Last deal

$850K

Amount

Seed

Stage

27.09.2016

Date

1

all rounds

$850K

Total amount

date founded

Financing round

General

About Company
TransparentCareer is a company that is building a next-generation career management platform for job seekers and employers.

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Also Known As

TransparentMBA

founded date

01.12.2015

Number of employees

Company Type

For Profit

Last funding type

Seed

IPO status

Private

Description

The company is collecting a robust compensation and career path dataset to help professionals and students understand their fair pay and plan their careers. Their data enables them to provide personalized compensation and career insights, allowing users to visualize how one choice might impact their career path over time. The platform offers information on various career paths and trajectories, jobs and salaries, and work satisfaction statistics, providing students with the data they need to make informed decisions regarding their career growth. The company is private and secure, and their compensation information is never connected to their name. TransparentMBA is by people like you, for people like you, and their dashboards and tools allow users to see how they stack up to their peers and understand industry averages to negotiate their offers better.
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Alyssa Jaffee joined PGVC in August 2016 where she focuses on enterprise software and digital health. Most recently, she was the co-founder of TransparentC, 2016 NVC winning company focused on helping people make more data-driven career decisions with the first platform, www.transparentmba.com. Alyssa’s prior experience in venture capital includes time at Hyde Park Angels (HPA), one of the Midwest’s largest angel organizations, focusing on B2B SaaS, as well as Healthbox, an early stage healthcare innovation firm, supporting their accelerator program called the Studio. Prior to business school, Alyssa worked as the Senior Director of Performance Technologies for the Advisory Board Company. There, Alyssa was charged with expanding new business through the sales of healthcare technology platforms. With an extensive travel regimen, Alyssa met with hundreds of hospital executive teams to understand their strategic needs and recommend various solutions. She has copious amounts of experience in launching new products and thinking about go-to-market strategies. Alyssa holds a bachelor degree with honors in Marketing and Spanish from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and an M.B.A. from the University of Chicago – Booth School of Business.

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