Primarily based in Paris, the hiring market Candix has simply raised €185k from high operators like Thibaud Elziere, Paul Vidal, Sofiane Bouhali, Sophie Riottot, with the goal of testing the US market after a profitable launch in France.
The present AI gold rush is instilling a secret want in lots of massive tech engineers to ditch the golden handcuffs of their above-market salaries and achieve extra possession and stakes by becoming a member of earlier ventures. Sadly, it’s a want they will’t broadcast publicly, as it’d jeopardize their present roles. Nevertheless, they really feel comfortable sharing it on Candix, the place their knowledge is assured to stay personal, away from the eyes of their present bosses.
On Candix, expertise signifies what they is perhaps open to, and firms take the primary steps. Confidentiality is ensured by way of a number of measures: having corporations signal an NDA for entry to the pool, implementing a single level of entry per firm, and intensively monitoring exercise on the app. There may be additionally an emphasis on educating recruiters about methods to deal with delicate knowledge, which the recruiting business isn’t notably adept at in comparison with the well being business.
“Hiring marketplaces have traditionally been laborious to scale. Actually, there isn’t a single instance of 1 that has succeeded. Essentially the most notable ones, resembling Employed, grew considerably earlier than shutting down. By not making confidentiality their absolute focus, these platforms attracted solely expertise who have been comfy having their knowledge uncovered, lacking out on a wealth of nice, employed expertise who weren’t. Because of this, they couldn’t successfully compete with businesses or in-house expertise acquisition groups that tapped into this pool,” famous Theo Avoyne, Founding father of Candix, who accumulates 8 years of expertise on this business.
“Theo’s energy with Candix is automating a big a part of the curation course of, which is often the bottleneck in hiring marketplaces. That is game-changing and can enable it to develop in verticals and areas when no different software might,” mentioned Paul Vidal, angel investor.
Candix intends to maintain browsing the AI wave, serving to hungry startups overtake established leaders and enabling the neatest expertise to embark on new beginnings.
