Company
HiBob makes Bob, a cloud HR platform for workforce management, payroll, and analytics, competing in the human capital management software market.
HiBob asked 1,200 business leaders how AI proficiency enters talent decisions. Two-thirds link it to promotion and half to performance ratings, while 36 percent of those counting on managers to coach it call them highly prepared.
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Two compute landlords raised $4.5bn between them while cloud security, protein bars, payroll software and robot silicon split under $900m, and the second-biggest cheque came from a trading firm rather than a venture fund.
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Worth roughly two fifths of HiBob's annual sales, the cheque is all primary and almost all strategic, which says something about how comfortable private capital has become funding the agent-workforce build.
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BCG's managers caught fewer errors and passed more of them along once identical work was labelled an AI employee, which turns the org chart question into a question about who answers for an agent's mistakes.
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Earnings came in ahead of consensus and the full-year range moved up, but the only figure growing at double digits was the $9.03 billion backlog due inside a year, and that is the number being read.
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