Japan’s SmartHR, crowdsourced personnel management platform, secures seed round

Kufu is a Japanese startup behind SmartHR, a crowdsourced personnel management platform. The company recently announced that it has secured funds from East Ventures, DG Incubation, and Beenext. The exact amount is yet to be announced but it is said to amount to several tens of millions in Japanese yen (hundreds of thousand US dollars). SmartHR automates procedures related to social insurance and unemployment insurance.