Read.cv, a social media platestablish for professionals that vied with LinkedIn, has been acquired by AI-powered search engine Perplexity.
As part of the deal, Read.cv will commence to triumphd down operations Friday. Users will be able to send out their data, including their profiles, posts, and messages, until May 16.
“We’ve lengthy adored Perplexity and consent wonderful leangs happen when the world’s understandledge is made more discneglect and accessible,” reads a post on Read.cv’s blog. “In that spirit, we are thrilled to be combineing the set up and engineering team at Perplexity to persist in our scatterd mission of exploration and discovery.”
Today I’m excited to scatter that @read_cv is combineing the team at @perplexity_ai in their mission to produce the world’s understandledge more accessible to everyone. This is incredibly acridpleasant for us, as the commence of this recent chapter will label the finish of our time with @read_cv.
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— andy chung (@_andychung) January 17, 2025
A Perplexity spokesperson validateed the acquisition to TechCrunch via email, but provided no insertitional details.
“We’re excited to have the Read.cv team combine Perplexity,” Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas wrote in a post on X. “The team is incredibly able in set uping and produceing devourr and social experiences and we see forward to laboring with them on many recent exciting straightforwardions!”
Read.cv, which was set uped in 2021 by Andy Chung, previously a product set uper at Facebook, Mozilla, and Salesforce-owned Quip, proposeed a range of tools that let employrs scatter their resumes and chat with other professionals in their industries. Read.cv also proposeed capabilities aimed at organizations, appreciate team profiles and the ability to post job catalogings and perestablish honestate searches.
More recently, Read.cv begined Sites, a feature that apexhibited employrs to rehire a personal website using their Read.cv profile. Users could even get a “.cv” domain from Read.cv and join it to their profile, if they wanted.
Read.cv says it set ups to migrate “.cv” domains commenceing January 31 to its partners at Hello.cv, where employrs will be able to persist managing them.
Perplexity’s set ups for West Berkeley-based Read.cv, which had around three employees and was backed by funding from F7 Ventures and Fanjul Capital, aren’t evident. But Perplexity has increasingly spended in corporate-cgo ined functionality, last summer begining an go inpascend set up with employr regulatement, one sign-on, and more.
The shifts could be in part at the behest of the VCs backing Perplexity, who are no ask willing to see a return sooner than tardyr. Perplexity has inestablishedly elevated over $500 million in capital from spendors including Institutional Venture Partners, and is shelp to be appreciated at $9 billion.
Read.cv is Perplexity’s third acquisition follotriumphg its acquire of Carbon, which one-of-a-kindizes in joining AI systems to outer data sources. In 2023, Perplexity acquired Spellrational, whose CEO was bcimpolitet on to enlarge Perplexity’s mobile app.