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4 of 6 Hottest Silicon Valley Startups are VentureLoop Clients

admin — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 23:00:24 +0000

Reuters recently announced its Silicon Valley Six, who are considered the hottest startups in Silicon Valley. The selection is described as follows:

“The Silicon Valley Six, made up of the hottest privately held companies with annual revenue of more than $100 million, were chosen based on informal polling by Reuters of venture capitalists and others.”

Here are the 4 hot startups, along with their hot startup jobs, on VentureLoop:

Index Ventures relaunches VentureCareers on new website

admin — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 19:18:42 +0000

Index Ventures, one of the most successful venture firms in Europe, has relaunched VentureCareers on their slick new website. Jobs are located in both Europe and the US. Check them out.

Index Ventures Career Site

Signs of life in the venture-backed job market?

admin — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 16:12:57 +0000

We made an interesting observation late Wednesday night. As our monthly metrics reports began streaming to our venture capital clients, we noticed that for the first time in several months more than half of our VC firm’s portfolio companies added more jobs than they removed for the month. As venture-backed startups have cut back in these tough economic times, they have been pulling job openings from their career sites. While new jobs are still added each month, the number of jobs eliminated has been significantly higher. So while a newly funded startup might list 5 new job openings, 3 other venture-backed firms might eliminate 10 previously posted jobs. But not in July. Is this s sign of hope in the job market?

Historically startups and early stage companies tend to begin hiring sooner than the bigger public companies as economic times improve. They have more flexibility and can commit to headcount without the market pressures that publicly traded companies feel. Could this be a sign of better things to come? We don’t know, but it was at least a refreshing observation. We’ll keep you posted on any other positive signs and check in next month to determine if this was an anomoly or the beginning of a trend.

Altos Ventures Launches VentureCareers!

admin — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 16:48:57 +0000

Check out the new career page for Altos Ventures. Altos is a premier venture capital firm in Menlo Park investing in Software, Digital Media, Services and Infrastructure companies. They have almost 50 jobs so far with more being added.

SB Nation Secures New Round of Funding

piyush — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 05:52:49 +0000

Along with the rest of our management team and employees, I am pleased to announce that SB Nation has secured a new round of financing. The lead investor in this round is Comcast Interactive Capital (CIC), the venture investment arm of Comcast. CIC is joined by several of our existing investors, including the lead from our first round Accel Partners, who are upping their investment in the company.

VentureLoop Launches Accel on VentureCareers

piyush — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 07:43:14 +0000

VentureLoop is excited to announce that we have launched Accel Partners on our VentureCareers platform. Please check out their career page at http://jobs.accel.com. You can also follow their jobs on Twitter at http://twitter.com/accel_jobs.

VentureLoop Partners with Widgetbox to Offer Widgets and Facebook Applications to Venture Capital Firm Clients

Admin — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 14:39:40 +0000

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

VentureLoop Launches New Free Career Site Widgets for Venture Capital Firms and Venture-backed Companies

Admin — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 21:23:07 +0000

San Francisco, California, March 18, 2008 – VentureLoop, the worldwide leader in hosted career sites for venture capital firms, announced the launch of two new career site widgets. The free version of these widgets will enable venture capital firms and their portfolio companies to host a career page on their public websites simply by placing a small piece of code provided by VentureLoop. With more than 30 venture capital firms already using VentureLoop’s premium career site product, the new release will give flexibility for more venture capital firms to display the job openings of their portfolio companies while also enabling their portfolio companies to easily display jobs on their own website. All jobs posted by the portfolio companies automatically synchronize with the venture firm’s career page.

“The advances in technology have enabled us to offer a free version of our premium product,” said Jeremy McCarthy, VentureLoop’s CEO. “Many venture capital firms prefer the premium version of our career website, but this new widget will enable every venture capital firm to add a career page to their website, regardless of their budget. The free portfolio company career page widget provides a remarkably simple way for companies to have their own career site without buying an expensive applicant tracking system or waiting for IT to update their postings. It also automatically synchronizes with each of their venture investors. We believe the venture community will continue creating thousands of jobs each year, and we will be there to support their efforts.”

The portfolio company widget launched in beta in late 2008, and both free widgets will be available for download off the VentureLoop website by validated venture firms and portfolio companies by the end of March. Some of the features include basic customization of styles for website presentation, customized industry names to match venture firm websites, a stored resume database for all job applications, and a monthly email of metrics showing the traffic and resume activity of the website. VentureLoop’s premium version allows for more customization, RSS feeds for jobs, integration of job listings on portfolio company pages of a venture firm’s website, and regular refreshing of jobs by VentureLoop account managers for all portfolio companies.

Interested venture firms and companies can email sales@ventureloop.com to request more information about the free widget or premium career site product. You can see more information at the following link:

http://www.ventureloop.com/ventureloop/jobwidget.php

About VentureLoop

VentureLoop is the leading website dedicated to job postings for emerging venture-backed companies and startup companies. 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.

First Round Capital Launches VentureCareers

Admin — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 06:47:06 +0000

First Round Capital launched VentureCareers. First Round has a great portfolio of high quality Web 2.0 companies. Check out their postings at http://jobs.firstround.com.

HLM Venture Partners Launches VentureLoop’s VentureCareers on its Website

Admin — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 15:19:08 +0000

Promotes Job Opportunities at Portfolio Companies

Boston, MA, August 19, 2008 – HLM Venture Partners, a Boston and San Francisco-based venture capital firm specializing in funding health care companies, announced today that it has launched VentureCareers on its website to promote professional job opportunities at its portfolio companies.

VentureCareers is a career site used by over twenty of the country’s leading venture firms to promote openings at their portfolio companies. The jobs posted through VentureCareers are aggregated at www.ventureloop.com, which currently has over 5,600 job postings at 726 venture-backed companies.

Through the VentureCareers site, portfolio company jobs are posted directly to a career page on HLM’s website to solicit candidates. The site was developed by VentureLoop, which has a number of products and services designed to connect growth companies, talent, entrepreneurs and resources.

According to VentureLoop co-founder Jeremy McCarthy, “Through our extensive network of relationships with venture capital firms, entrepreneurs and service providers, we develop a valuable pool of talent for clients and save them the time and expense of handling recruitment themselves. Many of the job postings found on VentureLoop cannot be found on any other job board.”

Vin Fabiani, a partner at HLM noted “One of the key ways we can help our portfolio companies grow successfully is to help recruit talent. By partnering with VentureLoop, we provide our portfolio companies with access to an additional pool of candidates at no additional cost.”

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About HLM Venture Partners

HLM Venture Partners provides venture capital to emerging companies focused on health care information technology, health care services and medical technology. During the past 15 years, HLM has helped more than 60 privately-held health care companies turn innovative ideas into market-leading businesses. The company’s investment professionals have over 125 years of collective expertise in the health care industry, an accumulation of knowledge and experience that is invaluable to the leadership of its portfolio companies. For more information, visit: www.hlmventurepartners.com