Bright: Funding, Investors & Team (Sep 2026)
Bright Network is an online careers community designed to connect the brightest graduates and undergraduates with the most dynamic employers in the market. Bright Network released its networking site for intelligent students and graduates with a series of soft launches to a select number of UK university students in 2010. The site has a minimum academic requirement of ABB (or equivalent) A Level - anybody who meets that is welcome to apply to join the network. Once accepted onto Bright Network, members can use the site's intuitive technology to personalise their job search and ensure that the opportunities, events and people they are most interested in are delivered to them. There is also a variety of relevant rich media content available to help keep them informed of the latest graduate recruitment news and advice. Bright Network's philosophy is that so many graduates are intelligent (and have the impressive qualifications to prove it!), but each is different and, especially in a Web 2.0 age, deserves to be given the information they need about the things they want to know about. Bright Network's aim is to use the developing platform of social media to create a new means of personal interaction between companies and their prospective employees.
Bright has raised $3.5M across 1 funding round on record, the most recent an undisclosed round of $3.5M announced in Jul 2020.
That round is below the $4.7M median round size for Administrative Services companies tracked on FundedIQ over the last two years.
Bright Company Profile and Key Stats
Latest funding round on record: Jul 2020.
Bright Funding Rounds
Bright Founders and Leadership Team
Contact details for the Bright team: 1 of 1 has an email address on file.
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Bright's latest round of $3.5M is below the median round in Administrative Services. Medians cover the last 24 months of disclosed rounds.
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Bright Funding FAQs
What does Bright do?
Bright Network is an online careers community designed to connect the brightest graduates and undergraduates with the most dynamic employers in the market. Bright Network released its networking site for intelligent students and graduates with a series of soft launches to a select number of UK university students in 2010. The site has a minimum academic requirement of ABB (or equivalent) A Level - anybody who meets that is welcome to apply to join the network. Once accepted onto Bright Network, members can use the site's intuitive technology to personalise their job search and ensure that the opportunities, events and people they are most interested in are delivered to them. There is also a variety of relevant rich media content available to help keep them informed of the latest graduate recruitment news and advice. Bright Network's philosophy is that so many graduates are intelligent (and have the impressive qualifications to prove it!), but each is different and, especially in a Web 2.0 age, deserves to be given the information they need about the things they want to know about. Bright Network's aim is to use the developing platform of social media to create a new means of personal interaction between companies and their prospective employees.
How much funding has Bright raised?
Bright has raised $3.5M across 1 round on record. The most recent is an undisclosed round of $3.5M announced in Jul 2020.
When did Bright last raise funding?
Bright's most recent funding round on record is an undisclosed round of $3.5M, announced in Jul 2020.
Who is the CEO of Bright?
James Uffindell is listed as CEO at Bright.
Where is Bright headquartered?
Bright is based in London, England, United Kingdom.
How many employees does Bright have?
Bright is in the 1001-5000 employee band.
How does Bright's funding compare to other Administrative Services startups?
Bright's latest round of $3.5M is below the $4.7M median round size for Administrative Services companies on FundedIQ across 1,897 tracked companies over the last two years.
About FundedIQ's Bright Funding Data
FundedIQ tracks announced funding rounds and refreshes this profile every week. Round dates, stages and amounts are normalised to a single format, converted to US dollars, and de-duplicated: two records of the same round announced days apart are merged, and two genuinely different rounds are kept apart on the amounts they disclose. Amounts shown are the disclosed figures only — a round announced without a number is listed and excluded from the total rather than estimated.
Employee counts are reported bands, not exact headcounts. Founder and executive names carry the job title on record. Anything we do not hold for Bright is left off this page rather than filled in.
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