TechCrunch

DECEMBER 7, 2021

The same day in February 2020 that Credit Karma planned to announce that it had been acquired by Intuit for more than $7 billion, the stock market tanked, spooked by news that a novel virus had the potential to start a pandemic. That deal eventually closed in December 2020, but in the intervening months, the U.S. billion to $11.6

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TechCrunch

JULY 19, 2021

Despite being one of the earliest adopters of using the world wide web to disrupt how its business is done and connect with more potential customers, the recruitment industry ironically remains one of the more fragmented and behind the times when it comes to using new, cloud based services to work more efficiently.

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Hacker Earth Developers Blog

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

Many are demanding increased flexibility in their employment search—from remote and hybrid options to more work-life balance—as companies are desperate to fill roles. Before the pandemic, we would hear a lot of recruiters talk about the ‘black hole’ in tech hiring. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics , a record-breaking 2.9%

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TechCrunch

APRIL 7, 2022

The company touts itself as the “first end-to-end recruitment engine for the restaurant and hospitality industries,” by automating the process of candidate sourcing, engagement and interviewing. Then I watched the gig economy, which is characterized by companies like Uber, Instacart and Lyft, take off largely by commoditizing labor.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 17, 2021

What’s different about hiring data scientists in 2020? When it comes to building a data science team, many companies fail at the first step — creating a job posting. And with the pandemic completely stopping all in-person recruiting events , hiring success hinges on an effective job rec. More posts by this contributor.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 17, 2023

A YC company Apollo Group is also in this space, roughly speaking. How it works is by engaging remote talent from emerging markets which can now (because of the acceptance of remote working, post-pandemic) participate in much higher value roles in finance, strategy, and public policy.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2023

One of HR Signal’s algorithms, called the Employee Retention Engine, crunches billions of data points from public sources, market data and peer career path data, including a million anonymized resumes. Cohen and co-founders Andrew Spott, Daniel Gilon and Aaron Goodman began working on the algorithm in early 2020.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 1, 2021

Zeta Global , the marketing technology company founded by David A. The company has gone down the debt route before — a Series F raised in 2017 combined $115 million funding with $25 million in debt. We were able to work with our syndicate to capture a low interest rate and take advantage of the strong credit markets.”.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 17, 2021

Danggeun Market, the publisher of South Korea’s hyperlocal community app Karrot, announced it has raised $162 million in a Series D round of funding with a valuation of $2.7 The latest funding officially makes Danggeun Market a unicorn, with $205 million total raised. Danggeun Market launched Karrot in Canada and the U.S.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Medable , a patient-focused clinical research company offering a cloud offering for adoption of digital and decentralized clinical trials, brought in a new capital infusion of $304 million in Series D funding — its fourth round since 2020 — to give it a valuation of $2.1 It adds momentum to what we are going after.”. billion by 2028.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Abasi Ene-Obong has stepped down from his executive role, the African genomics company confirmed to TechCrunch today. The three-year-old company has appointed General Counsel Teresia L. She will be supported by Chief Operating Officer Delali Attipoe , the company said. Bost as interim CEO.

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Crunchbase News

MARCH 26, 2024

Executive summary Our fifth annual study, which characterizes the boards of the most heavily funded private companies in the U.S., Women of color now hold 5% of board seats, up from 3% in 2020, the first year for which this metric was available. As the IPO market softened, urgency to build public-ready boards diminished.

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Hacker Earth Developers Blog

MAY 16, 2021

Statistics suggest that the pandemic has left us with a worse labor market than 2008. While some companies like Google, Salesforce, and Amazon decided to forge ahead with remote internships despite the pandemic, there were many like L’Oreal, Indeed, Discovery Inc. In our annual recruiter survey, we found that 60.7%

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 22, 2021

Typically, pre-seed rounds are raised when the startup is still in the product development phase, yet to make revenue or discover product-market fit. While most African pre-seed investments in 2020 went to fintech, there were exceptions, including Egyptian edtech startup Zedny, which raised $1.2 “Fintech is compelling.

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Hacker Earth Developers Blog

JANUARY 22, 2020

Here are some of the hottest tech skills (a mix of programming languages, tools, and frameworks; in random order) to hire for in 2020, which will help you thrive in the workplace of tomorrow. The language is at the heart of several prominent tech companies, such as Netflix, PayPal, Groupon, LinkedIn, and Walmart. JavaScript.

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TechCrunch

MAY 18, 2021

So in November 2019, he founded Settle as a way to give e-commerce and consumer packaged goods (CPG) companies access to non-dilutive capital. Not every company wants to raise venture money). By June 2020, the startup had launched its platform, which is designed to help these businesses manage their cash flow.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 15, 2021

Our 2021 Technologist Sentiment Report — which in the second quarter polled technology professionals who mostly work at bigger organizations — shows 48% of tech professionals expressed an interest in changing companies this year, up from 40% in the fourth quarter of 2020, and a big jump from 32% in the second quarter last year.

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2021

When the iconic American power tools company Stanley Black & Decker began looking for ways to improve the pipeline of diverse candidates that the company was reviewing for potential roles, it turned to an Israeli-based startup called Talenya for help. It’s not a pipeline issue as much as it is a recruiting process challenge.”.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Under the practice, market makers pay the trading platform for executing trades. To get a sense of how much Robinhood’s high rollers contribute to the company’s general health, he calculated its PFOF revenues for the last three months of 2020. Why do SaaS companies with usage-based pricing grow faster?

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Zoe Jervier Hewitt is a leadership coach and talent partner at multi-stage VC fund EQT Ventures , where she helps portfolio companies structure and accelerate their search for talent by facilitating connections to the right technology and people required to source candidates at each stage of company growth.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 23, 2022

With the economic turbulence, recruiting is slowing down. Layoffs.fyi , a crowdsourced tech startup layoffs tracker, shows that 60 companies executed layoffs within the past month or so, with over 16,000 employees laid off. ” Han co-launched ModernLoop in 2020 alongside Christopher Triolo, now ModernLoop’s CTO.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Tech-talent marketplace MVP Match has raised €5 million ($5 million) seed funding from Stage 2 Capital to double down its strategy for pairing companies with talent from across the globe. By setting up a local presence and working closely with the local talent, we will be able to really open up this market to our clients.

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TechCrunch

JULY 5, 2021

The company operates an e-commerce platform focused on DIY, home improvement and gardening products. Following today’s funding round, the company has reached a valuation of $2.6 In France in particular, the company has been profitable for a couple of years already. million conversations with advisors in 2020. billion ($1.42

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Knoq (formerly known as Polis) was a startup that recruited representatives to go door-to-door in their neighborhoods, talking up client products and services. So for obvious reasons, it faced challenges in 2020. The company had already pivoted once, shifting focus from political work to commercial marketing.

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TechCrunch

MAY 17, 2021

Launched in 2020, the core focus of Merge is to give B2B companies a unified API to access data from what is currently about 40 HR, payroll, recruiting and accounting platforms, with plans for expanding to additional areas soon. Unsurprisingly, the company also offers customized enterprise plans for its larger customers.

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TechCrunch

JULY 29, 2021

They typically hate being marketed to and are often short on time, which sets a particularly high bar for any content marketing aimed at them. ” Hughes and his agency were recommended multiple times in our growth marketer survey, which we launched to surface experts that startups can work with.

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Mobilunity

JANUARY 27, 2023

Virtual recruiting is a relatively new yet effective and convenient practice. In this article, you’ll learn all about virtual recruiting, its pros and cons, as well as the way to find a suitable virtual recruiting assistant. After that, the recruiter will start looking for candidates, screening them, and conducting interviews.

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TechCrunch

JULY 19, 2022

The market for HR tech, which runs the gamut from workforce management to applicant recruitment and tracking systems, has proven remarkably resilient in the face of both pandemic and economic headwinds. times the amount invested in 2020, according to PitchBook data. And investors saw the opportunity clearly.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

N2Growth and Stanford Graduate Graduate School of Business are pleased to congratulate those individuals recognized on the 2020 Leaders25 Top CHRO List. These Human Resource leaders represent the top 25 human resources leaders shaping careers, culture, and talent at the world’s most innovative people driven companies.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Founded out of London in 2017, Zen Educate is setting out to supplant the traditional approach to recruiting teachers, a system that typically involves third-party agencies and hefty fees. education recruiter has a 30 to 35% margin,” Zen Educate cofounder and CEO Slava Kremerman explained to TechCrunch. Show me the money.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 5, 2021

Just some of the core competencies you need to lock down include how to raise VC funding, recruiting the right people, finding product-market fit and building a killer go-to-market team. Scientist Entrepreneurs — Scaling Breakout Engineering Biology Companies . The list goes on and on…and on.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

AI is coming into its own as a practical technology for helping companies with a range of initiatives, from improving customer experience to streamlining business processes. It even enables employees to market their skillsets internally. “I Managers and employees can reach out directly to one another and connect over opportunities. “It

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TechCrunch

MARCH 30, 2022

Apploi today announced that it raised $25 million in a Series B round led by m]x[v Capital with participation from Defy and Underscore, bringing the company’s total raised to $38 million. ” Apploi is decidedly more employer-focused, now, having invested in a suite of hiring and onboarding tools tailored for healthcare companies.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

With restaurants having difficulty hiring workers, as is the environment today, one company is developing a hiring platform and restaurant worker network that aims to make that easier. Remote-first Seasoned is the latest company receiving investment for hourly worker tools. More companies should shift to a work-from-home model.

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Hacker Earth Developers Blog

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

We have been virtually hosting this tech conference of (and for) tech recruiters and engineering managers since 2020, and this was the first time we got to meet everyone in person. After all, to recruit the best, it makes sense to learn from the best. The best thing about a tech recruiting event? The insights.

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CIO

AUGUST 24, 2022

In addition, in a tight talent market, IT must rely heavily on HR to gain an edge in recruiting and retaining valuable IT talent. The pandemic and the great reshuffling caused us all to focus more strategically on our recruitment and retention efforts,” Kay says. This keeps us competitive,” she says.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 17, 2021

This followed a first raise of £3 million in 2020, led by Fuel Ventures, and brings the Series A total to £8 million, and total funding raised to £11.7 This gives shareholders access to a private secondaries market via a partnership with the Seedrs crowd-equity platform.

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