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Wamda
12 hours ago
- Business
- Wamda
Professional.me secures $3.1 million seed round led by Raha Beach Ventures
an Abu Dhabi-based HRtech, raised $3.1 million in seed funding led by Raha Beach Ventures, bringing its total to $4.6 million. Founded by Ryan Adams in 2024, the platform replaces résumés with personalised micro-LLMs, trained on data from 167 industries and 1.2 million tasks, designed to enable more inclusive hiring. will use the funding to expand engineering, strengthen partnerships, and scale access across EMEA and beyond. Press release: an AI-powered recruitment platform, has raised $3.1 million in a seed funding round led by Raha Beach Ventures, bringing its total funding to $4.6 million. The company previously raised $1.5 million in a pre-seed round, also led by Raha Beach Ventures. and Raha Beach Ventures were both founded by Ryan Adams. Raha Beach Ventures operates as a startup studio, providing founders with engineers, designers, financial expertise, marketing, networks, and mentoring in exchange for equity ranging from 35% to 50%, depending on support levels. Launched in October 2024, positions itself as an alternative to traditional résumé-based hiring. The platform uses personalised 'micro-LLMs'—custom language models that create detailed professional profiles for both job seekers and employers, trained on data from 167 industries and 1.2 million tasks. Its bias-aware models are designed to support more inclusive hiring practices. 'We're not digitising résumés; we're replacing them,' said Ryan Adams, founder and CEO of 'Each company and professional gets their own micro-LLM that acts as a context-aware advocate, surfacing the best-fit matches automatically and meaningfully.' Since launch, has processed over 300,000 professional profiles, serving clients across Europe, the UK, and the MENA region. The platform claims its AI can reduce resume screening time from two minutes to 15 seconds, integrating with existing applicant tracking systems to deliver 'AI-driven shortlists' and skill matching. Pricing starts with a free tier for up to 100 candidates monthly, with premium rates starting at $0.24 per candidate. With the fresh funding, will expand its engineering team, deepen data and research partnerships, and scale access to employers across EMEA and beyond.
Entrepreneur
4 days ago
- Business
- Entrepreneur
"We Got Funded!" Professional.me Raises US$3.1 Million to Power the Future of Hiring
With this new round of funding, will expand its engineering team, strengthen its network of data and research partnerships, and scale platform access to more employers across EMEA and beyond. You're reading Entrepreneur Middle East, an international franchise of Entrepreneur Media. an AI-powered platform redefining how companies match and manage talent, has closed a US$3.1 million seed round, led by Raha Beach Ventures, bringing total funding to US$4.6 million. introduces a breakthrough approach: personalized micro-LLMs, custom-trained language models for both employers and professionals. These tailored models deeply understand context and nuance, enabling smarter, faster, and more human hiring decisions. "We're not digitizing résumés; we're replacing them," said Ryan Adams, CEO of "Each company and each professional gets their own micro-LLM that acts as a context-aware advocate. It surfaces the best-fit matches automatically and meaningfully." With this new round of funding, will expand its engineering team, strengthen its network of data and research partnerships, and scale platform access to more employers across EMEA and beyond. Even advanced AI models like ChatGPT can only perform as well as the data they receive. Relying solely on résumés and job descriptions—often generic, outdated, or incomplete—leads to surface-level matches and missed opportunities. It's the classic case of garbage in, garbage out. addresses this by capturing a far richer, more structured layer of data: For employers, the platform analyzes organizational structures, current team dynamics, business unit goals, and past hiring outcomes. It builds predictive success profiles grounded in real context rather than generic role descriptions and can benchmark those profiles against industry peers. For professionals, the platform works directly with individuals to structure both public signals—such as portfolios, published work, thought leadership, project contributions, and peer recognition—and private indicators like ongoing learning, internal impact, mentoring, certifications, and industry engagement. These signals are just the beginning. Each professional's micro-LLM builds on the baseline of a résumé and expands it tenfold, capturing depth, nuance, and potential that traditional documents simply can't express. integrates seamlessly with existing hiring systems and workflows. Instead of replacing an ATS, it plugs into your current stack, enriching the pipeline with AI-driven shortlists, real-time skill inference, and context-aware matching. This allows hiring teams to spend more time on what matters most: authentic interviews and confident decisions. Since launching in October 2024, has created and tailored over 300,000 professional profiles, built a fast-growing user base across Europe, the UK, and MENA, and attracted over 138,000 followers on professional networks models are trained on hundreds of millions of data points spanning 167 industries and 1.2 million tasks. Its bias-aware recommendations and structured matching processes are designed to elevate human connection, not remove it. The company's globally distributed team includes talent from 14 nationalities across 3 continents and is proudly majority female, reflecting its commitment to fairness, equity, and inclusive innovation. "We're solving hiring at its core—not by adding more filters, but by rethinking how information is structured and understood," Adams added. "We believe AI should make hiring more intelligent, more inclusive, and more human." Related: The Best Man for the Job: Ryan Adams, Founder,
Associated Press
14-05-2025
- Business
- Associated Press
Megan Adams to Support Founders with Complimentary Pitch Feedback at GITEX Europe
Volunteer Mentorship Sessions Led by Megan Adams at GITEX Europe Highlight Need for Founder Equity 'Strong ideas are everywhere, but access isn't. These sessions are one small way to help level the playing field and make sure more voices get heard.'— Megan Brittain Adams BERLIN, GERMANY, May 14, 2025 / / -- As part of an ongoing commitment to mentoring early-stage entrepreneurs, Megan Brittain Adams will offer complimentary one-on-one pitch feedback sessions to startup founders attending GITEX Europe, taking place May 21–23, 2025, in Berlin. Adams currently serves as Entrepreneur in Residence at Raha Beach Ventures, advising aspiring founders on strategy, storytelling, and team development. She also holds the role of Vice President of Strategic Partnerships & Outreach at a UAE-and-USA-based AI company specializing in ethical talent management. Her participation in GITEX Europe follows recognition at the AI Everything Global Supernova Pitch Competition in Dubai, where the company was selected as one of the top AI startups worldwide. The Berlin pitch feedback sessions are not part of a commercial program, but rather a volunteer initiative to give back to the startup community. Sessions will be focused on helping early-stage founders refine their core messaging, clarify their value proposition, and prepare for future conversations with investors and partners. While the pitch feedback sessions are open to all early-stage founders, Adams notes that the barriers are often even steeper for women in the startup space. According to a 2023 report by PitchBook, female-only founding teams received just 2.1% of total venture capital funding globally—a number that has remained stubbornly low for years. 'Strong ideas are everywhere, but access isn't,' said Adams. 'These sessions are one small way to help level the playing field and make sure more voices get heard.' Adams brings a non-traditional background to the startup ecosystem. She began her career in public relations, with award-winning education campaigns in collaboration with FEMA and the US Geological Survey in California. Later, she transitioned into clinical healthcare, graduating from the accelerated nursing program at Johns Hopkins University, one of the most competitive and prestigious programs of its kind. Her work in the UAE includes serving as Chief Nursing Officer for a 250-person clinical team and co-founding a pediatric homecare startup that became the first in the region to receive CARF's highest level of international accreditation for quality of care. In recent years, Adams has judged the regional rounds of the Hult Prize at Hult International Business School, mentored student-led ventures at the University of Dubai Pitch Competition, and developed the Raha Beach Ventures Internship Program, which has supported aspiring entrepreneurs from top global universities. Appointments for the GITEX Europe sessions are limited and intended for early-stage founders seeking strategic guidance on pitch development. Event Details: 📍 Messe Berlin, Germany 📅 May 21–23, 2025 📩 Inquiries and appointment requests: [email protected] Megan Brittain Adams, VP Strategic Partnerships & Outreach +1 302-405-3904 email us here Visit us on social media: LinkedIn YouTube Legal Disclaimer: EIN Presswire provides this news content 'as is' without warranty of any kind. We do not accept any responsibility or liability for the accuracy, content, images, videos, licenses, completeness, legality, or reliability of the information contained in this article. If you have any complaints or copyright issues related to this article, kindly contact the author above.
