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Resume and recruitment weapons platform Hellohive   seeks to help eliminate employ bias by creating a virtual residential area that let in employers and those look for a new use .

The fellowship is part of anincreasing number of curriculum vitae and skill appsthat are trying to combat discrimination in the hiring process . Hellohive gives candidates from underrepresented or socially marginalized backgrounds the chance to plug into with employers they might have otherwise not had a chance to meet . It also gives employers the opportunity to bet at candidates for acquirement beyond where they went to school or where they once worked , allowing for a more holistic approach to engage that can in bit branch out a hands .

Hellohive hosts practical networking programme between company and candidates on the app , with clients include Goldman Sachs , American Express and Morgan Stanley . The party announce on Thursday a $ 3.4 million Series A round , led by the Tisch Family , to aid it accomplish its mission .

Byron Slosar , who founded the company in 2019 , state he created the app after a decade in undergraduate career serving and recruiting . “ I saw an chance for engineering to utilise candidates from all diverse backgrounds and experiences with an equitable opportunity to find success , ” he tell TechCrunch , adding that career success should n’t be defined by who you know or where you go to school . “ We are committed to providing the same shot at success for anyone who ’s willing to put in the work . ”

He holler fundraising “ always challenging ” but make the chance to fulfill young hoi polloi and mold novel connective .

Hellohive ’s holistic access to hiring is important flop now particularly , as companies have beenshifting aside from DEI commitments .

The app bid coaching services to job candidates on formatting a resume that will attract employer to the political platform . Candidates also complete a course of instruction model that prepares them for the job recruitment cognitive operation . They then express pursuit in an employer on the app , and the hiring physical process officially give up off .

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“ Hive ’s engineering unlocks a unique level of connectivity and understanding among all participants in the recruitment conversation and not only modernizes but humanize the recruitment summons for all involved , ” read Dan Levine , who works with Tom Tisch at his class office .

The Pearl Fund and backer investor Ann Tenenbaum , Jeff Altman and Robert Bell Wilkins also participated in the round .

Slosar said this latest round of funding will be used to expand the executive team , heighten Hellohive ’s current technology , and reach novel potential clients . The party has raised $ 9 million to date in financial support .

“ I ’m excited to see the wallop that an all - inclusive , ever - evolving and self - identified approach to variety will have on the world , ” Slosar enounce .