Canada-based Neuvoo Raises USD $40 Million for Its Job Search
The latest job board to raise significant funds is Canada-based Neuvoo for its job search aggregation site. They state that their plan is to move into new markets and make additional investments into their artificial intelligence. Source: CDPQ invests...
Checkr Raises $160 Million for Its Background Check Solution and Views International Expansion
Checkr just announced a $160 Million funding round against a valuation of $2.2 Billion. Background checks don't get a lot of the market sizzle in talent acquisition technology but they're used across all market segments and represent a massive total addressable market...
MarketerHire Raises $1 Million Seed Round for Its Marketing Freelancer-focused Marketplace – Job Board
MarketerHire is the latest entry into to the crowded world of freelance marketing marketplace/job boards . With the success of companies like Upwork and Fiverr, entrepreneurs are rushing to enter the market. This is the second seed announcement for a marketing...
France-based Next Station Raises USD $1.1 Million Seed for Job Board Focused on International Job Search
The latest job board to get an early Seed round of funding is Next Station in Paris. Focused on job search and matching for candidates looking for international positions. The localization/specialization trend continues... Source: Paris-based Next Station...
Wethos Raises $3M For Its Marketing-Focused Marketplace/Job Board To Expand Beyond Non-Profits
Wethos just raised $3 Million for its marketing-focused marketplace/job board. They look to be a true marketplace for marketing talent and teams to connect with employers for project work. What makes them a "true marketplace," in our view, is their reference to...
France-based JobTeaser Raises USD $56 Million for Its Student-focused Job Board
Paris-based JobTeaser provides a job board focused on new grads combined with a career-guidance content. They've just raised USD $56 Million which they tell Techcrunch they will use to expand their network of schools in U.K. and Ireland. Source: JobTeaser scores £45M...
Incredible Health Raises $15M for Nursing Job Board Marketplace
Job board marketplaces continue to curry favor with venture capitalists. VC looking at HR technology love a two-sided marketplace almost as much as they love specialization in a recession proof industry with a well defined business need. Modern job boards focusing on...
RippleMatch Raises $6M For Diversity-focused Campus Recruiting Tech
RippleMatch raised $6 million to help employers better match students to internships and jobs. Campus recruiting technology isn't new. Neither is campus recruiting technology that leverages AI. RippleMatch told TechCrunch that after gathering basic candidate...
U.K.-based Arctic Shores Raises USD $5.5 Million for Gamified Psychometric Assessments
Looks like the market will have a new neuroscience-driven psychometric assessment to compare to Pymetrics. U.K.-based Arctic Shores’ raised USD $5.5 Million for its gamified psychometric tests for recruitment. Gamification does improve the assessment experience,...
Argentina-based Emi Labs Raises USD $2 Million For Its Conversational Recruiting App
Argentna-based Emi Labs, a member of Y Combinator's winter cohort, just raised a $2 million seed round for its conversational recruiting app. Like most chat-based recruiting interfaces, Emi looks to be built for high volume recruiting, touting customers in banking,...
ZapInfo Raises $1.75M Additional Seed Funding
Zapinfo automates data flow between talent platforms (ATS, CRM, recruitment marketing, etc.) and the sourcing sites (job boards, social networks, search engines.) Their goal is to help recruiters time lost today doing manual and time consuming work to search, extract,...
Y Combinator Invests USD $1.8 Million in 12 Seed Rounds for HR Technology Startups Unveiled at S19 Demo Day
Every year we scour the lists from Y Combinator's demo days. This year, as reported by TechCrunch, 166 startups were unveiled over two days to Silicon Valley investors, influencers, and media to pitch their companies and tech. Based our our review, twelve of them fall...