Looking back on 2025: Building with Purpose, Growing with People

Silvia Rad

19 days ago

Looking back on 2025: Building with Purpose, Growing with People

At Growee, every year is about more than just features shipped or milestones reached. It’s about people and the teams we support, the community we’re part of, and the colleagues who turn ideas into real impact.

2025 was a year of deep building, meaningful conversations, and steady growth. From expanding our product into new areas of people management, to showing up at important industry events across Europe, to strengthening our own team culture, this year helped shape Growee into a more complete, more confident platform.

Here’s a look back at what made 2025 special:

Strengthening the Core: Product Growth That Matters

This year, we focused on one clear goal: help organizations manage their people more simply, more clearly, and more intelligently.

Expanding Growee Beyond HR Basics

2025 marked the launch and evolution of several major modules, each designed to reduce manual work and give teams better visibility:

  • Hiring & Recruitment
    We introduced a dedicated hiring module to help teams manage recruitment flows, candidates, and decisions in one place - bringing structure and clarity to a process that’s often fragmented.
  • Assets Management
    Tracking company assets became easier and more transparent, helping organizations stay organized while supporting distributed teams.
  • AI Assistant
    One of our most exciting additions, the AI Assistant started supporting HR teams with faster insights and smarter workflows - a first step toward more intelligent people operations.

Hiring & Recruitment

AI Assistant

Better Team & Time Management

We invested heavily in tools that support everyday HR work:

  • Team Management
  • Interactive org charts
  • Excel-like editing for team members
    Designed to make team data easier to maintain and easier to understand.
  • Holidays & Time Off
  • Accrual-based holiday systems
  • Holiday planners
  • Spreadsheet-style balance editing
    All built to give HR teams flexibility without sacrificing accuracy.

Holidays & Time Off

Financial & Performance Improvements

  • Invoices
    Continuous improvements throughout the year:
  • Multi-currency charts
  • Partial payment handling
  • ANAF integration
  • Multi-language email communication
    Making financial workflows clearer and more reliable.
  • Client Documents
    Centralized document handling continued to evolve, with document signing on the roadmap and nearing completion.

Each improvement came from listening closely to our users - and building features that solve real, everyday problems.

Sharing Ideas, Learning from the Community

Beyond the product, 2025 was also about showing up, listening, and contributing to conversations that shape the future of work.

Empowering Distributed Teams

In February, Growee was proudly represented at an HR and Recruitment Conference in Moldova focused on empowering distributed teams.
The event brought together HR leaders, company owners, and international speakers - reinforcing something we deeply believe:

Modern teams need tools that adapt to people, not the other way around.

It was also a great opportunity to demonstrate how Growee supports organizations in streamlining people operations while staying intuitive and human-centered.

HR and Recruitment Conference in Moldova

Connecting with the Startup Ecosystem

In April, Growee made its presence felt at the Moldova Startup Summit, where our team joined conversations about innovation, growth, and the realities of building technology products.
Being part of these discussions reminded us how important it is to stay connected to the startup ecosystem and keep learning from others on similar journeys.

Moldova Startup Summit

Human Conversations Drive Innovation

March took us to MWC Barcelona 2025, where our co-founders engaged directly with founders, innovators, and business leaders.
One key takeaway stood out clearly: the best ideas don’t start with slides - they start with conversations.

Meeting people face-to-face, exchanging perspectives, and challenging assumptions continues to fuel how we think about product and innovation at Growee.

MWC Barcelona 2025

MWC Barcelona 2025

Innovation Built on Trust

In October, Growee was present at the Transilvania Digital Innovation Summit in Cluj, where an essential topic took center stage: data security.

As digitalization accelerates, protecting people’s data isn’t optional - it’s foundational.

At Growee, trust remains at the core of everything we build. Automating HR processes only matters when data is safe, private, and protected.
Our commitment to security, reinforced by our Certificate of Trust from CyberGlobal, guides every decision we make.

Innovation, after all, only matters when it’s built on trust.

Transilvania Digital Innovation Summit in Cluj

Growing Together: Team Moments That Matter

While we spent much of the year building for others, we also made space to invest in our own team.

Spring Teambuilding: Creativity Beyond the Office

In April, part of the Growee team stepped away from screens and schedules for a spring teambuilding experience.
It was a reminder that creativity doesn’t stop at product development, but it grows when people connect, share stories, and discover new sides of each other.

The energy and ideas that come from these moments often find their way back into how we collaborate and build together.

Spring Teambuilding

Ending the Year Together

In December, we closed the year with another teambuilding, reflecting on everything we accomplished and reconnecting as a team.
These moments help us reset, celebrate progress, and move forward aligned not just as colleagues, but as people working toward a shared vision.

Looking Ahead

2025 helped us mature - as a product, as a team, and as a company.
We built more, listened more, and learned more than ever before.

As we look toward the future, we remain focused on:

  • Building tools that genuinely help people
  • Staying close to our community
  • Growing responsibly, with trust at the center

Thank you to everyone who used Growee, shared feedback, met us at events, or supported our journey this year.