Fairygodboss is an NYC-based career community for women led by Georgene Huang and Romy Newman. The platform offers company ratings, job listings, discussion boards and career advice to help women ask hard-to-ask questions about pay, corporate culture, benefits and work flexibility. The company began after CEO Georgene Huang, having been fired while pregnant, sought anonymous answers about maternity leave, pay and promotion and built the FGB community to fill that gap. Today women use Fairygodboss to connect with each other, browse jobs, read women’s company reviews and get advice as part of what the company describes as the largest career community for women. The company raised $10M in a Series A and intends to use the funds to enhance its product and expand its team. Fairygodboss is a career community for women that provides a platform of crowdsourced employer reviews, career advice, interview tips and job search strategies. The company was founded in 2015 by Georgene Huang and Romy Newman and is based in New York, NY. Fairygodboss intends to use recent funding to build its product and expand its team. The company raised $3M in venture capital funding to support those plans. The round was led by GSV Acceleration, with Deborah Quazzo joining the board in conjunction with the funding. Fairygodboss currently has a staff of more than 20 employees. Fairygodboss is a New York–based marketplace launched in 2015 by Georgene Huang and Romy Newman that connects professional women with employers. The platform offers company ratings, job listings, discussion boards and career advice for women. It enables large and small companies to source, recruit and retain women in their workforces. Early and current employer clients using the platform include Apple, Dell, Fidelity, IBM, PepsiCo, PwC, Target and Zynga. The company closed a seed financing round to support growth. Fairygodboss intends to use the funds to continue growing its audience of professional women and its network of employer partners.

Total raised

$14M

Funding rounds

3

Latest round

Series A

Latest activity

Mar 2019