UNLEASH is proud to reveal the finalists for the prestigious UNLEASH Startup Award 2024 that will competing to take home the grand prize.

The best and the brightest HR startups have been competing behind the scenes – and today we are excited to announce our five finalists for this year’s competition, sponsored by Mediahuis Ventures and Rubio Impact Ventures.

These five innovative startups will compete on-site on Day One (16 October at 10:45am on the Innovation Stage) at UNLEASH World 2024 in front of our panel of expert judges.

The winner will join an exclusive club of prestigious UNLEASH Startup alumni like Peakon (now part of Workday), Oneteam, Talent Alpha, Clustree, TandemHR, CandidateID, and Talk’n’Job.

The Finalists:

WELLIBA

Welliba combines AI-powered measurement technologies and behavioral science to generate maximum sustainable performance and experience for individuals, teams, and organizations through instantly available personalized actionable insights and learning to enable higher performance and reduce people-related risk.

It combines AI and behavioral science to interpret and analyze various types of data, including direct data gathered from surveys and questionnaires, and indirect data gathered from various relevant internal and external data sources.

The all-in-one platform equips organizations to address diverse people challenges including Employee Engagement and Listening, Human Capital Benchmarking, Employee Experience, Manager Effectiveness, Learning and Development, Onboarding Support, and Employee Communications.

TAIWA

TAIWA envisions a world where individuals are not just prepared but empowered to collaboratively address the critical challenges of our era.

Its mission is to revolutionize the landscape of professional and personal development through its AI-powered coaching platform.

By harnessing the power of AI, TAIWA offers 24/7, evidence-based, precision coaching that is tailored to the unique fabric of each organization it partners with.

The platform is designed to integrate seamlessly with each company’s distinct policies, processes, values, and culture, ensuring that the AI-coaching experience is as customized and effective as possible.

TAIWA’s adaptive approach ensures that every individual receives personalized AI-coaching that resonates with them, fostering growth and transformation at every level of the organization.

Informed with over 18 years of coaching experience and a track record of serving more than 1,000 clients globally, TAIWA’s proprietary coaching methods are not just innovative—they are proven.

ALDA

Alda is on a mission to transform Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) in the workplace with a SaaS solution that combines data, technology, AI, and passion to drive lasting impact.

Launched in 2023, Alda supports 12 ARR customers, including its first enterprise client with 11,000 employees, and serves users across Norway, Sweden, Iceland, the UK, Germany, the US, and India.

At its core, Alda offers an all-in-one platform that provides a real-time DEI dashboard, tailored action plans, an inclusion pulse survey, and gamified micro-learning to ensure companies can assess, set goals, and implement effective DEI strategies.

Its solution is designed for sustainable change, leveraging AI-curated action plans, benchmarking, and API integrations to seamlessly fit into existing HR systems.

Backed by over 20 years of DEI expertise and driven by a passionate team of 14, Alda is paving the way for revolutionary progress in DEI – making inclusivity engaging, data-driven, and impactful.

COCOMPLY

Unlock the power of contingent workforce visibility and compliance with CoComply’s AI solution designed specifically for HR Professionals and services procurement.

CoComply differentiates itself through its AI/ML-driven, dynamic contractual analysis and assessment model, offering continuous updates and far greater accuracy.

Unlike other solutions, CoComply not only classifies workers accurately but also adapts to changes, making it a more future-proof, scalable solution.

CoComply’s unique selling point (USP) is its human-aided AI/ML solution, *CoComply Classify*, which provides continuous worker classification.

By leveraging NLP and machine learning models specifically tailored to legal contracts, CoComply offers a scalable, accurate, and dynamic solution, ensuring compliance with evolving regulations while delivering significant cost savings.

Its expert feedback loop ensures ongoing accuracy, setting us apart from static classification tools.

OMIND

Omind offers a one-stop-shop solution for talent development powered by neuroscience and AI.

After 6 years of patented R&D, Omind has transformed cutting-edge neuroscientific insights into gamified experiences and behavioral data to help companies detect, measure, and enhance their talents’ performance skills.

Omind addresses the challenges of a rapidly changing workforce and evolving employee expectations. HR and training departments must adopt new technologies, measure ROI, and promote continuous development.

It addresses key market challenges for HR. Many tools only address part of the talent development puzzle—focusing on detection, training, measurement, or well-being, without offering a comprehensive solution, as well as, generating objective, results-driven data and maintaining a measurable, repeatable action plan.

Omind solves these challenges by offering an objective skills self-diagnosis tool and personalized development modules tailored to the test results.

The Grand Prize:

Entering the UNLEASH Startup Award offers the best and brightest of the HR tech landscape unrivalled access to the top HR analysts, thought leaders and investors. Past judges include Josh Bersin, Katarina Berg, Mike Ettling and Sarah White.

But the lucky winner will scoop a €50,000 sponsorship package for a future UNLEASH event – but please note, this figure does not include the price of the stand build and design.

The best of luck to all the finalists and we look forward to seeing you at UNLEASH World, 16-17 October in Paris.

Want more information?

For more tips and insights, join the UNLEASH Startup community here.

And for more information on our Startup packages, which provide marketing opportunities to showcase your achievements, please contact:

Kennedy Cook, Startup & Investor Program Lead – at Kennedy@unleash.ai

Aniko Illes, Startup Business Development Manager – at Aniko@unleash.ai or on 00 36 20 255 87 41.