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HR platform Hibob raises $150M at a $1.65B valuation

TechCrunch

Hibob , a London-based company that targets the mid-market with an all-in-one platform that handles various human resources functions, closed a Series C of $150 million. Hibob last raised money about 10 months ago, a $70 million round in December 2020 (a round led by SEEK and Israel Growth Partners). We believe it should be different.

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Hourly.io banks $27M for its new approach to providing workers comp and payroll for hourly wage workers

TechCrunch

In one of the latest developments, Hourly.io — which has built an app that tracks working hours, generates payroll, and then calculates and assigns workers compensation insurance to individuals based on that — has closed in on $27 million in funding. is based out of the U.S.

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Nana nabs $6M for an online academy and marketplace dedicated to appliance repair

TechCrunch

A lot of the focus in online education — and, let’s face it, education overall — has been about professional development for knowledge workers, education for K-12 and how best to deliver cost-effective, engaging higher learning to those in college and beyond. “There are 5.9

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Workiz locks in $13M for productivity tools aimed at home services professionals

TechCrunch

Knowledge workers — those whose professions tend to be anchored to desks or computers — have long been the most obvious and primary focus for a lot of B2B apps and services. Workiz is based out of San Diego and Israel, with the latter home to its R&D efforts and a number of its investors.

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Gloat raises $57M to reinvent the internal job board

TechCrunch

This was his first job after spending time in Israel’s IDF, and so after six years of working first for the startup and then IBM in effectively a similar role, he had itchy feet and wanted to do more. This is not unlike the career development tools that LinkedIn has built to bolster job hunting on its platform.).

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How Anjali Sud stopped worrying about YouTube and reinvented Vimeo

The Verge

Yeah, so probably the most important part of the background is: Vimeo is a 16-year-old video platform, but we’re really three, four years into a very different strategy. So YouTube wants to attract creators and content to their platform. Fundamentally, YouTube is still focused on entertainment, and their business model is advertising.

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