Sending in a resume is the main way a person hope to get noticed for a job. But a startup out of Amsterdam called TestGorilla is today announcing $70 million in funding for a very different kind of approach: it has built an assessment platform that can be used to screen for a wide range of job categories, verticals, and skills, and it says its approach is more effective, and more equitable, than when the initial screening is done via CVs.
The funding, a Series A, is being co-led by Atomico and Balderton Capital; and it’s coming about a year after TestGorilla raised $10 million in a seed round from Notion, Partech, and CapitalT. TestGorilla is not disclosing its valua …
