Recent News & Press
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Urgent Career Secures Series A Funding From iNovia Capital
August 20, 2009NEW YORK, NY – August 20, 2009. iNovia Capital, a Montreal-based manager of seed and early stage venture capital funds, today announced its investment in New-York-based Urgent Career as part of the company's Series A funding round. Urgent Career seeks to revolutionize the process of finding, screening, and assessing sales talent, in order to fill the void of top-performing sales professionals at companies around the globe.
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CRAINS: Online headhunters prosper despite weak economy
July 08, 2008Despite a weak job market, two Manhattan-based tech companies that provide niche job hunting services are expanding. Urgent Career unveiled on Wednesday a new service that helps companies hire good sales people, while BountyJobs Inc., which operates a Web site that connects headhunters to employers, has raised $12 million in venture funding. More
Blog: Urgent Speed
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More Networked than Cisco? Angel and Venture Syndicates
August 19, 2009I like the thinking behind Yael Hochberg, Alexander Ljungqvist, and Yang Lu’s research on predicting venture investment return. Their study, “Whom You Know Matters: Venture Capital Networks and Investment Performance” shows how, historically, Angels and VCs that make a habit of co-investing outperform funds that tend to participate in more limited syndicates. More
