Joblio closes $4 million seed round amid Rapid Global Growth
You can take the refugee out of the refugee camp, says Jon Purizhansky , but you’ll never erase the pain of that experience. The Buffalo-based attorney-turned-tech entrepreneur is using his history as fuel to build a social enterprise startup that helps protect transient employees from predatory middlemen. Joblio, launched a year ago, is a global talent marketplace for migrant workers. As it currently stands, workers in underdeveloped areas have to take out loans to pay middlemen, who set them up with jobs that can range from cleaning to fruit-picking. The middlemen often over-promise and under deliver, leading to problems for the employees and their prospective employers. Joblio is a carefully managed software-as-a-service platform for those employers, who can connect directly with new pools of talent around the world (they only work with companies that provide free housing for the workers). And for the migrant workers themselves, it’s a free and transparent way to esca...