Boston-based Mobile Job Platform For Hourly Workers Expands Mission to Empower Millions of Job Seekers in Underserved Communities
JobGet, a leading mobile hiring app, announced a $2.1 Million Seed funding led by Pillar VC with participation from Data Point Capital Partners, Crocker Mountain Capital, EO Ventures, Greg Donoghue (Clover Food Lab), and Anna Marie Wagner (Gingko Bioworks). Company funding now totals more than $2.6 Million. JobGet leverages AI matching technology to bring together qualified hourly job seekers with nearby businesses looking to hire. Employers use the in-app messaging and video chat features to schedule interviews in real-time, often reducing the time-to-hire from weeks to less than 24 hours. The app removes unnecessary frictions such as cover letters, resumes, and online questionnaires.
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JobGet will use the funding to launch a national expansion after a successful regional launch in Massachusetts. The company launched with eight initial employer partners and within the first year has grown to more than 5,000 employer partner locations utilizing the platform. More than 1 million applications have been submitted and 350,000 interviews have been conducted through the platform over the past year. Businesses partnering with the company range from national employers such as Home Depot, McDonald’s, Block by Block, National Guard, Domino’s, and Shake Shack to popular local businesses such as Dig Inn and Expressions.
JobGet is playing a critical role in the pandemic connecting recently laid-off workers with new job opportunities. The number of job seekers on the app grew by more than 300 percent since the beginning of March and the company helped more than 30,000 job seekers get back into the workforce. The virtual video chat function on the app allowed businesses to quickly hire while following social distancing protocols. During the pandemic, the Massachusetts state employment service agency, MassHire Central, officially partnered with JobGet and fully integrated with the JobGet platform.
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“We are beyond excited to be partnering with our investors to help grow JobGet to a national platform. We created JobGet because we personally saw how the system for hiring hourly workers is broken and antiquated,” says Tony Liu, Co-founder & CEO at JobGet. “During the pandemic, it has been humbling to help so many hospitality and retail workers who were abruptly out of work quickly get rehired as essential workers. We were happy to assist local businesses affected by the pandemic with open access to the platform to list job openings.”
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