Entelo today announced $3.5 million in financing led by Battery Ventures with participation from Menlo Ventures. Entelo is building the next generation of talent acquisition tools focused on helping companies better leverage social data. To address demand for its solutions, Entelo will use the funds to accelerate its growth and research and development efforts, specifically to develop additional products leveraging its impressive data set and predictive analytics engine.

Entelo recently won "Best in Show" at the Under the Radar Conference in the "Back Office Solutions" category. The company's products include Entelo Search and Entelo Sonar, which are currently used by more than 80 corporate clients to power their recruiting efforts. Many of the fastest growing companies in the world -- including Box, Groupon, Square and Yelp -- rely on Entelo products to source and recruit top engineers, designers and other in-demand professionals.

Company founder and CEO, Jon Bischke, commented, "At Entelo, we know there is an opportunity for social data to impact all levels of recruiting. Talent acquisition is top of mind at the board and C-level across all industries and we're honored to be an integral part of our clients' recruiting success."

"Our portfolio hired over 1,000 people last year alone, so the challenge of finding top talent has always been close to heart," said Brian O'Malley, General Partner at Battery Ventures. "Entelo is the only solution we've seen that not only identifies top candidates, but also gives recruiters proprietary insight on who is actively seeking."

Menlo Ventures Managing Director Shawn Carolan said, "Menlo Ventures specializes in seed to growth stage consumer and enterprise technology companies and Entelo is a great example of this, with a strong leadership team innovating in the recruiting category."

About Battery Ventures
Since 1983, Battery has been investing in category-defining ideas and high potential companies and management teams worldwide. The firm views its investment as a true partnership, and works hard to help its companies carve out unique positions, dominate markets and reach business goals. Battery funds companies in technology and related markets at the Seed, Early, Growth and Buyout stage. For a full list of Battery's companies go to: http://www.battery.com/our-companies/list/. The firm has offices in Boston, Silicon Valley and Israel, and has raised more than $4.5B since inception. For more information, visit www.battery.com and follow @BatteryVentures.

About Menlo Ventures
Menlo Ventures provides capital for seed through growth technology companies in the consumer and enterprise sectors. For decades, the firm's market-driven research analysis has led to the identification of and successful exits in innovative technology markets. Notable research areas of investment include Mobile (Siri, Uber, TeleNav), Enterprise Storage (3PAR, Spinnaker Networks, Coraid), Communications (Acme Packet, Cavium Networks), and Consumer (Fab, Tumblr, Carbonite, Roku). Founded in 1976, Menlo's portfolio includes 70 public companies and more than 100 mergers and acquisitions. Throughout the firm's history, Menlo's deep network of portfolio entrepreneurs, angels and advisors are a key resource made available to all of our family of investments. Menlo Ventures has $4 billion under management and is currently investing Menlo Ventures XI, a $400 million fund with $20 million allocated to our Menlo Talent Fund for fast seed funding. For more information, visit www.menlovc.com.

About Entelo
Entelo empowers companies to find the right candidates at the right time. By analyzing over 70 variables, Entelo's patent-pending Sonar platform identifies relevant job candidates for open positions who are more likely to be open to new opportunities. With its database of over 10 million candidates, Entelo also provides a powerful search engine for talent. Entelo streamlines the recruiting process, allowing recruiters to spend more time connecting with potential candidates and delivering results. For more information including pricing, please visit www.entelo.com