Hummer Winblad Venture Capital Firm Selects VentureCareers from VentureLoop to Promote Startup Jobs for Its Portfolio Companies
San Francisco,
California, January 23, 2008 – Hummer
Winblad, a leading San Francisco venture capital firm, announced that it
has launched VentureCareers on its website to assist its portfolio companies
with their recruiting needs in a tight labor market. Hosted by VentureLoop, a leading provider of
software and services to the venture capital and startup communities,
VentureCareers will enable Hummer Winblad
to offer a valuable resource by directing website visitors to job opportunities
at their startup portfolio companies.
“VentureCareers will be a great asset for our growing
portfolio companies,” said Ann Winblad,
co-founder and Managing Director of Hummer
Winblad. “We are committed to helping
our entrepreneurs build their companies, and this service will allow us to
assist in building their team without adding administrative overhead.”
“We’re very pleased to add Hummer
Winblad as a client,” said Jeremy McCarthy, CEO of VentureLoop. “Hummer
Winblad has a great portfolio of companies, and potential candidates
visiting their website will now have the ability to view jobs for software
engineers, product
management, accounting,
finance,
sales,
and more.”
About Hummer Winblad
Hummer Winblad Venture Partners (www.humwin.com) was founded in 1989 as the
first venture capital fund to invest exclusively in software companies. Through
our history, we’ve had the opportunity to invest in the pioneers and leaders of
several generations of software applications, architectures, delivery methods
and business models.
About VentureLoop
VentureLoop is the leading website dedicated to job postings
for venture-backed startup companies. Founded in 1999, VentureLoop creates direct relationships with the world’s
top venture capital firms to connect their portfolio companies with quality
candidates. Candidates can search the
VentureLoop website for thousands of jobs at startups backed by top tier
venture capital firms. VentureLoop’s
VentureCareers product is a hosted career page for venture capital firms,
allowing portfolio companies to advertise job openings directly onto their
venture capital firm’s public website. VentureLoop
also publishes the weekly VentureLoop Insider Newsletter, which communicates
valuable information about startup news, funding, and career advice. Find out more at www.ventureloop.com.
CONTACT:
Melissa Ta
Senior Public Relations Consultant
Melissa@ventureloop.com