Andressen Horowitz, a Storial Silicon Valley VC company, supports new British startups to “finish” the way AI is used to match the company and talent.
DEX is called a startup to candidates and companies with a variety of AI -based recruitment smarts, including matchmaking and coaching in terms of long -term maintenance when it is called startup.
DEX is a handicraft of CTO Harry UGLOW and CEO Paddy Lambros (above), and recently left its own position as a software engineer and talenter in ATOMICO, a European VC company. They say that Dex has already attracted 24 British technology companies (“including two famous British unicorns”), but the platform remains a closed beta because it is fine adjusted ahead of the broader release later this year.
Before that, a new -based new foundation based in London was raised on Tuesday with the pre -seed funds led by the Speedrun and Concept Ventures of A16Z on Tuesday. Deliveroo coher Eric French; Design.io CEO Stephen Whitworth; Conceptual capital partner kamil mieczakowski; And former atomico partner Bryce Keane.
Rental the land
As the AI is getting entangled in the hiring area, DEX is entering a busy space. This includes new AI smarts baked directly with new startups, unicorns and linked people that support well. But DEX has a gap between all comprehensive platforms centered on laser. really You will know the candidate.
In the first case, DEX, which the company pitches as “AI Voice Talent Agent”, talks with the candidate through a request to get an understanding of his experience, skills, and ambitions. After that, DEX can help you plan your next career. Provide them to related opportunities. Prepare the interview. And even the proposals they can get.
Dex is worth pointing out that he will work for passive candidates, who do not actively search for new jobs, and many people in hunting. For example, after DEX has built a candidate’s profile, you can keep the tab to the open position advertised on the web (perhaps a very specific role of a very specific company) and a warning when such opportunities are created.
For those who are actively pursuing new tasks, DEX can go to the entire 9 yards from search to applications.
Lambros uses this data to Techcrunch, “DEX asks questions to understand your experience and skills through the desired object (preference and requirements).” DEX teaches the entire market and finds the most appropriate opportunities. To proceed, DEX processes the application (CV, no longer has a cover letter and introduces it to the recruitment manager when it matches. ”
Therefore, in the case of candidates, DEX is an AI agent that has a small marketplace or a vocational committee and performs all everyday tasks.
Lambros said, “The candidate does not want to troll hundreds of common job ads, so DEX searches you and saves several hours of scrolling, research and administrator application.
After all, DEX can coaches candidates for interviews and even offer market data on things, such as average rewards for such a role.
Lambros leaned on “large -scale public data sets and thousands of interviews and telephone copies,” and talked about more than 50 people in the UK’s “most experienced recruitment leader” to learn from hiring methods and ideal candidates. And all of this data ultimately entered DEX.
Under the hood, DEX is based on several LLM providers, including Openai, Google (Gemini) and META (LLAMA), and converts them with improvements with each model.
UGLOW said, “We are continuously evaluating and changing the providers to benefit from the latest development.
On the other hand, in terms of the company, DEX talks with the recruitment team to set the preference for the ideal candidates.
UGLOW said, “DEX conversations with recruitment managers and candidates deeply understand how the big body looks. Then this is combined with the publicly available data to strengthen the recommended system to select a personalized game. ”
The $ 3.1 million company in the bank is starting to hire throughout the engineering and marketing, observing that it starts openly in the UK before looking for an international market.
“Employment is not about filling seats, but to create a continuous partnership that benefits employees and companies.” Through this fund, the company will help you to maintain the best talent and find what your employees love. “
