AI recruiting startup Dex hires Secret Escapes and Progression founders
Dex, a London-based AI recruitment platform for software engineers, has appointed Tom Valentine, co-founder of travel deals site Secret Escapes, as chief operating officer, and Jonny Burch, co-founder of career development platform Progression, as head of design. Valentine will lead commercial work and grow the core marketplace matching engineers with employers, while Burch will build the design team and lead the candidate-facing product. Dex's AI "talent agent" talks to engineers about their skills, experience and goals before matching them with jobs, and runs on a mix of models from Google, Anthropic and OpenAI. The company raised a $5.3m seed round led by Notion Capital in April, according to Tech.eu.
It is a hiring and team-building update in the AI recruiting space, showing how early-stage startups are using agents to run marketplace businesses with leaner teams.
Dex, a London-based AI recruitment platform for software engineers, has hired two former founders for senior roles.
Tom Valentine, co-founder of travel deals site Secret Escapes, joins as chief operating officer. And Jonny Burch, co-founder of career development platform Progression, becomes head of design.