Perplexity acquires Read.cv, a social media platform for professionals

Read.cvA social media platform for professionals that competed with LinkedIn, has been acquired by AI-powered search engine Perplexity.

As part of the deal, Read.cv will cease operations starting today. Users will be able to export their data, including their profiles, posts and messages, until May 16.

“We’ve long admired confusion and believe great things happen when the world’s knowledge is made more open and accessible,” read a post on Read.cv. Blog. “In that spirit, we are thrilled to join the design and engineering teams at Perplexity to continue our shared mission of exploration and discovery.”

Today I am excited to share it @read_cv Joining the team @Confusion_AI Aiming to make the world’s knowledge more accessible to all. This is incredibly bittersweet for us, because 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 Confusion spokesperson confirmed the acquisition to TechCrunch via email, but did not provide any additional details.

Perplexity CEO Arvind Srinivas wrote in a post on X, “We are excited to have the Read.cv team join Perplexity. “The team is incredibly capable of designing and building consumer and social experiences and we look forward to working with them. Many new exciting directions!”

Read.cv, which was founded in 2021 by Andy Chung, a product designer at Quip, formerly owned by Facebook, Mozilla and Salesforce, offered a range of tools that allowed users to share their resumes and chat with other professionals in their industry. Read.cv also offers capabilities aimed at organizations such as posting team profiles and job listings and performing candidate searches.

Most recently, Read.cv launched Sites, a feature that allows users to publish a personal website using their Read.cv profile. Users can get a “.cv” domain from Read.cv and attach it to their profile if they want.

Read.cv says it plans to transfer “.cv” domains to its partners on Hello.cv starting January 31, where users will be able to continue managing them.

Perplexity plans for West Berkeley-based Read.cv, which has and has had about three employees Supported by Funding from F7 Ventures and Fanjul Capital, undisclosed. But distractions have increasingly invested in corporate-focused functionality over the past summer turn on An enterprise plan with user management, single sign-on and more.

These moves may be partly at the behest of VCs who back the diversion, who are no doubt keen to see a comeback sooner rather than later. There is confusion allegedly It has raised more than $500 million in capital from investors including institutional venture partners and is reported to be valued at $9 billion.

Read.cv is the third acquisition after the purchase of Perplexity Carbonwhich specializes in connecting AI systems to external data sources. In 2023, confusion spelled out, whose CEO was brought in to develop Perplexity’s mobile app.