Tariq Ahmed Saeedi | January 13, 2023 | Recruitment, Financials / Deals
Japan-based freelance-marketplace operator Coconala saw its revenue grow by 24% year over year to Y1.1 billion ($8.5 million U.S.) during the quarter ended on Nov....
Damian Shore | January 13, 2023 | Recruitment
Barcelona-based NuWe is gamifying IT recruitment in an effort to make it easier for self-taught programmers to land jobs. Co-founded in 2019 by Carlos Ibáñez...
Damian Shore | January 13, 2023 | Recruitment, HRTech, Financials / Deals
Spain-based rechtech company HR Bot Factory has raised €1.0 million ($1.1 million U.S.) in a Series A funding round led by existing investor Dozen Investments,...
Ben Salisbury | January 13, 2023 | Recruitment, Financials / Deals
Freelance hiring platform The WorkGenius Group has acquired New York-based Agency WorX. Financial terms were not disclosed. Founded by Alicia Fazio (LinkedIn...
Damian Shore | January 13, 2023 | Recruitment, HRTech, Financials / Deals
Madrid-based Shakers, a marketplace for IT professionals, is aiming to increase its revenue to €5 million ($5.4 million U.S.) this year, newspaper El Mundo...
Damian Shore | January 13, 2023 | Recruitment, HRTech
Revenue at Spain-based Connecting Visions, a marketplace for freelancers in such areas as finance, business intelligence, marketing, sales and talent management...
Alina Zaiets | January 12, 2023 | Recruitment
Enbek.kz, a Kazakhstan-based employment vertical, is launching a new service that makes job-specific recommendations for short-term online courses on the...
Greg Spencer | January 12, 2023 | Recruitment, Financials / Deals, People on the Move
WilsonHCG, a global executive search and recruiting firm, has acquired Personify, a competitor specializing in healthcare and life-sciences recruitment, for...
Alina Zaiets | January 30, 2023 | Recruitment, Financials / Deals
Investment holding Kismet Capital Group has acquired more than 20% of the shares in recruitment vertical HeadHunter for $147 million U.S. "As a new shareholder, we...
Deb Stowe | January 12, 2023 | Recruitment
EJobs Romania saw employers post a record 420,000 new jobs on its site in 2022, the highest total in the last 20 years. With around 10,000 vacancies posted on...
Ben Salisbury | January 12, 2023 | Recruitment, People on the Move
London-based rectech scale-up Beamery is to lay off 12% of staff just weeks after a new funding round gave it a unicorn valuation. Beamery provides an AI-powered...
Tariq Ahmed Saeedi | January 12, 2023 | Recruitment, People on the Move
Japan-based MiraiWorks, which operates a marketplace for freelancers, has appointed Ryoji Watanabe as its chief information/digital officer (CIO/CDO). Watanabe has...
Tariq Ahmed Saeedi | January 12, 2023 | Recruitment, Marketplaces, Financials / Deals
Global recruitment and staffing giant Recruit Holdings has completed its stock buyback program two months ahead of schedule. Recruit spent, as planned, Y150...
Patrick Kosmider | January 12, 2023 | Real Estate, Recruitment, Marketplaces, Financials / Deals
Relio, a Switzerland-based fintech company, has raised CHF 3 million ($3.2 million U.S.) to launch a digital payment account for business customers. The startup...
Prabhu | January 12, 2023 | Recruitment, Financials / Deals
WorkIndia, a Bengaluru-headquartered blue-collar job portal, has raised $12 million U.S. in a pre-Series B funding round. According to a report, the funding round...
Tariq Ahmed Saeedi | January 12, 2023 | Recruitment, Financials / Deals
Japan-based recruitment group DIP Corp. saw operating profits rise fourfold during the three months to November 2022, as it continued to reduce its spending of...
Patrick Kosmider | January 11, 2023 | Recruitment, Intel
Business seeks to solve country’s massive workforce challenges Recorded largest ever financing round for a Germany-based job site Targets passive candidates via an...
Ben Salisbury | January 11, 2023 | Recruitment, HRTech, Intel
Recruitment software provider WaveTrackR has launched a job advert assistant that uses AI to write job adverts for recruiters. The company says that it only...
Tariq Ahmed Saeedi | January 11, 2023 | Recruitment, HRTech, Financials / Deals
Revenue at Taiwan-based recruitment company 104 Corp. rose by 17.7% year-on-year (y-o-y), to NT$2.17 billion ($712 million U.S.) in 2022, according to a company...
Deb Stowe | January 11, 2023 | Recruitment, HRTech, Financials / Deals
Howdy (formerly Astro) has secured an extra $5 million U.S. on top of its initial $13 million Series A round last August, it has announced. The hybrid workforce...
Deb Stowe | January 11, 2023 | Recruitment, People on the Move
Karriere.at, the leading recruitment vertical in Austria, has appointed Markus Hinterleitner chief technology officer (CTO). Hinterleitner will “further optimize...
Greg Spencer | January 10, 2023 | Recruitment, People on the Move
The upswing in tech industry layoffs is generally bad news for IT professionals, but for those who work at LinkedIn, it may have a silver lining. The networking...
AIM Group | January 10, 2023 | Recruitment, HRTech, Financials / Deals
Belgium-based private equity group Straco has agreed to acquire a majority stake in niche recruiter Welten Group from investment company OneTwoCapital, Flexmarkt...
Tariq Ahmed Saeedi | January 10, 2023 | Recruitment
According to WorkNet, which is owned by the South Korean government, its AI job-matching service has facilitated the hiring of 115,000 people since its launch in...
Ben Salisbury | January 09, 2023 | Recruitment, HRTech
Scotland-based recruitment company MM Search has launched a new app to allow candidates to browse the latest live vacancies across the U.K. Job seekers will also...
Tariq Ahmed Saeedi | January 09, 2023 | Recruitment
Leading recruitment marketplace operator SaraminHR has found a lack of employer branding one of the principal causes of the majority of employers having missed...
Patrick Kosmider | January 08, 2023 | Recruitment
Hamburg-based business network Xing is kicking off the year with a new multi-channel brand campaign, putting the focus more firmly on its career network and job...
Ben Salisbury | January 06, 2023 | Recruitment, Financials / Deals
British edtech platform Multiverse has posted a bigger loss in 2022 despite revenue more than doubling. The company, founded in 2016 by ex-British Prime Minister...
AIM Group | January 06, 2023 | Recruitment, HRTech, Financials / Deals
Netherlands-based recruitment group Umon has acquired public sector-focused hiring specialist Zeelenberg.nl. Umon established its first venture, OnlyHuman.nl, in...
AIM Group | January 05, 2023 | Real Estate, Recruitment, Intel
Service capitalizes on coworking and workation trends in Japan Users sign up with a monthly subscription fee Currently available in five locations, but more to be...
