Moka, a startup that wants to make talent acquisition a little more data-driven for China-based companies that range from smartphone giant Xiaomi to Burger King’s local business, announced Monday that it has raised a 180 million yuan ($27 million) Series B round of funding. The deal was led by Hillhouse Capital, an investor in top […]
View More Moka raises $27M led by Hillhouse to make hiring more data-driven in ChinaCategory: Recruitment
Mixmax brings LinkedIn integration and better task automation to its Gmail tool
Mixmax today introduced version 2.0 of its Gmail-based tool and plugin for Chrome that promises to make your daily communications chores a bit easier to handle. With version 2.0, Mixmax gets an updated editor that better integrates with the current Gmail interface and that gets out of the way of popular extensions like Grammarly. That’s […]
View More Mixmax brings LinkedIn integration and better task automation to its Gmail toolGoogle takes Hire, its G Suite recruitment platform, to its first global markets, UK and Canada
The recruitment market is big business — worth some $554 billion annually according to the most recent report from the World Employment Confederation. In the tech world, that translates into a big opportunity to build tools to make a recruiter’s work easier, faster and more likely of success in finding the right people for the […]
View More Google takes Hire, its G Suite recruitment platform, to its first global markets, UK and CanadaJobvite raises $200M+ and acquires three recruitment startups to expand its platform play
Jobvite, the company that was once an early mover in leveraging social networks to help source job opportunities and find interesting candidates for openings, is today announcing two big moves to double down on its ambition to build a bigger platform for recruitment and applicant tracking. The company has picked up an investment of over […]
View More Jobvite raises $200M+ and acquires three recruitment startups to expand its platform playJapan’s Sansan raises $26.5M to help Southeast Asia get more from business cards
The humble business card is a target for disruption in Southeast Asia after Japanese contacts management startup Sansan raised JPY 3 billion ($26.5 million) to expand its business into the region. Founded way back in 2007, Sansan helps bring business intelligence to companies through a system that helps build connections between users and both internal employees […]
View More Japan’s Sansan raises $26.5M to help Southeast Asia get more from business cardsCVCompiler is an robot that fixes your resume to make you more competitive
Machine learning is everywhere now, including recruiting. Take CVCompiler, a new product by Andrew Stetsenko and Alexandra Dosii. This web app uses machine learning to analyze and repair your technical resume, allowing you too shine to recruiters at Google, Yahoo, and Facebook. The founders are marketing and HR experts who have a combined fifteen years […]
View More CVCompiler is an robot that fixes your resume to make you more competitiveHandshake, a LinkedIn for university students and diversity, raises $40M on a $275M valuation
LinkedIn has created and — with 562 million users — leads the market in social platforms for people who want to network with others in their professions, and look for jobs. Now a startup that hopes to take it on in a specific niche — university students and recent grads, with a focus on diversity […]
View More Handshake, a LinkedIn for university students and diversity, raises $40M on a $275M valuationApplied gets $2M to make hiring fairer — using algorithms, not AI
London-based startup Applied has bagged £1.5M (~$2M) in seed funding for a fresh, diversity-sensitive approach to recruitment that deconstructs and reworks the traditional CV-bound process, drawing on behavioural science to level the playing field and help employers fill vacancies with skilled candidates they might otherwise have overlooked. Fairer hiring is the pitch. “If you’re hiring for […]
View More Applied gets $2M to make hiring fairer — using algorithms, not AILinkedIn’s China rival Maimai raises $200M ahead of planned US IPO
Editor’s note: This post originally appeared on TechNode, an editorial partner of TechCrunch based in China. Maimai, China’s biggest rival to LinkedIn, has revealed today that it received a $200 million D Series investment back in April in what the company claims to be the largest investment in the professional networking market. That’s surprising but […]
View More LinkedIn’s China rival Maimai raises $200M ahead of planned US IPOGoodwall gets $10.8M to expand its ‘LinkedIn for students’
Goodwall, a US-focused student and graduate professional network which aims to connect young people with college and employment opportunities, has closed a $10.8 million Series A funding raise. The round was led by Randstad Innovation Fund, a strategic corporate VC fund that focuses on recruitment, and Swiss private equity firm Manixer. Additional investors include Francis […]
View More Goodwall gets $10.8M to expand its ‘LinkedIn for students’Beamery closes $28M Series B to stoke support for its ‘talent CRM’
Beamery, a London-based startup that offers self-styled “talent CRM”– aka ‘candidate relationship management’ — and recruitment marketing software targeted at fast-growing companies, has closed a $28M Series B funding round, led by EQT Ventures. Also participating in the round are M12, Microsoft’s venture fund, and existing investors Index Ventures, Edenred Capital Partners and Angelpad Fund. Beamery last […]
View More Beamery closes $28M Series B to stoke support for its ‘talent CRM’Broadening education investments to full-stack solutions
As an education investor, one of my favorite sayings is that education is the next industry to be disrupted by technology, and has been for the past twenty years. When I started my career at Warburg Pincus, I inherited a portfolio of technology companies that senior partners naively believed would solve major problems in our […]
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