{"id":8311,"date":"2015-07-07T08:06:46","date_gmt":"2015-07-07T08:06:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beta.blog.adzuna.co.uk\/blog\/?p=8311"},"modified":"2017-05-04T13:04:13","modified_gmt":"2017-05-04T13:04:13","slug":"adzuna-raises-2m-from-the-crowd-to-get-britain-working","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adzuna.co.uk\/blog\/adzuna-raises-2m-from-the-crowd-to-get-britain-working\/","title":{"rendered":"Adzuna raises \u00a32m from the crowd to ‘Get Britain Working’"},"content":{"rendered":"

What a week we had last week at Adzuna<\/a> Towers! We are pretty thrilled to report, as our 6 week crowd-funding campaign closes, that we’ve now\u00a0raised more than \u00a32m through the UK\u2019s leading equity crowdfunding platform, Crowdcube.<\/p>\n

More than 500 \u2018crowd\u2019 investors backed the \u2018Get Britain Working\u2019 campaign so far ranging from CEO\u2019s and Tech Celebrities such as Sherry Coutu (CBE) and Klaus Nyengaard (former Just Eat CEO) to university students and plumbers.\u00a0 The largest single investment was more than \u00a3200,000. The average investment size is \u00a33,837 and the smallest amount invested is \u00a313.<\/p>\n

Launched in July 2011, Adzuna aims to become the world\u2019s leading job search engine, by bringing together all the vacancies in one place and connecting users with them in new ways. The site already attracts six million visits a month and has helped hundreds of thousands of people find jobs. In addition to listing over 1m UK vacancies, the sites \u2018ValueMyCV<\/a>\u2019 technology helps British jobseekers understand what they are worth in today\u2019s job market and helps match them to better, more fulfilling careers.<\/p>\n

More than 500 \u2018crowd\u2019 investors backed the \u2018Get Britain Working\u2019 campaign so far ranging from CEO\u2019s and Tech Celebrities such as Sherry Coutu (CBE) and Klaus Nyengaard (former Just Eat CEO) to university students and plumbers.\u00a0 The largest single investment was more than \u00a3200,000. The average investment size is \u00a33,837 and the smallest amount invested is \u00a313.<\/p>\n

Doug Monro, co-founder of Adzuna, commented: \u201cWe are proud of the world-class team and platform we have built at Adzuna, but we still have a long way to go in job search innovation, mobile apps and internationalisation.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Existing Adzuna investor Robin Klein, founder of The Accelerator Group and widely recognised as one of Europe\u2019s top investors, commented: \u201cWe\u2019re delighted to be working with Andrew and Doug, experienced entrepreneurs with great track records from Gumtree, Qype and Zoopla.\u00a0 The Adzuna team has achieved a great deal in a short period of time, and we believe the innovations they continue to bring to the market will change the way people search for jobs, globally.\u201d<\/p>\n

Capital raised from the campaign will be used to grow internationally and invest in Adzuna\u2019s technology, building on a market-leading search and machine-learning platform that brings together over one million UK job ads in one place, and adds smart search options and powerful data about the job market.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0Although this round of investment has closed, there is still plenty of opportunity to participate in the Adzuna journey – if a next step on the ladder may be on the cards for you, check out the latest opportunities in your field on Adzuna.co.uk.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What a week we had last week at Adzuna Towers! We are pretty thrilled to report, as our 6 week crowd-funding campaign closes, that we’ve now\u00a0raised more than \u00a32m through the UK\u2019s leading equity crowdfunding platform, Crowdcube. More than 500 \u2018crowd\u2019 investors backed the \u2018Get Britain Working\u2019 campaign so far ranging from CEO\u2019s and Tech Continued \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":11147,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-adzuna-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adzuna.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adzuna.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adzuna.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adzuna.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adzuna.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.adzuna.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8311\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adzuna.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adzuna.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adzuna.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adzuna.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}