KODA.us operates a social recruitment service that aims to unite social networking and job recruiting into a single platform. The product lets job seekers expand CVs with personal attributes and relevant life experience, while allowing employers to present openings with more branding to convey corporate culture. KODA positions itself as "more professional than Facebook but more personal than LinkedIn." The company targets young professionals and argues this approach will provide employers with richer candidate profiles. Financially, KODA has raised a total of $4.5M in private funding after a recent $1.5M angel injection; earlier rounds included $1M in angel funding last August and an existing $2M. The article notes skepticism about whether this distinct market space exists given established professional networks like LinkedIn and XING. KODA.us operates a social recruitment service that aims to merge social networking and job recruiting, positioning itself as “more professional than Facebook but more personal than LinkedIn.” The product lets job seekers broaden resumes with personal attributes and relevant life experience, while giving employers the ability to portray job openings within the context of organizational branding. The site uses a crawler to pull up-to-date job listings from employers' websites and displays thousands of job opportunities across various U.S. cities and regions. KODA.us had been in development for two years and was in beta for two months at the time of the article. The company says it has established relationships with over 350 corporations, non-profit organizations and private businesses. Financially, KODA.us has amassed $3 million in seed investment, including a recently announced $1 million angel tranche.

Total raised

$3M

Funding rounds

2

Latest round

Equity

Latest activity

Feb 2010