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Simply Hired's founder self-funded, FYI, I don't think there was ever any VC money involved. At least when I worked for them circa 2010 that was the case. Hop
by justizin 10y ago
Simply Hired's founder self-funded, FYI, I don't think there was ever any VC money involved.
At least when I worked for them circa 2010 that was the case.
Hope all the smart folks I worked with there land safely.
- fintler 10y agoSimply Hired, founded in 2004 and based in Sunnyvale, had raised just over $34 million in funding from investors that include Dave McClure, Foundation Capital, Guy Kawasaki, Fox, IDG Ventures and Ronald Conway.
- justizin 10y agoI stand corrected. I guess they burned a lot of the founder's money first. ;d
- bostonpete 10y agoIt seems like your memory from 2010 isn't even quite right. According to this article, they were taking investments at least since 2006... http://techcrunch.com/2006/04/18/simply-hired-takes-135m-from-fox-and-foundation-capital/ http://techcrunch.com/2006/04/18/simply-hired-takes-135m-fro...
- throwaway59511 10y agoCrunchbase shows them having taken an A round in '04 and several times since then [1]. Their E round wasn't long before my interview there [2]. [1] https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/simply-hired#/entity https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/simply-hired#/entity [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11810217 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11810217