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A16z backs UK startup Dex to scale ‘AI talent agent’ and recruitment matchmaker
Andreesen Horowitz is backing a fledgling U.K. startup that's setting out to "redefine" how AI is used to match companies with talent.
Dex is the handiwork of CTO Harry Uglow and CEO Paddy Lambros(pictured above), who recently left their positions as software engineer and head of talent, respectively, at European VC firm Atomico. While they say that Dex has already lured some two dozen U.K. tech firms on board (“including two high-profile U.K. unicorns”), the platform is remaining in closed beta for now as they fine-tune things ahead of a broader launch later this year. Under the hood, Dex is built on multiple LLM providers, including OpenAI, Google (Gemini), and Meta (Llama), switching based on whatever improvements are introduced with each respective model.
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