What Business Developer does

Talentview, operated by Humandu GmbH (HRB 11236, Amtsgericht Friedberg), is a Germany-based B2B SaaS provider of HR profiling and matching tools founded in 2010 and headquartered in Butzbach, with an additional Munich presence. The company sells a web-based platform built around a 60-question psychometric questionnaire and a proprietary scoring framework, the 8 Function Model, grounded in established psychological constructs including Carl Jung's personality theory, the Belbin Team Roles, the Big Five (OCEAN), and the Margerison-McCann Team Management Systems. The product family spans individual profile reports (Talentview Profilanalyse, the 15-16 page ReflectionProfile, and the shorter 4-page SmartProfile and SmartPlusProfile), team-level analytics (Team-Mapping and Team-Oktagon), and organizational diagnostics (Organisationskulturanalyse, Job-Matching, and Anforderungsprofil).

The platform is delivered under a subscription model with monthly, semi-annual, and annual tiers priced per profile quota, sold direct to B2B customers across the DACH region and Benelux. The go-to-market motion is sales-led, targeting HR departments, executive search firms, and academic institutions; named reference customers include BERA Personalberatung, Stadt Dornbirn, Mikrogen, Koppermann, and Hochschule Heilbronn. The firm has built an academic-partnership layer, including research collaborations with Hochschule Heilbronn (2016) and EIKV Luxembourg (2016), and operates GDPR-compliant data handling under German jurisdiction, with the company claiming EU data residency.

The business is privately held with no disclosed funding rounds or external investors; Farid Thomas Arbabi serves as Managing Director. The company relies on a small internal team supplemented by an extended practitioner network described as 196 contributors in firmographic data, although the operating footprint in Butzbach and Munich appears materially smaller than that headcount implies. There are no announced product integrations with broader HRIS suites, no app-store presence, and no AI/ML capability claims in the public material; the underlying engine is deterministic psychometrics rather than machine learning.

Name

Business Developer

Legal name

Humandu GmbH

Website

https://talentview.de

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

101–250 employees

Short description

Talentview (Humandu GmbH) is a German B2B SaaS provider of psychometric HR profiling and team-matching tools built on the proprietary 8 Function Model, serving HR departments, executive search firms, and academic institutions across DACH and Benelux via subscription-based direct sales.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

HR Profiling & Talent Assessment Software

NAICS

Employment Placement Agencies (561311), Employment Placement Agencies and Executive Search Services (56131), Employment Services (5613)

SIC

Services-Prepackaged Software (7372), Services-Employment Agencies (7361)

akta.pro primary industry

Personality & Behavioral Assessments (BPACAMAC)

akta.pro secondary industries

Talent Acquisition (Recruiting) & Applicant Tracking (ATS) (BPACAPAD), Cognitive Ability & General Intelligence Testing (BPACAMAB)

Keywords

• HR profiling software
• Talent assessment platform
• Candidate matching tools
• Team mapping solutions
• Recruitment analytics

Headquarters

HQ city

Butzbach

HQ country

Germany

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Operations

Revenue model

1. Web Service Subscription: Companies access the Talentview platform via paid subscription. Usage can be agreed monthly, semi-annually, or annually. Profile quotas can also be negotiated. Once user accounts are activated, the web service is available for the agreed usage period.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

Talentview Profilanalyse® is a web-based HR profiling and matching platform that uses a 60-question online questionnaire built on an 8 Function Model methodology to identify individual preferences, skills, and potentials of candidates and employees. The platform generates candidate profiles (ReflectionProfile, SmartProfile/SmartPlusProfile), requirement profiles for vacant positions, and team maps, and includes automated candidate-to-requirement matching functionality for HR and recruitment use cases.

Product overview

Talentview Profilanalyse® is a unified, web-based HR profiling platform offered by Humandu GmbH. The core Talentview Profiling® system provides an 8 Function Model methodology using a 60-question online questionnaire to generate candidate, employee, and team profiles. The platform delivers outputs through distinct profile tiers: the compact SmartPlusProfile© (4 pages) and SmartProfile© for HR decision-makers, and the detailed ReflectionProfile© (15-16 pages) for candidates. Key features include Job-Matching (automated candidate-to-requirement comparison), Team-Mapping/Team-Oktagon (visual team structure analysis), and organizational culture analysis. Access is provided via company login to the Talentview web portal, with monthly, semi-annual, or annual subscription options.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• SmartProfile©: A concise profile analysis generating a 4-page graphical report for HR decision makers, used as basis for matching.
• SmartPlusProfile©
• ReflectionProfile©
• Team-Mapping
• SmartProfile©

Products and services

• Talentview Profilanalyse® / Talentview Profiling® Web-based HR profiling and job-matching solution enabling companies to create candidate profiles, requirement profiles, and team profiles via an online questionnaire, with automatic matching functionality that compares candidate profiles against requirement profiles for vacant positions. Includes SmartProfile/SmartPlusProfile (4 pages) and ReflectionProfile (15-16 pages) outputs, Team-Mapping visualization, and crowd-based organizational culture analysis. Targeted at HR managers, recruiters, executives, and team leaders in DACH and Benelux organizations.

Quantifiable outcome

• Recruitment cost reduction through improved candidate-job matching
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers5 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature6 records

Partnerships

Three partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• Hochschule Heilbronn (Heilbronn University)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 December 2016Academic partnership for scientific development and validation of the Talentview profiling methodology. Prof. Dr. Heiko Hansjosten holds a teaching position and leads joint research activities. Students have participated in research projects involving Talentview profile analysis methodology.
• European Institute for Knowledge and Value-Management (EIKV) LuxembourgcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerResearch partnership for development of the Talentview profiling methodology and organizational development methods. Presented at Digital Skills and Jobs Coalition conference in Luxembourg (2017) alongside Luxembourg Prime Minister.
• BERA PersonalberatungcoreTechnology or IntegrationUses Talentview Profiling as part of their diagnostic toolkit alongside INSIGHTS MDI and ASSESS for candidate evaluation. Co-developed a Kurzprofil (short profile) with Talentview for enhanced placement security.

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• Personio: Leading German-headquartered HR suite for SMBs covering recruiting, employee management and people analytics. Not a direct assessment peer, but a broader DACH HR platform buyer Talentview may integrate with or compete against for HR tech wallet share.
• Aon Assessment Solutions: Global consulting giant's assessment arm offering psychometric testing and talent analytics as part of a broader HR consulting portfolio. Overlaps with Talentview's candidate profiling and matching but at far greater scale and breadth.

Direct peers

• Pymetrics: AI-based behavioral assessment platform for hiring and talent redeployment, using neuroscience-inspired games instead of questionnaires. Comparable as a modern, web-delivered behavioral assessment targeting the same HR buyer but with a different methodological approach.
• Hogan Assessments: Personality and behavioral assessment vendor built on personality-psychology frameworks, widely used for hiring and leadership development. Directly comparable to Talentview's personality/behavioral profiling and team applications, though at materially larger global scale.
• Thomas International: Global provider of psychometric and behavioral assessments (e.g., DISC-based PPA) used for recruitment and team development. Closely comparable to Talentview in methodology philosophy, target buyer (HR managers and consultancies), and subscription-style delivery model.
• Cubiks (PDRI): Provider of psychometric and behavioral assessments for selection, development and team building. Comparable to Talentview in combining personality and competency measurement with team-focused outputs and HR consultancy distribution.
• INSIGHTS MDI: Germany-origin DISC-based behavioral assessment used for coaching, recruitment and team development. Explicitly used alongside Talentview by BERA Personalberatung, making it a direct methodological and geographic competitor in DACH.
• AssessFirst: European predictive recruitment platform combining personality, motivation and cognitive assessments with job-matching. Closely comparable to Talentview in combining multiple psychometrics with an automated matching function for SMB and enterprise HR buyers.
• SHL (Gartner): Large-scale talent assessment provider offering psychometric tests, behavioral questionnaires and matching tools for enterprise hiring. Directly comparable product set to Talentview Profiling, with a global enterprise GTM motion.

Others

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Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Compliance1 record

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles4 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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