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Atipica Raises Funds, Hires SurveyMonkey Exec

October 20 2016

In the US, job matching and recruiting data specialist Atipica has raised $2m in a seed round of funding, which it will use to grow the business and support its machine learning algorithms. The firm has also hired former Survey Monkey exec Mike Sela as Chief Technology Officer.

Mike SelaBased in San Mateo, California and set up in early 2015, Atipica analyses resumes and trends in applicant databases, using what the firm says is a bias-free approach focusing on the relevant competencies and skills to uncover the best people for each job vacancy.

New funding was led by True Ventures, with participation from Kapor Capital and Precursor Ventures; as well as a number of angel investors including industry veteran and former Yahoo! CHRO David Windley, early Twitter engineer Matt Sanford, and former Reddit CEO Ellen Pao. CEO Laura Gómez comments: 'I am excited to have True Ventures, a respected, founder-friendly firm, lead Atipica's seed round. True is supportive of our take on data mining and machine learning that enhance interactions of recruiters with the unique person behind the resume through bias-free approach'.

Sela (pictured) joins after six years at DIY survey firm SurveyMonkey, where he led data, natural language processing, and machine learning teams responsible for the analyses of more than 70 billion responses. Before this, he held senior software development and engineering roles at xMarks, webMethods, and Hewlett Packard. Gómez adds: 'Mike is a thoughtful and respected engineering leader. We are thrilled with his decision to join the team'.

Web site: www.atipica.co .

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