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Feb 14, 2023
Crew , a Paris, France-based recruiting CRM for teams, raised $2.3m in seed funding. The round was led by seed stage funds including Rebel, Secret, and Kima with participation from Paul Forster co-founder of Indeed, Nicolas Marchais, VP Sales at Spendesk, Sam Edelson, ex Director of Product at Airbnb, and Christian Reber, co-founder of Pitch, Superlist, Behzod Sirjani of Slack & Reforge, Nick Caldwell, ex VP Engineering at Twitter & Hubspot, and Olivier Bonnet, CTO at BlaBlaCar. The company intends to use the funds to expand operations and its business reach. Led by CEO Amine Skalli and CRO Ruben Guenoun, Crew is a recruitment CRM which combines 1/ an outreach automation tool, 2/ strong nurturing capabilities, and 3/ an actionable database. It is built for teams meaning that companies require a collaborative and user-friendly tool to ensure its adoption by all stakeholders, including hiring managers, team members, advisors, and investors. With features like automations, smart reminders, and workflows designed for speed, Crew helps recruiting teams be more productive and source a large number of qualified candidates in a short period of time. Launched out eFounders in September 2020, Crew later joined Y Combinator’s accelerator program to launch its first version of the product. It is now used by 100 active companies, representing 1000 monthly active users. FinSMEs 14/02/2023
Paul Forster Investments
40 Investments
Paul Forster has made 40 investments. Their latest investment was in Crew as part of their Seed VC on February 2, 2023.

Paul Forster Investments Activity

Date | Round | Company | Amount | New? | Co-Investors | Sources |
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2/14/2023 | Seed VC | Crew | $2.3M | Yes | Behzod Sirjani, Christian Reber, Kima Ventures, Nick Caldwell, Nicolas Marchais, Paul Forster, Rebel Fund, Sam Edelson, Secret Fund, and Undisclosed Angel Investors | 1 |
11/18/2022 | Pre-Seed | Vektor | $2.5M | Yes | Bradley Horowitz, Cherry Ventures, Deborah Liu, Mosaic Ventures, Paul Forster, Phil Chambers, Ujjwal Singh, and Undisclosed Angel Investors | 9 |
8/30/2022 | Series A | Oxwash | $11.72M | No | 2 | |
7/1/2022 | Seed VC | |||||
6/28/2022 | Seed VC |
Date | 2/14/2023 | 11/18/2022 | 8/30/2022 | 7/1/2022 | 6/28/2022 |
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Round | Seed VC | Pre-Seed | Series A | Seed VC | Seed VC |
Company | Crew | Vektor | Oxwash | ||
Amount | $2.3M | $2.5M | $11.72M | ||
New? | Yes | Yes | No | ||
Co-Investors | Behzod Sirjani, Christian Reber, Kima Ventures, Nick Caldwell, Nicolas Marchais, Paul Forster, Rebel Fund, Sam Edelson, Secret Fund, and Undisclosed Angel Investors | Bradley Horowitz, Cherry Ventures, Deborah Liu, Mosaic Ventures, Paul Forster, Phil Chambers, Ujjwal Singh, and Undisclosed Angel Investors | |||
Sources | 1 | 9 | 2 |
Paul Forster Portfolio Exits
1 Portfolio Exit
Paul Forster has 1 portfolio exit. Their latest portfolio exit was Twizoo on November 09, 2017.
Date | Exit | Companies | Valuation Valuations are submitted by companies, mined from state filings or news, provided by VentureSource, or based on a comparables valuation model. | Acquirer | Sources |
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11/9/2017 | Acquired | 1 |
Date | 11/9/2017 |
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