Denmark-based Worksome Raises USD $13 Million for Its Freelancer Marketplace and Hiring App Walking a Conflict of Interest Tightrope as it Expands in the USA
Denmark-based Worksome raised a USD $13 million Series A round of venture capital for its freelancer sourcing and hiring app. This brings its total raised to $18.9 million. The company was born in Copenhagen by a senior X-Google team to provide medium and large...
BrightHire Raises $12.5 Million For Its Digital Interview Tech Promising More Equitable Hiring Outcomes
BrightHire announced a $12.5 million Series A round of venture capital for its digital interview tech. This brings its total raised to $15.5 million. With a message focused on producing more equitable hiring decisions, Brighthire enters the crowded field of digital...
Filtered.ai Raises $7M For Its Skills-based Tech Hiring App
Filtered.ai announced a $7 million round of venture capital for its skills-based hiring app. Offering a mix of skill challenges, video interviewing, and candidate verification, Filtered.ai promises to take the complexity out of hiring technical teams. $1.8 billion has...
Mathison Raises $4.2 Million for Diversity Recruiting
Mathison announced a $4.2 million Seed round of venture capital for its diversity recruiting app promising to reduce hiring bias and source diverse talent. This brings its total raised to $6.2 million. The Mathison solution applies a score to an employer's hiring...
interviewIA Raises $2 Million for Its Digital Interview App
interviewIA announced a @2 million Seed round of venture capital for its digital interview platform. interviewIA claims to leverage "structured data, a repeatable process, NLP, and machine learning enable us to create insights and predictors that can change hiring...
Candidate Raises $4 Million for Referral-based Job Board Marketplace
Candidate announced a $4 million Seed round for its job board marketplace based on connecting jobs with an approved referral network. Those familiar with Bounty Jobs in the staffing market will see the analogy to this more broad referral network. Employers post jobs...
Sense Raises $16M for Candidate Text and Engagement App for Recruiting and New Board Member Points to Its Future as TA Platform
Sense raised a $16 million Series C round of venture capital for its candidate text app to engage candidates in recruiting. This brings its total raised to $40 million. Will Sense be pivoting to a recruiting platform play? In its funding announcement a new board...
EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: Beamery CEO Discusses Their $138M Series C and The Future of Recruitment Marketing and Talent Operations
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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....
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...