San Francisco-based BranchOut has raised $6M in a round from Accel Partners according to a regulatory filing.

Users can:
+ Search for a company and identify all of their friends and friends-of-friends that work there for inside connections for jobs, sales leads and career networking.

+ if one of your friends installs BranchOut, you can see the work histories of their friends as well.

+ BranchOut users can also post and share jobs to earn referral fees.

CEO Rick Marini was the Founder & CEO of SuperFan, a social entertainment platform, and he was co-founder of Tickle, which sold for $100M.

What interests us here is that LinkedIn and a few other business social networks have done so well but on Facebook the successful companies have been games and other entertainment apps. Why hasn't a business networking utility succeeded on Facebook, its seems so obvious? One thought is that Facebook friends are often high school or family friends who have no relation to your business. We know a lot of people try not to mix business with pleasure on Facebook. But as CEO Marini mentions, it i

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