Social job board Jibe has raised $6 million in a Series A, according to Business Insider. The New York-based career site aggregates all of a resume-poster’s social connections, from sources like Facebook, and then gives that job seeker the option of adding the names of people he or she knows within a certain company to an application to work at that company. Investors in the funding round included Draper Fisher Jurveston, DFJ Gotham Ventures, Polaris Venture Partners, Zelkova Ventures, Lerer Ventures, Thrive Capital, and Stanford University Endowment.
Author: Arlene Weintraub
Arlene is an award-winning journalist specializing in life sciences and technology. She was previously a senior health writer based out of the New York City headquarters of BusinessWeek, where she wrote hundreds of articles that explored both the science and business of health. Her freelance pieces have been published in USA Today, US News & World Report, Technology Review, and other media outlets. Arlene has won awards from the New York Press Club, the Association of Health Care Journalists, the Foundation for Biomedical Research, and the American Society of Business Publication Editors. Her book about the anti-aging industry, Selling the Fountain of Youth, was published by Basic Books in September 2010.
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