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What does Handshake do?
Handshake, is the ultimate recruiting platform and professional network for college students. With more than 60 universities, 50,000 recruiters and 200,000 students posting over 250,000 job opportunities to date. It is a career network built for transforming the recruiting experience for college students, employers and career centres. This platform is designed for transforming the recruiting experience for recruiters, students and career centres. The notable universities are of Wake Forest and Chicago.
How much Handshake was funded?
Handshake raised $10.5M in Series A on February 3, 2016 from Charlie Cheever, Hans Robertson, Deborah Quazzo, Lowercase Capital, Annox Capital, True Ventures, Lightspeed Venture Partners and Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers
Previous funding
$3.5M on March 15, 2015 from Bob Mylod, Hans Robertson, Charlie Cheever, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Lowercase Capital and True Ventures
What is next for Handshake?
As a part of the latest funding, Eric Feng, general partner at KPCB and former CTO at Flipboard and Hulu will join the company’s board of directors. In 2015 the company’s network grew from 5 to 60 universities which includes Cornell, Stanford, Johns Hopkins, University of Chicago, Wake Forest and University of Texas and University of Michigan.
The company plans to use the new funds for broadening and deepening its university partnerships across the country, expanding the network and enabling new schools to implement the system seamlessly. The company will also increase its product development engineering efforts significantly. In short, the company will start providing premium tools for employers for helping the companies target the students, right campuses and build their employer brands, find the right students, and in integrating their college recruiting data with other Human Resource systems.
More about Handshake
Handshake was founded on June 20, 2012 by Garrett Lord. It is a college career network built for transforming the recruiting experience for career centers, students and employees.
