Belong, a company which helps organisations hire talent, has raised Series A funding worth $5 million from Matrix Partners, with participation from Blume Ventures, Snapdeal co-founders Kunal Bahl and Rohit Bansal, RedBus co-founder Phanindra Sama, and Sierra Atlantic founder Raju Reddy among others. The company will use the funds to grow its team and technology platform, as well as add data sciences and design talent categories from its current product and engineering talent. Launched publicly this month, the company claims to have made 100 offers to clients like Snapdeal, Ola, Practo, Akosha, Xiaomi, LocalOye and Zivame among others. Belong says that it uses data science and predictive analysis to look for candidates in the engineering and tech fields. The platform’s search and recommendation engine claims to analyze social, Internet and public sources to match them with companies’ culture and skill requirements. It offers personalised interactions with social insights, also analysing the candidate’s openness to new opportunities. Its filter factors include the candidate’s home state, marital status, and women to men sex ratio at the workplace among others. Founded by Vijay Sharma and Sudheendra Chilappagari a year ago, the company claims that its prediction engine is refined by user behaviour and ‘activity signals’, when a candidate is looking for a new job, from social media and the internet. Other than this, it provides email smart tracking with customised subject lines to woo candidates. According to a TOI report, the company, which was previously known as Dataemo, bootstrapped to a 35 member…
