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EUGENE MIZIN JOB TODAY
GLENN LAWYER HEALTHCAST
Title: Co-founder. What: Parents use the startup’s cold and flu forecasts to decide if they should keep their kids home from daycare. They will eventually add respiratory allergens and communicable threats like Zika and Denge. Why they are cool: “We initially built on our own funds, though non-financial support from Technoport and Nyuko was extremely helpful,” Dr. Lawyer told Delano. In August, “we were accepted into UpTech, a Cincinnati, US, based tech accelerator. They invested $50,000, and a few other angels came in as well at the same time. It is enough money to move the team to the US while we complete the program.” They finish beta testing and return to Luxembourg in March 2017. In his own words: “We’re getting people to take their health more seriously. Sure, you can power through a cold, but how many other people are you putting at risk?”
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Title: Co-founder. What: A recruitment app for small and midsized firms, particularly in the service sector; they say applicants can “find a job in 24 hours”. Why they are cool: It’s “the Linkedin for blue collar jobs” as Mizin’s business partner, Polina Montano, put it to TechCrunch. In figures: “Job Today now processes close to one million job applications per week,” reports Mizin; a $10m series A round was announced in January and “we have closed a substantial new funding round which we will be announcing shortly”; and “the company is over 50 people strong now, with about half of the team based in Luxembourg and the rest in London and Barcelona.” In his own words: “We estimate that just about 100,000 people have found a job through Job Today in just over a year since we launched. Makes me feel like this is a job worth doing.” www.jobtoday.com
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