Recruit invested in the specialist hiring platform through the $20m HR Technology Fund it formed in January this year.

Human resources provider Recruit Holdings invested $7.5m yesterday in HackerRank, the India-based operator of a recruitment platform for tech workers, according to the Economic Times.

HackerRank operates as an online community where developers can hone their coding skills and companies can look to hire talent.

Recruit already maintained a relationship with HackerRank through its Indeed subsidiary, which used the platform to hire some of its own engineering staff. The Japan-based firm made the investment through the $20m HR Technology Fund…