank
- CCCoral Capital
Sequoia- AFAll Star SAAS Fund
Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan
- LMLight Street Capital Management
General Atlantic
KKR
Ownership
Estimated cap table from Dealroom's shareholder data — share of equity by holder. Stakes as last recorded by Dealroom (2026). Percentages are indicative.
Some investors are hidden on this public profile. “Other / undisclosed” is the 3% not attributed to a named shareholder. See the full cap table on Dealroom →
Source: Dealroom Talent Intelligence.
Global footprint
team presence
across markets
Patents
22 active patent families included in this estimate.
A patent family groups patent filings for the same invention. Source: Dealroom · PatSnap.
Investments and acquisitions
Disclosed deals where SmartHR was the backer or acquirer, 2025–2026. Toggle between venture rounds, M&A, or both. The map below is grouped by the target company's sector — the colored pill on each chip is the round type.
3 deals across SmartHR's capital deployment.
Where the deals concentrate by sector, stage, and decade.
Where SmartHR deploys vs peers
Each axis is a Dealroom topic tag — picked from the cluster's most-tagged themes. Values are normalized per axis: the peer with the highest tag-coverage on that axis sits at the edge, others scale relative to them. Toggle between M&A, venture, or both.
SmartHR's portfolio, mapped.
Each chip is one company. Pill colour shows round type — green for Seed, blue for Series A, purple for B/C+, pink for late-stage, amber for M&A. Bigger sectors keep their full list behind “+ N more”.
Market sentiment
An AI-synthesised read of the highest-engagement posts about SmartHR on X, ranked by likes and reposts, corporate channels excluded.
Reading the room on X — pulling top posts and synthesizing themes…
Source: X recent search ranked by engagement (likes + retweets) · Synthesis by Claude · Cached for 1 hour
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