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 knowledge, together with their profiles, posts, and messages, till Might 16.
“We’ve lengthy admired Perplexity and imagine nice issues occur when the world’s data is made extra open and accessible,” reads a put up on Learn.cv’s weblog. “In that spirit, we’re thrilled to be becoming a member of the design and engineering staff at Perplexity to proceed in our shared mission of exploration and discovery.”
At this time 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 data extra accessible to everybody. That is extremely bittersweet for us, as the beginning of this new chapter will mark the top 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 Learn.cv staff be part of Perplexity,” Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas wrote in a put up on X. “The staff is extremely succesful in designing and constructing client and social experiences and we look ahead to working with them on many new thrilling instructions!”
Learn.cv, which was based in 2021 by Andy Chung, beforehand a product designer at Fb, Mozilla, and Salesforce-owned Quip, supplied a variety 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 power 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 Hey.cv, the place customers will be capable to proceed managing them.
Perplexity’s plans for West Berkeley-based Learn.cv, which had round three staff 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 season launching an enterprise plan with consumer administration, single sign-on, and extra.
The strikes might be partially on the behest of the VCs backing Perplexity, who’re little doubt wanting to see a return earlier than later. Perplexity has reportedly raised over $500 million in capital from traders together with Institutional Enterprise Companions, and is claimed 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 knowledge sources. In 2023, Perplexity acquired Spellwise, whose CEO was introduced on to develop Perplexity’s cell app.
