UPYU is a German platform that connects companies with pre-vetted freelance professionals and candidates for family-friendly permanent roles, focusing on experienced talent with care responsibilities. It provides end-to-end management including AI-supported matching, compliance checks, contracts, time tracking, and payment processing. The platform serves over 700 companies with access to a curated community of more than 7,000 professionals, predominantly female experts with 10+ years of experience.
Funding
Funding not disclosed
Founders
Product
Problem
Companies often struggle to find qualified, flexible talent for project-based work or temporary vacancies such as parental leave coverage. Traditional recruiting processes are time-consuming, and managing freelance collaborations involves complex compliance, contract, and payment administration that many HR teams are not equipped to handle efficiently.
Solution
UPYU provides a digital platform that connects companies with a curated community of over 7,000 pre-vetted freelance professionals and candidates for family-friendly permanent positions. The platform manages the entire collaboration lifecycle, from AI-supported matching and project posting to contract management, time tracking, and payment processing. UPYU integrates legal compliance checks, including verification of self-employment status and legally reviewed contract templates, ensuring right-secure collaboration. The service also includes a specialized recruiting option for senior roles in finance and HR, with active sourcing and candidate preselection handled by UPYU experts.
Target Audience
Primary customers are HR teams and leaders in startups, mid-sized companies, and corporations needing flexible, qualified talent for project work, interim coverage, or family-friendly permanent roles, particularly those with a focus on diversity, ESG, and female recruiting.
Features
- Curated talent pool of 7,000+ professionals with an average of 15 years of experience, 90% being female professionals with 10+ years of expertise
- AI-powered Smart Posting Wizard that creates job or project listings from natural language input in seconds
- Integrated compliance checks including two-step identity and self-employment verification, plus legal-tech interface for pseudo-self-employment risk assessment
- End-to-end project management with digital contract creation, time tracking, and payment processing
- Matching algorithm that suggests suitable talents, with direct chat functionality for communication
- Optional full-service recruiting for senior finance and HR positions, including active sourcing and presentation of up to 5 curated candidate profiles