VentureLoop Partners with Widgetbox to Offer Widgets and Facebook Applications to Venture Capital Firm Clients
San Francisco, California, June 2, 2009 – Widgetbox, the web’s largest widget community, announced that VentureLoop, the worldwide leader in hosted career sites for venture capital firms, will utilize Widgetbox to offer Blidgets and Facebook applications to their venture capital clients.
“Widgetbox has a great technology that will allow VentureLoop to create a unique offering for our venture capital clients to display their portfolio companies’ job postings on blogs and through Facebook,” said Jeremy McCarthy, VentureLoop’s CEO. “The new Blidget Pro will even allow customization to match the look and feel our venture capital clients want in order to show consistent branding. This really helps us add value to our venture firms and their portfolio companies by maximizing exposure to their job listings through the enormous Widgetbox community of users. With over 9 billion widgets served and 90 million unique monthly viewers, it was clear to us that a partnership with Widgetbox would add significant value to our venture capital community of clients.”
Hummer Winblad, a premier San Francisco venture capital firm, has begun making the widget available for blogs and as a Facebook application. “This is an innovative way for us to help promote job opportunities at our portfolio companies,” said Ann Winblad, co-founder and Managing Director of Hummer Winblad. “The VentureLoop and Widgetbox solution allows us to create awareness of job openings on blogs and social media destinations where top candidates spend time.”
“We’re thrilled to work with VentureLoop and integrate our tools into their growing community,” said Will Price, CEO of Widgetbox. “Partnering with the leader in the venture capital career space is a great opportunity to demonstrate how Widgetbox can display job listings across the web and distribute their content on blogs, Facebook and other popular sites.”
Bloggers and fans of the venture community can download individual venture firm job widgets on the VentureLoop website here:
http://www.ventureloop.com/ventureloop/ventureloopwidgetbox.php
Facebook applications for individual venture capital firms will be available through the Facebook website.
About Widgetbox
With more than 157,000 active widgets and 90 million unique monthly viewers, Widgetbox is home to the web’s largest widget community. Since 2006, Widgetbox has been the leading self-service web widget platform, enabling developers, publishers and marketers to efficiently create viral widgets compatible across the web. Widgetbox is particularly well-suited for feed-based content. The Blidget and Blidget Pro tools allow publishers and marketers to convert RSS feeds (from blogs, YouTube, Twitter, Vimeo and others) into customized, branded widgets – without any development or engineering resources. For more information, please visit http://www.widgetbox.com.
About VentureLoop
VentureLoop is the leading website dedicated to job postings for emerging venture-backed companies and startup companies with over 100,000 unique monthly visitors. 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 and growth companies 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 Emerging Growth Newsletter, which communicates valuable information about emerging growth company news, funding, and career advice. Find out more at www.ventureloop.com.
About Hummer Winblad Venture Partners
Hummer Winblad Venture Partners was created in 1989 as the first venture capital firm focused exclusively on software. As the software industry grew from PC software to enterprise computing to Internet applications, Hummer Winblad has been at the forefront – funding the entrepreneurs and the ideas that helped define these markets. The firm’s goal is to provide the capital, experience and vision that will enable its companies to become leaders in this new software economy. For more information on Hummer Winblad, visit www.humwin.com.
VentureLoop Facebook Application