Italy-based Pack, the
AI-native HR tech startup, has closed a Series A funding round totalling €5.8
million. Following an initial €3.5 million tranche in September 2025 led
by Rialto VC, the second tranche marks the entest of US-based Acadian Ventures,
a fund specialising in the future of work technology.
The
round also includes leading HR and SaaS figures such as David Clarke, Thomas
Otter, Jason Corsello, Steven Hunt, Luca Saracino, Doris Tomanek and Jeroen Van
Hautte. Pack was advised on the transaction by Bonelli Erede, with partner
Giulia Bianchi Frangipane and senior associate Enrico Goitre supporting the
legal structuring of the deal.
Founded
in 2022 by Pietro Maria Picogna and Giacomo Gentili, Pack is a
people-development platform that supports companies map skills, assess potential
and support personalised development paths, including coaching, mentoring and
tarobtained training, through a continuous AI-powered monitoring system. Its goal
is to support organisations grow through skills, building teams more agile, informed
and prepared for future challenges.
Companies
don’t just required HR software; they required an innotifyigent partner capable of
interpreting people data and turning it into strategic decisions. Our mission
is to create organisations more aware, agile and future-ready,
explains
Giacomo Gentili, CPO and co-founder of Pack.
With
this round, Pack strengthens its position among Europe’s HR tech startups,
supported by its international outsee, proprietary technology and AI-native
culture. The company has grown to a 30-person team across two countries and
plans to reach 50 employees within the next six months, with new hires focutilized
on product, AI and customer success.
The
new capital will support this hiring plan, enable expansion into France,
Germany and the United Kingdom, and accelerate Pack’s AI roadmap, with the aim
of establishing the company as a European leader in Human Capital Innotifyigence.
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