Skills-based talent marketplace providing a new framework for a candidate’s professional identity.

Problem

PitchMe’s skills-based talent marketplace adds value to both job seekers, as well as employers and recruiters looking to hire those candidates which will be the best fit for the role they’re looking to fill. So far, most of the technologies that have been used in order to recruit people, specifically at the stages of pre-screening, shortlisting and assessment of candidates, relied on an analysis of the employment history, as manifested in candidate’s resume. When finding the right candidate for an open role, CVs don’t always offer a view into the full spectrum of a candidate’s skills. By replacing the traditional CV with PitchMe’s digital skills-based ‘SmartMe profile’, which incorporates a candidate’s work history, qualifications, hard and soft skills with secondary source data from a digital source of the candidate’s choosing, the result is a better pairing of candidates with positions based on the exact skills needed for each particular role. That contributed to inequality around employment opportunities, and limited not only the capacity of some candidates to get jobs that match their skills, but also the capacity of companies to find and hire the best candidates for their needs.

Solution

Using its AI-driven SmartMe profiling technology, PitchMe combines employment and education data with pre-existing user data (chosen by each user — e.g., Twitter/LinkedIn profile, GitHub or personal website) to extract information on their skills thereby creating a SmartMe profile of each candidate, which provides a comprehensive view of the candidate’s relevant skills, while anonymising factors such as race and gender, which often lead to unconscious bias in hiring. Because SmartMe includes soft skills as well as hard skills in its candidate profiles, a better view of each candidate is created and more accurate matches can therefore be made against relevant job roles. Both, job seekers and employers, benefit from PitchMe by being assured that the right skills are matched with the right position, minimising on poor-fit hires and missed opportunities to hire the right people. PitchMe also offers jobseekers the opportunity to add to their skills by completing the courses and trainings made available with educational partners on their platform.

Market

We operate in the major European tech hubs, in the US and CIS region. Target audiences such as SMEs with no internal HR team or recruitment budget, candidates with non-obvious career stories, and online education platforms benefit from our platform.

Awards

‘Top Staffing Leaders To Watch in 2022‘ for PitchMe’s CEO Dina Bayasanova

Techstars Portfolio Company Workforce Development Accelerator Class of 2021

WeAreTheCity Rising Star Award for PitchMe’s CEO Dina Bayasanova

PitchMe’s Job Description generator launched as a Top 5 product on the leading product discovery website on Product Hunt, 2021

Top 10 finalist in TechRound’s SaaS 66 competition, April 2021 ​​
Shortlisted for a CogX Award in Best Innovation in Algorithmic Bias Mitigation category, 2021

Team

• Dr Dina Bayasanova – Co-Founder and CEO
• Andrey Klebanov – Co-Founder and Tech
• Dr Gregory Asmolov – Co-Founder and R&D
• Ilya Klyachin – Head of BD
• Technical team of 6 and a marketing/sales team of 3

Website and social media

PitchMe Website
PitchMe Facebook
PitchMe Twitter
PitchMe Instagram
PitchMe LinkedIn

UN Sustainable Development Goals

Want to connect with PitchMe?

Fill out the form below and we’ll send an introduction email to you and the founders.

Please note that if you would also like to connect with other King’s20 Ventures, we ask that you fill out the form at the bottom of the page each time so we can send separate intro emails.

As always, we respect your privacy and will not contact you without your consent or share your details.