Category Archives: labor

Glassdoor acquires Fishbowl, a semi-anonymous social network and job board, to square up to LinkedIn

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While LinkedIn doubles down on creators to bring a more human, less manicured element to its networking platform for professionals, a company that has built a reputation for publishing primarily the more messy and human impressions of work life has made an acquisition that might help it compete better with LinkedIn. Glassdoor, the platform that […] Continue reading Glassdoor acquires Fishbowl, a semi-anonymous social network and job board, to square up to LinkedIn→

Spain’s Factorial raises $80M at a $530M valuation on the back of strong traction for its ‘Workday for SMBs’

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Factorial, a startup out of Barcelona that has built a platform that lets SMBs run human resources functions with the same kind of tools that typically are used by much bigger companies, is today announcing some funding to bulk up its own position: the company has raised $80 million, funding that it will be using […] Continue reading Spain’s Factorial raises $80M at a $530M valuation on the back of strong traction for its ‘Workday for SMBs’→

Homebase raises $70M for a team management platform aimed at SMBs and their hourly workers

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Small and medium enterprises have become a big opportunity in the world of B2B technology in the last several years, and today a startup that’s building tools aimed at helping them manage their teams of workers is announcing some funding that underscores the state of that market. Homebase, which provides a platform that helps SMBs […] Continue reading Homebase raises $70M for a team management platform aimed at SMBs and their hourly workers→

Remote raises $150M on a $1B+ valuation to manage payroll and more for organizations’ global workforces

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For many of us, going to work these days no longer means going into a specific office like it used to; and today one of the startups that’s built a platform to help cater for that new, bigger world of employment — wherever talent might be — is announcing a major round of funding on […] Continue reading Remote raises $150M on a $1B+ valuation to manage payroll and more for organizations’ global workforces→

Beamery raises $138M at an $800M valuation for its ‘operating system for recruitment’

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Online job listings were one of the first things to catch on in the first generation of the internet. But that has, ironically, also meant that some of the most-used digital recruitment services around today are also some of the least evolved in terms of tapping into all of the developments that tech has to […] Continue reading Beamery raises $138M at an $800M valuation for its ‘operating system for recruitment’→

ChartHop raises $35M for its internal org chart and people analytics platform

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Human resources is generally a salient cornerstone of any organization, but digitization has democratized a lot of the work that goes into HR, and that’s meant more people in businesses interested in, and using, the kind of data that HR people build and typically manage. Today, a startup called ChartHop that’s built a platform to […] Continue reading ChartHop raises $35M for its internal org chart and people analytics platform→

Worksome pulls $13M into its high skill freelancer talent platform

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More money for the now very buzzy business of reshaping how people work: Worksome is announcing it recently closed a $13 million Series A funding round for its “freelance talent platform” — after racking up 10x growth in revenue since January 2020, just before the COVID-19 pandemic sparked a remote working boom. The 2017 founded […] Continue reading Worksome pulls $13M into its high skill freelancer talent platform→