beBee

beBee is a collaborative personal branding platform and social network co-founded by the successful award-winning Spanish actor Javier Cámara and serial entrepreneur and investor Juan Imaz.[2][3]The network was created to allow people to showcase and share their personal brand and market themselves to employers, clients, customers, vendors and media in their respective industries. beBee allows users to network with each other through common personal and professional interests,[4] uniting their personal and professional lives in one place.[5]

beBee
Privately held company
IndustryInternet
FoundedFebruary 8, 2015 (2015-02-08)
FoundersJavier Cámara and Juan Imaz
Headquarters
New York City, United States and Madrid, Spain
Area served
United States, Spain, Mexico, Brasil, United Kingdom, India, Canada, Portugal, Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Perú and Australia.[1]
Members13 million (June 2018)
Number of employees
64 (June 21, 2018)
Websitewww.bebee.com

The startup was established in February 2015, and originally launched in English, Spanish and Portuguese, and has been listed in Forbes magazine and other sources as a great way to grow your brand and a major tool to use in the commercial use social media landscape that includes LinkedIn as a top competitor.[6]

In August 2016 beBee was selected by Mind the Bridge and EIT Digital to participate in the "Startup Europe Comes to Silicon Valley" program for future European startup unicorns to engage with main US industry players for sales, funding and collaboration opportunities in order to rapidly scale up on the other side of the Atlantic.[7] With over 11 million global users, beBee has seen substantial market growth and has been praised for its diversity as an American and Spanish multi-cultural venture.[8]

beBee.com offers professionals the ability to network with like-minded professionals in all industries globally, create content as a blogger or writer in various subject matters of interest or expertise, and search for job postings that have been posted by beBee.com recruiters, and jobs that are found available via classified listings from other major sources.[9]


Concept

Bees (users) can share and create content in one or more hives (groups), that are related to their professional or personal interests and allows for a new type of professional social networking.[10]

All basic beBee.com services including job searches and applications are free except for their Premium beBee membership which allows users who are job hunters to be featured to employers and hiring managers, allows applicants to be placed at the top of the applicant pool, and a premium member perk of an increased number of per day beBee emails to affinity contacts with which the user is not yet connected. A big difference with beBee is that this social media is more global reach beyond the user's native markets. [11]

References
  1. "bebee.com Site Overview". alexa.com.
  2. "Madrid, Spain — Start-ups spawned from economic crisis". Financial Times. Retrieved November 29, 2016.
  3. Juan Imaz, beBee Co-Founder, Personal Profile
  4. "6 social media trends we're watching in 2016". VentureBeat. Retrieved November 29, 2016.
  5. "Microsoft To Buy LinkedIn, But New European Social Media Platform beBee Could Be The Big Winner". Retrieved November 29, 2016.
  6. Networking or Job Boards? Nine Strategies to Find Your Next Role, Forbes Magazine, April 19, 2017
  7. "Top tech startups selected to represent Europe at SEC2SV 2016". August 25, 2016. Retrieved November 29, 2016.
  8. Javier Camara: beBee Co-Founder & CEO, Diversity Report, May 9, 2017
  9. beBee.com Job Searching & Recruiting
  10. Hargrave, Sean (September 21, 2016). "Swipe right for business benefits". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved November 29, 2016.
  11. beBee Premium Membership, Retrieved June 21, 2020
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