Online employment marketplace
ZipRecruiter is an American employment marketplace for job seekers and employers.
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The company is headquartered in
Santa Monica, California
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Tempe, AZ ;
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London, UK and
Tel Aviv, Israel .
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History
ZipRecruiter was founded in 2010 by Ian Siegel,
[15] Joe Edmonds, Ward Poulos and Will Redd.
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In June 2015, as the company began growing, they opened an R&D center in Israel and in 2018, claimed to have developed an
artificial intelligence algorithm to increase the accuracy of job seeker/employer matches.
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In 2017,
Facebook also partnered with the company and integrated ZipRecruiter into its platform.
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In 2018, the company reported that over 1.5 million businesses and 430 million job seekers used its platform.
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In December 2018, the company's users' names and email addresses were exposed in a
data breach .
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[24] ZipRecruiter claimed that they were able to fix it within 90 minutes after the technical glitch was reported.
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In March 2019, ZipRecruiter began operating in Canada.
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In April 2021, the company filed for a
Direct Listing . The company went public on May 26, 2021.
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In September 2021, ZipRecruiter signed a one-year deal with
UFC for a "low seven-figure fee".
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In May 2023, ZipRecruiter announced it laying off 20% of its staff, about 270 roles.
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Funding
ZipRecruiter
delayed raising venture capital until 2014, when the company's first round of financing of $63 million was led by IVP.
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In October 2018, the company raised $156 million for its online employment marketplace, which brought its total funding to $219 million.
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Blake Irving , Cipora Herman, and Emilie Choi were added as new members to its board.
[33] The October 2018 raise was at a valuation of $1 billion.
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