HR Startup Comeet Raises $1.2M From Ex Alibaba, Yahoo Executives

June 23, 2016 | Israeli startup Comeet, which helps growing companies and human resources departments hire employees in the easiest manner, announced the completion of its seed financing round, in which $1.2 million was raised. The investors who participated in the round included former Alibaba Group Global Operations VP of Human Resources David Cao, IQTalent Partners President and former Yahoo! Executive VP and Chief Human Resources Officer David Windley, and Yahoo! CFO Ken Goldman. The company will use the capital raised mainly to accelerate its sales. The idea behind Comeet is to simplify the process of recruiting employees and enable all those involved (the recruiter, the interviewer, the manager, etc.) to take part in it. The company asserts that the technology it has developed is capable of cutting the time it takes to hire new employees by up to 80 percent. CEO Omer Tadjer, CPO Tomer Dikerman, and CTO Omer Gottlieb founded Comeet in 2013.