Upshift, a Cincinnati-based gig platform, has raised $3.7 million in a funding round coordinated by Indeed and led by Indeed’s parent-firm Recruit Holdings.

Coople operates in Switzerland and the U.K. Its U.K. business has seen significant growth in 2019 after starting operations early in 2018. “It was a bit bumpy early on,” said founder and executive chairman Viktor Calabrò,

Outstanding performance from its job verticals led Japanese crowdsourcing company Crowd Works Inc. to turn over Y2.3 billion ($21 million U.S.) in sales in the first quarter of the financial year. That amounted to an increase of 15.5% year-on-year.

GoJob.com, a French job board specializing in temp work, has raised 11 million euros ($12 million U.S.) to launch a digital payment app, bolster its sales team and increase marketing efforts.

GoWork.pl has the largest number of unique users among Polish recruitment sites, ahead of OLX.pl Jobs and Pracuj.pl, according to the new traffic data from PBI / Gemius.

Sri Lankan job marketplace XpressJobs has raised 100 million LKR ($550,000 U.S.) from location-based digital advertising company Emerging Media, which has acquired a 25% stake in the company. The company plans to use the latest capital injection to introduce a range of new services.

Netherlands-based recruitment startup Youngones claimed to have achieved record year-on-year revenue growth, from 500,000 euros ($558,000 U.S.) in 2018 to 5.5 million euros ($6.1 million U.S.) in 2019.

Brazilian jobs site Catho, which is owned by recruitment giant Seek, has rebranded with a new logo and slogan. 

InfoEmpleo.com, one of the leading job boards in Spain, has promoted long-serving manager Teresa Tomas to CEO. She replaces Jorge Guelbenzu Lapresta, who headed the company for almost six years.  

British recruitment site DirectlyApply will launch a programmatic job posting service next week.

LinkedIn has augmented its new Talent Hub applicant tracking system with screening tools to accelerate background checks and further incorporate video into hiring decisions.

Jumpstart.me, a candidate-centered recruitment startup, has raised $8.5 million U.S. in Series A funding round led by Sequoia Capital, Techcrunch reported.

Philippines-based job marketplace Mynimo.com was recently recognized as the most-used job site in the country’s Cebu province.

Interactive video editing platform Mil.movie recently completed a Y130 million ($1.2 million U.S.) funding round led by Japanese recruitment and real estate marketplaces operator MyNavi Inc.