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SmartHR

Other B2B Software · Tokyo, Japan · Founded 2013

Cloud HR software for labor and talent management

Investors

18 investors on SmartHR's cap table

Sourced from Dealroom's funding history. Investor profile links are shown where available.

Seed 4 investors entered at this stage
East Ventures
DG Ventures
Beenext
Open Network Lab
Series A 5 investors entered at this stage
World Innovation Lab
Kotaro Chiba
500 Global
Yu Akasaka
Jun Nishikawa
Series B+ 9 investors entered at this stage
Signifiant
Shoko Chukin Bank
Coral Capital
Sequoia
All Star SAAS Fund
Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan
Light Street Capital Management
General Atlantic
KKR

Ownership

Who owns SmartHR

Estimated cap table from Dealroom's shareholder data — share of equity by holder. Stakes as last recorded by Dealroom (2026). Percentages are indicative.

23% Founders
  • Sequoia 8.5%

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 →

Global footprint

Where SmartHR has talent and traffic

Workforce by country
2 countries with
team presence
🇯🇵 Japan98.9%
🇺🇸 United States0.7%
2 countries shown
Web traffic by country
62K monthly visits
across markets
🇯🇵 Japan96.5%
🇺🇸 United States2.3%
🇮🇳 India1.1%
Top 3 markets shown

Talent graph

The shape of SmartHR's talent

Dealroom maps SmartHR's team person by person — pinpointing the standout operators and scoring them across the six dimensions investors underwrite. The counts and shape below are a public preview; the named individuals and exact scores live in the platform.

DimensionScore
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Source: Dealroom Talent Intelligence. Public profiles show counts and the team's shape only — request a demo for the named individuals, per-person seniority and tenure, and team benchmarks vs peers.

Patent intelligence

$400k patent portfolio · 22 active families

Estimated portfolio value
$400k
0.03% of valuation · 180× smaller than top peer Navan ($72M)
22 active patent families

Source: Dealroom Patent Intelligence · Patsnap. Request a demo for the full per-sub-category breakdown, individual records, and quality-score history.

Capital deployed

SmartHR's 3 investments and acquisitions.

Every disclosed deal where SmartHR appeared as a 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.

Portfolio analysis

3 deals across SmartHR's capital deployment.

Where the deals concentrate by sector, stage, and decade.

By sectorCount
    By stageCount
      By periodCount

        01 · Deployment strategy vs peers

        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.

        Compare against

        02 · Portfolio market map

        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”.

        Stage
        Period
        3 of 3 deals

        Market sentiment

        What the market is saying about SmartHR

        An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about SmartHR on X over the past 7 days. We rank by likes & retweets, ignore corporate channels, and surface the themes that broke out from real people.

        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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