Q&A: BranchOut Founder Rick Marini on How It Raised $18M for a Facebook Professional Network With 6,000 Daily Users

Professional social networking Facebook app and site BranchOut has raised an $18 million second funding round to grow its engineering and sales teams. Previously only available as a destination app, the company is also launching a Jobs tab app for Facebook Pages of companies looking to hire.

We spoke with BranchOut founder Rick Marini about the company’s product roadmap, and why he think Redpoint Ventures, Accel Partners, Norwest Venture Partners, and Floodgate made a wise investment despite the app’s currently low traffic numbers.

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