Perplexity has acquired Read.cv, a social media platform for professionals
reading. the biographyThe social media platform for professionals that competed with LinkedIn has been acquired by an AI-powered search engine Confusion.
As part of the deal, Read.cv will begin winding down its operations on Friday. Users will be able to export their data, including their profiles, posts and messages, until May 16.
“We have long admired puzzlement and believe that great things happen when the world’s knowledge becomes more open and accessible,” reads a post on Read.cv. Blog. “In this spirit, we are thrilled to join the design and engineering team at Perplexity to continue our shared mission of exploration and discovery.”
Today I’m excited to share that @read_cv Joins the team in @perplexity_ai On their mission to make the world’s knowledge accessible to everyone. This is incredibly bittersweet for us, as the beginning of this new chapter will mark the end of our time @read_cv.
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-Andy Chung (@_andychung) January 17, 2025
A Perplexity spokesperson confirmed the acquisition to TechCrunch via email, but did not provide additional details.
“We are excited to have the Read.cv team joining Perplexity,” Aravind Srinivas, CEO of Perplexity, wrote in a post on X. “The team is incredibly capable of designing and building consumer and social experiences and we look forward to working with them in many exciting new directions!”
Read.cv, founded in 2021 by Andy Chung, a former product designer at Facebook, Mozilla, and Salesforce-owned Quip, offers a suite of tools that allow users to share their resumes and chat with other professionals in their industries. Read.cv also provides enterprise-targeted capabilities, such as team profiles and the ability to post job listings and conduct candidate searches.
Recently, Read.cv launched Sites, a feature that allows users to publish a personal website using their Read.cv profile. Users can also grab a “.cv” domain from Read.cv and associate it with their profile, if they want.
Read.cv says it plans to migrate “.cv” domains starting January 31 to its partners at Hello.cv, where users will be able to continue managing them.
Perplexity plans for West Berkeley-based Read.cv, which had about three employees and was Supported Funding from F7 Ventures and Fanjul Capital is not clear. But Perplexity increasingly invested in corporate-focused positions last summer release Enterprise plan with user management,”Search for inner knowledge“, and more.
These moves could be partly at the behest of the venture capitalists backing Perplexity, who are no doubt keen to see a return sooner rather than later. Her confusion It is said It has raised more than $500 million in capital from investors including institutional venture partners, and is said to be valued at $9 billion.
Read.cv is Perplexity’s third acquisition after its purchase CarbonWhich specializes in linking artificial intelligence systems to external data sources. In 2023, confusion acquired Spellwise, whose CEO was appointed to develop Perplexity’s mobile application.
