Startup Polywork Pitches a More Personal Professional Network
- New York-based company raised $3.5 million in seed funding
- The platform highlights skills and interests versus job titles
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Some of Silicon Valley’s well-known startup founders are backing a new social and professional networking website built on the idea that people are more than their job titles.
The site, Polywork, raised $3.5 million in seed funding led by San Francisco-based early-stage venture capital firm Caffeinated Capital and counts YouTube co-founder Steve Chen, Affirm Inc. founder and Chief Executive Officer Max Levchin and co-founder of Twitch Kevin Lin as backers.