Brisbane-founded recruitment startup iRecruit made its Shark Tank debut on Tuesday night, but a lot has happened at the company since the television episode was filmed last year.
IRecruit attracted $500,000 in pre-launch seed funding in August 2016, but by the time Tuesdays Shark Tank episode went to air, both of the companys co-founders had stepped down from their roles and the startup had been placed in liquidation.
The startup was billed as a cloud-based platform for job seekers and employers, which would use behavioural science to match these groups together.
Co-founders Todd Pierce and Aleksandar Svetski bootstrapped the platform with $100,000 and then secured external funding from angel investors in August …
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