French startup Riminder recently raised a $2.3 million funding round from various business angels, such as Xavier Niel, Jean-Baptiste Rudelle, Romain Niccoli, Franck Le Ouay, Dominique Vidal, Thibaud Elzire and Fred Potter.
The company has been building a deep learning-powered tool to sort applications and resumes so you dont have to.
Riminder participated in TechCrunchs Startup Battlefield.Riminder wont replace your HR department altogether, but it can help you save a ton of time when youre a popular company.
Lets say you are looking for a mobile designer and you usually get hundreds or thousands of applications.You can then integrate Riminder with your various channels to collect resumes from various sources.
The startup then uses optical character recognition to turn PDFs, images, Word documents and more into text.
Riminder then tries to understand all your job positions and turn raw text into useful data.Finally, the service will rank the applications based on public data and internal data.
The company has scraped the web to understand usual career paths.Existing HR solutions can integrate with Riminder using an API.
This way, you could potentially use the same HR platform, but with Riminders smart filtering features.With this initial sorting, your HR team can more easily get straight to the point and interview the top candidates on the list.While its hard to evaluate algorithm bias, Riminder thinks that leveraging artificial intelligence for recruitment can help surface unusual candidates.
You could come from a different country and have a different profile, but maybe you have the perfect past experience for a particular job.
Riminder isnt going to overlook those applications.With todays funding round, the company is opening an office in San Francisco to get some clients in the U.S.