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Recruitbot is a startup that uses AI to analyze and match potential job candidates to open roles. The team has just raised $8.2 million in new seed funding led by Slow Ventures. Some of the features include using AI for automating the search for qualified candidates by scraping data from LinkedIn and with other talent databases. The team got in touch with Sam Lessin, the general partner at Slow Ventures, after many of Lessin's portfolio companies started using RecruitBot for their hiring. Check out the 19-slide pitch deck that Recruitbot used to raise $8.2 million in seed funding: Note: certain proprietary information has been redacted.)
Persons: Jeremy Schiff, Schiff, Recruitbot, Kevin Mahaffey, Sam Lessin Organizations: Slow Ventures, OCA, Freestyle Capital, Parade Ventures Locations: OpenTable
But what's gone almost unnoticed in the midst of the tech bloodletting is that consolidation is coming for venture investors, too. "Anyone who wanted to raise a fund could," said Nichole Wischoff, a solo venture capitalist. In essence, the great venture-capital resignation has become the great uncertainty. Family offices and institutions that front money to venture funds are being inundated with pitches, multiple sources said. "There's not going to be a rush by the big mega-platforms to hire them," said the principal at the early-stage venture firm.
"It's like don't ask, don't tell," Josh Felser, a successful founder and outspoken investor, said. The following report on how startup founders are coping with the funding crunch was originally published on August 4. Seven Seven Six partner Katelin Holloway. Her investor, Seven Seven Six, pays for its founders to participate. Caleb Frankel, whose Seven Seven Six-backed startup, EarlyBird, helps families invest in their kid's financial future, wants desperately to have kids, but he and his wife have struggled with pregnancy loss.
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