👯 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).
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