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Poached provides an industry-specific online hiring platform to address the needs of high volume, high turnover restaurants, bars and hospitality-based businesses. Poached makes it simple for businesses to list open positions and then view, rate, and file resumes. With its high level of visibility among job seekers and industry professionals, Poached is ranked well above its competitors in search and traffic, making it the #1 hospitality industry job website. (poachedjobs.com)
Overview
Location
Jamaica, Portland
Total raised
$2.25M
Investors 3
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| Bigfoot Capital | bigfootcap.com | |
| Rezon8 Capital Advisory Group | rezon8capital.com |
Funding Rounds 1
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Mentions in press and media 7
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| Jun 24, 2021 | Lightspeed POS : How to Cope with the Restaurant Labor Shortage as Customers are Eager to Return to the Dining Room | As COVID restrictions are being rolled back, restaurants in North America are slowly reopening and guests are more than ready to return to the dining room. However, with the increased demand there comes a new issue: a restaurant labor short... |
| Apr 9, 2021 | Hot-but-tiny Clubhouse, in talks for a $4 billion valuation, just poached a key executive from Spotify | Clubhouse has hired Spotify's Grey Munford. Rafael Henrique/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now. Redeem now Clubhouse is hiring a key e... |
| Jan 13, 2017 | Seattle Week in Review: 100k to AMZN, MSFT’s Olympia Agenda, VC Stats | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints This was a busy week. Let’s get right to our review featuring a Microsoft acquisition in “machine literacy”; Amazon’s plans to hire 100,000 full-time U.S. workers by mid-2018;... |
| Feb 8, 2016 | Poached Jobs restaurant employment site raises $2.25 million in funding | Image via Shutterstock. Poached Jobs, a Portland, Ore.-based job board and hiring platform for bars and restaurants, has raised $2.25 million in funding, roughly two-thirds of a planned offering amount of $3.3 million. The funding consists ... |
| Apr 9, 2015 | Meet the 10 startup grads from the Portland Seed Fund | A new crop of startups from across Oregon graduated today from the Portland Seed Fund. The companies just completed a 3-month bootcamp as part of the fund, which has now graduated six classes and 56 companies in its four years of existence.... |
| Oct 19, 2014 | Amplion wins big at the Bend Venture Conference with promise to become the Kayak of biomarkers | Amplion Research won the top prize at the Bend Venture Conference. Amplion Research wants to make finding biological information as easy as searching for a flight on Kayak. And the 20-month-old maker of the BiomarkerBase data service is wel... |
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FAQ about Poached
How much funding has Poached raised?
Poached has raised $2.25M in total across 1 funding round.
Who has invested in Poached?
Parsers VC lists 3 investors of Poached, among them Bigfoot Capital and Rezon8 Capital Advisory Group.
What has the press written about Poached?
Parsers VC has collected 7 articles mentioning Poached, among them “Lightspeed POS : How to Cope with the Restaurant Labor Shortage as Customers are Eager to Return to the Dining Room” (Jun 24, 2021) and “Hot-but-tiny Clubhouse, in talks for a $4 billion valuation, just poached a key executive from Spotify” (Apr 9, 2021).
Is Poached still active?
Yes, Poached is active; its latest activity on Parsers VC dates from Oct 20, 2021.