How the money flows can provide us with a map of the problems people are trying to solve. Key signals in the noise. The ever-brilliant George LaRocque helps us piece it all together as Founder and Principal Analyst at WorkTech, bringing his perspective and updates on interesting tech investments from around the globe.

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Apploi Raises $8M For Recruiting Platform to Hire, Onboard, and Credential Healthcare Workers

‍Apploi announced an $8 million Series B round of of VC funding for its healthcare focused recruiting platform. This brings its total raised to $20.5 million.

Apploi’s recruiting platform includes recruitment marketing, automated hiring workflows, scheduling, onboarding, and credential verification and management. Apploi launched in 2014 with an automated employment application app for the service industry. It seems to have found its niche now, focusing exclusively on healthcare.

$939 million was invested in talent acquisition globally during 2020. Get free 2020 Global HR Tech VC Lookback for free, here.

Source: Apploi Applies $8M To Address Nursing Shortage – Crunchbase News

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Slapdash Raises $3.7M for Its Workplace Apps Command Bar for Collaboration

‍Slapdash announced a $3.7 million Seed Round of VC for its workplace apps command bar.

Slapdash allows users to organize their enterprise apps into workspaces that provide for better search, collaboration, and communication.

The communications and collaboration category saw $821 million of VC invested globally in 2020 making it the top category for HR tech investment last year. In total $5 billion was invested globally in HR technology. Get the full report, here.

Source: Slapdash raises $3.7M seed to ship a workplace apps command bar | TechCrunch

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