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Tech recruiting has been begging for innovation. That’s why Gild is here. Gild provides recruiting solutions that harness the power of data to liberate hiring teams from the challenges of finding developers. Using patent-pending technology, Gild evaluates the work of millions of developers so companies using Gild’s talent acquisition tools know who’s good and can target the right candidates. Launched in 2011, Gild is backed by Globespan Capital Partners and Baseline Ventures, and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.
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Gild Adds New Gild Source Licensing for Small and Medium Businesses
March 21, 2013
Gild, which brings meritocracy to tech hiring through innovative recruiting technologies, today introduced new pricing options for its flagship product, Gild Source. The new licensing options expand Gild’s customer base beyond the enterprise, to now address the needs of small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) with more moderate or occasional tech hiring demands and budgets. Read More»
Gild Closes $8 Million Series A Round to Bring Meritocracy to Tech Hiring
February 27, 2013
Gild, which is bringing meritocracy to tech hiring through innovative recruiting technologies, announced today the completion of its Series A financing totaling $8 million. The investment is the largest Series A round in the tech hiring market, and was led by Steve Anderson of Baseline Ventures, with participation from SAP Ventures, Globespan Capital Partners, and legendary Silicon Valley investor Mark Kvamme, an original investor in LinkedIn. Read More»In the News
Mind Your ‘Social’ Presence: Big-data Recruiting Has Arrived
Knowledge @ Wharton Today | May 7, 2013
Peter Steiner’s famed 1993 New Yorker cartoon of two dogs at a computer — with its caption, “On the Internet, nobody knows you’re a dog” — alluded to the difficulty of determining people’s online identities, including when it comes to recruiting workers. Now, a recent New York Times story on “algorithmic hiring” — which uses big-data analytics in place of traditional “talent markers” such as academic degrees — points to a new way of finding employees in a sea of online information. Read More»
