Curated Intel from the Talent Tech Industry
November 18-24, 2024:
• Expanding in North America & Europe: Adzuna acquires social recruitment platform Seiza;
• Entering new markets for its AI solution: Viterbit to raise up to $10.3M for international growth;
• Scaling strategic intelligence offering: GlobalData buys job data provider LinkUp to fuel growth;
• Running recruitment better: Gaia unveils voice and chat technology to manage campaigns;
• Seeing history repeat itself: Silicon Valley billionaire warns ‘there’s a bubble’ in AI valuations.
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• The TAtech Leadership Summit on Recruitment Marketing, February 26-27, 2025 in Tampa, Florida. For senior execs at enterprise employers and TA solution providers.
• TAtech North America & The World Job Board Forum, June 3-5, 2025 in Oceanside just north of San Diego, California. For job board and talent technology company CEOs, senior execs and rising stars.
• TAtech Europe & The EMEA Job Board Forum, November 11-12, 2025 in London, England. For job board and talent technology company CEOs, senior execs and rising stars.
Seating is limited at all events, so register today!
Adzuna acquires social recruitment platform Seiza
We’re pleased to share some exciting news – Adzuna has officially acquired Seiza, a market leader in social media recruitment advertising. Founded in 2010, Seiza connects companies with candidates through targeted social media campaigns in Europe and North America, and offers a recruitment automation platform to help companies turn those candidates into hires. With a focus on hard-to-fill roles in frontline sectors, including hospitality, logistics, and retail, Seiza is trusted by over 400 clients, including global brands like McDonald’s, Sysco, Ecolab, and Veolia, to deliver quality hires efficiently. This acquisition strengthens Adzuna’s mission to use technology to help people find better, more fulfilling jobs and further expands our footprint in North America and Europe.
Viterbit plans to raise up to $10.3M for international growth
Viterbit plans to raise up to $10.3M for international growth. Madrid-based recruitment tech startup Viterbit, specializing in AI-powered hiring solutions, aims to raise between €6.0 million and €8.0 million ($7.7 million to $10.3 million USD) in funding during Q1 2025, as reported by Cinco Días. Currently active in Spain and Mexico with clients in Argentina, Chile, and Germany, Viterbit is targeting expansion into France, Italy, Poland, and Romania. The startup raised €1.6 million in 2022, led by 4Founders Capital, and recently appointed Aarón Cogolludo as Chief Revenue Officer.
GlobalData buys job data provider LinkUp as part of 3-year growth plan
GlobalData PLC on Wednesday said trading in the second half of its current financial year is in line with market expectations, and announced its acquisition of job market data provider LinkUp. The London-based analytics and consultancy firm acquired Minneapolis, US-based JobDig Inc, which trades under the name LinkUp, saying this is part of its growth plan. "This addition represents further execution against our bolt-on acquisition strategy, adding to the group's growing strategic intelligence offering as well as strengthening its presence within the financial markets audience," GlobalData said. The company is targeting annual revenue of GBP500 million by the end of its three-year growth plan, in 2026.
Gaia unveils groundbreaking voice and chat technology to enhance employers’ recruitment management capabilities
Gaia, the AI-powered recruitment platform, has transformed recruitment management with the launch of first-of-its-kind voice and chat functionality, as part of a pioneering update to its GaiaAttract platform. This innovative feature is designed to make recruitment management faster and more efficient by enabling employers to navigate their recruitment processes with simple voice commands – like Siri or Alexa. With a simple command, such as “Hey Gaia, how’s my engineer campaign performing?” employers gain instant access to a dashboard of KPIs and performance metrics. Similarly, by asking “Find me 10 architects in Milton Keynes,” Gaia not only suggests suitable candidates but also guides them through creating and launching the campaign using only voice prompts. GaiaAttract uses AI to deliver precision-targeted recruitment campaigns across social media and search platforms.
Silicon Valley billionaire warns ‘absolutely there’s a bubble’ in AI valuations: ‘Nobody would be surprised’ if OpenAI ‘disappeared next Monday’
Wherever C3.ai CEO Tom Siebel goes he fields the same question about the future of AI. “Everybody's asking me about it, ‘Is there a bubble here?’ Absolutely there's a bubble. It's huge,” he tells Fortune in an exclusive interview at C3.ai’s New York offices in a Midtown WeWork. Over the last two years, analysts have pondered whether AI companies, both public and private, could possibly live up to their lofty valuations. To Siebel, who built his career in Silicon Valley as a sales executive at Oracle before leaving to start his own company that he eventually sold back to his former employer for $5.8 billion, the current state of AI reminded him of the dot-com bubble. Even then a great and wondrous technology—the internet—couldn’t save a host of companies from coming crashing down.
One-of-a-Kind Conferences for TA Solutions Business Success
• The TAtech Leadership Summit on Recruitment Marketing, February 26-27, 2025 in Tampa, Florida. For senior execs at enterprise employers and TA solution providers.
• TAtech North America & The World Job Board Forum, June 3-5, 2025 in Oceanside just north of San Diego, California. For job board and talent technology company CEOs, senior execs and rising stars.
• TAtech Europe & The EMEA Job Board Forum, November 11-12, 2025 in London, England. For job board and talent technology company CEOs, senior execs and rising stars.
Seating is limited at all events, so register today!