Distill Raises $1.3M To Make Technical Recruiting, Hiring Dead Simple

TechCrunch Sept 18
With recruiters viciously competing for the best talent in the Valley, startups end up with plenty of paperwork and files to contend with.
A San Francisco-based startup called Distill is looking to make recruiting dead simple and just picked up $1.3 million in funding in a round with Felicis Ventures, China’s Innovation Works and DN Capital.
“Hiring and recruiting is painful wherever you go. It doesn’t matter what stage you’re at,” Chen said. “We want to bring a level of analytical rigor and data analysis to the hiring process.”
The company has built a video interviewing and scheduling service that makes it easy to vet candidates and their problem solving abilities side-by-side. The startup’s two founders Deng-Kai Chen and Ken MacInnis built up technical teams at companies like Tapjoy and StumbleUpon after working at Google and Yahoo. They became familiar with the frustrations of hiring and scheduling interviews.
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