Claude Penland: Actuary & Partner, Ezra Penland Actuarial Recruitment

A new seed accelerator launched earlier this year called Rock Health to boost health-related mobile and web startups.

Name: Skillshare

Quick Pitch: Skillshare turns cities into classrooms and all of their residents into potential teachers.

Genius Idea: Creating an open, online marketplace for offline classes.

“We set out to develop a simple, intuitive service that cuts through the confusion and clutter of today’s health care system,” said Tomer Shoval, CEO and co-founder at Simplee. “Gone are the days of the headaches and exhaustion of digging through bewildering bills and sorting out co-pays, deductibles and premiums. All of that has changed with Simplee — now it’s easy to take control of your health care expenses and get the most out of your insurance benefits — and the launch of Simplee’s beta is really just the beginning of things to come.”

Recruitment on the Web:

Gild uses a gaming approach to match employee and employer.

BranchOut adds a career networking layer to Facebook.

Top Prospect allows outsiders to earn cash by participating in corporate referral programs.

Jobvite announced that it had raised $15 million.

Jibe uses social networking to connect people to jobs at their friends’ employers.

RoundPegg uses psychological self-assessments in an effort to become the “eHarmony for your employment process.”

Cake Health says that the service can save users money in a few ways:

It will help suggest plans that best suit your needs, and will also check to see that the claims being filed make sense.

Claritics Raises $1.5 Million For Cloud-Based Analytics Apps.

Ex-Yahoo execs create ChoozOn to sift through the daily deal clutter.

Download a Chrome extension and it will let you know who in your LinkedIn network works at whatever website you’re currently browsing in Chrome.