Australia-based Sidekicker Raises $10 million for Job Board Marketplace Focused on Hospitality
Marketplaces continue to lead the specialization trend in HR tech. Sidekicker provides "vetted and screened" candidates for the Hospitality industry. Based out of Australia, this raise was led by Seek. Seek has an active corporate fund in this space. Source:...
StepStone a Germany-based Global Job Board Network Acquires Appcast for $79.5 Million USD
As acquisitions go, this one makes sense. Appcast, a U.S. provider of programmatic job ad distribution is acquired by Germany-based Stepstone a global network of job boards. Stepstone's brand is considerably stronger outside of the U.S. which makes this not only about...
SV Academy Raised $9.5 Million for Tuition-free Business Development Training That Results in A Job In Tech
New job board marketplaces are offering formal training or education in order to close the skills gap in industries like tech. We've seen this for developer jobs and skills, but SV Academy offers this model for sales/business development. Students/candidates don't pay...
U.K.-based Florence Raises $5.7 Million USD Series A for Job Board Marketplace focused on Temp Shift Workers for Care Home Providers
Florence, a London, UK-based recruitment marketplace connecting care home providers with qualified professionals to fill temporary shifts, raised £5m in Series A funding.The round, which brought total funding raised to date to £7m, was led by SEEK (ASX:SEK),...
France-based CleverConnect raises $6.25 Million USD for its Recruiting Tech Suite
France-based CleverConnect has developed a recruiting tech suite including a job board (MeteoJob), Video Interviewing (Visiotalent), and AI-based candidate matching (HRmatch). They've grown to $15.9 Million USD sales before raising this round that will be used for...
Italy-based Codemotion Raises $2.81 Million USD for its Marketplace Connecting Developers and Companies
While most skill-focused marketplaces tend to be job boards in a new package, Rome-based Codemotion blends learning, content, and events to provide a true marketplace for developers. Whether developing skills, getting the latest tech news, or finding the next...
Greenhouse Opens Up For Enterprise
For Large Global Enterprise Customers, Greenhouse Says It’s Open For Business Greenhouse Open 19, the hiring platform’s annual customer and industry event, took place in New York City over two days this week. More than 1300 current and aspiring “talent makers”...
TREND NOTE: AllyO raises $45 Million Series B for its AI Hiring and Onboarding – Doubles Down on “Platform” Language
TREND NOTE: Will AI augment or replace current recruiting tech infrastructure? AllyO announced a $45 million series B and wants to be your new hiring and onboarding platform. If you've taken a call, or a briefing, from an AI-based recruiting tech then you've...
Learning About the SmartRecruiters $50 Million Series D Round with CEO Jerome Ternyck
SmartRecruiters announced a $50 Million Series D round of venture capital today. Join HRWins Analyst George LaRocque as he discusses the raise with SmartRecruiters CEO Jerome Ternyck. George and Jerome quickly cover a lot of ground: why they raised this funding now,...
SmartRecruiters Raises $50 Million Series D to Double Down on AI
SmartRecruiters just raised another $50 million, bringing its total raised to over $100 million, raising the stakes and the pressure to execute for the ATS vendor that got its start in the SMB and now focuses on larger enterprise customers. From VentureBeat:...
Instawork Raises $18 Million for Hospitality Industry Job Board Marketplace
Nowhere is specialization and focus more key to future success than in the job board marketplace category. Long the leader in annual HR tech VC investment, and one of the most mature categories in our market. The latest freelance/gig job board to raise VC is...
Brazil-based Matchbox Brasil Raises $250K USD for New Recruitment Marketing Platform
Specialization continues in the global HR technology space, with Matchbox Brasil raising $250K USD for a new recruitment marketing platform focused on the SA region. ( Baguete ) Matchbox Brasil, startup of the human resources segment, has just received a new round of...