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UK-Based Hackajob Raises $6.7 Million, Eyes Global Expansion
Hackajob, a job platform for techies, has recently received ￡5 million ($6.7 million) in Series A funding from investors to fast track the company’s growth. The company plans to use the funding to open new office locations around the world,…
Employee Referral Platform Teamable Raises $5 Million, Acquires Simppler
San Francisco-based Teamable, which uses social networks to facilitate employee referrals, has raised $5 million in additional funds and acquired Simppler, a competitor in the referral space. Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. Teamable raised the funds from new investor…
HireVisor Dives Into the Deadpool
HireVisor, the company that let employers share the candidates that weren’t good enough to be hired with others, is calling it quits. Here’s an explainer video if you have 45 seconds to spare. “There comes a time in the course…
ConnectJob.io Is Looking a Lot Like a Crypto-Scam
If you’re investing gambling on making crypto riches, hopefully none of your capital went into Gibraltar-based ConnectJob.io. I wrote about the company almost a year ago after it had raised over $1 million on an initial coin offering, or ICO….
Just In Time to Be Commoditized, Automated Scheduling Solution GoodTime Raises $5 Million
Automated scheduling is hot. Google is in. Lever is in. TextRecruit is in. And San Francisco-based GoodTime, launched in 2016 and raising $2 million last year and $5 million more this year, is really, really in. The new round of funding was led…
Freelance Platform Moonlighting Goes International With Canadian Expansion
Canada is the new black. Indeed is making acquisitions there, programmatic is happening there, and Google for Jobs is expanding there. Even our president is fascinated with our neighbors to the north. And now comes word that freelancing platform Moonlighting…
PerkSpot Raises $50 Million, Proving Workers Like, Um, Perks
If you haven’t experienced ghosting, the trend of candidates and employees disappearing without warning, you’ve most certainly heard of it. It’s a real serious problem, apparently. And even if your company hasn’t fallen victim directly, you likely noticed employees are sticking…
Text Recruiting Stays Hot with Launch of Jobvite Text, Powered by Canvas
Sometimes a competitor being acquired is the best thing for a startup. Back in January, popular ATS platform iCIMS bought TextRecruit, a text messaging and live chat communications platform for employers that launched in 2014. “This couldn’t be a better fit,” said Erik…
Pared Lands $10 Million to Connect On-demand Workers With Restaurants
Shiftgig and Snag have a newly funded competitor to worry about. Pared, an Uber-like, on-demand platform connects workers with restaurants, has just raised $10 million in Series A. The company says it has filled more than 40,000 shifts through 1,000 customers…
Talent Relationship Marketing Platform Phenom People Raises $22 Million
The artist formerly known as iMomentous, provider of mobile-friendly career sites, has done quite an evolution the past couple of years. Moving past an awful name that no one can spell and a business model that had been commoditized by…
Interview Platform Vervoe Raises $3.5 Million, Led By SEEK
I first wrote about Australian-based Vervoe about a year ago when the startup raised $1 million. The focus of the infusion of cash was to bring its act to the States for growth opportunities. At the time, I wasn’t very…
Textio, Uncommon.co Launch New Features Promising to Help Your Recruiting Suck Less
Posting jobs online has traditionally gone something like this: Need a sales rep? Google “sales representative job description,” copy and paste, make a few edits to customize the ad then publish. As a result, many companies are posting job descriptions…
3 Companies Helping Full-Time Employees Side Hustle on Company Time
Freelancing after being laid off? Sure. Moonlighting after a full day of work to make a few extra bucks? Sure. But how about freelancing during work hours? Or making extra cash on the back of a current employer? Sounds preposterous,…
Randrr Acquires Anonymous Career-Matching Solution Anthology
Career insights platform randrr announced the acquisition of career-matchmaking site Anthology last week. Anthology is dubbed by some as a mix between Tinder and LinkedIn, anonymously matching employers with already employed but on-the-hunt employees. After filling out a few job-related questions,…
Woah! Scout Just Raised How Much?
It’s not everyday a solutions provider in our space gets $100 million bucks in funding. But it just happened. Earlier this week, John Chuang, the CEO of TRI Ventures, wrote that check to Scout Exchange. The large investment is intended…
WorkHere Pivots From High-Tech to High-Touch in Turnaround Attempt
“Oh yeah, they’re definitely out of money.” There are fewer red flags quite as red as “no more money” if you’re a startup. So, when someone close to WorkHere, wishing to remain anonymous, told me the well had run dry,…
WrkRiot CEO Faces 20 Years in Prison for Fraud, Royally Screwing Over Employees
Life can be chaotic at a startup. You never know how long the company can milk its investment cash, and being acquired is a luxury most never experience. Employees working for Isaac Choi, CEO of WrkRiot, got more than any…
This Startup Wants to Keep You From Losing People on Your Career Site
KC Donovan, a long-timer and conference-frequenter in the talent-acquisition and HR tech field, is leaving Clinch— and starting a new recruiting-technology firm in a similar genre. He’ll keep ties with Clinch, with his new company becoming a customer of Clinch….
Glassdoor Competitor Kununu Adds 2-Way Dialogue Option Between Employers and Job Seekers
Online employee reviews are becoming big business, for good reason. An iCIMS survey last year said nearly 1 in 3 workers have declined a job offer primarily because the company had negative online employer reviews. It also revealed that 47 percent…