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Largest Online Jobs & Recruitment Public Companies

Benchmark revenue and EBITDA valuation multiples for public comps like Recruit Holdings, BOSS Zhipin, Info Edge, Seek and Visional.

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Japan
Recruit is a holding company for various technology and employment-related businesses. Recruit’s primary business is its HR technology segment, in which it owns two out of three globally scaled employment-related platforms: www.indeed.com, an online marketplace for employment; and www.glassdoor.com, an online review site for employers. Recruit also owns various marketing businesses operating in Japan for life events and lifestyle, a software solutions business for small and medium-size enterprises, or SMEs, in Japan, and various staffing businesses operating throughout the developed world.
$49
-10%
$69B
$66B
2.7x
14.4x
China
Kanzhun's Boss Zhipin job platform connects job seekers and employers. Boss Zhipin is China’s largest online recruitment platform based on monthly active users, or MAU, and was established in 2014. Kanzhun earns revenue by providing services to enterprise customers primarily through its mobile app, which promotes engagement between recruiters and workers and operates on a recommendation basis powered by artificial intelligence. The platform specializes in transportation, logistics, construction, and service-based industries. About 85% of the companies looking to hire are small and medium-size enterprises. Its main competitors are 58.com, 51job, and Zhilian Zhaopin. Tencent has a 9.2% stake in Kanzhun.
$14
-21%
$6B
$4B
2.9x
6.2x
India
Info Edge (India) Ltd is engaged in offering services in the areas of recruitment, matrimony, real estate, and education through online portals. The business segments of the company are Recruitment solutions, which generate maximum revenue, 99acres for Real Estate, and Others. The Recruitment Solutions business comprises the www.naukri.com, www.quadrangle.com, www.naukrigulf.com, www.firstnaukri.com, and fast forward candidate services. 99acres.com derives its revenues from property listings, builders, and brokers, branding and visibility through microsites, home page links, and banners, and servicing real estate developers, builders, and brokers. The Others segment comprises Jeevansathi and Shiksha verticals. The group caters to customers located in India and internationally.
$10
-37%
$6B
$6B
18.6x
26.6x
Australia
Seek is a technology company operating in the employment segment. Seek’s primary business is an online marketplace for employment, www.seek.com.au, which is the largest online marketplace for employment in Australia and New Zealand. Seek also owns and operates employment listings platforms in Southeast Asia and owns a stake in an investment business in employment listings platforms and other employment-related businesses.
$10
-44%
$3B
$4B
5.4x
11.1x
Japan
Visional Inc is engaged in operation of internet services including BizReach, an online direct recruiting platform specialized for professionals.
$48
-17%
$2B
$1B
2.7x
9.4x
United States
Upwork Inc is a United States-based company that operates an online marketplace that enables businesses to find and work with skilled independent professionals. The company develops platform for hiring and freelancing purposes and connects businesses with AI-enabled talent across every on-demand work type, including freelance, agency, fractional, and payrolled. The business generates revenue from Talent and Clients across the USA, India, Pakistan, the Philippines and the rest of the world. Maximum revenue of the company is derived from Talent segment.
$8
-46%
$1B
$837M
1.1x
3.7x
Poland
Grupa Pracuj SA is engaged in offering digital recruitment services. The company is an owner of brands contributing to a digital ecosystem addressed to the HR world. It segment includes Poland; Ukraine and Germany. The company derives a majority of revenue from Poland segment.
$12
-38%
$808M
$817M
3.6x
8.1x
Japan
Timee Inc is engaged in operating Timee, on-demand job platform.
$7
-35%
$704M
$689M
3.1x
15.3x
Japan
UT Group Co Ltd is engaged in worker dispatch and outsourcing of permanent employees in manufacturing, design, and development, construction, and other sectors. The firm operates in three segments: Manufacturing Business, Solution Business, and Engineering Business.
$1
+9%
$685M
$549M
0.4x
5.3x
Japan
DIP Corp is a Japan-based technology company that mainly provides job information and employment agency services online. The company has five business divisions. The Baitoru Com segment offers job information to contractors and recruiting companies. The Job Engine segment provides job offering and career change information to recruiting companies. The Hatarako Net provides staff service job information to staffing companies. The Other division specializes in services for restaurant customers, while the Agent segment provides employment services for healthcare facilities.
$11
-20%
$594M
$482M
1.3x
4.5x
China
Quhuo Ltd is a gig economy platform focusing on local life services in China. It provide tech-enabled, end-to-end operational solutions to consumer service businesses, including on-demand delivery solutions, mobility service solutions, housekeeping and accommodation solutions, and other services. Its three operating segments, include (i) on-demand delivery solutions, (ii) mobility service solutions, and (iii) housekeeping and accommodation solutions and other services.
$4
-97%
$352M
$363M
—
—
United States
ZipRecruiter Inc is an online employment marketplace. It connects millions of job seekers with companies of all sizes. It is a two-sided marketplace for work that simplifies the job market for both job seekers and employers. Unlike traditional online job sites, ZipRecruiter works like a matchmaker curating job opportunities for job seekers, and candidates for employers.
$4
-34%
$320M
$484M
1.1x
11.9x
Japan
En Inc is a Japanese company that provides human resource services. It offers online job information sites and recruitment support platforms for various employment types, including full-time, part-time, and temporary work. The company provides recruitment consulting, career change support, and talent assessment services. It also offers tools for employee training, evaluation, and retention, aimed at improving organizational performance.
$7
-33%
$273M
$90M
0.2x
1.0x
Japan
ZIGExN Co Ltd develops and operates the internet media platforms called EX Sites that provide information from multiple media and submit user's requests to multiple media in one access. The company's Life Media Platform business developed services to a wide range of areas related to daily life. The company operates career change EX, an employment site, Rent SMOCCA EX, a search site for real estate information, Pharmacist jobs EX, a pharmacist job search site, among others.
$3
-7%
$269M
$219M
1.4x
4.9x
Japan
Quick Co Ltd provides human resource solutions and information services. The company operates in four business divisions namely Recruiting Division, Staffing Services Division, Information Publishing Division, and Others.
$5
-1%
$263M
$179M
0.9x
4.8x
Japan
Port Inc is involved in the internet media business. It is developing technology in the three social task areas of career (employment), finance (finance) and medical (medical). The objective of the group is to solve the social issues with technologies.
$16
+55%
$208M
$257M
1.7x
10.3x
Japan
One Career Inc is engaged in Career data platform business which includes recruitment digital transformation support services, etc.
$11
-18%
$202M
$164M
3.3x
11.4x
Denmark
North Media AS provides platforms for business communication with consumers. The group has the following business areas: Last Mile with the company FK Distribution, which packs and distributes printed matter to households. The other business area: Digital Services, includes the companies, BoligPortal, which is a rental housing platform, Ofir, which is a job portal, and the company BEKEY, which offers secure, digital access solutions to, among others, distributors and home care providers.
$8
+30%
$146M
$21M
0.1x
1.0x
France
Freelance.com SA specializes in providing intellectual services to large businesses, small and medium-sized businesses, and independent entrepreneurs.
$3
-7%
$143M
$162M
0.1x
3.8x
Japan
Gakujo Co Ltd provides employment information, various recruitment consulting services, and manpower dispatch and job placement services.
$10
-6%
$137M
$98M
1.4x
5.9x
Japan
OpenWork Inc is engaged in the development and management of OpenWork job and recruitment information platform for job-changing and employment-based employee review data. The company operates in a single segment, the working data platform business.
$6
-14%
$119M
$70M
2.3x
9.1x
South Korea
Saramin Co Ltd is the job portal site in Korea. It is engaged in the portals and other internet information media service activities. The site is used by job seekers. It provides public recruitment information, headhunting, HR dispatch, and public recruitment support services through an online job portal.
$11
+10%
$113M
($19M)
(0.2x)
(0.2x)
Japan
CrowdWorks Inc is engaged in the crowdsourcing business. The group has two reporting segments: Matching Business and Business SaaS Business.
$4
-37%
$67M
$40M
0.3x
2.8x
Japan
Wantedly Inc develops a social-networking service for business professionals.
$6
-19%
$62M
$23M
0.7x
2.2x
Australia
Freelancer Ltd is engaged in freelancing, outsourcing services, and crowdsourcing marketplace. It offers software development, writing, data entry, and design services. The company is organized into two operating segments: Online marketplace which also generates key revenue, and Online payment services. The company operates predominantly in Australia, where majority of the online revenues and expenses are incurred.
$0
-27%
$46M
$34M
0.9x
5.5x
Japan
TalentX Inc is engaged in the Development and provision of the cloud-based talent acquisition software platform My Series, along with other related services. My Series is a talent acquisition platform that supports sustainable recruitment marketing. It attracts and attracts applications from potential job-changers without competing with competitors, and realizes talent.
$4
--
$24M
$15M
1.6x
8.2x
Japan
Cookbiz Co Ltd provides human resources services including recruiting and online recruitment advertising services specializing in the food and beverage industry.
$4
--
$12M
$14M
0.8x
(12.2x)
China
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$0
--
$743K
$6M
0.2x
(0.6x)
Median$7-19%$266M$199M1.3x5.5x

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