profile updated Apr 15, 2008, 10:41 AM
Headquartered in Silicon Valley, Trovix, Inc. was founded in 2002. While the career/recruitment space was already heating up by that time, Trovix wanted to fix what they saw as an unmet need in the sector which was better, more intuitive technology to bridge the gulf between employers and people in search of the best career opportunities.
To do this, Trovix developed search technology that uses artificial intelligence and fuzzy logic to understand job descriptions and resumes in the same way a human does. Their story and capabilities were attractive enough to attract top-tier venture capital firms including 3i, Granite Ventures, and USVP.
The firm's first product, Trovix Recruit, put the artificial intelligence to use in an applicant tracking system. Then in September 2007, the company made a big splash by being invited to the DEMO conference, one of the high-visibility conferences for tech firms to launch new products. This time Trovix showed a new job agent -- simply titled "Trovix" -- that uses the firm's artificial intelligent engine to reach out to job-hunters (and more likely those elusive already employed passive job seekers).
Trovix Inc.’s patented solutions “understand” both the data and its users in a way that provides meaningful, human-like search results. Trovix Inc. customers include Palm, Stanford University, Hallmark, Salary.com, Trend Micro, Sanmina-SCI, Sunpower, Extreme Networks, VMware, and Rambus.
News & Updates 
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Monster Buys Trovix And Beats The Street (www.ere.net)
Big news from Monster (profile; site) today. It bought jobmatcher Trovix (profile; site) for $72.5 million; settled that class action shareholder lawsuit over the stock options backdating for $25 million and managed to beat Wall Street's expectations for its 2nd quarter financial performance earning 40 cents a share excluding one-time expenses. The Street consensus was the company would earn 37 cents a share. Jul 31, 2008, 5:58 PM -
Jobfox in the News (Cheezhead)
Start-up Jobfox has received a mini-flood of good news lately. Apr 14, 2008, 8:58 AM
Products & Services
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Trovix
Launched in 2007, Trovix’s consumer service, Trovix.com, uses its search technology as a foundation to provide a free, and confidential job board to match candidates to jobs automatically. The service combs through millions of current openings to find and present the most relevant career matches. -
Trovix Reach
Paid job posting on the Trovix job board in the form of Sponsored Listing and Premium Placement. Products were "coming soon" as of this writing in Feb. 2008 -
Trovix Recruit
Trovix Recruit, launched in 2005, combines the Trovix search technology with a full-featured applicant tracking system. Trovix Recruit helps recruiters by identifying the best candidates and then speeding them through the recruiting process. The applicant tracking features include collaborative work flow, streamlined communications, scheduling and custom reporting. In 2006, Trovix Recruit was awarded “Top HR Product of Year†by Human Resource Executive Magazine. Multiple modules are available.