Glassdoor has released its latest gender pay gap data analysis. In the U.S., the unadjusted pay gap comes in at 21.4 percent, meaning women make just $0.79 for every $1 men earn. But, when controlling for variables like age, education, location, experience, occupation and industry, the pay gap is 4.9 percent. That’s a slight improvement […]
View More The gender wage gap is shrinking among computer programmers, but it’s still quite largeCategory: Glassdoor
Japanese internet giant Recruit has a new $25M blockchain fund
Crypto market prices may be down significantly, but new investors continue to enter the blockchain space. The latest is Recruit Holdings, the $45 billion Japanese internet giant that owns Glassdoor among other things, which quietly launched a $25 million fund. The fund is based out of Singapore and it closed in November 2018, but its […]
View More Japanese internet giant Recruit has a new $25M blockchain fundRecent departures hint at turmoil at Quartet Health, a mental health startup backed by GV
Quartet Health, a startup backed with nearly $100 million from GV, Oak HC/FT and more, has quietly lost its COO, CPO and replaced its CEO this month.
View More Recent departures hint at turmoil at Quartet Health, a mental health startup backed by GVYC grad The Lobby raises $1.2M to help job seekers break into Wall Street
The Lobby will use the funds to build out its finance job marketplace, which founder and CEO Deepak Chhugani says is like a “personalized Glassdoor.”
View More YC grad The Lobby raises $1.2M to help job seekers break into Wall StreetAI training and social network content moderation services bring TaskUs a $250 million windfall
TaskUs, the business process outsourcing service that moderates content, annotates information and handles back office customer support for some of the world’s largest tech companies, has raised $250 million in an investment from funds managed by the New York-based private equity giant, Blackstone Group. It’s been ten years since TaskUs was founded with a $20,000 investment […]
View More AI training and social network content moderation services bring TaskUs a $250 million windfallHired raises $30M to build an easy subscription pipeline for company hiring
Recruiting is one of the latest industries to get a data science makeover through companies like Hired and Triplebyte, but the former hopes to turn it into a subscription business just like other enterprise software companies — and has raised a new pile of funding to do that. Hired looks to serve as a one-stop […]
View More Hired raises $30M to build an easy subscription pipeline for company hiringUS startups off to a strong M&A run in 2018
With Microsoft’s $7.5 billion acquisition of GitHub this week, we can now decisively declare a trend: 2018 is shaping up as a darn good year for U.S. venture-backed M&A.
View More US startups off to a strong M&A run in 2018Equity podcast: Robinhood raises, Flipkart exits and MoviePass is running out of cash
Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-themed podcast where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. This week Matthew Lynley, Connie Loizos and myself were joined by Villi Iltchev, a partner at August Capital. It was good that we had a full crew on deck, as the news flew thick and varied this week. In honor of […]
View More Equity podcast: Robinhood raises, Flipkart exits and MoviePass is running out of cashTiger Global Management is killing it right now
It took some time, but Tiger Global Management is starting to wring some serious paydays out of its tech investments. In one of its biggest wins to date, the secretive, 16-year-old, New York-based hedge fund is reportedly set to make roughly $3 billion off Flipkart, the India-based e-commerce juggernaut that’s selling a majority stake in […]
View More Tiger Global Management is killing it right nowJob hunting service Glassdoor sold to Japan’s Recruit for $1.2 billion
U.S. job hunting service Glassdoor, which is best known for providing insight into company working cultures, has been acquired for $1.2 billion in cash by Recruit, a $39 billion Japanese corporate that specializes in HR and recruitment services. The all-cash acquisition will see Glassdoor continue to maintain its brand, CEO Robert Hohman explained in a blog […]
View More Job hunting service Glassdoor sold to Japan’s Recruit for $1.2 billion