【美国】招聘平台Eightfold AI获1.25亿美元D轮融资，为世界上每一个人提供合适的职业。
编者注：Eightfold AI是由前谷歌搜索专家Ashutosh Garg，联合Facebook新闻推送团队的Varun Kacholia，共同成立的，从2018年成立融资2400万美元到现在的D轮1.25亿美元，估值超过10亿美元，跻身独角兽。
美国加州，2020年10月27日 Eightfold AI今天宣布已筹集到1.25亿美元的D轮融资。这笔资金将用于扩大和扩展Eightfold领先的AI驱动的人才智能平台，这是一个管理整个人才生命周期的单一解决方案。使用单一平台来解决这一关键领域的问题，与人才管理领域常见的不协调的点式解决方案形成了直接对比。
作为Eightfold创新愿景和奉献精神的直接结果，该公司目前估值10亿美元，与110个国家、17个行业和13种语言的客户合作。
本轮融资由General Catalyst领投，还包括之前几轮融资的投资者，包括Capital One Ventures、Foundation Capital、IVP和Lightspeed Venture Partners。
迄今为止，EightfoldAI筹集的资金总额超过1.8亿美元。自2019年4月上一轮股权融资以来，Eightfold的销售额已经增长了四倍多。Eightfold AI的客户，是拥抱这一全球人才转型的领先企业，包括亚航、拜耳、Capital One和美光。
"我们的使命是利用我们在人工智能方面的专业知识，为世界上的每个人提供合适的职业，"Eightfold AI创始人兼首席执行官Ashutosh Garg说。"Eightfold团队在过去的四年里开发了一个服务于所有人才生命周期需求的单一平台，完全绕过了单点解决方案。这是我们行业的未来，已经使Eightfold AI联智成为各个领域的行业领导者的首选供应商。我们感谢我们的投资者、客户和合作伙伴分享我们的愿景，尤其是在当前关注全球劳动力福祉的时候。"
Eightfold AI为整个人才生命周期提供的单一平台，汇集了数十亿匿名数据点、算法和领域专业知识，为企业级组织带来可靠、可扩展的影响。获得专利的人才智能平台在现有的公共和遗留的HCM数据上使用深度学习AI，以改变企业获取、开发和提升人才的方式，并实现D&I目标。为了将员工队伍演变为竞争优势，Eightfold的客户已经取得了显著的成果，包括：在当前公司内找到下一个职位的员工数量增加了49%，在其职位被取消后，在同一公司内获得其他工作机会的员工数量增加了58%，申请空缺职位的高素质候选人增加了60%。
"Eightfold为企业打造了一个真正的智能驱动的人才获取和优化平台。最令人印象深刻的是他们与企业合作的方式，从根本上了解企业的需求，然后针对这些需求应用技术，创造出一种可扩展的、高效的人才管理方法。"General Catalyst总经理Quentin Clark说。"他们的是一种与行业无关的方法，有可能迅速发展企业如何满足和留住最优秀的人才。"
关于Eightfold AI
Eightfold AI®提供的人才智能平台™，是企业留住优秀人才、提升员工技能和再技能、高效招聘顶尖人才、实现多元化目标的最有效方式。Eightfold AI的深度学习人工智能平台赋予企业将人才管理转化为竞争优势的能力。
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MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Oct. 27, 2020 -- Eightfold AI today announced that it has raised a $125M Series D funding round. The funds will be used to expand and scale Eightfold's leading AI-powered Talent Intelligence Platform, a single solution for managing the entire talent lifecycle. Using a single platform to address this critical area stands in direct contrast to the disjointed point solutions commonly found in the talent management space. As a direct result of Eightfold's innovative vision and dedication, the company is now valued at $1 billion and works with customers across 110 countries, 17 industries and 13 languages.
The funding round is led by General Catalyst and also includes investors from previous rounds, including Capital One Ventures, Foundation Capital, IVP and Lightspeed Venture Partners. Total funding raised to date by Eightfold AI is more than $180 million. Eightfold has more than quadrupled its sales since the last round of equity funding in April 2019. Eightfold AI's customers, leading companies embracing this global talent transformation, include AirAsia, Bayer, Capital One and Micron.
"Our mission is to leverage our expertise in AI to provide the right career for everyone in the world," said Ashutosh Garg, Founder & CEO at Eightfold. "The Eightfold team has spent the last four years developing a single platform servicing all talent lifecycle needs, bypassing single point solutions entirely. This is the future of our industry, and has already made Eightfold the go-to provider for industry leaders in every sector. We are grateful to our investors, customers and partners for sharing in our vision, especially at a time when the immediate focus is on the well-being of the global workforce."
Eightfold AI's single platform for the entire talent lifecycle brings together billions of anonymized data points, algorithms and domain expertise required to make a reliable, scalable impact for enterprise-scale organizations. The patented Talent Intelligence Platform uses deep learning AI on existing public and legacy HCM data to transform how companies acquire, develop and advance talent, and achieve D&I goals. Seeking to evolve their workforce into a competitive advantage, Eightfold customers have achieved significant results, including: a 49 percent increase in the number of employees finding their next role within their current company, a 58 percent increase in employees offered other jobs within the same company after their role had been eliminated, and 60 percent more highly qualified candidates applying to open jobs.
"Eightfold has built a true intelligence-driven platform for talent acquisition and optimization for the enterprise. What's been most impressive is their approach to partnering with companies to fundamentally understand their needs and then applying tech against those needs to create a scalable, efficient approach to talent management," said Quentin Clark, Managing Director at General Catalyst. "Theirs is an industry-agnostic approach that has the potential to rapidly evolve how companies meet and retain their best people."
About Eightfold AI
Eightfold AI® delivers the Talent Intelligence Platform™, the most effective way for organizations to retain top performers, upskill and reskill the workforce, recruit top talent efficiently, and reach diversity goals. Eightfold AI's deep learning artificial intelligence platform empowers enterprises to turn talent management into a competitive advantage. For more information, visit www.eightfold.ai.
【美国】小时工招聘网站JobGet获得210万美元种子轮融资
位于马萨诸塞州波士顿的小时工移动工作平台JobGet完成210万美元的种子资金。
本轮融资由Pillar VC领投，Data Point Capital Partners、Crocker Mountain Capital、EO Ventures、Greg Donoghue（Clover Food Lab）和Anna Marie Wagner（Gingko Bioworks）参与。
该公司将利用这笔资金在马萨诸塞州进行区域性启动后进行全国性扩张。
JobGet由Tony Liu、Peter Lee和Billy Lan于2019年共同创立，利用AI匹配技术将合格的小时工求职者与附近寻求招聘的企业聚集在一起。雇主利用应用内消息和视频聊天功能实时安排面试，往往将招聘时间从几周缩短到24小时以内。
该公司推出了8个最初的雇主合作伙伴，在第一年内，利用该平台的雇主合作伙伴地点已经增加到5000多个。与该公司合作的企业从家得宝、麦当劳、Block by Block、国民警卫队、Domino's和Shake Shack等全国性雇主，到Dig Inn和Expressions等受欢迎的本地企业都有。
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趣活(QH.US)宣布1.33亿收购来来信息科技(深圳)有限公司54.22%股权
10月13日，趣活(QH.US)宣布，就收购来来信息科技(深圳)有限公司54.22%的股权达成最终协议，交易总对价约为1.33亿元人民币，以现金和股权的形式支付。
根据协议，趣活同意以定向增发的形式向出售来来股权的股东发行135.7759万股趣活A类普通股。交易双方希望在2020年10月完成交易。
据了解，来来信息科技(深圳)有限公司是一家专为酒店和民宿提供服务解决方案的平台。来来科技是一家酒店人力资源服务提供商，依托大数据驱动的深度学习技术，为用户提供临时、长期酒店服务员劳务派遣，帮助用户解决酒店用工难题，旗下拥有“派员工”产品
BEIJING, China, October 13th, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Quhuo Limited (NASDAQ: QH) (“Quhuo,” the “Company,” “we” or “our”), a leading tech-enabled workforce operational solution platform in China, today announced that it has entered into a definitive investment agreement (the “Agreement”) to acquire a 54.22% equity interest in Lailai Information Technology (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd. (“Lailai”), an on-demand workforce platform that specializes in housekeeping solutions for hotels and B&Bs, for a total consideration of approximately RMB133.0 million in the form of cash and the Company’s securities in aggregate.
According to the Agreement, the Company agreed to issue 1,357,759 Class A ordinary shares of the Company (“Consideration Shares”) to the selling shareholders of Lailai under a private placement pursuant to an exemption or exclusion from the registration requirements under the Securities Act of 1933. The Consideration Shares will be subject to relevant restrictions on transfer. The Company has agreed to repurchase the Consideration Shares or pay the balance of the resale price if the resale price of the Consideration Shares falls below an indicative minimum price within a certain period after the transfer restrictions expire.
The parties expect to close the transaction in October 2020, subject to the relevant corporate approvals and customary closing conditions. There is no assurance that any such procedures or transactions will be completed in a timely manner.
Leslie Yu, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Company, commented, “After extensive discussions with Lailai’s highly experienced management team, I am pleased that we were able to sign the definitive investment agreement. We believe that this strategic partnership will bring significant benefits to both companies. Our housekeeping solution is one of our new growth drivers and this transaction is part of a greater strategic plan to scale our housekeeping solution business by enhancing our management and fulfillment capabilities, which allows us to broaden and diversify our housekeeping service scope. Lailai has done a fantastic job in building a talented team, a highly recognizable brand, solid supply chain management capabilities and strong customer base. This investment allows us to integrate our capabilities serving hotels and B&Bs in China and create enormous operational synergies that will capture additional value in the markets Lailai currently serves. By investing in Lailai, we expect to strengthen and expand our platform, capitalize on the growing on-demand service needs in China and drive sustainable long-term growth for our shareholders.”
ABOUT LAILAI
Lailai is a Shenzhen-headquartered on-demand workforce platform that specializes in housekeeping solutions for hotels and B&Bs. Leveraging its one-stop hotel workforce outsource platform empowered by advanced mobile and SaaS technologies, Lailai has served over 1,000 hotels with over 20,000 active workers across 25 provinces in China since its inception in December 2017, including some well-known brands such as Hilton Hotels and Resorts, Kingkey Group, Marriott International, and Kempinski Hotels.
SAFE HARBOR STATEMENT
This press release contains ‘‘forward-looking statements’’ within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended and the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. All statements other than statements of historical or current fact included in this press release are forward-looking statements, including but not limited to statements regarding the completion of the acquisition of Lailai and the Company’s business plans and outlook. Forward-looking statements include statements containing words such as “expect,” “anticipate,” “believe,” “project,” “will” and similar expressions intended to identify forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements are based on the Company’s current expectations and current market conditions, all of which involve risks and uncertainties that are difficult to predict and many of which are beyond the Company’s control. Further information regarding these and other risks, uncertainties or factors is included in the Company’s filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including, without limitation, the final prospectus related to the IPO filed with the SEC on July 10, 2020. You are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date of this press release. All forward-looking statements are qualified in their entirety by this cautionary statement, and Quhuo undertakes no obligation to revise or update any forward-looking statements to reflect events or circumstances after the date hereof.
ABOUT QUHUO LIMITED
Quhuo Limited (NASDAQ: QH) was the largest workforce operational solution platform in China in 2019*. Quhuo provides tech-enabled, end-to-end operational solutions to blue-chip on-demand consumer service businesses in industries with significant e-commerce exposure, including food delivery, ride-hailing, housekeeping and bike-sharing. Quhuo’s platform helps its industry customers mobilize a large team of workers and utilizes a combination of training, performance monitoring and refinement, and incentives to transform them into skilled workers who can follow industry-specific, standardized and highly efficient service procedures. Within the on-demand consumer service ecosystem, the Company plays a unique and indispensable role as the link between consumer service businesses and the end consumers to enable the delivery of goods, services and experiences to consumers.
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【马来西亚】按需工作零工平台GoGet获200万美元A轮融资
马来西亚按需工作平台GoGet今天宣布，已获得由Monk's Hill Ventures领投的200万美元A轮融资。该平台目前拥有2万名gig worker，他们被称为 "GoGetters"，已经入驻了5000家企业，包括马来西亚Lazada、马来西亚宜家、Foodpanda和送花服务BloomThis。
虽然马来西亚还有其他按需工作平台，包括Supahands和Kaodim，但每个平台都有自己的定位。Supahands专注于在线任务，而Kaodim则提供家庭维修、餐饮和健身培训等专业服务。GoGet更类似于TaskRabbit，GoGetters从事跑腿或临时工作，如送货、搬运大件物品、活动餐饮、数据录入和办公室管理。
首席执行官兼联合创始人Francesca Chia于2014年创立了GoGet。她告诉TechCrunch，这家初创公司决定关注零工工人，因为东盟（东南亚国家联盟）国家存在劳动力缺口。
"如今，东盟劳动力市场上的大多数人都是中低端技术人才，大多数人的工作保障、未来的职业发展道路以及保险和储蓄等金融服务都得不到保障。"她说。"在另一端，东盟超过70%的就业人员来自中小企业，他们寻求在不扩大全职成本的情况下扩大规模，并发现很难培训和维持一个可靠的员工队伍。"
她补充说，GoGet希望通过连接企业与经过验证的灵活工人来弥补这一差距。GoGetters能够在不同类别的工作之间进行切换，Chia表示，这给了企业学习新技能的能力。企业获得了管理功能，包括能够创建一个他们希望再次合作的GoGetters名单，以及招聘、培训和支付的工具。
A轮融资将用于拓展GoGet在马来西亚的业务。许多商业模式围绕着零工经济的公司在扩大规模时需要努力解决的问题之一，包括那些因工作不均衡、低薪和缺乏作为全职员工的福利而感到沮丧的工人。例如，在加州，这导致了一场政治斗争，因为Uber、DoorDash和Lyft等公司试图推翻立法，迫使他们将更多的零工工人归类为全职员工。
Chia表示，GoGet的 "愿景是以可持续的方式将灵活的工作带到全世界"。其中一部分需要让GoGet的零工工人获得与全职员工类似的按需储蓄和保险计划等福利。GoGet的平台还具有职业建设功能，包括在线培训和网络工具，因此工人可以为需要不同技能的工作做准备。
虽然GoGet的短期计划是专注于在马来西亚的发展，但它最终也计划进入其他东盟国家。
蒙山创投联合创始人兼管理合伙人林国义在一份有关投资的新闻声明中说："随着公司和工人同时寻求灵活性和适合性，工作的性质正在被重新定义。这一趋势在流行病的影响下被加速了，因为企业正在进行响应的转型，需要更有弹性的劳动力。GoGet提供了一个由积极进取、训练有素的工人组成的社区，但更重要的是，它的平台扩展了企业的人员管理系统，以确保质量、合规性和无缝工作流程。"
作者：Catherine Shu 来自TC
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