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PERSOL Holdings

1-15-5 Minami-Aoyama, Minato-ku, Tokyo, 107-0062, Japan

Overview

The PERSOL (Person) group consists of a wide range of companies in over 90 domestic and overseas companies, including staffing, recruitment, recruitment advertisement, IT outsourcing and design development. In order to realize the vision of the group "To the growth and creation infrastructure of people and organizations", they are working comprehensively to solve the problems of labor and employment. "PERSOL (Personal)" is a new brand that was born in July 2016. The origin of the brand name is "People grow up through work (PERSON) and solve social issues (SOLUTION)." They support the growth of working people and have a desire to aim for a shining future.

Total investments
3
Lead investments
2
Investments · 12mo
1
Active investors
3

Sector focus

  • Human Resources
  • Recruiting
  • Staffing Agency
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Investment portfolio

  • Wiffy

    Participated · Series A · Jul 2026

    Wiffy operates an organized platform for post-sales installation and services, leveraging AI-powered technology to support operations. The company plans to use recent funding to further develop its AI platform, deepen enterprise partnerships and expand into additional service categories across India. Wiffy completed a $3 million Series A led by Earth Fund, with participation from Persol Holdings and existing investor Capria Ventures. The participation of Capria Ventures indicates prior investment in the company. No revenue or user metrics were disclosed in the available coverage. The company is headquartered in Mumbai and is focused on scaling its service offerings nationally.

  • Glints

    Led · Series D · Aug 2022

    Glints operates a talent development and recruitment platform that connects employers with professionals across five markets. Its platform hosts three million professionals and 50,000 companies, including AIA, IKEA, GetGo, KKday and Gameloft. The company says annual revenue and gross profits grew 2.5x year-over-year and that annual revenue has been growing at a triple-digit percentage. Glints reports positive contribution margins across all business units, with Indonesia and Vietnam remaining profitable. Remote hiring is a major growth driver: remote cross-border job postings grew more than 3x year-over-year and over 11x in the past two years. The company plans to expand its talent supply base in the Philippines, grow employer demand globally, and hire for its product and tech teams. Glints operates a full-stack career platform that includes a job marketplace, community features, and online skills education targeted at young to mid-level professionals. The platform hosts more than 7,000 active job listings and attracts roughly 4 million visitors per month. Glints says it has been used by over 1.5 million professionals and 30,000 organizations, including Gojek, Tokopedia, Starbucks and Mediacorp. One of its products, TalentHub, is a cross-border remote work hub that doubled its business in 2020 as employers became more open to remote hiring. The company positions itself as a solution to regional tech talent shortages by helping firms hire teams across Southeast Asian countries. Glints plans to use new capital to expand further in Singapore, Indonesia, Vietnam and Taiwan and to hire for its product and engineering teams. Glints is a Singapore-headquartered recruitment and hiring platform. The company is described in the article as a recruitment platform. Glints has raised $6.8 million in a Series B round led by Monk’s Hill Ventures, according to a statement. The article identifies the financing as a Series B round. No other investors or additional financial details were disclosed in the article. The article did not provide operating metrics, future plans, or use-of-proceeds information. Glints operates a career discovery and development platform that helps young people explore internships, graduate roles and professional-development resources in Singapore. The platform aims to guide users to discover career paths and develop the right skill sets while enabling employers to attract suitable talent. It lists internships, graduate jobs and career-development content and tools for early-career professionals. The company is led by Oswald Yeo, Ying Cong Seah and Qin En Looi. Glints raised funding to support regional expansion and product development. The company reported a $2M Series A to finance those plans. Glints is a Singapore-based platform that helps graduates and students enter the workforce by pairing job and internship listings with training, employer challenges, personality tests and profile badges. It operates a talent-scout model where employers list vacancies for free and pay only when they interview a candidate. The site reports over 7,000 registered students and some 600 companies on its platform in Singapore. Glints runs employer-set challenges (examples include Easy Taxi and SPH) to give candidates practical experience and badges to help them stand out. The founding team graduated accelerator JFDI Asia and includes three founders who deferred graduate-school offers. The company is weighing regional expansion (Indonesia or the U.S.) later in the year and expects to seek another funding round to support growth. The business recently closed a seed financing of SG$475,000 (US$380,000).

Team

  • Masamichi Mizuta

    President & CEO

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  • Yoshiko Shinohara

    Chairman & Founder

  • Takeyuki Kato

    Vice President

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