Glassdoor goes Fishing, Humanly Raises VC

Humanly.io announces a successful momentum raise to continue company growth and product development. Better pre-hire conversations result in better hires for companies seeking quality and diverse employees. Launched in July of 2019, Humanly.io has spent the last two years perfecting conversational AI to speed the hiring process, allowing humans to remain at the heart of recruiting.  Utilizing linguistic theory and maintaining a primary focus on DEIB (diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging) in hiring, Humanly.io uses innovation to empower both hiring authorities and job applicants. https://hrtechfeed.com/humanly-io-announces-4-2m-in-funding/ Avionté, a leader in enterprise staffing and recruiting software, has acquired mobile on-demand staffing platform WorkN. This strategic move firmly positions Avionté as a leader in end-to-end and online mobile talent enablement.  With the addition of WorkN mobile solutions to its portfolio, Avionté can further empower clients to compete for talent by helping them design compelling candidate experiences. WorkN, operating as a division of Avionté, will continue to serve large enterprise staffing companies and employers, a market in which WorkN already has penetration and momentum. At the same time, WorkN will gain access to Avionté’s customer base of more than 1,000 staffing companies. https://hrtechfeed.com/avionte-acquires-mobile-online-staffing-platform-workn/ Papaya Global, the industry-leading workforce management platform transforming global employment, announced today that it has raised $250 million in Series D funding, bringing the company’s valuation to $3.7 billion and Papaya’s total funding to date to $440 million. Papaya’s valuation has increased tenfold since September 2020.  Funding will be used to continue Papaya’s rapid expansion and accelerate the recruitment of rapidly growing companies (pre/post IPO) and Fortune 5000 clients. https://hrtechfeed.com/workforce-management-platform-papaya-global-raises-250-million/  Canvas, the world’s first Diversity Recruitment Platform™, announced today a Series C round of $50 million led by Owl Ventures, with participation from Sequoia, and numerous other investors... Coupled with the Series C is the launch of a new product, Canvas Diversity Analytics & Benchmarking ™, which will set the industry standard for increasing diversity in Corporate America.  Already adopted by prominent companies including Airbnb, Bloomberg, Lyft, Pinterest, Roblox, and more, Canvas offers a differentiated approach for understanding, benchmarking and evolving diversity in the workplace through access to the largest ever pool of self-reported candidate diversity data.   Valued at $400M, Canvas says they are  trailblazing a new industry category in recruiting that helps companies take action on their diversity goals by utilizing candidates’ self-reported data to identify talent, rather than inferred data that might be inaccurate or illegal.  https://hrtechfeed.com/canvas-funding/  Glassdoor, the worldwide leader on insights about jobs and companies, today announced that through its parent company it has completed the acquisition of Fishbowl.  Fishbowl is a fast-growing social network used by more than one million professionals1 engaging in candid conversations about anything career, industry and workplace-related. Financial terms are not being disclosed.   Launched in 2016 by co-founders Matt Sunbulli and Loren Appin, Fishbowl has more than 18 million conversations, comments and direct messages in thousands of bowls4 where professionals can discuss career, industry and workplace-related topics. Before posting or commenting on Fishbowl, people have the option to choose how to represent themselves – by job title only, by the company they work for, or with their full name, title and company. Starting today, employees and job seekers on Glassdoor will see relevant Fishbowl conversations from people working in related companies and industries. Job seekers and employees can experience more by clicking on these Fishbowl conversations and visiting Fishbowl to see full conversations and explore company feeds, industry and special interest bowls. Viewing these conversations will require a Fishbowl account. https://hrtechfeed.com/glassdoor-acquires-social-network-app Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices