Smart: Adzuna's search engine connects job ads to your contacts in the companies
The market they are after consists of 300,000 live UK job vacancies, or £7 billion in salaries. The site pulls job ads in real-time from major job boards as well as Crunchboard and LinkedIn.
So far so obvious. The smart move is that an “Adzuna Connect” feature lets you connect your LinkedIn or Facebook accounts which shows contacts and links to current vacancies at the companies of your friends and contacts. So when the site displays job search results, it shows connections underneath each relevant ad along with links to message contacts about the jobs. Frankly I think this is a great feature. Often people in companies have no idea what jobs their firms are advertising.
Passion Capital (http://passioncapital.com) emerged in March in this year, lead by former Angels Stefan Glaenzer, Eileen Burbidge and Robert Dighero, with a £37.5 million ($60 million).