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Riipen
Experiential learning platform and marketplace
- 101-200 employees
- B2C
- B2B
- Marketplace
- Education
- Recruitment
- Training
- Downtown Vancouver, Vancouver, BC
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Company mission
Riipen’s mission is to help students of all backgrounds and geographies boost their skills, gain career clarity, network with potential employers, and find jobs they love.
Our take
It’s a problem many graduates are painfully familiar with: you need experience to get a job, but you can’t land a job without experience. Riipen is a company helping to tackle this issue. Their platform offers post-secondary institutions the ability to connect their students to real-world problems and training, and companies in search of new talent.
The company have helped over 100,000 students engage in applied learning, which historically might only have been accessed through an internship - typically freezing out students without the connections or resources to land one. So Riipen’s addressing inequality of opportunity in the post-secondary demographic, alongside streamlining the work of companies in sourcing talent.
With the economy still in recovery, and traditional ‘first job’ positions in certain industries curtailed, there’s an urgent need to reimagine what stepping onto the career ladder looks like. Riipen’s solution has been refined over the past several years, and is now well set to take advantage of this opportunity.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Benefits
- Competitive Salary: Money talks! We stand behind our compensation philosophy with transparent salary bands built to market. Get paid well and be a part of a growing startup with the opportunity to make it big!
- Remote First: At Riipen we consider ourselves a “remote first” organization, this means that our team members are not required to work from an office and are free to choose the working environment that works best for them. The majority of our team members work remotely from their home office in Canada and we have a quarterly WFH stipend to make sure that you can be set up to do your best work!
- Wellness: We take your health seriously. At Riipen, we have a customizable company-wide benefits plan including extended health and dental with no waiting period. You are eligible for benefits from day 1
- Vacation: We work hard, but we play hard too. Riipen offers 4 weeks of vacation to every new Riipeneer!
- Paid Parental Leave: Being a new parent is hard enough without having to worry about your income. Riipen offers all new parents two weeks of fully paid leave as they begin their journey and 12 weeks of top-up pay so they can forget about work and focus on their new family
- Team: Work with a team that is supportive, transparent, and friendly. We celebrate the little wins and the big ones together through our robust culture
Company values
- Empowerment
- Inclusivity
- Ingenuity
- Purpose
- Learning
- Community
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Jan 2021
$1.5m
LATE VC
Dec 2019
$3.8m
EARLY VC
Total funding: $6m
Leadership
Dave Savory
(Vice President of Experiential Learning)Previously a Franchise Manager at College Pro Painters, before moving on to work in Sales and Business Development at Travergence Interactive, and then Softree Technical Systems.
Dana Stephenson
(CEO)Previously held various managerial roles in recruitment, marketing, and business at The Acquisition Group Enterprises, Advanced Air Supply, and The Moore Law Group. Subsequently worked as a sales rep at Beldon Home Solutions.
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