VentureLoop, a job site that has restricted job posting functions to startups backed by their venture capital firm client list, will soon give all VC-funded companies the ability to post jobs.
Currently job postings on the site are supported by VC firms like Kleiner Perkins, Sequoia Capital, and Benchmark Capital. VentureLoop also powers the career sites for these investment companies.
Founder Jeremy McCarthy said the new format will launch in October. “We receive regular requests from startup companies to post jobs on the VentureLoop website when their investors do not currently subscribe to our service. We are now progressing to a model that will allow them to post jobs for a fee even if they do not count one of our venture capital clients as an investor.”
At the moment, McCarthy said the site has about 5,500 jobs with the usual kinds of positions one might expect from startups, including sales, engineering, marketing, and accounting opportunities.
With regards to competitors CoNotes and Startuply, McCarthy said there is little comparison. “We have been around longer than all of the companies mentioned, have almost double the traffic of each, and 5 times more job postings than all of the companies in the article combined.”
Popularity: 29% [?]
August 21st, 2008 at 12:14 pm
Hmmm, double the traffic of Startuply? Take a look at
http://siteanalytics.compete.com/startuply.com+ventureloop.com+conotes.com/?metric=uv
We didn’t release Startuply until launch July 20th, too…
The figures seem to suggest otherwise. But Ventureloop is indeed venerable among startup job boards; add npost to the mix, and you’ve got the niche pretty much covered. Opening up their listings is definitely a start, but I think they’ll have to start competing along some new dimensions, too.
August 21st, 2008 at 3:26 pm
You are correct Luke. That was a comment made in July based on Jowba’s numbers (Startuply’s predecessor) as July numbers were not yet available and June did not account for the Techcrunch spike Startuply received. Stay tuned for VentureLoop’s “new dimensions” to be launched by the end of the year. :)
http://siteanalytics.compete.com/ventureloop.com+jowba.com/?metric=uv