Bridgepoint Merchant Banking is pleased to announce that its principals exclusively advised BirdDog on its $4.0 million Series A venture financing. The financing was led by Next Level Ventures. BirdDog (www.birddoghr.com) is the leader in recruitment and applicant tracking solutions (ATS) for the construction and skilled trades industries The investment will be used to further BirdDog’s already impressive growth. The investment in BirdDog was the first from Next Level’s new $30 million fund. They join prior and return investor Bridgepoint Investment Partners.
BirdDog’s focus is to help recruiting and HR leaders address the escalating challenge of attracting top talent with the best skills. The BirdDog ATS simplifies job distribution, applicant tracking, candidate management and reporting by creating a systematic recruitment process. The result is an easy-to-use, streamlined, documented and repeatable process for attracting more qualified applicants and making better hires.
Bridgepoint Merchant Banking, a division of Bridgepoint Holdings, LLC, is a lower and middle market investment banking and private equity firm. The Bridgepoint team, through their broker dealer relationship with M&A Securities Group, serves clients over their corporate lifecycles by providing merger and acquisition and corporate finance advisory services. Bridgepoint Merchant Banking also invests capital directly into companies through its private equity and venture capital funds. To learn more about Bridgepoint, please visit www.bridgepointmb.com.