| Date | Title | Description |
| 14.05.2016 | This is not a bubble bursting … it’s a train slowing down | 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!
There has been an uproar in the tech world recent... |
| 14.05.2016 | This is not a bubble bursting … it’s a train slowing down | There has been an uproar in the tech world recently about what people perceive to be the “doom of the Silicon Valley economy.” Several high-profile companies have taken extremely public hits in the stock market (think Twitter, LinkedIn, Tab... |
| 09.12.2015 | Going Public Isn’t Selling Out, It’s The Best Way To Stay Alive | Sheeroy Desai Contributor
Sheeroy Desai is co-founder and CEO of Gild.
When Amazon went public in 1997, its stock opened 62.5 percent above the target price and the company ended its day $54 million richer than it had started it. In the thr... |
| 27.07.2015 | The Next Wave Of Enterprise Software Powered By Machine Learning | Ajay Agarwal Contributor
Ajay Agarwal is a managing director at Bain Capital Ventures, where he focuses on early-stage SaaS investing.
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Marketing Tech’s Bumpy Road: Consolidation, Growth And A New Frontier
Mana... |
| 14.07.2015 | Tech Hiring Matchmaker HackerRank Draws $7.5M From Global HR Firm | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
HackerRank, which hosts online competitions that help programmers flaunt their skills to potential employers like Amazon and Quora, said today it has landed a $7.5 million inv... |
| 01.06.2015 | Adding business intelligence to the hiring process | Business intelligence tools are usually thought of in terms of marketing and strategic decision making. Using them for other tasks like recruitment has usually meant links to other products and significant manual input.
Now though recruitme... |
| 29.08.2014 | Predictive First: How A New Era Of Apps Will Change The Game | Vik Singh Contributor
Vik Singh is the founder and CEO of Infer.
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Want to compete with Salesforce? Buy Marketo
The Future Of Marketing Automation
Editor’s note: Vik Singh is CEO of Infer.
Over the past several ... |
| 04.06.2014 | Gild, The Service For Finding And Hiring Engineers, Raises $13.5M Series B Funding | Gild, the startup that has built a service that helps companies find and hire software engineers, has closed on $13.5 million in a new round of funding.
The new round, which is Gild’s Series B, brings the company’s total funding to around $... |
| 04.06.2014 | Gild grabs a new $13.5M because hiring engineers is still a huge pain | Despite all the coding bootcamps and the never-ending influx of developers into tech-heavy cities, recruiting tech talent still seems to be a challenge — a challenge Gild has been taking on since 2011.
And to keep on doing so, the company i... |
| 04.06.2014 | Gild Closes $13.5M Series B Round |
SAN FRANCISCO, CA, Gild, which powers the way companies find, engage and evaluate tech talent with data and intelligence, announced today the completion of its Series B financing.
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| 04.06.2014 | Gild Completes $13.5M Series B Financing | Gild, a San Francisco, CA-based provider of a platform for companies to find, engage and evaluate tech talent with data and intelligence, completed a $13.5m Series B financing.
The round was led by Menlo Ventures, with participation from Dr... |
| 16.07.2013 | TalentBin Raises $2M From Lightbank To Be The Data-Focused Recruiting Platform For Technical Talent | TalentBin, a startup that uses data to help recruiters discover hard-to-find technical talent, has raised $2 million in new funding led by Lightbank led the round, with participation from NEA, Foundation Capital, First Round Capital Charles... |
| 16.05.2013 | SAP boosts startup fund by 2.6X to stimulate big data innovation | 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!
SAP is betting big on startups. And big data.
The... |
| 16.05.2013 | SAP boosts startup fund by 2.6X to stimulate big data innovation | SAP is betting big on startups. And big data.
The business software behemoth is more than doubling its commitment to the SAP HANA Real Time Fund, going from $155 million to $405 million, to support innovation surrounding real-time applicati... |
| 28.02.2013 | Gild Closes $8M Series A Round |
SAN FRANCISCO, CA, The investment is the largest Series A round in the tech hiring market, and was led by Steve Anderson of Baseline Ventures.
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| 27.02.2013 | Gild Raises $8M Series A Venture Capital Funding | Gild, a San Francisco, CA-based provider of talent acquisition tools, raised $8m Series A venture capital funding.
The round was led by Steve Anderson of Baseline Ventures, with participation from SAP Ventures, Globespan Capital Partners, a... |
| 29.10.2012 | Gild Source helps startups mine for developer talent gold | 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!
Gild, a company that strives to turn developer re... |
| 03.10.2012 | Engineers are hard to come by! Here’s some ‘big data’ software to the rescue | Sit down with execs from any tech company in America and ask them about their biggest obstacle to growth. 99 times out of a 100, they’ll tell you about their ongoing struggle to find technical talent.
Software engineers are more elusive tha... |
| 03.10.2012 | Engineers are hard to come by! Here’s some ‘big data’ software to the rescue | 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!
Sit down with execs from any tech company in Amer... |
| 03.08.2012 | Gild Closes $2M Seed Funding | Gild, a San Francisco, CA-based provider of innovative recruiting solutions that measures actual ability, has closed a $2m seed funding.
The round was led by Globespan Capital Partners and investor Mark Kvamme.
Launched in 2011 by Sheeroy D... |
| 03.08.2012 | Gild Closes $2M Seed Funding |
SAN FRANCISCO, CA, Technology provider that's bringing meritocracy to HR with its innovative recruiting solutions, today announced that it closed a $2 million seed funding round.
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| 02.08.2012 | Gild Grabs $2M To Help Companies Find And Hire Top Programmers | Unemployment is worryingly rampant in the US right now — which makes the ongoing “hiring crunch” in Silicon Valley even more absurd. It’s fair to say that nearly every single company that TechCrunch covers is hiring. But they’re not looking... |
| 02.08.2012 | Funding Daily: Thursday Night Fever | 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!
Investment news had a certain disco sparkle today... |
| 02.08.2012 | Gild leads companies to the unicorns of the tech world: talented developers | 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!
Talented developers are like white tigers — rare,... |
| 12.05.2012 | No Shortcuts, No Mercy: The Bloodsport Of Recruitment | One year ago I wrote an article called “Why The New Guy Can’t Code,” about how the industry-standard process for hiring software engineers is broken, shortsighted, and counterproductive. It remains my most-read TC post. Of course, I was far... |
| 22.12.2011 | Interview Street’s CodeSprint Developer Contest To Help Developers Show Their Skills To Companies | Interview Street has been busy building out new ways for developers to prove their skills to potential employers, and now it’s introducing a 48-hour contest to help them show off their skills. Think of it as part of a next-generation way of... |
| 27.10.2011 | Gild Hits Half A Million Members, Now Lets Developers ‘Face-Off’ To See Who’s Got The Most Skillz | Gild, a TechCrunch Disrupt startup and a game-ified jobs platform for developers, raised $2.4 million in seed funding from Globespan Partners back in August. Since launching at Disrupt a year ago, Gild has grown quickly, and today announced... |
| 18.10.2011 | How soon will Chinese developers outpace their U.S. counterparts? | Currently, U.S.-based developers outscore their competitors in China when tested on common programming languages. However, U.S. developers lag behind in math and logic.
A new study from Gild, a service for creating and comparing developers’... |
| 06.08.2011 | YC-Funded Interview Street Streamlines The Search For Great Programmers | Talk to any tech company and they’ll tell you that hiring quality programmers is an incredibly difficult task — the smaller companies often have a hard time getting in front of the best candidates, and the large and ‘hot’ companies are inun... |
| 04.08.2011 | Gild Secures $2.4M |
Round of funding led by Globespan Capital Partners.
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SAN FRANCISCO, Gild, where developers build, share, compare and i... |
| 04.08.2011 | Gild Closes $2.4M Round of Funding | Gild, a San Francisco, CA, Bangalore, India, and Beijing, China-based platform that allows developers to build, share, compare and improve their skills profiles, has closed a $2.4m round of funding.
The investment was led by Globespan Capit... |
| 04.08.2011 | Social Gaming And Developer Career Opportunity Platform Gild Raises $2.4 Million | Gild, a TechCrunch Disrupt startup that combines social gaming with career advancement for developers, has raised $2.4 million in new funding led by Globespan Capital Partners.
Founder Sheeroy Desai says that the company pivoted to focusing... |
| 28.06.2011 | Are Indian Developers More Skilled Than Americans? (Updated) | Is there any truth to the belief that U.S. tech jobs are outsourced to India at least in part because Indian developers are better skilled than U.S. workers? According to GILD, a company that combines professional social networking with gam... |
| 13.06.2011 | Smarterer Raises $1.25M To Prove You're Good At Anything In 60 Seconds Or Less | Ever wished you had an easy way to tell the world (and potential future employers) just how great you are at using Microsoft Office, Salesforce, and.. err.. Facebook? Your chance is coming.
Today a new company called Smarterer has raised $1... |
| 16.12.2010 | Social Gaming And Career Opportunity Platform Gild Hits 100K Users | Gild, a TechCrunch Disrupt startup that combines social gaming with career advancement, has hit a milestone after three months open to the public. Since its launch at TechCrunch Disrupt in September, more than 100,000 professionals have reg... |
| 28.09.2010 | Better Boost Your Stats: Gild Turns Hunting For A Tech Job Into A Game | If you’ve ever gone job hunting online (and who hasn’t these days?) you know just how incredibly inefficient the process can be. Job listings are littered across the web, making it difficult to filter for the ones that match your skillset. ... |
| 28.09.2010 | Gild turns job finding into a game, lets users prove their skills to employers | Gild, a Web service that lets job seekers prove their mettle to employers with challenges and tests, announced it is coming out of a closed beta test today at TechCrunch Disrupt in San Francisco.
The job-finding site gives users a way to di... |
