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College-focused job board WayUp raises $18.5 million

March 24, 2017

WayUp, a job board focused on US college students and recent grads, raised $18.5 million in a series B funding round led by Trinity ventures, the company announced Thursday. WayUp has raised $27.5 million since its founding in July 2014.

The funding will go to the expansion of WayUp’s platform and services to recent grads while continuing to serve college students. It will also go to growing WayUp’s engineering team.

“Over the next two years, WayUp is aiming to bring an entirely new level of personalization to our product using machine learning, in a way no platform has ever done before,” said CTO and co-founder JJ Fliegelman.

Other investors in the funding round include General Catalyst, BoxGroup, Lerer-Hippeau Ventures, Index Ventures, SV Angel, Female Founders Fund, Axel Springer, CAA Ventures and OurCrowd.