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Home From College, a Los Angeles-based career platform, has raised $5.4 million in seed funding, CEO Julia Haber tells Axios.

Why it matters: A crop of LinkedIn competitors has emerged to better serve the needs of modern job seekers. 

How it works: The Gen Z-aimed platform offers part-time and full-time roles. It allows brands to hire, manage and pay workers. Gigs include content creation, on-campus brand ambassadors, product testing and more. 

The platform has more than 100,000 users and more than 100 clients, including Poppi, Aquaphor, Thrive Market, Peacock and Steve Madden. 

Home From College charges clients a monthly subscription fee that varies by number of jobs and a 20% service fee on top of the payments to workers.

Context: While at Syracuse University, Haber founded an experiential marketing agency, WAYV, to help brands reach students. That involved building pop-up retail locations on college campuses. She would often hear attendees ask about work opportunities at the brands.  

"'Who am I going to be post-grad?' was a much bigger problem to solve and one that could be solved through tech rather than building out these 40-foot trailers and schlepping them across the country," Haber says. 

"The No. 1 thing we heard was that students don't have anything to put on their resume," she added.

Her co-founder, Kaj Zandvliet, previously worked at Sony and PineBridge Investments. They bought the domain HomeFromCollege.com in March 2020.

Fun fact: Haber and Zandvliet got engaged last year.

Zoom in: GV led the round, and was joined by PEAK6, Lauren and Michael Bostick and Black Angel Group.

Home From College previously raised $1.5 million. 

What's next: The startup plans to grow from eight full-time employees to 12 by year-end and add more products for job seekers. 

Home From College raises $5.4M for Gen Z jobs site

Available gigs include content creation and product testing.

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Home From College, a Los Angeles-based career platform, has raised $5.4 million in seed funding, CEO Julia Haber tells Axios.Why it matters: A crop of <a class="gtmContentClick" data-vars-link-text="LinkedIn competitors" data-vars-click-url="https://www.axios.com/pro/media-deals/2024/03/11/key-networking-community-jobs-site" data-vars-content-id="468d91a2-97da-4948-8e8e-6958562ba3ca" data-vars-headline="Home From College raises $5.4M for Gen Z jobs site" data-vars-event-category="story" data-vars-sub-category="story" data-vars-item="in_content_link" href="https://www.axios.com/pro/media-deals/2024/03/11/key-networking-community-jobs-site" target="_self">LinkedIn competitors</a> has emerged to better serve the needs of modern job seekers.

Home From College raises $5.4M for Gen Z jobs site

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