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| 04.05.2025 | Uncork Capital: $300 Million Raised For Investing In Category-Defining Companies | Uncork Capital announced the closing of $300 million in new capital across two funds: Uncork VIII, a $225 million seed fund, and Uncork Plus IV, a $75 million growth fund.
Investment focus: Uncork VIII will invest in early-stage startups ac... |
| 23.10.2024 | How PR Can Support HR Tech | Share
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Human resources (HR) technology is having a growing influence on modern-day hiring, with about 33% of HR professionals currently adopting HR tech to support their businesses today. HR tech is software and hardw... |
| 13.10.2023 | How To Attract Temporary Workers For The Holiday Season | Santa in the warehouse picking up Christmas giftsgetty |
| 24.06.2023 | Looking For Hourly Employees? Here’s How To Find Good Ones! | Paperless workplace idea, e-signing, electronic signature, document management. Businessman signs an ... [+] electronic document on a digital document on a virtual notebook screen using a stylus pen.getty |
| 08.06.2023 | Fountain Acquires Clevy to Further Advance AI for Hourly Hiring | Acquisition of global conversational artificial intelligence technology amplifies hiring software growth, leading to a more robust R&D innovation pipeline
Fountain, the leading Labor ATS and provider of hiring automation software for th... |
| 08.06.2023 | Fountain Acquires Clevy | Fountain, a San Francisco, CA-based Labor ATS and provider of hiring automation software for the hourly workforce, acquired Clevy, a Paris, France-based provider of AI conversational technologies for businesses.
The amount of the deal was n... |
| 17.04.2023 | Business Reporter: Applicant Tracking Systems can significantly improve recruitment outcomes | Why retailers need to fire on all cylinders to impress and retain customers LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM, April 17, 2023/EINPresswire.com/ -- In an article published on Business Reporter, Sean Behr, CEO of Fountain talks about how the customer ex... |
| 08.12.2022 | Fountain Launches New Platform Capabilities to Support and Empower Recruiters | Fountain, the world’s leading applicant tracking system (ATS) for high-volume hiring, announces new recruiter tools that support seamless scheduling and interviewing.
Scheduling and conducting interviews are the highest-friction points in h... |
| 07.11.2022 | Companies in the HR/hiring space that you should know | Some that raised funding since the beginning of 2021 include Talview, Deel, and Jobandtalent
COVID fundamentally altered the way we live, turning much of what we knew upside down; some of those changes were immediately apparent, and others ... |
| 05.11.2022 | SoftBank-Backed Hiring Platform Fountain To Scale Up Hiring, Investments In India | Fountain plans to invest significantly in developing local flavoured AI and NLP-based products to build attractive proposition for clients
The hiring platform is looking to build a remote-first R&D centre in India that would also cater ... |
| 06.09.2022 | More than 80 New Products to Show at Next Week’s HR Technology Conference & Exposition® | PALM BEACH GARDENS, Fla., Sept. 06, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Next week’s HR Technology Conference & Exposition® will serve as the official launchpad for more than 80 new HR tech products. Taking place September 13 – 16, 2022, at Mandala... |
| 16.06.2022 | Tech layoffs at private companies are putting employee equity in limbo | This is the web version of Term Sheet, a daily newsletter on the biggest deals and dealmakers. Sign up to get it delivered free to your inbox.
It was just about three weeks ago that the layoffs started to feel constant. Every day, more and ... |
| 15.06.2022 | Fountain Raises Additional $100M In Series C Funding | Fountain, a San Francisco, CA-based applicant tracking system (ATS) for high volume hiring, raised extension of its November 2021 Series C round by $100M, bringing the total to $185M.
The extension was led by B Capital Group, joined by Soft... |
| 15.06.2022 | Fountain raises $100M to expand its applicant tracking system | The “Great Resignation,” the trend where workers are leaving their jobs at a higher-than-usual rate, is continuing unabated. According to a May PwC survey, 20% of employees said that they’re likely to switch jobs in the next 12 months, whil... |
| 31.03.2022 | Airing the Dirty Laundry on the Front Porch: Why We Invested in SudShare | A ride to the airport, a walk for the dog, a grocery or meal delivery, or a video birthday message…are all just a phone tap away. With over 2.5 million mobile apps, there’s an endless number of products and services available in our pockets... |
| 05.11.2021 | A Chinese COVID Delta variant vaccine maker gets a boost | This is the web version of Term Sheet, a daily newsletter on the biggest deals and dealmakers. Sign up to get it delivered free to your inbox.
Even while stay-at-home stocks are getting a beating (ahem! Peloton), make no mistake, the world ... |
| 04.11.2021 | As companies search for hourly workers, Fountain brings in $85M to assist them | You may have visited some quick-service restaurants or other retailers in the past few months and noticed signs posted with shortened hours or not being open on a certain day.
Dubbed “The Great Resignation,” the mass exodus of hourly worker... |
| 22.10.2021 | 16 Intriguing Elements That Convinced Communications Pros To Open Cold Emails | The words “cold email” alone are enough to send shivers down the spines of marketers and consumers alike. Marketers know that cold calls and cold emails have earned a reputation for being bothersome and less than useful. The stereotype is n... |
| 19.08.2021 | More Than 6 in 10 Companies Have High Volume Recruitment Needs, According to New Aptitude Research Report | |
| 20.07.2021 | Origin Ventures Promotes Scott Stern and Prashant Shukla to Partner | Venture capital is a team sport. A great team makes better decisions, wins more deals, and provides more resources to companies. Investing in startups is like whitewater rafting. A great team navigates rapids by playing different roles on t... |
| 13.07.2021 | Gopuff’s gig workers are calling for transparent pay and scheduling. See the petition | On-demand delivery company Gopuff, which has raised millions — and then billions — of dollars in venture capital in the last two years, is at the center of a new petition signed by a few dozen drivers calling for better pay practices and cl... |
| 08.01.2021 | 15 Smart Ways To Create The Most Effective Internal Newsletters | With the right team members and strategy behind it, a newsletter can be a solid communication tool for an organization, both as an external marketing instrument and internally. What does it take to turn a company newsletter into an efficien... |
| 27.10.2020 | 13 Absolute Don’ts When Crafting A Personalized Marketing Campaign | We all understand the power that personalized marketing can have on a modern audience. Yet despite its appeal, there are a lot of ways that customized marketing can go wrong. Just like consumers don't appreciate generic marketing, they also... |
| 21.10.2020 | Fountain Expands High-Volume Hiring Platform to Help Employers Navigate New Normal
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| 23.09.2020 | Pics…Or It Didn’t Happen! Our Investment in Blueboard | The campus at the University of California at Berkeley includes an oversized bulletin board, where students and organizations can post a variety of announcements – ride sharing, concerts, stand-up comedy nights, and kitesurfing lessons are ... |
| 15.09.2020 | Fountain Appoints Sean Behr as Chief Executive Officer | |
| 03.09.2020 | 16 Simple Ways To Enhance Blog Posts To Boost Engagement | Content marketing is among the most effective ways for a business to reach out to its audience. By crafting compelling blog posts, companies can connect to their audience in ways they never could through mass marketing. |
| 04.08.2020 | 16 Custom KPIs To Better Understand Your Marketing Numbers | Custom key performance indicators (KPIs) can be useful in figuring out what works and what doesn't when it comes to your marketing statistics. With more and more companies relying on marketing statistics, the standard KPIs offer everyone th... |
| 22.07.2020 | 14 Tips For Businesses Looking To Ramp Up Their Video Marketing Efforts | Video marketing has already shown, time and time again, why it's such a successful technique. Studies have demonstrated that people engage with video far more readily than they do with other online media. This fact makes video marketing a p... |
| 22.07.2020 | Austin startup The Helper Bees raises $6M to help seniors age in place | For many seniors and people with disabilities, the Covid-19 pandemic is creating even more obstacles in daily life. And that extends from finding assistants to help with routine tasks to dealing with insurance companies to help pay for in-h... |
| 26.05.2020 | In An Age Of Mass Unemployment, Fountain Facilitates Getting Americans Back To Work | COVID-19 has decimated the U.S. economy. The latest official employment statistics are harrowing. Nearly 40 million Americans are currently unemployed, wiping out all of the past decade's job growth. Equal to the need for a vaccine to halt ... |
| 29.10.2019 | Fountain Raises $23M in Series B Funding | Fountain, a San Francisco, CA-based recruiting platform for gig and hourly workers, closed a $23m Series B funding.
The round, which brought total funding to $34m, was led by DCM, with participation from 51job and existing investors Origin ... |
| 29.10.2019 | Fountain, a platform for recruiting gig and hourly workers, raises $23M | Contract, self-employed and temporary jobs are on the rise in developed markets, with some 85% of the global workforce, 2.7 billion people, estimated to be on some form of hourly wage rather than flat salary.
Today, a startup that helps com... |
| 29.10.2019 | Hiring platform Fountain raises $23 million to double down on automation | Fountain occupies a large niche. The company, which just announced a $23 million funding round, provides a job recruiting and onboarding platform for gig, part-time, and hourly workers. Hiring these kinds of workers presents a different set... |
| 29.10.2019 | Hiring platform Fountain raises $23 million to double down on automation | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Fountain occupies a large niche. The company, whi... |
| 30.07.2019 | Origin Ventures Promotes Stern, Shukla, Leichtman | In 2019, we celebrate our firm’s 20-year anniversary with 20 short stories
and lessons learned by investing over $150M in more than 70 companies
and the entrepreneurs behind their origin. These are their stories. |
| 14.03.2019 | Top 10 recruitment software packages for businesses | 1 shares
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Whether your business is a tiny brick-and-mortar shop or an online enterprise, you’ll likely need to make hiring decisions. People are the lifeblood of any business, but recruitment can be a seriously ... |
| 03.12.2018 | I Heart Your Work: Our Investment in 15Five | |
| 15.11.2018 | Italic launches its marketplace for affordable luxury goods from top manufacturers | A new startup called Italic says it’s already received more than 100,000 signups for a marketplace where you can buy handbags, eyewear and other luxury products directly from the manufacturers who work with the world’s best-known brands.
Th... |
| 12.09.2017 | Why We Invested in Fountain (Formerly OnboardIQ) | |
| 05.11.2015 | Challenges at Porch: High-flying, heavily funded startup learns the lessons of rapid growth | A mural in the former Porch HQ displays the startup’s values. (GeekWire File Photo)
From the start, Porch has done things big, and fast.
In a little more than two years, the home improvement tech company raised $100 million from a large gro... |
| 31.10.2015 | M&A roundup - week ending 10/31/15 | Cisco made multiple purchases; Intel acquired Saffron; Porch bought Fountain
IBM acquired technology and products from The Weather Company. While no financial terms of the deal were disclosed, a report in The Wall Street Journal has pegged ... |
| 30.10.2015 | Porch.com Acquires Fountain | Porch.com, a Seattle, WA-based home services platform for homeowners and home professionals, acquired Fountain, a San Francisco-based app that connects homeowners to experts on home and garden projects.
The amount of the deal was not disclo... |
| 29.10.2015 | Porch Acquires Mobile Advice Marketplace Fountain | The Seattle-based online home services platform Porch.com today announced that it has acquired Fountain, a service that connects Internet users with doctors, lawyers, mechanics, tech support and other experts through video chats, texts and ... |
| 29.10.2015 | Mint founder Aaron Patzer’s startup Fountain acquired by home services platform Porch.com | Home services platform Porch.com has made its first-ever acquisition, snatching up the on-demand answers app Fountain for an undisclosed price. As a consequence of the deal, Fountain’s service will replace Porch’s Home Assistant program and... |
| 24.10.2014 | Fountain Raises $4.0M in Series A Funding | Fountain, a San Francisco, CA-based app that provides consumers real-time help from trusted home & garden experts, raised $4.0m in Series A funding.
The round was led by Shasta Ventures with participation from First Round Capital.
The c... |
| 23.10.2014 | Funding Daily: Today's tech funding news, in one place | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Here’s a list of today’s biggest funding stories,... |
| 23.10.2014 | Mint’s Aaron Patzer Launches Beta Version Of An On-Demand Answers App With $4 Million In Funding From Shasta And First Round | Aaron Patzer, the founder and former CEO of Mint is placing his next bet with the on-demand info space. He and co-founder Jean Sini (another former Minter) are launching the beta of Fountain, an app that gives you advice from a curated set ... |
| 23.10.2014 | Funding Daily: Today's tech funding news, in one place | Here’s a list of today’s biggest funding stories, updated as the day unfolds. Tip us here if you have a deal to share.
This list will be updated with breaking funding news all day. Check back for more.
Zignal Labs scoops up $10.7M because b... |
