PitchMe to get seed funded with $1.2 million in a round led by New York-based Starta Ventures

PitchMe, a London, UK-based startup buidling a skills-based talent marketplace, announced securing a $1.2 million seed funding round.

The money round was led by New York-based Starta Ventures and joined by a UK-based family office and angel investors.

PitchMe, founded in 2017 by CEO Dina Bayasanova, developed a skills-based talent marketplace aiming to match candidates with startup jobs, based on the individuals' skills which are evaluated on the platform based on behviour science.

The platform aims to replace the traditional CV with a system that presents candidates’ soft skills and hard skills to employers, using a methodology designed by behavioural scientists. It boils down to big data algorithms which extract information on job candidates from more than 60 online sources, and then vetting them and presenting the info anonymously to potential employers.