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HackerRank, a platform for recruiters to test coders and coders to hone their skills, raises $60M at a $500M valuation

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Susquehanna Growth Equity is leading the round, with JMI, Khosla Ventures and strategic backers Randstad Innovation Fund and Recruit Holdings also participating. It eventually became the first startup out of India to join Y Combinator, and it was actually also a Battlefield contender in 2012. It has now raised $115 million.

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Singapore-based e-commerce platform Carousell lays off 10% of staff

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Quek also explained in the blog post that he “was too optimistic” about the recovery from the Covid pandemic and even doubled down on recruitment and investment for its business. Founded in 2012, Carousell, backed by Sequoia Capital India, Naver, 500 Global, and Rakuten Capital, has raised a total of $372.6

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Bain’s Sarah Smith, former head of HR at Quora, will share the recruiting playbook at Early Stage

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The current Bain Capital Ventures partner who invests in early to mid-stage companies saw what it was like to grow a startup business firsthand as the vice president of human resources at Quora, a position she held from 2012 to 2016.

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Fintech startup Vise brings on Andrew Fong (formerly Dropbox) as CTO

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He actually started out as a site reliability engineer at Dropbox back in 2012, climbing the ranks to engineering director, and then senior director of Engineering – head of Infrastructure before becoming to vice president. Fong hails from Dropbox, where he served as VP of Infrastructure Engineering. from Sequoia to manage it.

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5 hot IT hiring trends — and 5 going cold

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Recruiters are opening the door for so much talent of different genders, education, nationalities, and beliefs,” Barley says. More and more companies are now walking the walk when it comes to inclusivity, not only during recruiting but in focusing on retention and working with employees on their career pathways,” she says.

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Coral Capital closes third fund with $128M for startups in Japan

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As Riney and Sawayama started investing in seed and early-stage startup companies back in 2012, the startup world was a black box in the country, according to Riney. Japan’s annual startup investment is estimated at $5 billion, with six unicorns including Coral Capital’s portfolio company, up from just about $600 million in 2012.

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Digital comics startup Madefire is shutting down

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Madefire, a startup that recruited high-profile artists to reinvent comics for new formats and platforms. Madefire first l aunched in 2012 , back when publishers were experimenting with formats like motion comics. Amazon acquired digital comics platform Comixology in 2014, launching an Unlimited subscription service two years later.).