In May, JobHopin raised $2.45 million from foreign investors to develop an automated job-recruitment platform for Southeast Asia. It has so far raised more than $3 million.

The startup, founded in 2017, seeks to connect job seekers and employers using its database of more than 1.4 million job candidates derived from online databases and 2,000 enterprise clients in Vietnam.

Entrepreneurs speak to business experts at a startup competition in Ho Chi Minh City.

In April, TopCV raised nearly VND10 billion ($431,500) from Vietnamese tech firm NextTech. TopCV allows users to create online resumes and connects them with employers.

Five years after it was established, TopCV is now the second job recruitment network in Vietnam, behind VietnamWorks, with 3 million applicants, 95,000 employers. The platform connects 150,000 applicants with employers each month on average.

In February, the Sieu Viet Group raised $34 million from investment fund Affirma Capital. The company runs four job recruitment websites in Vietnam.

The same month, TopDev, which focuses on recruitment in the IT sector, received an undisclosed amount of money from South Korea’s leading recruitment platform SaraminHR.

Its founder and CEO, Nguyen Huu Binh, said the money will be used to improve the services and customer experience of the platform, which has 300,000 applicants and 5,000 employers which are top tech firms in Vietnam and in Southeast Asia.

Online recruitment demand rose 55 percent in the 2015-2019 period with sales and administrative staff the most sought after.

Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City lead the country in the number of job postings, followed by the southern province of Binh Duong, the central city Da Nang City and the southern province of Dong Nai.

Investments in Vietnamese tech startups doubled to $741 million last year as the country went past Singapore for the first time and ranked second in Southeast Asia behind Indonesia, according to Singapore-based venture capital firm Cento Ventures.

Startup contest VietChallenge 2020 launched in Hanoi

The fifth VietChallenge 2020 - the global entrepreneurship competition for Vietnamese, was launched at a virtual ceremony in Hanoi on March 21.

PM issues instructions on facilitating startups

Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has signed Directive No. 09/CT-TTg asking for more favourable conditions for start-ups.

Vietnam startup investment beats Singapore

Investment in Vietnamese tech startups last year exceeded that experienced in Singapore for the first time to rank second in Southeast Asia.

Government encourages startup innovation: Deputy PM

The Government will develop an innovative and business-centred ecosystem, Deputy Prime Minister Trinh Dinh Dung said at the Vietnam Business Forum 2019 in Hanoi on January 10.

Outstanding young entrepreneurs honoured for excellent startups in 2019

The Vietnam Young Entrepreneurs Association (VYEA) hosted a ceremony in Hanoi on the evening of December 28 to celebrate its 5th founding anniversary and present the 2019 Outstanding Young Entrepreneur in Startup Award.

Source: VnExpress