“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:

1. LinkedIn
2. Zynga
3. Silver Spring
4. LiveOps

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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.

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“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.

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“We consistently focus on partnering with our portfolio companies to find and develop the kind of talent that builds winning teams,” said Standish O’Grady, managing director at Granite Ventures. “We are employing the VentureCareers system as another resource for helping our portfolio companies identify the best and brightest candidates for their open positions.”

“Granite Ventures has built a solid reputation for identifying companies well positioned to succeed, and we are pleased to add them to our client roster,” said Jeremy McCarthy, CEO of VentureLoop. “The Granite portfolio of companies represents a nice cross section of early-stage technology companies in the software, services and communications sectors – interesting areas that create unique job opportunities.”

About Granite Ventures, LLC

Granite Ventures has been helping early-stage technology companies build solid foundations for success since 1992. Granite has managed over $1 billion in venture capital and has invested in more than 100 private companies. They partner with promising and successful entrepreneurs to create businesses that have a competitive edge, and help those businesses achieve category leadership. More information can be found at www.granitevc.com.

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.

CONTACT:

For VentureLoop:

David Libby

dlibby@twopinspr.com

For Granite Ventures:

Theresa Maloney

theresa@cogentacom.com

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.”

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.

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

While the stock market has tanked, venture capital firms have been able to raise money in part because they invest for the long-term, and their investors may see venture capital as a way to diversify now that many other parts of the economy are hurting. Private equity firms, or those that buy or invest in later-stage companies, have been more impacted by the stock market.

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