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HÖHEPUNKTE

Notable Angel

Raised $25k or more from a notable angel investor


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Grown from $50k of ARR to $6M in four years
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Building the future of recruitment on OpenAI's LLM
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73% growth in remote job listings
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$627B TAM market opportunity
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150k+ global talent pool, growing 22%+ MoM
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Built global team from ex-Amazon, Meta, WeWork, Uber, DiDi and more
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FEATURED INVESTORS

Bill Cherman

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Co-founder and CEO: Bay Area Times (250K+ subscribers) | Seed investor:
Ethereum, HEX, STEPN, Dante Labs, Repair Bio.

Co-founder and CEO: Bay Area Times (250K+ subscribers) | Seed investor:
Ethereum, HEX, STEPN, Dante Labs, Repair Bio.

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“We have been using Athyna to hire our global team. It is the best way to find
high-quality talent.”

Other investors include
Bryce Maddock
 (CEO TaskUs), 
Jaspar Weir
 (President at TaskUs) & 157 more

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UNSER TEAM

Bill Kerr
Founder & CEO

2 x Founder. Mentor & Investor @ Startmate. LP @ Blackbird VC. Remote Work
Advocate. Previously built two successful companies with a 100% remote
workforce.
I built my first startup, with a small, scrappy global team. I knew the massive
benefits of doing so and also knew that even pre-pandemic, this was where the
world was heading. At Athyna we are passionate to continue to provide employment
to millions of people in developing economies while helping startups to build
high-performing global teams.

Santiago Nisnik
Head of Product

Systems Engineer, MBA. 10+ years building digital products. Ex Head of
Engineering @ Workana. Remote workforce advocate.

Simone Kier
Head of Growth

Engineer| Marketeer, MBA. 10+ years in Growth & Analytics at startups, 15+ years
in global marketing|enterprise. Passionate about building global winning teams.

Leandro Cartelli
Head of Talent

Expert in Talent Acquisition. +15 years leading regional & global teams.
Seasoned in multiple industries (Consulting, Tech, Pharma, Staffing). Coffee
Lover

Argentino Molinuevo
Head of Sales

Joined Athyna as the first BDM and helped build the whole department from ground
up. Remote Work Fan. Stage performer by night.

Sofia EtchebarneSales Manager

5+ years working in the licensing industry (for companies such as Universal
Studios, Discovery, Hasbro, NatGeo, Netflix, etc.). Also Ex-Rappi, where she
learned about working at a fast-growing startup.

Robert Dragne
Head of Customer Success

Customer Success Expert | 7+ years experience in shaping & leading high impact
global Customer Success teams. Continually focused on NRR and LTV with a passion
for fostering 5 star relationships.

Josefina Cordoba
Creative Director

+ 15 years of experience in creative and leadership roles. Specialized in
helping global brands tell their stories—from industry giants like Google,
Viacom, Red Bull, and AT&T, to dynamic startups.

Martin Lichtman
Head of Finance

Father. MBA/BBA. Avid problem solver. Enjoying the Startup journey and working
remotely after 20+ years in the corporate life.

Taina Silingardi
Head of People & Culture

Startmate 2021 Fellow. Have been through 2 IPO’s at Uber (as a Team Lead) and
Darktrace. Passionate People Advocate. Enthusiastic about Sustainability and
Volunteering.

Beatriz Guevara
Chief of Staff

10+ years of experience as an attorney specializing in labor law cases. For the
last 3 years, Beatriz has served on the legal teams for various companies.

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REVOLUTIONIZING RECRUITMENT WITH AI: JOIN US IN SHAPING THE FUTURE OF WORK!

Hey! I'm Bill Kerr, founder and CEO of Athyna.

We recently completed our Pre-Series A round with investors and creators,
raising $2.5M to build Athyna AI. But we are all about community. That's why
we're opening this opportunity to anyone who wants to join us in building the
future of talent acquisition.

Athyna is transforming recruitment by leveraging AI to find the best global
hires for companies worldwide. Incredible talent, matched with AI-precision, at
lightning speed.

So, you might be wondering what this is all about, Let's dive in:

As with most of the world, recruitment is changing. And it’s all because of AI.
I am excited to introduce you to our contribution to innovation in the space—
Athyna AI. Gone are the days of talent acquisition taking weeks or god-forbid
months to find a less-than-ideal candidate. And long gone are the days in which
you needed to hunt locally for talent.

The world is smaller than ever. Talent lives in every corner of the globe. And
we are dedicated to making sure that talent ends up where it should be. Talent
meet opportunity.

For talent around the world that means a better life. And a career that may not
have been possible in the past. For companies it’s also very simple: Incredible
talent, matched with AI-precision, at lightning speed.


WHAT’S THE OPPORTUNITY

Jeff Bezos has a philosophy around strategy—that is to focus on the constants.
Spend time thinking about the things that do not change.




> We know that customers want low prices, and I know that's going to be true 10
> years from now. They want fast delivery; they want vast selection. It's
> impossible to imagine a future 10 years from now where a customer comes up and
> says, 'Jeff I love Amazon; I just wish the prices were a little higher.- Jeff
> Bezos




For us it’s the same. We know that people want incredible talent, matched with
precision to their requirements, and they want it fast, or better yet—at
lightning speed. Wanting something is fine. But it’s not always been easy.
Sparse talent pools, unintelligent recruitment practices and slow. Sometimes
taking months to fill a role. AI will change that. We at Athyna plan to
spearhead this change.




15 minutes into my first meeting with our new investor & advisor, Bryce—CEO is
TaskUS (TASK)— he looked at me and said; “I love it, this is the future of our
industry, I’m in.” What did I tell Bryce to elicit a ‘s**t-yes’ response from a
guy who has grown his company to $1B in revenue? I told him about the future.


THE FUTURE OF RECRUITMENT

Today, in most instances, a company lands a job; it’s managed by sales, and then
handed off to a recruiter who works with a sourcer. A typical recruitment
process looks like this.


PRE AI RECRUITMENT CYCLE

DAY 1: Recruiter aligns with hiring manager.

DAY 2 → 5: Sourcer begins building pipeline.

 * A job is put out on the jobs board.
 * Scouring through the internal talent pool begins.
 * Then there is headhunting.
 * And only after a few days do the applicants begin getting sifted through.

DAY 7 → 10: Recruiter—finally—interviews shortlisted candidates.

 * Data is added into CRM in haphazard way.
 * No consistency around candidate grading is applied.

DAY 12 → 15: After all that the client meets the talent, a week or two in.

And this is in the best case scenario. Internal process are usually much
clunkier and more drawn out. Often taking weeks (plural) or months.

Now compare this to what an AI-driven recruitment process will look like.

Borinnngggg.


ATHYNA AI RECRUITMENT CYCLE

DAY 0: Company receives job description in preparation.

 * AI-smart matching begins immediately. Tens of thousands of candidates are
   vetted via machine learning and placed into a short list.
 * Candidates are assessed on English proficiency and scored from 0/100 for
   matching fit.
 * Shortlist of 25-30 is sent to the recruiter for approval. The recruiter sends
   invites for async AI-screening to the top 15-20.

DAY 1: Recruiter aligns with the hiring manager.

 * A job is put out on the jobs board. As candidates that are 80% match and
   above apply they are invited to an async AI-screening.
 * Recruiter looks through short list, schedules calls where necessary for extra
   level of vetting. Still day one.

DAY 2: Recruiter interviews top candidates

 * AI transcribes the call and adjusts candidate scores based on interview
   quality.
 * The recruiter endorses the top candidates. Still Day 2!

I’ve got the need for speed.

AI-powered talent acquisition will be orders of magnitude faster and more
accurate than anything that has come before it.

We plan to embed talent across the entire recruitment cycle. The future of
hiring.


HOW WE GOT HERE

But it wasn’t all sunshine, lollipops, and rainbows. Like most startups, we have
been through a rollercoaster of ups and downs, pivots and backflips. But mainly,
we seem to trend in the right direction—that direction being up and to the
right.

Here is the quick dot point history of the highs and lows so far in our journey.

The Athyna story in terms of growth.
 * ‘Founded’ August 2018, with first $1 coming in Jan 2019.
 * Grew kinda fast for six-months before stagnating for six, co-founders left
   Dec 2019.
 * COVID hits, we lose 70% of our revenue, we fire most everyone.
 * Two months later we show signs of life, then inexplicably grow 22% MoM for 2
   years.
 * Shiny object syndrome sees us raise money to build EOR.
 * Round launches the day Netflix makes 1st tech layoffs—market crash.

Coronavibes.
 * Nearly raise $5M at $25M valuation but gets reneged due to conflict.
 * Kill off all new products including EOR, close off VC round and raise a $500k
   bridge.
 * Two years of growth and breaking enterprise.
 * AI wave hits—a way to scale our business model appears.

That brings us to today. And the huge opportunity we have in front of us with
the rise of remote work and global teams.


THE REMOTE HIRING MARKET TODAY

In today's global job market, remote work isn't just an option—it's a defining
trend that’s reshaping how, where, and when we work. Let’s dive into the numbers
that highlight the transformation.

 * Growth in Remote Work: Remote work has steadily increased globally since
   2015, growing 1-3% annually. Post-COVID-19, 27% of workers were remote in
   2022 (Statista).
 * Strategic Benefits for Companies: In 2023, 41% of companies adopted remote
   work primarily to expand their talent pool, with an additional 28% citing it
   as a secondary reason (Statista).
 * Remote Job Popularity: Software development is one of the top remote jobs,
   expected to grow 24% by 2026 (Tecla).
 * Remote Workplace Market Growth: The remote workplace services market is
   projected to grow at a 23.8% CAGR, reaching $58.5 billion by 2027 (Notta).
 * Use of Outsourced Talent: 71% of hiring managers plan to maintain or increase
   their use of freelancers over the next six months (Upwork).
 * Remote Job Listings: It’s estimated that by 2028, 73% of all departments will
   have remote workers (Upwork).

Anyway, I think you get the point. Global hiring is here to stay. And remote
work is eating the world.


BEHIND-THE-SCENES OF BUILDING ATHYNA AI

The idea for Athyna AI actually came in the first days of the company. The dream
was always to be able to beat the market with speed. The reason for that is,
there are two types of candidates—active and passive. Active candidates, are
well, by definition, active in many other processes. And passive candidates are
only passive until the moment they take your call. Then you are on the clock.
Looking back into out Slack it seems the conversation around AI began to really
heat up mid-2022.

Fast forward a handful of months and boatload of hard work from our product team
and we have the foundation to build the future of talent. Or rather, the future
of how talent acquisition is done. 

Now, let’s take a look at what Athyna AI does today, what it will do tomorrow
and where it is heading in the longer term.


EXPLORING ATHYNA AI

So what does Athyna AI do today? Well—firstly, it’s a tool for our team to
outperform the competition. Because of the strength of our brand we have had
hundreds of thousands of applicants for our roles, tens of thousands of which
have been vetted. Now thanks to Sam Altman and his nifty LLMs we can source
talents that the clicks of a button.

Think about how powerful it is to have a sourcing tool that will search
thousands of profiles, rate and rank them and then push them across to your
recruiter. Not only does remove-bias, it does it in the blink of an eye. Quality
of match, tick. Lightning speed, tick.

On the talent side of the equation, we have built a best-in-class AI powered,
job search tool, we’re calling Ava, to help candidates land their dream gig.
Optimise your LinkedIn profile, generate tailored, job-specific resumes and run
our AI Matching Index across jobs you think you’re a fit for.

Ava, will do two things at once: firstly, it will add massive value to job
seekers all across the world, and secondly it will help us grow our talent tools
and give us indicators of which talent is looking for which opportunity and when
they are looking for it. Adding value while growing our talent pools. Double
tick.

We have a load more features that are currently in-play or set to be launched in
the next weeks but for now I want to tell you about how we plan be become the
central point of focus for remote workers all across the world.


AMAZON & 3RD PARTY SELLERS + ATHYNA 3RD PARTY HIRERS

Recently, I read the Amazon shareholder letters—those penned by Bezos anyway.
The next stage of growth for Athyna, will be focussed on becoming the central
hub for remote work and building global teams. And it couldn’t help but strike
me how similar the decision-making process has been to the Amazon decision to
open up to 3rd party sellers.

The analogy here is Athyna opening up a global jobs board that offers not only
Athyna jobs—but all remote jobs listed across the world. No one owns this space.
For now anyway. Take a look at this passage from the 2018 letter.

Great minds.







*“The success of this hybrid model accelerated the Amazon flywheel. Customer
were initially drawn by our fast-growing selection of Amazon sold products at
great prices…”

“The success of this hybrid model accelerated the Amazon Athyna flywheel.
Customer Talents were initially drawn by our fast-growing selection of Amazon
sold products at great prices Athyna listed jobs with great companies…”*

I am avid reader. And success leaves clues. I knew we wanted to become the
central hub for remote work, and was mulling this idea over again and again in
my head. But it wasn’t until I read this passage that it really sunk in.


ROADMAP

We plan to build AI around every stage of the recruitment process. Next on the
roadmap the the launch of Ava, followed by an AI recruitment companion—think
Gong but for recruiters. While also in the next couple of quarters releasing
async GPT interviews, coding tests and technical interviews and finally the jobs
board to wrap the year.

Much of what we are building will start as internal tooling to deliver the most
incredible talent in as short of timeframe as possible. But the option to spin
our the tools is very interesting to us. There are a handful of revenue
opportunities but there is something that is even more interesting if we get
other recruiters using our Athyna AI tools—data.


VISION FOR THE FUTURE

Our vision for the short to medium term is to build the biggest business as
possible in the business model we have today. As a talent marketplace. But as we
grow and build out an incredible advantage around data many more opportunities
open up to us.

One of our investors made this one for us.

Sponsored jobs, boosted profiles, enrich talent profiles, AI-sourcing, all while
delivering the best of global talent to the biggest companies in the world. The
future is exciting—and we are excited to play our part in building it.


INVEST WITH US

If you believe in what we are building you can take part. We have raised $2.5M
in our Pre-Series A but we have a 10% allocation left for our community. And
that’s it really. It’s an exciting time to be in business, an exciting time in
tech, and above all else an exciting time to be part of Athyna.

Cheers,

Doc








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