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January 7, 2012 02:29 am GMT

SV Angel And Founder Collective Give Hackruiter $200K For Its Hacker School

Screen Shot 2012-01-06 at 1.28.41 PMYCombinator-backed hacker recruiter platformHackruiter has raised a modest seed round from investors SV Angel and Founder Collective. The company raised $200K but could have raised much more, because it is already profitable co-founder David Albert tells me.Hackruiter is already profitable because startups likeTumblr, Weebly, Loopt, Artsy and Bit.ly currently pay Hackruiter $20K per programmer referral on averafe (Amazing, right?). And Hackruiter finds people to refer through its Hacker School, which is now entering its third batch. Unlike beginner code-learning programs like Codecademy, the in-person Hacker School is exclusively focused on making already good coders better.

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