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Intern placement company InternMatch has raised $10 million in a Series A as it looks to ramp up the global side of the business. The round, led by Canberra, property developer Doma Group, with the company’s advisory firm, Henslow, also chi
Venture CapitalSwitchboard Raises $25M in Series A Funding,Purpose Built for Remote Work
Our mission is to make teamwork the best part of work. Our Series A fundraise will help us get closer to achieving it. When I started guitar lessons during the early months of the pandemic in 2020, I had visions of being the next Mark Knop
Venture CapitalKona Announces $4M Seed Funding to Help Remote Teams Become "People-First"
[caption id="attachment_636" align="alignnone" width="2560"] Andrew Zhou, Co-Founder (left). Sid Pandiya, Co-Founder/CEO (middle). Corine Tan, Co-Founder (right)[/caption] Gusto, Canva, Masterclass and others tap startup to build empathetic
Venture Capitalallwhere Secures $9.5M in Seed Funding; Launches to Help Companies Create a Best-in-Class Workplace in a Work-From-Anywhere World
The logistics solution for HR, Ops, and IT teams to efficiently handle the complexity and costs of all work environments: remote, hybrid, satellite or in-office NEW YORK , July 25, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- allwhere , the company that provide
Venture CapitalWorkshop raises $5.2M to streamline internal email and communications
OMAHA, Neb. , July 25, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Workshop, a delightful platform for distributing and measuring internal email and communications, has raised $5.2 million in additional seed funding. The round was led by McCarthy Capital out
Venture CapitalBerlin-based startup Lumiform lights up with €6.4 million funding boost to enhance the deskless workforce
SaaS startup Lumiform is helping businesses navigate deskless working – empowering teams to operate seamlessly. The Berlin-based startup has just picked up €6.4 million to boost its global reach. Reportedly accounting for 80% of the total
Venture CapitalPassionfruit raises $4.3m to build the future of Gen Z freelance
TL;DR: We’ve raised $4.3m to make work work for everyone. With our first investment round we’re creating the commercial and product foundations for Passionfruit - building for a world where the next generation of knowledge workers can take
Venture Capital15Five Raises $52M in New Funding to Drive the HR Transformation of Where, How, and Why We Work
I am excited to announce that we’ve received $52 Million in Series C funding, led by Quad Partners with additional funding from our previous investors Next47, Origin Ventures, Edison Partners, Matrix Partners, Point Nine Capital, and New G
Venture CapitalPre-employment Screening Platform Veremark Lands $8.5 Million
Pre-employment screening service will use the funds to expand its presence in key markets around the world and continue to develop its people compliance and verified digital credentials platform London, 20 July 2022 – Veremark, the global
Venture CapitalBullhorn Acquires SourceBreaker To Enable Customers To Find the Best Talent
SourceBreaker’s technology transforms the way recruiters search, increasing recruiter productivity and revenue generation BOSTON — July 15, 2022 — Bullhorn®, the cloud computing company that helps staffing and recruiting organizations tran
Venture CapitalHumanity Health Announces $6 Million Series A Funding Round
NEW YORK , July 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Humanity Health, the premier career acceleration and talent sourcing platform for underrepresented leaders in healthcare and life sciences, has raised $6 million in a Series A funding led by Jump
Venture CapitalRobin Raises $30 Million To Expand its Leadership Position as the Hybrid Work Platform for Companies Everywhere
Tola Capital Leads Round in High Growth Hybrid Workplace Company Creating Solutions that Put People Before Places BOSTON--( BUSINESS WIRE )-- Robin , the hybrid workplace company, today announced a $30 million Series C funding round led by
Venture CapitalUplevel, a Seattle startup that measures engineer productivity, raises $20M,expand innovation around developer team health, effectiveness.
The funds will go toward improving headcount, growing the product, and further establishing Uplevel as a leader in dev culture. (From Uplevel website） With the industry facing tough economic times, it’s not lost on us how fortunate we are t
Venture CapitalPulley Raises $40 Million Series B Led by Founders Fund
SAN FRANCISCO -- Pulley today announced a $40 million Series B led by Keith Rabois at Founders Fund. Existing investors, including Stripe and Elad Gil , also participated. This latest round follows a year of rapid growth for the com
Venture CapitalTritonExec joins Prytek family as it continues its talent solution expansion, with an initial $30m to support future growth
LONDON and CHICAGO , July 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The talent solutions division of Prytek, a Singaporean multinational technology corporation, has made a significant investment in London -headquartered global executive search firm, Tr
Venture CapitalUrban Alliance Receives $10 Million Investment to Connect More Young People To Equitable Career Pathways and Workforce Training
WASHINGTON, DC, JULY 12, 2022 – Urban Alliance, a national nonprofit that connects young people to paid internships, workforce training and career pathways, received a $10 million investment from philanthropist MacKenzie Scott. This is the
Venture CapitalKadmos raises €29m in Series A funding round led by Blossom Capital to streamline payment processes for cross-border workers
Kadmos’s end-to-end solution means employers can cut expenses and administrative work while workers can save transaction and remittance costs when receiving salaries and forwarding savings to their families The Series A funding builds on si
Venture CapitalGenuent and TekPartners, Announce Merger to Become INSPYR Solutions, a Leading Professional Staffing and Solutions Provider
Houston, Texas and Boca Raton, Florida (July 8, 2022) – Genuent Holdings, LLC (“Genuent”) and TekPartners, a subsidiary of P2P Staffing Corporation (“P2P”) announced today that the companies have merged to become INSPYR Solutions (“Company”
Venture CapitalPartners Personnel Announces Significant Minority Investment in Staffing Engine Inc.
SANTA BARBARA, Calif. and BOULDER, Colo. , July 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Partners Personnel announced today that it has made a significant minority investment in Staffing Engine Inc ., which has built a suite of Conversational AI bots a
Venture CapitalWorkvivo Raises $22m Series B from Tiger Global as Employee Experience Market Booms
The new round sees Workvivo’s valuation more than triple. The company has year-on-year growth over 150% in the $300 billion employee experience market. Workvivo has more than 300 customers in 90 countries across the globe. Boston and Cork,
Venture CapitalRC Capital Completes Growth Equity Investment in OnCall Staffing to Address Healthcare Staffing Needs
PHILADELPHIA , July 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- OnCall Staffing ("OnCall"), a leading provider of staffing and moonlighting solutions to healthcare systems and practices, announced a partnership with RC Capital, a healthcare‐focused growth eq
Venture CapitalVault-Firsthand Acquires Leading Virtual Event Platform CareerEco
Acquisition accelerates corporate access to talent and broadens adoption of edtech solutions NEW YORK , July 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Vault-Firsthand today announced the acquisition of CareerEco , the pioneers in the virtual events mark
Venture CapitalMunich-based Seatti scores €3 million to optimize approaches to hybrid work
SaaS startup Seatti has picked up €3 million for its pioneering platform that is helping companies unlock the potential of hybrid working, boosting productivity and flexibility for employees and businesses alike. Remote and hybrid working
Venture CapitalCreativeLive Expands Online Photography Course Portfolio with Wildist.co Acquisition
Acquisition demonstrates Fiverr’s commitment to growing its subsidiaries and expands CreativeLive’s strongest content category by adding outdoor and adventure photography courses NEW YORK--( BUSINESS WIRE )-- CreativeLive , a Fiverr (NYSE:
Venture CapitalTaskHuman Raises $20M in New Funding To Grow Its 1:1 Coaching Platform
A manager at a New York-based company recently decided to take a job at another firm. He and his new employer had settled on compensation, title, and start date, but there was one more important item on his list: The company he was leaving
Venture CapitalSharebite, the Leading Food Benefits Platform, Announces Closing of $39 Million Series B Round
Following a daily order volume increase of 30x in 2021, Sharebite raises new funding round led by Prosus NEW YORK , June 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Sharebite , the leading food benefits platform designed for the modern workforce, announced
Venture CapitalLinkedIn Acquires EduBrite to Further Its Skills-first Vision
Today, we announced that we have entered into an agreement to acquire EduBrite , a platform that specializes in creating, hosting and deploying professional certificates. By integrating EduBrite’s rigorous certification assessment engine i
Venture CapitalScreenloop Raises $7M for its Hiring Intelligence Platform that Builds the Best Teams and Removes Unconscious Bias
The seed round was led by Stride VC, alongside Ludlow Ventures, All Iron Ventures, Passion Capital and Paul Forster, Founder of Indeed Screenloop’s hiring intelligence platform is an end-to-end solution to enhance the experience for candida
Venture CapitalPave Raises $100M Series C and Acquires Option Impact
Pave’s acquisition of Option Impact from Morgan Stanley increases our customer count to 5,700. This makes Pave the largest compensation provider for private companies in the world. Learn more here about the acquisition and new round of
Venture CapitalGloat’s next chapter begins with a $90 million Series D
What our new partnership with Generation means for shaping a brighter future of work Today, many of the issues facing businesses and employees are starker than they’ve ever been. People are leaving companies where their careers have no pat
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