Irvine startup Connectifier has raised $6.5 million in a Series A funding round led by True Ventures in Palo Alto.
The company, launched in 2012 by former Google executives John Jersin and Ben McCann, plans to use the proceeds to boost sales efforts and refine its software offering that allows businesses to scour the Web to search for and recruit new hires.
“Every company in the world needs to get human capital right,” said Jersin, who led 10 engineering teams from Google’s Irvine office and served as technical lead in the search giant’s lucrative ads unit. “Like Google and Yahoo in the early days, we’re eager to index information and provide more relevant results.”
Connectifier counts Disney and ride-sharing service provider Uber as customers, which pay a monthly licensing fee for each job recruiter that uses the software.
Other backers in the funding round included Laguna Beach-based Okapi Ventures; Galeo Ventures in Geneva; and angel investors and tech entrepreneurs Sean Ellis, Andrew Chen, Jonathan Downey and James Hong.
