Skillit, a New York-based provider of a recruiting platform for full-time construction labor, raised $5.1M in Seed funding.
The round was led by Building Ventures with participation from MetaProp, HOLT Ventures, Great North Ventures, 1Sharpe Ventures and Takeoff Capital.
The company intends to use the funds to accelerate growth and expand operations building out a team across product development, engineering, customer success and sales.
Led by Fraser Patterson, CEO and Founder, Skillit connects the supply of skilled workers with contractor demand in the $1.6T annual construction industry via a platform for sourcing, skills assessment, hiring, training. The system is already used by ENR contractors including industry leader Messer Construction. It vets workers with proprietary, trade-specific assessments while collecting hundreds of data points to create a taxonomized view of skilled construction labor across the entire employee lifecycle. The
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23/01/2023