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Edizeven
Techstars '21Seattle, US · Founded 2020 · 2 employees on LinkedIn · 1 known investors
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Seattle-based free job platform purpose-built for restaurant and hospitality hiring and job seeking.
Also known as Edizeven Corporation
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Company profile
researched Sep 2026Edizeven (pronounced "eighty-seven") is a Seattle-based jobs website built specifically for the restaurant and hospitality industry. The platform lets hiring managers post roles and restaurant profiles quickly and lets applicants search for openings and build resumes, with the stated design goal of accommodating users who have limited time at a desk and typically use a phone during short breaks.
For employers, the service allows a free job post to be created in about five minutes and displayed for 30 days. The platform automatically indexes key attributes of each listing and pulls restaurant data from Google and Yelp so postings display a fuller set of information. For job seekers, Edizeven offers targeted search across criteria such as role, restaurant type, cuisine and location, generates pre-curated lists matched to desired location ranges and salary levels, and includes a resume-builder tool. At launch the site carried listings from Seattle establishments including Nue Seattle, Thierry Rautureau's Loulay, Super Six, Brian Clevenger's Haymaker and Revel.
Founding story
Founder and CEO Shilpi Gupta spent about ten years in technology roles at Amazon before operating a Seattle food truck named Kukree. Over a year running the truck she hired seven times for the same line cook position, concluding that hiring and retention were a major pain point for restaurant owners and that technology could address the problem. She founded Edizeven to match restaurant employers with qualified culinary job seekers.
Business model
Edizeven operates a two-sided online job marketplace connecting restaurant hiring managers with culinary-industry job seekers. Both sides use the platform at no cost: hiring managers can create a job post in roughly five minutes that stays live for 30 days, and job seekers can search, apply and build resumes free of charge.
Public descriptions state the platform is free to both job posters and job seekers; no paid offering is described.
▸Full profile — market position, technology, go-to-market, geography, history
Market position
Edizeven positions itself as a restaurant- and hospitality-specific hiring platform in the Seattle market, competing with general classifieds such as Craigslist and with industry job board Poached Jobs, and addressing an industry the company cites as having an attrition rate of 75% in 2019, up from 57.1% in 2010.
Edizeven charges no fees to job posters, contrasting with platforms such as Craigslist and Poached Jobs, and is purpose-built for restaurant and hospitality hiring rather than general job listings. Listings are enriched automatically with restaurant data drawn from Google and Yelp, and job seekers are given industry-specific search filters (role, restaurant type, cuisine, location) plus pre-curated matched lists and a resume builder.
Technology
The platform automatically indexes key attributes of job listings and ingests restaurant data from Google and Yelp to enrich postings. It provides filtered search by role, restaurant type, cuisine and location, algorithmically generated curated job lists based on location range and salary preferences, and a resume-builder tool, with a mobile-oriented design intended for short sessions.
Go-to-market
The platform was introduced directly into the Seattle restaurant market in January 2020, timed to a period of high hiring activity, with free access for both posters and seekers and early listings from recognizable local restaurants used to seed the marketplace.
Restaurant owners and hiring managers seeking to fill hourly and culinary roles, and restaurant and hospitality job seekers such as line cooks and other food-service staff.
Geography
Headquartered in Seattle, Washington, United States, with the service launched in the greater Seattle market and stated intentions to expand to other cities.
History
The company was founded in 2020 and is based in Seattle, Washington, operating as Edizeven Corporation. It entered the greater Seattle market in January 2020, positioning the launch around the peak hiring season for restaurants, and stated plans to expand to additional cities. Public company information lists a core team led by founder Shilpi Gupta and fewer than ten employees.
Compiled by commissioned research from 3 cited public sources — announcements, filings, and press listed under research sources below.
Key figures
latest reportedCompany-reported or press-reported figures, each dated to when it was claimed — not independently audited.
Timeline · 1
launches, deals, and filingsEdizeven went live in the greater Seattle area in January 2020 with a free job-posting and job-search platform for restaurants, listing roles at local establishments including Nue Seattle, Loulay, Super Six, Haymaker and Revel, with stated plans to expand to other cities.
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▸Research sources · 3
primary sources listed
- Edizeven Hits the Seattle Market to help Restaurant Owners Hire Better - EatSeattleeatinseattle.com · web
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Frequently asked questions
- What does Edizeven do?
- Seattle-based free job platform purpose-built for restaurant and hospitality hiring and job seeking.
- Who are Edizeven's investors?
- Edizeven's investors include Techstars.
- Where is Edizeven headquartered?
- Edizeven is headquartered in Seattle, US.