About Us

Enabling Better Organisations

Our mission at Personio? To give HR teams time to focus on what really matters: people. We help automate people processes and free up time for more strategic work, enabling HR to go beyond HR.

Since we started our journey, we’ve helped 10,000 HR teams across Europe focus less on admin and more on people. Let us help you do the same.

1,800

employees

8

offices around the world

88

nationalities

10,000

customers

Our Story

Personio was founded in 2015 by Hanno Renner, Roman Schumacher, Arseniy Vershinin, and Jonas Rieke.

The founding team has its origins at the Center for Digital Technology & Management (CDTM) in Munich.

2015
August 2015
Personio was founded
2016
July 2016
$2.2M Seed-Investment
2017
July 2017
$12M Series A funding
2018
June 2018
100 employees
December 2018
Move to larger office
2019
January 2019
$40M Series B funding
April 2019
Opening of Madrid office and acquisition of Spanish payroll startup "Rollbox"
2020
January 2020
$75M Series C funding
January 2020
Opening of London office
August 2020
Opening of Dublin office
November 2020
500 employees
2021
January 2021
$125M Series D funding & $1.7B valuation
September 2021
Opening of Amsterdam office
October 2021
5,000 customers
October 2021
Launch of People Workflow Automation & $270M Series E funding & $6.3B valuation
November 2021
1,000 employees
December 2021
Launch of Personio Foundation
2022
May 2022
Opening of offices in Berlin and Barcelona
May 2022
Acquisition of German employee experience solution "Back"
June 2022
$200M second Series E funding & $8.5B valuation
2023
May 2023
10,000 customers
September 2023
Opening of New York office