EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: Jobvite, JazzHR, and NXTThing RPO Join Forces with New SMB and Recruiting RPO Service Provider Offerings
Meet Aman Brar, CEO of jobvite, Terry Terhark CEO of Nxtthing RPO, and Pete Lamson CEO of JazzHR as they announce their merger in an exclusive interview with industry analysts Madeline Laurano of Aptitude Research and George LaRocque of WorkTech. Learn about the deal,...
HR MarketWatch Podcast: How Has COVID Impacted the Independent Workforce?
Look at the latest data on the independent workforce, aka the contingent workforce, with WorkTech founder George LaRocque. An already rising trend, its adoption has been accelerated by COVID like so many things. About half of the US workforce is currently or has...
Seven Unicorns and $2.7 Billion: Global WorkTech’s Biggest Ever Quarter of VC Investment
GET THE FREE REPORT NOW Work tech saw its biggest VC quarter ever in q1 2021 with $2.7B invested globally across 91 deals in 16 countries. The full report is available to WorkTech Market Insiders, Members, and subscribers. Meet the seven new work tech unicornsSee the...
RigUp Job Board Marketplace Broadens Focus From Oil and Gas to Skilled Trades, Rebrands as Workrise and Raises $300 Million
Workrise, formerly known as RigUp, announced a $300 million Series E round of venture capital with a $2.9 billion valuation. This brings its total raised to $752.5 million. That's a lot of money raised and a massive valuation for a company with a brand that is largely...
Canvas Raises $20M for Diversity Recruiting App Joining Increasingly Competitive Category
Canvas, formerly known as Jumpstart, announced a $20 million Series B round of venture capital for its diversity recruiting app. This brings its total raised to $32.7 million. Canvas is positioning itself as a "diversity recruiting platform" but presents itself as...
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Lili Raises $55 Million for Its Freelancer Banking App
Lili announced a $55 million Series B round of venture capital for its freelancer-focused banking app. This brings its total raised to $80 million. The number of people working independently in the US is on the rise for both full-time and "side hustle" scenarios,...
Spot Raises $1.7 Million to Build ‘Sims for the Enterprise’ for the Return to the Office
Spot raised a $1.7 million Seed round of venture capital for its hybrid work platform, positioned as "Sims for the enterprise." The post-COVID return to the office has resulted in the funding of several workplace planning, safety, and hybrid work supporting startups....
DailyPay Raises $175 Million for On-Demand Pay – Adds Debt Financing and Looks Beyond HR and Work
DailyPay announced a $175 million Series D round of venture capital for its on-demand pay solution. It also added debt financing (what they call credit capital) of $325 million. DailyPay's total raised to date is unclear because several of its earlier rounds were...
Vida Health Raises $110 Million Bringing Employees Physical and Mental Health Wellness
Vida Health announced a $110 million Series D round of venture capital funding for its virtual chronic care platform. This brings its total raised to $188 million. Vida believes "that personalized, continuous virtual mental and physical care can be more effective and...
China-based Beisen Raises USD $260 Million for Low Code Core HR and Talent Management
China-based Beisen announced a USD $260 million Series F round of venture capital for its low code core HR and talent management platform. Claiming to be China's largest HR SaaS and talent management platform, this brings its total raised to $388 million. It is...
Legion Raises $50 Million for AI-powered Workforce Management
Legion announced a $50 million Series C round of venture capital for its AI-powered workforce management solution. This brings its total raised to $85.5 million. Workforce managment tech is core to getting work done. If you consider what the vast majority of jobs look...
Talent Acquisition
EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: Stoke Raises $15.5 Million for Its Non-payroll Hiring Platform
Stoke announced a $15.5 million A round of venture capital for its non-payroll hiring platform. This brings its total raised to $20 million. Stoke allows companies to empower anyone hiring a non-payroll worker to do so quickly and efficiently from any talent source....
RigUp Job Board Marketplace Broadens Focus From Oil and Gas to Skilled Trades, Rebrands as Workrise and Raises $300 Million
Workrise, formerly known as RigUp, announced a $300 million Series E round of venture capital with a $2.9 billion valuation. This brings its total raised to $752.5 million. That's a lot of money raised and a massive valuation for a company with a brand that is largely...
Canvas Raises $20M for Diversity Recruiting App Joining Increasingly Competitive Category
Canvas, formerly known as Jumpstart, announced a $20 million Series B round of venture capital for its diversity recruiting app. This brings its total raised to $32.7 million. Canvas is positioning itself as a "diversity recruiting platform" but presents itself as...
INTERVIEW: PandoLogic CEO Terry Baker on Acquisition of Wade and Wendy Conversational AI for Recruiting
PandoLogic CEO Terry Baker discusses the acquisition of Wade and Wendy with Madeline Laurano of Aptitude Research and George LaRocque of WorkTech. The group explores: Why the acquisition of conversational AI, and why Wade and Wendy?How will PandoLogic's programmatic...
Blind Raises $37M to Blend Workplace Gossip, Career Advice, and Recruiting. What Could Go Wrong?
Blind, the anonymous professional network, announced a $37 million Series C round of venture capital to move its platform toward career advice and recruiting. This brings its total raised to $61.8 million. Blind gives users an anonymous network, which presents like a...
Singapore-based Impress.ai Raises $3m for Conversational Recruiting Tech
Singapore-based impress.ai announced a USD $3 million Seed round of venture capital funding for its conversational recruiting tech. This brings its total raised to $4.4 million. Impress.ai operates a no-code, self-service platform that is highly focused on simplifying...
TALENT MANAGEMENT
WorkBoard Raises $75 Million for OKR-based Performance Management in A Crowded Category Where One Size Never Fits All
WorkBoard announced a $75 million Series D round of venture capital for its OKR-based performance management app. This brings its total raised to $131 million. Performance management has moved away from forced rankings and annual reviews to more goal-based approaches...
Fuel50 Raises $15.5 Million for Internal Mobility – A Category Without A Clear Owner
Fuel50 announced a $15.5 million Series B round of venture capital funding for its internal mobility app. This brings its total raised to $36.1 million. Positioning itself as a "talent marketplace," the company, from its inception, has been focused on career pathing...
Pathlight Raises $25 Million for Real Time Performance Management
Pathlight announced a $25 million Series B round of venture capital for its real-time performance management solution, largely focused on customer-facing teams. This brings its total raised to $34.2 million. Pathlight's solutions are focused on metrics-driven teams...
ExecOnline Raises $45 Million for Online Leadership Development
ExecOnline announced a $45 million Series D round of venture capital funding for its online leadership development solutions. This brings its total raised to $87.7 million. ExecOnline partners with elite business schools like Berkeley Haas, Columbia, Stanford GSB, and...
Degreed Raises $153 Million for Its Learning and Upskilling Platform and Becomes Work Tech’s Latest Unicorn With a $1.4 Billion Valuation
Degreed became work tech's newest unicorn with a $153 million Series D round of venture capital for its learning and upskilling platform. This brings its total raised to $360.2 million. Degreed started as a hybrid consumer and corporate learning platform with a...
TREND NOTE: Spekit Raises $12.2 Million For Digital Adoption, Learning, and Joy
Spekit announced a $12.2 million Series A for its digital adoption and learning app. Learning has been disrupted more frequently than any other category in work tech. Rapid transformations in tech have finally, or at least more effectively, caught up with the science...
Employee Experience
Firstbase Raises $13 Million for Remote Workforce Infrastructure
Firstbase announced a $13 million Series A round of venture capital for its remote workforce infrastructure app, bringing its total raised to $15.1 million. Its software platform helps companies set up, manage, maintain and retrieve all physical equipment remote...
Aisera Raises $40M to Bring AI Virtual Assistants to the Employee Experience and More
Aisera announced a $40 million Series C round of venture capital for its conversational AI and RPA focused on employee and customer experience. This brings its total raised to $74.5 million. In its press release, Aisera describes itself as an "AI-driven service...
BrightPlan Raises $9.5 Million For Financial Wellness App
Brightplan announced a $9.5 million Series A round of venture capital for its financial wellness app and services. This brings its total raised to $11.2 million. Financial wellness is one of several components in the emerging Employee Total Wellbeing category, which...
Workchew Raise $2.5M for On-Demand Flex Workplaces
Workchew announced a $2.5 million Seed round of venture capital to give teams and employers access to on-demand flexible workplaces by leveraging available hotel and restaurant space. The company offers a member-based subscription model providing access to workspaces...
VIDEO: UK-based The Happiness Index Raises USD $1.46M to Couple Emotional Intelligence with Engagement
The Happiness Index announced a USD $1.46 million Seed round of venture capital to couple emotional intelligence with employee engagement. In their product they leverage a combination of data science, AI and neuroscience to give immediate visibility into the key...
Slapdash Raises $3.7M for Its Workplace Apps Command Bar for Collaboration
Slapdash announced a $3.7 million Seed Round of VC for its workplace apps command bar. Slapdash allows users to organize their enterprise apps into workspaces that provide for better search, collaboration, and communication. The communications and collaboration...
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EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: Stoke Raises $15.5 Million for Its Non-payroll Hiring Platform
Stoke announced a $15.5 million A round of venture capital for its non-payroll hiring platform. This brings its total raised to $20 million. Stoke allows companies to empower anyone hiring a non-payroll worker to do so quickly and efficiently from any talent source....
Lili Raises $55 Million for Its Freelancer Banking App
Lili announced a $55 million Series B round of venture capital for its freelancer-focused banking app. This brings its total raised to $80 million. The number of people working independently in the US is on the rise for both full-time and "side hustle" scenarios,...
Spot Raises $1.7 Million to Build ‘Sims for the Enterprise’ for the Return to the Office
Spot raised a $1.7 million Seed round of venture capital for its hybrid work platform, positioned as "Sims for the enterprise." The post-COVID return to the office has resulted in the funding of several workplace planning, safety, and hybrid work supporting startups....
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