{"id":27144,"date":"2014-10-17T09:29:13","date_gmt":"2014-10-17T07:29:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/?p=27144"},"modified":"2019-04-29T16:34:11","modified_gmt":"2019-04-29T14:34:11","slug":"career-guidance-solution-talentoday-announces-1-4-million-seed-round","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/2014\/10\/career-guidance-solution-talentoday-announces-1-4-million-seed-round\/","title":{"rendered":"Career guidance solution Talentoday announces $1.4 million seed round"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-27145\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/assets\/talentoday-e1413513773714.jpg\" alt=\"talentoday\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<p>On the back of their very successful launch earlier this year,\u00a0<span style=\"color: #222222;\">psychometric and social career guidance solution\u00a0<\/span><a style=\"color: #1155cc;\" href=\"http:\/\/talentoday.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Talentoday<\/a>\u00a0has just announced raising a\u00a0$1.4 million seed round with multiple investors including\u00a0<a style=\"color: #1155cc;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/ndraca\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nicolas Draca<\/a><span style=\"color: #222222;\">, Head of Global Marketing Operations at LinkedIn;\u00a0<\/span><a style=\"color: #1155cc;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/pub\/herve-goguely\/0\/169\/55b\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Herve Goguely<\/a><span style=\"color: #222222;\">, former Chairman and CEO of Netcentrex; as well as angels from HP, Visa, and Oracle.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Cofounded by\u00a0Pierre-Fran\u00e7ois Verley and\u00a0Martin Ryssen,\u00a0Talentoday helps organizations of all sizes engage with their teams by adding value to both employers and employees. In just 9 months, their\u00a0 Enterprise Career Guidance Platform\u00a0has logged 3M+ registered users surpassing the long leading Myers-Briggs Type Indicator\u00ae. \u00a0Their growth continues to show no signs of abating with an average of 16k users signing up daily.<\/p>\n<p>In speaking about what they want to achieve, Verley adds <em>\u201cWe want to help people know themselves and define their career paths. \u00a0By delivering personal insights, we believe that everyone can make better career decisions based on their unique strengths, personality traits, and inner motivation sources.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>They continue to roll-out innovations, launching earlier this month\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.talentoday.com\/business\/talentoday_manager\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Talentoday Manager<\/a>\u00a0which will help companies better address many of the common challenges of recruiting and managing talent, including:<\/p>\n<p>\u25cf Maximizing the probability of hiring the right person<br \/>\n\u25cf Increasing employee satisfaction and productivity, via data driven coaching methodologies<br \/>\n\u25cf Creating the best teams and supporting project success<\/p>\n<p>With this first round of funding, Talentoday will grow its user base further, scale out the platform accordingly, and hire additional talent in engineering and marketing. However, to further expand on the vision laid out above by Verley, they&#8217;ll be seeking a Series A round of funding in early 2015.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the back of their very successful launch earlier this year,\u00a0psychometric and social career guidance solution\u00a0Talentoday\u00a0has just announced raising a\u00a0$1.4 million seed round with multiple investors including\u00a0Nicolas Draca, Head of Global Marketing Operations at LinkedIn;\u00a0Herve Goguely, former Chairman and CEO of Netcentrex; as well as angels from HP, Visa, and Oracle. Cofounded by\u00a0Pierre-Fran\u00e7ois Verley and\u00a0Martin<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77,"featured_media":27145,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"subtitle":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[113],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-finance"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/77"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27144\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}