• Weekday has launched a $2.2m (£1.76m) seed funding round to “supercharge” the hiring landscape through the power of trusted references. The funding round was led by Venture Highway with participation from several influential angel investors. Weekday is a Y-Combinator backed business. Founded in 2021 by Amit Singh, Anubav Malik and Chetan Dalal, Weekday has been operational in beta mode until now. Weekday hosts multiple people’s references and companies can utilise the ‘Backchannel’ feature to get background references (from former colleagues) on every candidate they interact with; making hiring less about resumes and interviews; and more about real-life experiences and capabilities.