{"id":868621,"date":"2026-08-04T13:01:03","date_gmt":"2026-08-04T11:01:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=868621"},"modified":"2026-08-04T13:07:48","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T11:07:48","slug":"wamly-raises-r50-million-to-help-companies-hire-better-people-faster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/industry-news\/868621\/wamly-raises-r50-million-to-help-companies-hire-better-people-faster\/","title":{"rendered":"Wamly raises R50 million to help companies hire better people, faster"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wamly.io\/?utm_source=businesstech&amp;utm_medium=article&amp;utm_campaign=seriesa-raise-article-2026&amp;utm_content=home-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Wamly<\/strong><\/a><strong>,<\/strong> a South African hiring platform that brings structured video interviews, psychometric assessments, background checks, and applicant tracking into one system, has raised a <strong>R50 million Series A funding round<\/strong> led by <a href=\"https:\/\/hlayisani.com\/?utm_source=BusinessTech&amp;utm_medium=Article&amp;utm_term=August+2026\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Hlayisani Capital<\/strong><\/a><strong> <\/strong>through its Hlayisani Venture Fund II, with existing investor <a href=\"https:\/\/knifecap.com\/?utm_source=BusinessTech&amp;utm_medium=Article&amp;utm_term=August+2026\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Knife Capital<\/strong><\/a> participating in the round.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The funding will be used to accelerate AI-powered hiring, expand <a href=\"https:\/\/jobs.wamly.io\/?utm_source=businesstech&amp;utm_medium=article&amp;utm_campaign=seriesa-raise-article-2026&amp;utm_content=jobs-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Wamlyjobs<\/strong><\/a>, and support the company&#8217;s international growth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wamly.io\/?utm_source=businesstech&amp;utm_medium=article&amp;utm_campaign=seriesa-raise-article-2026&amp;utm_content=home-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Click here to learn more about Wamly.<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The problem employers are having<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The conversation right now is all about AI removing jobs, but walk into almost any large or fast-growing employer and you&#8217;ll find the opposite problem,&#8221; said <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/frandewet\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Francois de Wet<\/strong><\/a><strong>,<\/strong> Founder and CEO of Wamly. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;They need to hire enormous numbers of people, and doing it well is slow, expensive and full of guesswork.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The challenge looks different for every organisation. Some businesses run continuous hiring across multiple sites with dedicated recruitment teams. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Others fill only a handful of roles each year, with hiring becoming an extra responsibility on top of someone&#8217;s primary job. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What does not change is the difficulty of making the right decision or the cost of getting it wrong.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Most hiring still runs on a collection of disconnected systems: a job board, a spreadsheet, an assessment provider, a verification vendor, and email holding everything together. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Every handover adds days to the process and every delay increases the chances of losing the best candidate to another opportunity. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When hiring pressure builds, organisations often shorten the process instead of improving it and decision quality suffers as a result.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Built by psychologists, not bolted together<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Wamly was founded by de Wet, an industrial psychologist registered with the Health Professions Council of South Africa. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While many hiring platforms are built around what is easiest to develop, Wamly was built around the science of how people should be selected for work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Decades of research consistently show that structured hiring, where every candidate answers the same questions, produces better hiring outcomes than unstructured interviews. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It removes much of the noise created by inconsistent interview questions, varying interviewer styles, candidates being assessed in different ways and impressive CVs overshadowing applicants who are ultimately a better fit for the role.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wamly.io\/?utm_source=businesstech&amp;utm_medium=article&amp;utm_campaign=seriesa-raise-article-2026&amp;utm_content=home-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Wamly<\/strong><\/a>, instead of switching between multiple systems, hiring managers have everything in one place. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Every candidate is scored and ranked, with video interview responses, skills test results, psychometric assessments, and background checks available from a single screen. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The full picture is immediately visible, making hiring decisions faster, more consistent, and easier to justify.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Candidates benefit too. Recorded interviews mean they do not need to take unpaid leave for a short screening interview. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Every applicant answers the same questions, creating a fairer process where personal connections no longer provide an unfair advantage. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Decisions are based on evidence rather than memory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The platform is faster by design. Recorded interviews eliminate scheduling delays, while assessments and verification checks run within the same system instead of being exported between multiple vendors. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Candidate comparisons happen automatically rather than manually in spreadsheets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wamly also grows with the organisations that use it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Businesses can start with the features they need today and expand as they grow, without paying for enterprise functionality they do not yet require. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Whether hiring for a single critical role or recruiting continuously across multiple locations, the same platform scales alongside the business.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Today, more than one million candidates have been through the platform. Wamly is ISO 27001 certified, a B-BBEE Level 3 contributor, and is built to meet both South African and international data privacy requirements. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2023, the company was named Tech Startup of the Year at Innovation City in Cape Town.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Better people, hired faster, with a decision you can stand behind.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Where the R50 million goes<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>AI across the entire process from writing the advert through to final decision\u2014reducing administration, surfacing better insights at every stage, and ensuring the final hiring decision remains with people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wamly will continue expanding the <a href=\"https:\/\/jobs.wamly.io\/?utm_source=businesstech&amp;utm_medium=article&amp;utm_campaign=seriesa-raise-article-2026&amp;utm_content=jobs-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Wamlyjobs<\/strong><\/a> portal into a destination where anyone in South Africa can find work, while helping employers connect with actively job-seeking candidates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The investment will support Wamly&#8217;s expansion into new international markets, taking a platform built for one of the world&#8217;s most complex labour markets into countries facing many of the same hiring challenges.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Why the investors backed it<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a  data-lightbox=\"post-image\" href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Wamly-2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Wamly-2-1024x576.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-868630\" srcset=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Wamly-2-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Wamly-2-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Wamly-2-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Wamly-2-1536x864.png 1536w, https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Wamly-2.png 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">From left to right: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/mathew-palin\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Mathew Palin<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/brettcommaille\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Brett Commaille<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/frandewet\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Francois de Wet<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/farren-mar%C3%A9-78744a75\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Farren Mare,<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/johnathansmit\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Johnathan Smit<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Wamly is precisely the kind of South African business we built this fund to support: real technology, solving a real problem, with the potential to win well beyond our borders,&#8221; said <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/brettcommaille\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Brett Commaille<\/strong><\/a>, Partner at Hlayisani Capital.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;We are delighted to continue our support through this growth round and to partner with such an outstanding team as they scale the business to the next level,&#8221; said <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/johnathansmit\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Johnathan Smit<\/strong><\/a>, Investment Manager at Knife Capital.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Hiring is the highest-stakes decision most companies make, and it is still the one they make with the least evidence. That is what we are here to change,&#8221; said de Wet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wamly.io\/posts\/how-webuycars-improved-their-recruitment-process?utm_source=businesstech&amp;utm_medium=article&amp;utm_campaign=seriesa-raise-article-2026&amp;utm_content=webuycars-casestudy-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Click here&nbsp;to see how WeBuyCars is using Wamly<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wamly has raised a R50 million Series A round to expand its hiring platform, built by industrial psychologists, into new international markets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":868632,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"posted","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"2084595733630468122","_sma_facebook_post_id":"191437357620492_2166424634177936","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10459],"tags":[855,20170,26039,1398,26038,26036,26037],"class_list":["post-868621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-industry-news","tag-business","tag-hiring","tag-hlayisani-capital","tag-jobs","tag-recruiting","tag-wamly","tag-wamlyjobs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=868621"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868621\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":868683,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868621\/revisions\/868683"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/868632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=868621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=868621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=868621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}