Ethos, the AI platform that matches skilled professionals to income opportunities, has secured a $22.75M (£16.7m) Series A funding round.
While AI has made it easier to generate CVs and job applications, it has also made it harder to identify expertise. Organisations are facing volumes of increasingly similar profiles, with limited ways to assess what people actually know and can do.
Ethos addresses this by using AI to evaluate expertise directly. Through voice conversations and existing portfolios of work including academic papers, code repositories and professional content, Ethos’ AI agent develops an understanding of each individual’s capabilities.
This approach enables Ethos to match each person to opportunities across consulting, expert calls, market research, AI data projects and full-time roles.
Platform users include professionals from accounting, banking, consulting, law, technology and healthcare backgrounds, alongside skilled tradespeople like electricians and plumbers.
The round was led by Andreessen Horowitz, with participation from XTX, Evantic and General Catalyst, which led the company’s seed round in 2024.
“A CV is a poor proxy for what someone is truly capable of,” says James Lo, co-founder and CEO of Ethos.
“Ethos helps people to see the full shape of their expertise and where it fits in an AI-transformed economy, acting as their agent, opening doors they didn’t know existed and giving companies a far more precise way to find the people they actually need.”
In March, the UK’s data regulator called on businesses to review their practices related to automating the hiring process to ensure the right protections are in place.
