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Perfect taps $23M to fix the flaws in recruitment with AI


“Agentic AI” is the concept of the moment. Developers big and small are rushing to build apps to leapfrog the heavy lifting needed to employ generative AI

But, being the founder of an AI facial recognition startup that was also set up to find the proverbial “needle in a haystack”, Etshtein envisioned a platform trained to understand who Anyvision wanted to hire, which could eventually help with the task. When Etshtein stepped away from his day-to-day role after things got complicated with Anyvision — this was before the current interest in “resilience” tech, startups that build services and hardware for governments, military and defense purposes — he knew what he’d do next. Others include companies like LinkedIn (which has several AI tools for recruiters and job hunters) as well as HiBob, Workable, Maki, Mercor(which just raised money at a $2 billion valuation last week), Tezi and SeekOut(which downsized last year) — among dozens more.

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