VONQ & Qandidate.com Secure a Series A Investment led by Randstad Innovation Fund

>A Series A investment from Randstad Innovation Fund with co-investor Qmulus

>To scale VONQ’s business online and expand internationally

>To accelerate the development of Qandidate.com’s free recruitment software

ROTTERDAM, The Netherlands, 4 November 2014, VONQ and Qandidate.com, the Free Recruitment System for SMB’s, have closed a Series A investment, led by Randstad Innovation Fund with participation from Qmulus.

Recently celebrating its eighth birthday, VONQ is Europe’s largest provider of online recruitment marketing services. VONQ helps customers to recruit better with the use of recruitment data insights, innovative tools and international recruitment marketing knowledge.

“This minority investment will help us scale faster on a global level and expand our recruitment marketing services”, says Wouter Goedhart, co-founder and CEO VONQ. “With thousands of media channels in our portfolio we are able to bring any vacancy in front of the right target audience. This investment will help us to scale our business online and to open offices outside of our home territory.”

With more than 50 employees, operating from offices in London, Rotterdam and Amsterdam and a growing international customer portfolio, the founders of VONQ launched in 2013, Qandidate.com, a free and refreshingly easy-to-use recruitment system. Qandidate.com currently supports over 7,000 companies from across the globe and offers alongside full recruitment functionality an intelligent in-system media webshop. This recommendation engine provides advice to the users on the most relevant online channels to promote their vacancy online, incorporating the results of thousands of job boards.

This Series A investment is for both VONQ and Qandidate.com.

“We look forward to working with the VONQ and Qandidate.com teams”, says Ilonka Jankovich, Managing Partner Randstad Innovation Fund. “Clients are increasingly interested in targeted recruitment marketing using an intuitive self-service platform.”

“We are extremely excited about this opportunity. This investment will boost our growth and innovation-power,” says Remy Verhoeven, co-founder and CEO Qandidate.com. “It’s a crucial step in VONQ and Qandidate.com’s growth strategy.”

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Ralph Brasker – Chief Marketing Officer
Ralph@qandidate.com – +31 10 2014800