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Gravel gets funding from NEA to support Indonesia’s booming construction industry

TechCrunch

Indonesia’s construction industry is growing quickly, driven by residential and industrial building, alongside infrastructure development plans by the government. Sourcing skilled labor is still a time-intensive process, however, and often relies on personal networks and lengthy recruitment efforts.

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TechCrunch+ roundup: Construction tech survey, founder-CEO friction, diversify your cap table

TechCrunch

The technological advances we’ve made over the last few thousand years are stunning, but the construction industry still relies on centuries-old technology. Even so, investors are backing startups bringing robotics, data management, automation and augmented reality into the construction process. Heinrich Gröller, partner, Speedinvest.

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6 Ways To Streamline Tech Hiring With A Recruitment Automation Platform

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

But this is nothing, I can still take up nurturing candidates and manually sourcing for fresh candidates in the second half of my day – said NO recruiter ever! As is common knowledge, recruiters and talent acquisition specialists are mostly in over their heads with the amount of work they handle. I didn’t think so!

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From Construction To AI Diagnostics, Here Are 5 Areas Where Seed Investors Are Most Active

Crunchbase News

Construction tech, for instance, has seen a lot of seed dealmaking, even as late-stage investment has declined. Construction Much as we may revere the beauty of nature, most of us spend virtually all our time in the so-called “built environment.” In short, we are huge consumers of the products delivered by the construction industry.

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Maritime recruitment platform Seafair gets $5.7M led by General Catalyst

TechCrunch

Maritime recruitment platform Seafair was created to solve these problems. After consulting, Diakogiannis spent time in venture capital, were he saw how labor marketplaces are disrupting industries like construction, manufacturing, oil and gas. The company announced today it has raised $5.7

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What Recruiters Forecast For Tech Hiring In 2022

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

HackerEarth’s 2021 State of Developer Recruitment Report is based on survey data from around 2,500 engineering managers and HR professionals from 79 countries; across industries including technology, pharmaceutical, retail, automobile, construction, banking, media, finance, and insurance.

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5 failure points between $5M and $100M in ARR

TechCrunch

I had the privilege of leading PlanGrid to $100 million in ARR before I stepped down as CEO and passed the baton to Autodesk Construction. We didn’t know how to hire giants, so we recruited several mediocre managers, who in turn recruited more mediocre people. I’ve had years to dissect the mistakes I made with my first startup.