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# Estonia’s Roleo Raises €2.9M for an AI Agent That Manages Your Career in the Background
- URL: https://www.therecursive.com/estonias-roleo-raises-eur2-9m-for-an-ai-agent-that-manages-your-career-in-the-background/
- Published: 2026-11-02T12:48:34.000Z
- Updated: 2026-11-02T12:48:34.000Z
- Description: Roleo, the Tallinn-based AI career agent from Veriff co-founder Janer Gorohhov and ex-Wise engineer Vahur Hansen, raised €2.9M led by Practica Capital to scale across Europe, giving tech professionals a free agent that surfaces job opportunities without them ever searching or applying.
- Author: Yoana Stanislavova
- Tags: News, Deals, Veriff, Estonia, seed

👯 **Founder(s):** Janer Gorohhov (Co-founder & CEO) and Vahur Hansen (Co-founder)

📅 **Founding year:** 2025

🏭 **Industry:** HR tech / AI (career & recruitment)

💥 **Problem:** Most people only manage their careers when something goes wrong or they decide to change jobs — so great opportunities come and go without the right people ever hearing about them. Tracking roles means constantly monitoring job boards, networking and staying visible.

📣 **Solution:** A free personal AI career agent that works in the background — it learns each user’s experience, goals, salary expectations and preferences, monitors the European tech market, and when there’s a match connects the candidate directly with a hiring manager, with no job application.

👥 **Customers:** Tech professionals (free for them; users already include people from Google, Amazon, Stripe and Spotify) on one side, and employers/hiring managers on the other.

🎳 **Team size:** 2-10

🌱 **Stage:** Seed

💰 **Investment amount:** €2.9M

🚀 **Funded by:** Practica Capital (Baltic VC, lead) and Inventure (Nordic VC), plus angels: Bolt founder Markus Villig, Sergei Anikin, Henrik Bohman (ex-Wise), Kristina Lilleõis (CPO at Hedosophia), and Lemonade Stand.

👁️‍🗨️ **Investor’s perspective:**

**Donatas Keras**, Partner at Practica Capital: *“We saw potential in the Roleo founders – their proven operational experience and grounded, yet very high ambition… we believe they are the team best positioned to set a new standard for how people build their careers.”*

**Markus Villig** (Bolt founder/CEO, angel): *“I’ve watched Janer build Veriff and I know what Vahur did at Wise. Both know first-hand how hard it is to find and hire great people across Europe.”*

**Kristina Lilleõis** (angel, CPO at Hedosophia): *“So much talent is missed because the best candidates aren’t actively applying… Roleo fixes both sides of that: it brings people roles they’d never have found on their own, and brings employers candidates they’d never have reached.”*

💡 **It will be spent on:** Developing the AI career agent and expanding across European markets, initially focused on tech professionals and companies.

💬 **In their own words:** *“Most people spend years building their careers, but only actively manage them when something goes wrong… We believe everyone should have a personal active career agent that understands what they want, keeps an eye on the market, and brings relevant opportunities to them,”* commented Janer Gorohhov, CEO. He adds the goal isn’t to have AI make career decisions for people, but to give them the right information and opportunities when decisions matter.

💪 **Their specialty:** The agent evaluates hundreds of thousands of opportunities every week and typically surfaces the three most relevant per user; since January 2026 it has connected users with 30,000 opportunities they explored further. Users stay in control of their visibility and data. 

🔑 **Business model:** Free for professionals; monetizes the employer side — giving hiring managers access to qualified passive candidates. 

💸 **Funding so far:** €3.46M total (incl. this €2.9M round).