Happeo lands $26M to provide intranet portal for employees – TechCrunch

[With Gapps,] co-founder Antero Hanhirova and I saw a big opportunity to help enterprise companies in the Nordics with their cloud transformation, Ojansuu told TechCrunch in a recent interview. )Happeo aims to connect teams and people in an organic way, Ojansuu says, letting them create channels and pages around projects and mutual interests. Thats where Happeo comes in [It] removes the burden of sharing important updates from instant messaging tools, so teams can go back to using these to collaborate instead of being overwhelmed by information.Intranet platforms are hardly new theyve been around in some form for decades. More recently (in March), Staffbase landed $115 million at a $1.1 billion valuation to expand its intranet-style comms platform.Its worth noting that the large financing rounds are partly a reflection of the enthusiasm among VCs for HR tech, broadly speaking. Having just closed our Series B round we are in a great position, and we have a lot of job openings, especially in tech and sales.In the near term, Ojansuu says that the plan is to invest in Happeos product development with a focus on adding new app and service integrations.