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TribeHR in the News

Stories about TribeHR from a variety of online and traditional news and blogging sources

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Techvibes – Desire2Learn and TribeHR Win Business of the Year Honours
“Two of Kitchener-Waterloo’s most talked about technology companies won big Thursday night at the Greater Kitchener Waterloo Chamber of Commerce’s Business Excellence Awards.”

Globe & Mail – Company grapples with selling innovative approach
“Soon after co-founding TribeHR in 2009, CEO Joseph Fung knew he needed an innovative approach to marketing and sales. The company’s social HR management software is targeted at small-business customers, and there are a lot of them.”

The Record – Junior Achievement Business Spirit Awards
“Entrepreneur of the Year: TribeHR. Created in 2009 by Joseph Fung, Jesse Rodgers and Stephen Heron, TribeHR has created a web-based human resources platform with a social media flavour.”

Technology Spotlight 2011 (page 60)
“The adjectives “fun” and “easy” have generally not been used to describe human resources – until now. A Waterloo startup that goes by the name TribeHR is trying to change how people feel about HR.”

Globe & Mail – CIX lists Canada’s 20 most innovative companies
“The Canadian Innovation Exchange (CIX) has announced this year’s Top 20 list of Canada’s most innovative Canadian technology companies, which have been selected to present at an event on Dec. 1, at the MaRS Discovery District in Toronto.”

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Techvibes – TribeHR gets on the Radar in Mountain View
“Toronto’s Rypple and Wave Accounting, Waterloo’s TribeHR and Vidyard, and Halifax’s GoInstant were among 29 startups pitching at the two-day innovation showcase and business development conference. This 18th Under the Radar event was tagged Under the Radar: Work Smarter, Not Harder and TribeHR picked up the Judge’s Choice award in the Talent 2.0 category.”

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Online Human Resources Management – TribeHR Review
“TribeHR.com is intended specifically for small businesses. The application can help users take care of their human resources related tasks easily and in one, centralized place. The application covers all the major areas of HR, including vacation time, employee records and development and job openings.”

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TribeHR Raises $1 Million To Help Small Businesses Manage Human Resources
July 27, 2011 – “TribeHR offers a human resources software designed specifically for small and medium businesses. The SaaS simplifies and automates companies’ ability to track employee development, new employees, vacation and sick time, job postings, goal setting and much more.”

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HR is boring and that’s why TribeHR is so hot
July 27, 2011 – “TribeHR has done the impossible. They’ve taken what is one of the more irritating chores for small and medium businesses–human resources management–and made it a beautiful, pleasurable experience. Their app is designed to automate many tedious HR-related tasks and integrates with Salesforce, AppDirect, and FreshBooks.”

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Waterloo’s TribeHR raises $1 million in seed financing from Matrix Partners
July 27, 2011 – “Unlike HR solutions designed for enterprise customers, its social features help reinforce the culture of an individual company and optimize the performance of each employee. This platform is exactly what the Facebook generation expects to find in today’s workplace.”

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Boston firm invests $1 million in Waterloo startup
July 27, 2011 – “The company’s first paying customers were in New York City and Britain, and Tribe software is already being used by hundreds of organizations across five different continents.”

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App of the Week | TribeHR
July 20, 2011 – “TribeHR is a comprehensive Social HR System that will give your employees more control over their relationship with the company through the shared vacation calendar, kudos, & other innovative feedback tools. This intelligent software continually analyzes your records and automatically highlights important information as you need it.”

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TribeHR Brings Your Human Resources Department Online
March 13, 2011 – “Whether you are the owner of a small business and handle all of your human resources needs yourself or you have an entire HR department, TribeHR can provide you with the tools you need.”

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4 Apps for HR Management in the Cloud
April 28, 2011 – “TribeHR is one of the more robust platforms of all the options, providing many HR management tools in one app…”

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TribeHR – A Handy Virtual HR Department for Small Businesses
April 19, 2011 – “TribeHR is a great solution for small businesses that need help on HR front.  TribeHR helps you with centralizing important employee information including sick and vacation days, and reminds you to be more diligent about employee goal-setting and kudos.”

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TribeHR Brings Rich API Integration to the Human Resources Industry
April 7, 2011 – “TribeHR, a software-as-a-service human resources solution, is bringing powerful API integration into the HR industry on multiple fronts.”

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TribeHR Strives to Make Human Resources Human Again
December 7, 2010 – “TribeHR is an online platform designed to help small and medium-sized business take much of the tedium out their human resources workflow. With simple, automated solutions for things like vacation tracking as well as more administrative functions like employee record management and job posting.”

Waterloo startup TribeHR aims to better the field of human resources for small businesses
Sep 2, 2010 – “It’s always refreshing to see startups innovating human resources, because as important an aspect of an organization as it is, it’s often underrepresented or neglected. Power to the Tribe.”