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Foreign Media News, the San Francisco-based recruitment platform “Fountain” received $23 million in Series B financing. This round of financing was led by DCM, and Origin Ventures, Uncork Capital and China’s Futures (51Jobs) participated in the current round of financing. This funding will help “Fountain” expand its business and provide recruitment services for more geographic and more types of companies.
In 2015, at the time of the rise of the Gig Economy, “Fountain” established a recruitment platform for employers looking for part-time and odd jobs to help solve the US retail market. The double contradiction between high demand rate and low recruitment efficiency. The B-end customers of the platform are mainly employers in the catering, hotel, retail and take-away industries with high job turnover and demand rates. C-end customers are freelancers who need to find leisure time work.
“Fountain” uses AI tools based on recommendation algorithms and natural language processing to make employer’s job requirements and job skills of odd jobs, working hours and locations of both parties, and expected salary. Matching, so that the employer’s job postings are quickly delivered to the right candidates. The biggest contribution of the “Fountain” algorithm to the odd jobs economy is that it helps high-efficiency employers to recruit a large number of suitable odd jobs in a short period of time.
The “Fountain” recruitment platform helps employers complete the recruitment process in one stop
At the same time, “Fountain” also works with many third-party platforms. Jobs issued by employers through “Fountain” will be synchronized