PLAYTER PAY RAISES £1 MILLION FOR IT’S HIRE NOW, PAY LATER PAYMENT SOLUTION. Playter Pay is one of a large and growing number of companies looking to make scaling a business more accessible and affordable. Founder, Jamie Beaumont conceived ‘Hire Now, Pay Later’ after discovering first-hand a pain point for both recruiters and SME’s in […]Read More
Juggle secures $2.1M investment from the US and UK to accelerate the advancement of workplace gender equality Juggle focuses on flexible working, matching forward-thinking firms with mid and senior-level professionals. The company already works with businesses such as Whitehat, Hopster and Reallife Tech. In 2019, 8.59 million* UK workers were employed part-time, and 4.61 million worked from […]Read More
Gradfuel secures £200k in seed investment amidst job market uncertainty Graduate recruitment start-up fuels appetite with angel investors – Gradfuel, the innovative data-driven graduate hiring platform, has successfully secured £200k in seed investment amidst ongoing market uncertainty in light of COVID-19. The graduate recruitment platform, valued at £1.05 million, has fuelled interest from investors and […]Read More
HINTERVIEW RAISES £1.47M DURING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC AS DEMAND FOR VIDEO SOARS UK-based technology company Hinterview, the award-winning video platform for the recruiting & talent sector, has today announced that it has raised £1.47m in venture finance as demand for their technology soars in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic. The investment round was led by UK-listed TMT Investments PLC, and brings the total raised […]Read More
Flexa raises £250,000 in pre-seed funding to scale flexible working platform LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM, Flexa is very excited to announce that they have successfully raised £250,000 from a consortium of international and domestic investors, including renowned angel investors Simon Franks and Douglas Choi. The round is being led by venture capital firm, QVentures. The funds […]Read More
London-based PitchMe, which offers a skills-based talent marketplace that matches candidates’ soft and professional skills with the right job opportunities, has secured $1.2 million in a seed funding round led by New York-based Starta Ventures and joined by a UK-based family office and a number of angel investors (all unnamed). Used by the likes of Revolut, […]Read More
Maven VCTs lead GBP3.5m funding round in Bright Network Investment to drive technology development and expansion of sales and marketing Maven Capital Partners (“Maven”), one of the UK’s most active private equity houses, has announced it has led a further investment in Bright Network (“the company”), a media technology recruitment platform which connects leading employers […]Read More
UK recruitment platform Tempo secures £5 million in Series A funding led by Fortune Global 500 HR giant Investment comes as businesses across the UK begin to revive pre-Covid recruitment plans, with Tempo seeing a 33% increase in interview activity in June vs May Tempo will use the funding to fuel further UK expansion and […]Read More
Distributed talent enablement platform removes barriers between remote talent and great companies at a global scale LONDON and SAN FRANCISCO, April 21, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — Oyster™, a startup dedicated to fixing the broken international hiring model, today announced $4.2M in seed financing. Leading the round is London-based Connect Ventures, with participation from Sorenson Ventures, Kima Ventures, and Transferwise Co-founder and Chairman, Taavet Hinrikus, among others. Oyster is a distributed […]Read More
Blackfinch Invests in Award-Winning Recruitment Software Company Candidate.ID The multi-award-winning Glasgow-based company provides a talent pipeline platform for employers and agencies Blackfinch has invested c.£630,000 in Glasgow-based company Candidate.ID, founded in 2015. Candidate.ID offers recruitment software that provides recruiters daily hot leads based on candidates’ interactions with a company’s online content. Candidate.ID’s talent platform is […]Read More