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Recruiting startup SeekOut raises $65M to take on LinkedIn and other talent acquisition companies

GeekWire

From left to right: SeekOut CEO Anoop Gupta; SeekOut CTO Aravind Bala; Madrona Venture Group Managing Director and SeekOut board member S. It pulls information on potential hires from sites such as LinkedIn and GitHub; from research papers and patents; and other public domains. SeekOut Photo). SeekOut CEO and co-founder Anoop Gupta.

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Recruiting software company SeekOut lays off employees in another round of cuts

GeekWire

But the tech downturn that began later in 2022 caused companies to curb hiring and trim workforces — possibly reducing demand for a company like SeekOut. Jobs site Indeed laid off 8% of its workforce last week and did another round of layoffs last year, citing a “global slowdown in hiring.”

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SeekOut lays off 7% of staff in restructuring but plans to grow headcount this year

GeekWire

SeekOut is still hiring and plans to reach 225 employees by year-end. SeekOut CEO Anoop Gupta is a former technical assistant to Bill Gates who previously led Microsoft’s Unified Communications Group. The startup now has about 200 employees. The company raised $115 million last year, pushing its valuation past $1.2

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Latest unicorn sighting in Seattle: SeekOut lands $115M to expand recruiting software

GeekWire

.” The people: Gupta is a former technical assistant to Bill Gates who previously led Microsoft’s Unified Communications Group. “Building that culture from the very beginning, from every hire that you have, is really important,” Gupta said.

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Meet the unicorns: A look at the 15 Seattle-area startups that boast valuations over $1 billion

GeekWire

Before we learn more about the current crop of Seattle area unicorns, a few interesting facts about this group of 15: None of the Seattle area unicorns boast a female or Black CEO, a disappointing statistic that signals how the venture and startup community has a long way to go to diversify. Microsoft’s lineage runs deep.

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5 hot IT budget investments — and 2 going cold

CIO Business Intelligence

This applies to his IT group as well, specifically, in using AI to automate the review of customer contracts, Nardecchia says. Vaithylingam says the College of Southern Nevada will shut down its on-prem data center — one of the largest in Nevada — and plans to fully move all workloads and infrastructure to Microsoft Azure.

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