Humand, the mobile-first HR platform built for companies with non-desk workers, has closed a $66 million Series A in a heavily oversubscribed round. The investment was led by KASZEK and Goodwater Capital, with participation from Y Combinator and Newtopia VC. In just five years, the company has grown from zero to over 1.6 million users across more than 1,500 organizations in 51 countries.
Alongside institutional backing, the round attracted a strong set of angel investors: Marcos Galperin, founder of Mercado Libre; Arash Ferdowsi, co-founder of Dropbox; Sebastian Mejia, founder of Rappi; Guillermo Rauch, founder of Vercel; Rajat Suri, founder of Lyft; Martin Varsavsky, founder of five unicorns; Vlad Magdalin, founder of Webflow; and Manny Maceda, former CEO of Bain. This is not a typical cap table. These are operators who have built at scale and know what it takes to win a market.
Non-desk workers — nurses, warehouse staff, retail associates, construction crews, hospitality professionals — represent roughly 80% of the global workforce. For decades, HR software was built around one assumption: every employee has a corporate email, a desktop, and a fixed office schedule. For most workers, none of that is true.
The gap this creates is real. Desk-based employees access company resources and HR tools with ease. Their non-desk colleagues often can't request time off digitally, check their benefits, complete training, or stay informed without navigating systems never designed for them. HR teams absorb the friction, spending time on manual processes instead of meaningful work.
Humand is directing the capital toward three areas: expanding its AI capabilities, scaling across the United States, and continuing product development for companies with mixed desk and non-desk workforces.
The U.S. is central to the growth strategy. The company plans to build dedicated local teams, develop American customer success cases, and adapt its product to the specific needs of U.S. organizations. On the AI side, Humand is already running agents that help HR teams with onboarding, training, and repetitive task reduction. The next phase doubles down on those agents and gives HR teams fuller control over communication, culture, and talent development.
Founded in 2019, Humand was built around a simple idea: every employee deserves the same quality of digital tools, regardless of whether they work from an office, a factory floor, a hospital, or a store. The platform centralizes internal communications, time-off requests, benefits, training, company policies, and culture tools in a single mobile app. No corporate email required.
One of its standout features is Sammy, an AI assistant that lets employees ask HR questions in plain language and get instant answers. Remaining vacation days, health insurance options, company policy details — Sammy handles it, which takes real pressure off HR teams and frees them for higher-value work. Current clients include Siemens, PSBank, and Viva Aerobus.
KASZEK, the Latin American venture fund co-founded by Hernan Kazah, led the round alongside Goodwater Capital, led by Eric J. Kim. Y Combinator, which backed Humand at an earlier stage, participated again, along with Newtopia VC.
The new board welcomes Hernan Kazah from KASZEK, Eric J. Kim from Goodwater, and Diego Benenzon, former CHRO at McDonald's. Benenzon's background managing HR across a globally distributed, largely non-desk workforce brings direct operational insight to the board — exactly the kind of experience this mission calls for.
