USA – Landed, a San Francisco, CA-based provider of a recruitment engine for the restaurant and hospitality industries, raised $7M in Seed funding.
The round was led by Javelin Venture Partners and Blockchain Capital with participation from Lightspeed Venture Partners, the founders of Warby Parker, Harry’s, and Allbirds’ Good Friends fund, and the founders of celebrity chef José Andrés’ ThinkFood Group.The company intends to use the funds to accelerate expansion of its user base and new product offerings to deliver end-to-end support for hiring at large restaurant and hospitality chains, as well as to add new services for blue collar workers on its platform to promote financial wellness, including fair and transparent financial products such as earned wage access and crypto-enabled bank accounts.Led by CEO Vivian Wang, Landed provides a recruiting platform enabling restaurants and hospitality employers to hire candidates quickly, by automating candidate sourcing, engagement, and interview scheduling. Blue collar workers can download the mobile app and are guided through setting up their Landed profile, which includes short videos plus details on their work experience, location, shift availability, and job goals. Landed’s AI-based intelligent matching technology matches candidates to best fit jobs and employers near them.Hiring managers access the Landed Employer portal and input hiring goals and criteria across all locations. The system then automates the end-to-end recruitment process with its intelligent matching and conversational AI technology: sourcing, vetting, engaging, setting up interviews with, and hiring top-notch candidates. Today, the company has 150K+ blue collar workers and hundreds of top employers on its platform, including Cava, Blaze Pizza, Panera, Chick-fil-A, Taco Bell, and more.11/04/2022
