Randstad Holding nv is leading a seed financing round in Netherlands-based Focus Orange Technology B.V. through its Randstad Innovation Fund.

 The investment is directed at the development of Crunchr, the company’s HR reporting and analytics platform. With Randstad Holding, Arcadis and Deloitte as launching customers, Crunchr provides insights in organization analytics, strategic workforce planning, succession management, talent management and employee preferences. Crunchr complies with the international standards on data privacy and integrity.

“Crunchr fits Randstad’s objective to offer comprehensive total talent management solutions,” said Randstad Executive Board member Linda Galipeau. “We have high expectations of Crunchr’s HR-analytics tool and of its potential to give our clients insights in their human capital and workforce planning.”

“We are at the forefront of HR data analytics,” said Dirk Jonker, founding partner of Focus Orange and chief technology officer of Crunchr. “We are thrilled to have the financial support of Randstad Innovation Fund to accelerate the development of our custom modelling solution Crunchr Next, and to scale up deployment in Western Europe and the United States.”