Weekday, a San Francisco, CA-based recruitment startup operating via a crowdsourced reference network, raised $2.2M in funding.
The round was led by Venture Highway with participation from angel investors.
The company intends to use the funds to expand operations and its business reach.
Founded in 2021 by Amit Singh, Anubav Malik and Chetan Dalal, Weekday is a Y Combinator backed startup that helps compnies hire engineers who are vouched by other software engineers.
Weekday invites software engineers to connect their social graph (i.e. LinkedIn and Contacts) and gives them a ready made shortlist to refer talent to various companies. It gamifies the experience and makes this data of references available for recruiters. Weekday hosts multiple people’s references and companies can utilize the “Backchannel” feature to get background references (from former colleagues) on every candidate they interact with making hiring less about resumes and interviews and more about real-life experiences and capabilities.
The company has worked with over 100 companies (specializing in seed and Series A funded startups) like Coinbase, Clipboard Health, AtoB, Daloopa, Zepto, Round Finance helping them hire CTOs, Tech Leads, and Senior Software Engineers.
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24/08/2023