February 5th, 2013

JIBE Raises $10M Series B To Make Even More Job Applications Mobile-Friendly

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The mobile job application mavens at JIBE have been keeping things quiet since talking up their most recent pivot back in July, but they’ve finally broken the silence to talk about something new. The New York-based company (which shouldn’t be confused with other, similarly named outfits in the mobile space) has announced it that has raised a $10 million Series B round led by Longworth Venture… → Read More

May 19th, 2011

DFJ Leads $6 Million Round For Social Job Board Jibe

TechCrunch 50 company Jibe (formerly LocalBacon), has raised $6 million in Series A funding led by Draper Fisher Jurvetson and DFJ Gotham with existing investors, Polaris Venture Partners, Zelkova Ventures, Lerer Ventures, Thrive Capital and Stanford University Endowment participating in the round. This brings the company’s total funding to $7 million.

Jibe is a next-generation job board that… → Read More

February 9th, 2011

Jibe's Social Job Board Attracting More Than One Million Monthly Job Views

We’ve covered TechCrunch 50 company Jibe (formerly LocalBacon), which is a next-generation job board that leverages Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter to help job seekers find the best positions in the job market.

Jibe has signed up 25 percent of the Fortune 50 as clients and is announcing that the site has grown 454 percent since the start of 2011, surpassing more than one million monthly job views. → Read More

September 8th, 2010

Jibe Taps Into Your Social Graph With Next-Generation Job Board

Earlier this year we wrote about TechCrunch 50 company Localbacon’s relaunch as Jibe, a next-generation job board that leverages Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter to help job seekers find the best positions in the job market. Today, Jibe, which has been in private beta since March, is launching to the public, with job listings from Conde Nast, MTV Networks, Amazon, Equinox, and Church &amp… → Read More

March 22nd, 2010

Social Recruiting: Localbacon Relaunches As Jibe, Raises $875K Seed Round (Invites)

At last year’s TechCrunch50, one of the more intriguing launch startups was localbacon—a job board targeted at recent college graduates which charged 99 cents to apply for a job. The idea was to get the most qualified applicants who were more really serious about the job.

The founders of localbacon took what they learned from operating their site and are now relaunching with a much better idea… → Read More