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 Might 16.
“We’ve lengthy admired Perplexity and consider nice issues occur when the world’s information is made extra open and accessible,” reads a publish on Learn.cv’s weblog. “In that spirit, we’re thrilled to be becoming a member of the design and engineering group at Perplexity to proceed in our shared mission of exploration and discovery.”
Right now I’m excited to share that @read_cv is becoming a member of the group 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 through e mail, however offered no further particulars.
“We’re excited to have the Learn.cv group be part of Perplexity,” Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas wrote in a publish on X. “The group 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, provided a variety of instruments that permit customers share their resumes and chat with different professionals of their industries. Learn.cv additionally provided capabilities aimed toward organizations, like group profiles and the power to publish job listings and carry out candidate searches.
Extra lately, Learn.cv launched Websites, a function that allowed customers to publish a private web site utilizing their Learn.cv profile. Customers might even acquire a “.cv” area from Learn.cv and join it to their profile, in the event that they needed.
Learn.cv says it plans emigrate “.cv” domains beginning January 31 to its companions at Hi there.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 season launching an enterprise plan with consumer administration, single sign-on, and extra.
The strikes could possibly be partly on the behest of the VCs backing Perplexity, who’re little doubt desirous to see a return earlier than 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 makes a speciality of connecting AI techniques to exterior information sources. In 2023, Perplexity acquired Spellwise, whose CEO was introduced on to develop Perplexity’s cell app.
