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Bright - big data recruiting human resources career management

Bright

Acquired by LinkedIn in February 2014
Bright eliminates the noise in the hiring process by efficiently connecting job seekers to their best opportunities, and employers to their top prospects. We unlock the power of artificial intelligence and big data to establish a one-to-one signal between candidates ...

Inductly - SaaS B2B human resources corporate training

Inductly

Simple employee onboarding and training (500 Startups, Startmate)
New employee onboarding costs business $320 billion each year! Why? Because a staggering 27% of employees leave within their first year and this jumps to an incredible 47% in retail! That means, each year, between one quarter and one half of your workforce will ...

SmartRecruiters - SaaS social recruiting recruiting human resources hiring talent

SmartRecruiters

The Hiring Success Platform.
SmartRecruiters delivers a collaborative experience for hiring teams where they can successfully discover, engage and close top talent. Unlike traditional outdated systems, SmartRecruiters' candidate-first approach ensures the right people stay connected with companies ...

Teleborder - recruiting human resources legal Immigration

Teleborder

Work Without Borders
Teleborder helps companies hire, manage and retain international employees. Our software platform enables companies to manage immigration, reporting, and compliance all in one place, and our network of providers deliver related services through our platform. Our ...

TenXer - enterprise software big data human resources developer tools

TenXer

Helping software development managers be better managers.
tenXer helps software development managers know who on their team needs help and how to help them. Using the data that already exists in tools like Pivotal Tracker, JIRA and GitHub, tenXer identifies and highlights the relevant information that engineering managers ...

Learndot - SaaS enterprise software sales and marketing human resources

Learndot

Platform for workplace Universities
This year, 8 billion USD will be spent on integrated talent management systems with 2 billion more on learning systems. Yet, according to Deloitte, “Few areas of the technology landscape are as filled with customer dissatisfaction as the LMS market.” Why? Because ...

15Five - enterprise software collaboration recruiting human resources

15Five

Know the pulse of your company; weekly employee feedback.
When employees spend 15 minutes each week writing a report that takes their manager no more than 5 minutes to read, everyone stays in the loop and focused on what's most important. We help CEOs and executives to know the pulse of their company. With 15Five, they ...

Prehire - SaaS enterprise software recruiting human resources

Prehire

Take the guesswork out of hiring
Prehire takes the guesswork out of hiring for non-technical roles. Instead of relying on dubious resume screening criteria or inconsistent interview practices, hiring managers use Prehire's job simulations to give candidates a day-in-the-life experience of the ...

Hired - marketplaces recruiting human resources developer tools

Hired

The Marketplace for Talent
Hired makes hiring, or getting hired, less painful through a two-sided marketplace that connects top talent with over 1,600 fast-growing companies. Hired is the only marketplace designed to give job seekers transparency and control over their job search with one ...

SpeakUp - SaaS B2B human resources human resource automation

SpeakUp

Employee-sourced Innovation
Our mission is simple: to give everyone at your company the power to create positive change. Employees struggle with too many obstacles and communication barriers at work. Getting problems and ideas to decision makers is a painful process. At the same time, progressive ...

Keas - enterprise software human resources health and wellness

Keas

Engagement platform that drives health behavior change

Good.Co - big data mobile enterprise recruiting human resources

Good.Co

"Myers-Briggs meets LinkedIn" or Quantified-self for work. TS '13
Good.Co's mission is to fix hiring and retention using a consumer-first approach to self-discovery and culture-fit. Combining a playful experience with tested science, we're quantifying the world's cultural information through quizzes. We help people improve relationships ...

Entelo - social recruiting recruiting human resources career management

Entelo

Hire better using predictive analytics.
Entelo allows recruiters to search for the most talented people across the web. With over 300 million social profiles in its database, powerful search to surface relevant candidates and patent-pending technology to help discover candidates who may be open to new ...

Bridge US - marketplaces professional services human resources legal

Bridge US

Making immigration easy and affordable. TurboTax meets Redfin for the immigration process.
LexSpot makes the convoluted and expensive immigration process easy and affordable. Our online platform allows users to get personalized information about their immigration options, find and compare qualified legal providers, and save up to 80% on legal fees through ...

Envoy - SaaS security human resources office space

Envoy

Modern visitor registration for iPad
Envoy is a beautiful, modern visitor sign in system for the iPad. Collect visitor information along with support for signing NDAs, printing badges, or automatically sending SMSs to their hosts. It's visitor management re-imagined.

Zoomforth - digital media enterprise software sales and marketing human resources

Zoomforth

Easily arrange multimedia into personalized web pages
Zoomforth makes professional communications more human. Most recruiting and sales outreach is dry, impersonal, and limited to traditional email formats. Zoomforth empowers sales reps and recruiters to create highly personalized, content-rich web pages and emails, ...

Simpler - SaaS enterprise software tablets human resources

Simpler

New hire paperwork without the paper.
New hire paperwork without the paper. Send new hires their packet as easily as one e-mail. They can fill everything out in a browser. Track their progress and make sure nothing falls through the cracks. Simpler makes onboarding seamless. More at our website: ...

Proven - mobile SaaS recruiting human resources

Proven

Hiring for Restaurant and Hospitality
We help small-medium sized restaurants and hotel chains streamline their hiring. Employers post their jobs on Proven, we distribute them to multiple job boards, and we help employers with the hiring process.

Traba - recruiting human resources

Traba

Effective, affordable job search
Traba gives job seekers an inside look into organizations, and then helps them to prepare themselves (eg, resume review, interview prep) to get the role. We have a 70% placement rate within 3 months of working with us - we're far more effective than people working ...

Zenefits - enterprise software human resources health and insurance

Zenefits

Benefits, Payroll, HR. Outsource it all in seconds.
Zenefits is the fastest growing SaaS company ever! We are a comprehensive, web-based, HRIS system that manages all HR, payroll, and benefits processes from a single online dashboard. Companies can choose from among Zenefits’ solutions, including benefits administration, ...

Lever - SaaS enterprise software recruiting human resources

Lever

Streamlined hiring for collaborative, data-driven companies.
Lever builds applicant tracking software for modern hiring. Recruiters, managers, interviewers, and candidates are currently forced to use outdated, clunky software. Hiring skilled labor is critical to every business, and companies need a feature driven product ...

CodeLesson - education marketplaces human resources corporate training

CodeLesson

We connect real human instructors with professionals who want to learn to code.
We provide a platform and a marketplace that makes it easy to teach and learn technology online. The fact that our courses are taught by real human experts (instead of canned videos, etc.) is our competitive differentiator. We offer a mix of free and paid courses. ...

FirstJob - SaaS recruiting college recruiting human resources

FirstJob

Redefining Career Search and Skill Development for Millennials
FirstJob is an online marketplace that redefines career search and skill development for millennial talent. Our mission is to solve the massive underemployment and skills gap problems that persist in the current job market, by connecting millennials with top employers ...

Pomello - enterprise software human resources cloud data services

Pomello

Data-Driven HR Platform
Pomello helps companies screen talent for culture fit. Core features include: - Company culture measurement - Culture analytics - Candidate screening

Prophecy Sciences - sports finance recruiting human resources

Prophecy Sciences

Predicting performance and fit through neuroscience
Prophecy Sciences lets companies make better hiring decisions and build higher performing teams, using neuroscience. The Prophecy Sciences assessment is fundamentally different from any personality or aptitude test on the market. It uses a 30-minute series of ...

Advsor - business services small and medium businesses accounting human resources

Advsor

Powering Emerging Business
Advsor is a consulting firm that partners exclusively with more than 100 funded startups throughout the U.S. We provide the back office basics from accounting, hr, payroll, tax, insurance and compliance, scaling with our clients with budgeting, advisory, strategy ...

digmybrand - social recruiting human resources career management career planning

digmybrand

career tools - 360 feedback, resume builder, brand profile
digmybrand is a FREE career toolbox which students and professionals can use for free to... (1) create simple yet super-sleek resumes with customizable sections and leveraging existing profiles (2) build a brand profile to promote their work, personality, ...

Original - human resources professional networking enterprise 2.0 quantified self

Original

Fitbit for your career.
68% of all hires made in 2010 were "contingent," and even full-time workers in their 20s switch jobs every two years. There is no more corporate ladder. The best careers are built by seeking interesting work, demonstrating ability, maintaining marketability, developing ...

Allay - health care insurance human resources health and insurance

Allay

HR and benefits platform for insurance brokers and their customers (AngelPad #8)
Allay enables companies to work with the broker of their choice to do online, paperless health insurance purchasing, and full HR and benefits administration. Companies can ensure compliance with local and federal employment laws, never send paper or PDF on-boarding ...

Reppify - social media sales and marketing recruiting human resources

Reppify

Social Referrals for Hiring and Sales
Reppify offers a powerful job applicant screening tool for corporate recruiters which automates the analysis of each applicant's online presence (social network data from LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, etc.) and highlights top candidates. This EEOC/FCRA-compliant ...

Distill - SaaS enterprise software recruiting human resources

Distill

Hiring and Interview Management Tools
We strive to take the pain out of hiring and recruiting. We're building hiring tools to maximize the interview process as well as rethinking the optimal ways to screen candidates. Developing data-driven products that work for recruiters, hiring managers, interviewers ...

AnyPerk - SaaS discounts human resources employer benefits programs

AnyPerk

Great perks for everyone in your company. (YC W12)
AnyPerk provides high-quality employee perks including discounts and VIP treatment in fitness, telecom, entertainment, and travel to companies of any size. AnyPerk brings together thousands of companies to achieve the high level of rewards it offers to clients. ...

HackerX - startups recruiting events human resources

HackerX

Where developers meet startups
HackerX is an events company focused on helping companies find the best technical talent. We host hiring events for developers and designers in 30 Cities and 8 Countries including San Francisco, Chicago, New York, Los Angeles, Seattle, Austin, Boulder, Boston, ...

Bold - SaaS enterprise software payments human resources

Bold

Programmatic money.
Bold is dedicated to make the financial system more accessible. We do this by offering a secure and convenient solution for instant, frictionless transacting. Why? Because we want payments to get out of the way of living life and building companies.

ZenPayroll - SaaS enterprise software small and medium businesses human resources

ZenPayroll

Delightful, modern payroll
ZenPayroll is Delightful, Modern Payroll. Sign up today at www.zenpayroll.com. Our mission is to make payroll as simple & intuitive as possible using the principles & tools of modern software. The payroll market today is filled with unnecessary layers of complexity, ...

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