Twitter’s recently formed parent company X Corp., has reportedly acquired tech hiring platform Laskie, in what is the first acquisition carried out by the social media platform under the ownership of Elon Musk who has vowed to transform Twitter into a so-called “everything app.”
Twitter has reportedly acquired job matching platform Laskie, its first major acquisition under Elon ... [+]
The acquisition was first reported by Axios and later corroborated by Bloomberg, citing an unnamed source who said the “part-equity and part-cash” deal had closed recently.
Laskie’s website has been replaced with a blank page that says the “platform is no longer available.”
The website previously helped match tech job seekers with employers based on details from their profile and an employer’s requirements, circumventing the traditional job posting and application process.
Musk, Twitter’s new CEO Linda Yaccarino and Laskie founder Chris Bakke—who is followed by Musk on Twitter—have yet to make a comment about the acquisition.
It is also unclear if Twitter plans to integrate Laskie’s job-matching service on its platform or allow it to continue running independently.
$6 million. That is the amount of funding that Laskie raised from a group of investors led by Bloomberg Beta and Peak State Ventures in December 2021. The company, however, had not disclosed the valuation at which it had raised that amount.