Recrewed

What Recrewed does

Recrewed is a privately held Dutch recruitment and training consultancy headquartered in the Bollenstreek region of the Netherlands. The company operates two integrated service lines: the Recruitment Optimizer, a SaaS-style Recruitment-as-a-Service platform that performs active outbound candidate outreach (reaching roughly 200 relevant candidates per month per vacancy) and provides a centralized dashboard for tracking vacancies, candidate responses, and pipeline progress; and Trainingen, a customized training offering covering communication, collaboration, leadership, sales conversations, HRM conversations, interview training, and effective presenting. The product is differentiated primarily by its pricing model rather than by technology: Recrewed sells fixed monthly subscriptions (Self-service €499/month, Full-service €599/month, plus a 3-Month Sprint at €699/month) and explicitly does not charge traditional W&S (placement) fees, replacing variable hiring costs with predictable operating expenses.

The underlying technology stack centers on a web-based dashboard (dashboard.recrewed.nl) that consolidates vacancy management and candidate pipeline visibility for clients. Beyond the dashboard, the core 'engine' is human-led active candidate outreach rather than an AI-mediated matching or generation system, although the team references general AI and automation familiarity in partner bios. Recrewed serves a horizontal mix of Dutch and Belgian mid-market and enterprise clients across verticals such as legal (A&O Shearman), shipping (Roll Group, Vario Shipping), food (Remia), security (Intersafe, SuurS), sports (BVO), and professional services (Yacht, BMC, Unidex, KRC van Elderen).

The go-to-market combines a consultative sales motion built around a free introductory meeting (kennismaking), a self-serve dashboard trial layer, LinkedIn presence, and word-of-mouth referrals driven by published case studies. The company operates with a 4-person team led by partners Rogier Mentink and Théo Mentink, has been bootstrapped since inception with no external funding disclosed, and markets itself to organizations with difficult-to-fill office-based (kantoorfuncties) vacancies and to teams seeking structured recruitment processes with reduced agency dependency.

Name

Recrewed

Legal name

Recrewed

Website

https://recrewed.nl

Company type

Private

Founded year

2007

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Recrewed is a privately held Dutch recruitment and training consultancy that sells a subscription-based Recruitment-as-a-Service platform (Recruitment Optimizer) plus customized team training, targeting mid-market and enterprise clients across the Netherlands and Belgium with active candidate outreach and no traditional placement fees.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Recruitment Software

NAICS

Employment Placement Agencies (561311), Employment Services (5613)

SIC

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

akta.pro primary industry

Sourcing / Talent Research & Pipeline RPO (Sourcer-as-a-Service) (BPACABAM)

akta.pro secondary industries

RPO Technology, ATS Administration & Recruitment Operations (BPACABAN), Hybrid / Selective RPO (Partial Outsourcing) (BPACABAC), Sales Onboarding & Ramp Programs (EDABABAA)

Keywords

• Recruitment optimization platform
• Active candidate outreach
• Recruitment-as-a-service
• Team training programs
• HR recruitment solutions

Headquarters

HQ city

Netherlands

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Recruitment Optimizer Subscriptions: Monthly subscription fees for recruitment optimization services with two tiers: Self-service (€499/month) and Full-service (€599/month). Both include active candidate outreach, 200 potential candidates per month, progress tracking, and no placement fee. A flexible 3-month sprint option is available at €699/month for short-term starts.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

Recrewed provides a Recruitment Optimizer subscription platform that actively reaches ~200 relevant candidates per vacancy each month and gives clients a centralized dashboard for vacancy, response, and pipeline tracking, replacing traditional placement-fee recruitment. The firm complements this with customized Trainingen programs covering communication, collaboration, leadership, and team behavior, sold as practical workshops for organizations.

Product overview

Recrewed offers two integrated service lines: the Recruitment Optimizer (a SaaS recruitment platform) and Trainingen (customized training services). The Recruitment Optimizer provides active candidate outreach, a unified dashboard for vacancy and candidate management, and operates on a fixed monthly subscription model without traditional placement fees. It is available in self-service (€499/month) and full-service (€599/month) tiers, plus a flexible 3-month sprint option. Training services complement recruitment by strengthening team capabilities in communication, collaboration, and leadership through customized programs.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Recruitment Optimizer (RaaS): A recruitment solution offering active candidate outreach without traditional W&S fees, with a monthly dashboard for tracking vacancies, responses, and candidate progress.
• Trainingen

Products and services

• Recruitment Optimizer A recruitment-as-a-service (RaaS) platform subscription for organizations with hard-to-fill office-level vacancies; actively reaches around 200 relevant candidates per vacancy each month and provides a unified dashboard for vacancy, response, and pipeline management.
• Trainingen (Training Services) Customized practical training workshops for teams covering communication, collaboration, leadership, sales conversations, HRM conversations, interview training, customer focus, and effective presenting, designed to be applicable to daily work.
• Recrewed Dashboard Centralized recruitment dashboard delivered with the Recruitment Optimizer subscription for tracking vacancies, candidate responses, selection progress, and managing the hiring pipeline in one view.
• Vacatures (Job Listings) Current job listings page on the Recrewed website where candidates can find open vacancies across food, security, shipping, and maritime industries, with salary indications.

Quantifiable outcome

• A function that was open for multiple months was successfully filled using the Recruitment Optimizer
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers11 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature3 records

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Workable: Global recruiting SaaS with applicant tracking, sourcing, and AI-assisted candidate matching sold on subscription tiers similar in shape to Recrewed's Recruitment Optimizer. Targets the same mid-market employer buyer seeking a self-service alternative to traditional agencies.
• OTYS Recruiting Technology: Dutch recruitment software vendor with a long-standing presence in the Netherlands and Belgium, offering ATS, vacancy distribution, and recruitment workflow tools. Directly comparable to Recrewed in geography and target buyer (Dutch staffing agencies and corporate recruiters).
• Recruitee: Amsterdam-headquartered recruitment software (ATS + collaborative hiring) that competes with Recrewed's Recruitment Optimizer dashboard in the Dutch and broader European SMB/mid-market segment. Both target employers looking to move beyond agency placement fees toward a software-led hiring workflow.
• Homerun: Amsterdam-based modern ATS and careers-page platform with strong adoption among Dutch and European SMBs. Overlaps with Recrewed on the dashboard, candidate-pipeline management, and self-service hiring workflows for small HR teams.

Broad incumbents

• Lever: Combined ATS + CRM platform for talent acquisition, with automation and analytics features comparable in spirit to Recrewed's centralized dashboard. Operates broadly across enterprise and growth-stage companies rather than focusing on Dutch mid-market subscriptions.
• LinkedIn Talent Solutions: Microsoft-owned talent platform combining LinkedIn Recruiter, job slots, and pipeline tools. A dominant incumbent for active candidate sourcing — directly overlapping with Recrewed's 200-candidate outreach promise — but at vastly larger scale and reach.
• Greenhouse: US-headquartered enterprise hiring platform offering ATS, structured interviewing, and onboarding. Overlaps with Recrewed on the ATS/dashboard layer but serves larger enterprise buyers with a broader product portfolio than Recrewed's SMB-focused subscription.
• Indeed Hire: Global job marketplace and sponsored-job platform with sourcing and screening add-ons for employers. Competes with Recrewed for employer recruitment budgets but at scale and with a marketplace model rather than a subscription RaaS approach.

Others

• Lano: Amsterdam-based global employment platform for hiring, paying, and managing international contractors and employees. Adjacent to Recrewed in Dutch origin and HR-tech category, but focused on cross-border employment infrastructure rather than candidate sourcing.

Emerging players

• VONQ: Rotterdam-based recruitment marketing and job-distribution platform with strong European footprint. Comparable to Recrewed in Dutch/European focus and in helping employers get vacancies in front of relevant candidates, but more focused on programmatic job advertising than end-to-end RaaS.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/recrewed
• Xx.com/recrewed

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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