Learn.cv, a social media platform for professionals that competed with LinkedIn, has been acquired by AI-powered search engine Perplexity.
As a part of the deal, Learn.cv will start to wind down operations Friday. Customers will be capable to export their information, together with their profiles, posts, and messages, till Could 16.
“We’ve long admired Perplexity and believe great things happen when the world’s knowledge is made more open and accessible,” reads a put up on Learn.cv’s weblog. “In that spirit, we are thrilled to be joining the design and engineering team at Perplexity to continue in our shared mission of exploration and discovery.”
At present I’m excited to share that @read_cv is becoming a member of the staff at @perplexity_ai of their mission to make the world’s information extra accessible to everybody. That is extremely bittersweet for us, as the beginning of this new chapter will mark the tip of our time with @read_cv.
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— andy chung (@_andychung) January 17, 2025
A Perplexity spokesperson confirmed the acquisition to TechCrunch by way of e-mail, however supplied no extra particulars.
“We’re excited to have the Read.cv team join Perplexity,” Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas wrote in a put up on X. “The team is incredibly capable in designing and building consumer and social experiences and we look forward to working with them on many new exciting directions!”
Learn.cv, which was based in 2021 by Andy Chung, beforehand a product designer at Fb, Mozilla, and Salesforce-owned Quip, supplied a spread of instruments that permit customers share their resumes and chat with different professionals of their industries. Learn.cv additionally supplied capabilities geared toward organizations, like staff profiles and the flexibility to put up job listings and carry out candidate searches.
Extra just lately, Learn.cv launched Websites, a characteristic that allowed customers to publish a private web site utilizing their Learn.cv profile. Customers may even acquire a “.cv” area from Learn.cv and join it to their profile, in the event that they wished.
Learn.cv says it plans emigrate “.cv” domains beginning January 31 to its companions at Howdy.cv, the place customers will be capable to proceed managing them.
Perplexity’s plans for West Berkeley-based Learn.cv, which had round three workers and was backed by funding from F7 Ventures and Fanjul Capital, aren’t clear. However Perplexity has more and more invested in corporate-focused performance, final summer time launching an enterprise plan with person administration, “internal knowledge search,” and extra.
The strikes might be partly on the behest of the VCs backing Perplexity, who’re little doubt desirous to see a return before later. Perplexity has reportedly raised over $500 million in capital from buyers, together with Institutional Enterprise Companions, and is alleged to be valued at $9 billion.
Learn.cv is Perplexity’s third acquisition following its buy of Carbon, which focuses on connecting AI techniques to exterior information sources. In 2023, Perplexity acquired Spellwise, whose CEO was introduced on to develop Perplexity’s cell app.
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