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About Visier
Visier Inc. is a software company headquartered in Vancouver, British Columbia with offices around the world. They create cloud-based people analytics and workforce planning applications for human resources management functions.

Visier conducts various HR and workforce related research on topics such as demographic bias, pay gaps, and hiring trends. In 2023, Visier reported serving over 25,000 business customers globally with over 2,000 out-of-the-box analytics and benchmarks based on over 25 million employee records under management.

History
In 2010, Visier was founded by CEO John Schwarz, previous CEO of SAP-acquired BusinessObjects, and CTO Ryan Wong, previous Chief Architect for Seagate Software and Vice-President of Engineering for SAP SE.

As a private organization, Visier has reportedly raised a total of $219.5M USD after a total five funding rounds to date. In June 2021, the most recent funding round, Visier raised $125M USD in Series E funding led by Goldman Sachs Asset Management, marking the company as a unicorn start-up.


 * In March 2017, Visier secured $45M USD from US venture capital firm, Sorenson Capital – joined by Foundation Capital, Summit Partners, and Adam Street Partners.
 * In June 2014, Visier closed a Series C funding round with $25.5M USD, led by US venture capital firm Adams Street Partners, and joined by Foundation Capital and Summit Partners.
 * In May 2013, Visier completed a Series B funding round with a total of $15M USD led by Summit Partners, with participation from existing investor, Foundation Capital.
 * In September 2011, Visier raised $9M USD in private and Series A financing.

Products and Solutions
Visier’s software consists of two primary solutions for businesses – Visier People and Visier Embedded Analytics.

The software Visier creates is known as People Analytics – a specialized type of analytics which helps business leaders and managers decide how to plan their workforce. This includes strategies for total rewards, diversity, equity and inclusion, and employee experience.

Visier People is a pre-built, open platform which transforms and analyzes an organization's HCM domain-specific data to answer various HR questions. Within this product are several discrete modules, such as: Talent Retention, Talent Acquisition Insights, Workforce Planning.

Visier People provides pre-built cloud-based analytics that that answers various HR-related questions. There are several solutions as part of Visier People, including: People Analytics, Talent Retention, Talent Acquisition Insights, Learning Analytics, Hourly Workforce Insights, Collaboration Analytics, and Skills Intelligence Engine.

Visier Embedded Analytics integrates the data processing capabilities of Visier’s analytics engine directly in other HR solutions, such as Betterworks, Degreed, and Paycor.

Acquisitions
In May 2022, Visier made its first acquisition of Yva.ai, a Santa Clara, California, based company focused on collaboration analytics. The technology has since been implemented as Workplace Dynamics – using active peer-to-peer feedback, and passive listening on communications tools (such as Microsoft Teams, Zoom, or Slack) to enable organizations to better understand how employees collaborate.

Visier’s second acquisition of Boost.rs, a Paris, France, based company specializing in a powerful, API-first skills mapping engine took place in November 2022. The integrated solution launched Visier Skills Intelligence Engine – enabling organizations to inventory the skills of their existing workforce, while hiring and developing to address skills gaps.

Awards and Recognition
Visier has been recognized as a leader in growth and innovation and customer satisfaction. Some of these awards include:


 * Number one HR Analytics vendor in the Sapient Insights Group 2022-2023 HR Systems Survey White Paper
 * Canada’s Top 100 Employers at Mediacorp Canada Inc. in 2018 through 2023
 * Enterprise Fast 15 Award in Deloitte’s Technology Fast 50™ Program in 2021
 * Ranking on Deloitte Technology Fast 500™ in 2021, 2019, 2018, and 2017