March 9-15, 2026:
• Enhancing conversational AI: Hirevue acquires Hireguide tech to advance agentic AI hiring;
• Adding a new verse to an old song: Talvy raises $2M seed to replace the traditional resume;
• Making people more important: Khosla’s Ethan Choi on AI, Founder-First investing and more;
• Changing the paradigm: After the job description-rebuilding work around skills, tasks, and more;
• Previewing the Artificial Death Match: AI vs AI – our AI agent hacked a $20M funded AI recruiter.
• TAtech North America 2026 – Register right now for the largest gathering in the world of talent tech, job board and ATS CEOs, senior execs and rising stars. Tap into exclusive business insights, network for competitive intelligence; meet in the Deal Center to explore partnerships and take a look at leading edge products that are entering the market. May 6-8 in Charleston, South Carolina. Get your seats before they’re gone!
• TAtech Europe 2026 – Take advantage of TAtech’s unique business-building formula for talent tech companies, ATS and job boards: Content that provides a clear picture of the Market and Buyer, the competitive landscape and new product innovations; and Connections that provide the opportunity for partnerships, product integrations, marketing joint ventures and more! September 8-9 in Amsterdam. Seating is very limited, so register right now!
Hirevue, the global leader in skills-based hiring, today announced it has acquired the technology behind Hireguide, a pioneer in agentic AI for hiring. The Hireguide team will join Hirevue’s product organization to accelerate Hirevue’s ability to deliver a series of conversational agents that will power smarter hiring workflows that leverage intelligence and science at every touchpoint to help enterprises qualify talent with greater confidence.
Talvy, a platform that’s pioneering video-first professional profiles, today announced its $2M seed round led by Link Ventures. In the current hiring market, employers are struggling to find meaningful ways to evaluate candidates at scale, especially as application volume has exploded with AI-generated CVs flooding recruiting pipelines.
On his investment approach today: I’ve actually evolved to be stage-agnostic. While people still put me in the “growth” bucket, I’m doing much more seed and Series A. In this era, the metrics a company has today don’t guarantee where they’ll be in two years because the rate of change is so high. I’ve flipped my philosophy: it used to be 80% metrics and 20% founders. Now, it’s 90% founders. The only constant is how special the founding team is and how quickly they can adapt. If code is being created 10x faster, a company might face 50 years of change in a single decade. You have to back the people who can handle that stress.
For more than a century, the job description has been the foundational unit of work organization. It was a model built on the assumption that work is stable enough to be described in advance. That work consisted of a set of duties, reporting relationships, qualifications, and expected outputs that remained consistent over time, and that this set of duties equaled what we call a “job.” That assumption is crumbling.
Jack & Jill is one of the hottest AI startups in London. They raised a $20 million seed round led by Creandum — with 75+ angel investors including Nico Rosberg and people from Anthropic, ElevenLabs, and Lovable. 49,000 candidates have spoken to their AI. Hundreds of companies use the platform. We pointed our autonomous hacking agent at it. Within an hour, it had chained four seemingly harmless bugs into a complete takeover of any company on the platform. Then, unprompted, it gave itself a voice and had a real-time conversation with their AI agent and even impersonated Donald Trump.
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