Avature

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Avature Limited
TypePrivate Company
Industry Human Resource Management System - Information Technology
Founded2005
FounderDimitri Boylan
Area served
Human Resources
Key people
Dimitri Boylan
RevenueIncrease2.svg $170 Million(2019)
Number of employees
1384 (Dec 2022)

Avature is a privately-held global human capital management software as a service company. It is EU-registered with headquarters in London, United Kingdom, and it has company affiliates around the world in Argentina, Australia, China, Germany, Spain, and the United States.

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History

Dimitri Boylan, co-founder and former CEO of HotJobs founded Avature in 2005. Avature began by providing services to multinational organizations from New York and Buenos Aires. In September 2008, the company released its flagship SaaS product, Avature CRM, a client relationship management system for talent acquisition.

In 2012 Avature sold its recruiting services businesses to Korn Ferry [1] . In subsequent years, the company expanded to include an applicant tracking system, as well as software for campus and events recruiting, onboarding, internal mobility, performance management, and contingent workforce management.

Over the years, Avature has worked with Fortune 500 clients [2] and integrated with technology partners like LinkedIn [3] and WeChat [4]

Research & Development

Avature R&D is led by its Director of Natural Language Processing, Rabih Zbib [5] . Zbib holds a Master's in Science and a Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and he and his team at Avature periodically publish their research in technical journals [6] [7] [8] .

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References

  1. "Korn Ferry Annual report pursuant to Section 13 and 15(d)".
  2. "Delta Air Lines, Walmart Use HR Technology to Stay Agile During COVID-19 Pandemic". December 2020.
  3. "Avature Integrates with LinkedIn Recruiter".
  4. "Avature integrates with WeChat Work to boost productivity in China - Focus Malaysia". 12 September 2020.
  5. https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=5pKdNQkAAAAJ&hl=en
  6. https://arxiv.org/abs/2207.00494
  7. https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.07015
  8. https://rua.ua.es/dspace/bitstream/10045/137097/1/PLN_71_05.pdf