March 21st, 2013

Toronto HR Startup ClearFit Raises $7M Series A To Grow Hiring Software For Small Business Offering

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Toronto’s ClearFit, a company that uses automated software and algorithms to bubble up the top applicants for employers looking for quality hires, today announced the close of a $7 million Series A round. The financing, led by Boston’s GrandBanks Capital and including Relay Ventures, will help ClearFit grow to keep pace with demand, company co-founder and CEO Ben Baldwin told me in an… → Read More

October 3rd, 2012

Entelo Launches To Help Businesses Recruit The Best Candidates, Even If They’re Not Looking

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In July of last year, Jon Bischke and John McGrath co-founded Entelo to help companies large and small identify and recruit technical talent. Since then, the startup has been in limited beta, providing only brief glimpses into what they were building, but that officially ended this morning. → Read More

August 2nd, 2012

HireVue Acquires CodeEval, A Programmer Evaluation Tool For Recruiters

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HireVue today announced its acquisition of CodeEval, a platform technical evaluations. Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but HireVue founder Mark Newman confirms that the CodeEval team is joining HireVue to continue developing the CodeEval product. No acqui-hire here. → Read More

February 28th, 2012

EmployInsight Grabs $1M For Its Employee Measurement Platform (And NYSE As Its First Client)

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EmployInsight, a web-based platform for measuring and quantifying employees’ “soft skills” in the workplace, has raised $1 million+ from Founder Collective, Launch Capital, Sean Glass, Phil Bronner, Jarrod Yuster, David Cohen, Gus Fuldner and other angels, the company is announcing today. The startup is also revealing one of its first enterprise clients, and it’s a big one: the New York Stock… → Read More

January 24th, 2011

Sportourer Touch Beat HR Watch Review

The Sportourer Touch Beat is one of the most decent looking exercise watches I have ever seen. This is due not only to its slick styling that makes it look less plasticy, but also because of the cleverly designed combo digital/analog face, as well as the dual use heart rate monitor. → Read More