Napta raises €8M to become the leading staffing platform in Europe
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Estelle
Content manager
March 22, 2022
5 min
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After 4 years of work and unwavering motivation, thanks to our 100 customers and 30 employees: we are delighted to be able to announce our new 8 million euros Series A fundraiser! 🤩
This fundraiser marks a new stage in the lives of Napta and all those who trust us. Our customers, our users, our partners but also our investors and above all, our employees.
It is also an additional string to our bow to strengthen our position as a leader in the management of Staffing through skills and to deploy our full potential, in France and internationally.
A strong ambition : enable companies to optimize the planning of their projects (also called staffing) by placing the aspirations and skills of their employees at the heart of the process.
An unwavering belief: At Napta, we are convinced that competency-based planning is one of the main levers for engaging employees and allowing them to express their potential!
Exceptional growth : In 2021, we tripled our number of customers, including Capgemini, Schneider Electric, EDF and Société Générale. We have more than 25% of our users abroad and are present in 20 countries. We support SMEs with a few dozen employees as well as major international accounts.
We raised this second round with Kerala Ventures, our historical investor, and MAIF Avenir. Moreover, Timothée Poulain, Investment Director at MAIF Avenir, summarizes the strategic challenge of staffing well:
Napta's mission meets the main challenge that project-oriented organizations face today: reconciling operational performance and HR challenges. The platform brings transparency and simplicity to a complex, but key, business process: project staffing. It places employee engagement at the center of the game, by integrating the aspirations of teams into staffing.
During their various professional experiences (consulting, industry, digital), having gone through consulting, digital or industry, the founders of Napta Arnaud Caldichoury, Arnaud Cammas, Étienne Caldichoury all three noted that project planning was suboptimal.
It was obvious that something had to be done to improve the performance of businesses and the commitment of their teams:
We are convinced that the performance of a company depends on the commitment of its employees. However, it is not enough to sum up the small advantages (table football, vacation voucher, etc.) to motivate your teams, you must above all ensure that they work on a daily basis on projects that interest them. Keeping this promise means being able to reconcile all the constraints of a company's projects (budgets, deadlines, priorities, etc.), and the skills/aspirations of employees. Our software provides a simple and intelligent solution to this problem.
Arnaud Caldichoury, CEO of Napta.
To simplify staffing, we wanted to create a comprehensive solution that allows all stakeholders in a company to act on planning:
All this in a collaborative solution that advocates transparency and equality in the allocation of projects, essential subjects in a context of war for talent.
For Antoine Freysz, founder of Kerala Ventures :
Napta ultimately allows companies to deliver more projects, more quickly. By better allocating and planning human resources, while taking into account the desires of employees. For managers, it is an exceptional management SaaS, a kind of strategic organization chart for major projects and their teams in charge. We believe that the tool will become a standard for successful departments.
This funding is the springboard that will allow us to establish ourselves as the reference platform for staffing in Europe over the next 3 years! Our objective: to facilitate your daily work.
For you, managers :
For you, collaborators :
For you, partners :
For you, members and future members of Napta :
It is only the beginning! 🚀
We will push the limits to assert our ambition: to allow you to express your full potential!
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