Microsoft Investment In Facebook Giving Hope To Jobster
Amit Chowdhry | Saturday October 27, 2007 | 780 views
“It is actually interesting. Microsoft and Facebook, one thing that they have in common, is they both recruit using Jobster,”
-Jobster CEO, Jason Goldberg.
Jobster Inc., the Seattle, Wash. based company focused on the recruiter-candidate relationship has some high hopes for their partnership with Facebook and Microsoft. Microsoft and Facebook both recruit candidates with Jobster.Â
As a matter of fact, in February 2007, Jobster announced that they will have an official deal with Facebook [Source: GigaOM]. Since the partnership between Jobster and Facebook happened 5 months ago, I have not heard of any major milestones for Jobster.Â
According to CrunchBase, Jobster has raised $8 million Series A from Ignition and Trinity, $19.5 million Series B from Ignition/Mayfield/Trinity, and $18 million Series C from Ignition/Mayfield/Trinity and Reed Elsevier. This brings Jobster’s total investment at $45 million.Â
Jobster’s Silicon Valley competitor, Simply Hired has about one-third in funding. Simply Hired has about $16.5 million in funding.
Goldberg showed his optimism for Jobster on the FOX Business Network. [Note: the video is down for now, if I get a fixed link, I'll update this post].
Categorized under Facebook, Ignition Venture Partners, Jobster, Mayfield Fund, Microsoft Corporation, Reed Elsevier, Trinity Ventures
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