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Kira Talent Raises $1.2 M in Seed Round

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What does Kira Talent do?

Kira Talent, is a Toronto based startup, which is an award winning interviewing platform which allows the admission teams and recruiters in schools to record and embed the video questions and responses.

This interviewing platform allows recruiters and admission team managers to record video question and responses and place them in their online application process. After the candidate receives the application they can see the questions and answer it back via videos. The videos are short and the candidates send their answers to the employers who will then rate, share and compare all the candidates.

How much Kira Talent was funded?

Kira Talent has raised $1.2 M in Seed round on March 11th, 2015 by
BDC Capital Corporation which invested $150 K and other investors include Relay Ventures, Wind’s Anthony Lacavera and Business Development Bank of Canada.

Previous funding

  • $2M in  Seed funding on Sep 25th, 2013 by, Tony Lacavera, David Shaw, Relay Ventures and Roger Martin.

What is next for Kira Talent?

This Canada based company plans to use this fund to refine the Kira Academic platform mainly, and allow the colleges and universities to comprehensively assess the applicants during the admissions process through the use of timed video and written questions with response.

This latest round of funding is a planned second tranche to the first seed round for Kira Talent in August 2013. The investment signals the startup’s growth as a leading provider of admissions solutions for higher education. It will help the startup serve the clients better and provides them even more schools the ability to see the potential students as more than the grades and application.

More about Kira Talent

Kira Talent was launched in 2012 as a tool for assessing the business hiring purposes. It has shifted later to focus on becoming an assessment platform which is adaptable to many industries which includes higher education. This has led to the launch of Kira Academic in 2014.

 

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