INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
The HR departments of large companies face a common challenge: how to scale the hiring process when they receive hundreds if not thousands
of applicants, and how to remove unconscious bias so the best or most suitable candidates are shortlisted
when processing information, unconscious biases, and limited memory
Limitations, she says, that machines do not possess
It then sifts through all of the applications/CVs that have been received and analyses each CV (relative to the job spec) giving it a
In addition, through the use of NLP, MeVitae takes each CV and find parts of it that could result in discrimination (e.g
gender, ethnicity) and redacts this information for an employer i.e
CV blinding.The result is that employers now have ranked and redacted applicant CVs and can quickly shortlist top and diverse talent
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Others participating include Force Over Mass, Twenty Ten Capital, BBH ZAG (brand arm of Bartle Bogle Hegartyand), and the tax-payer funded
London Co-Investment Fund (launched by the Deputy Mayor of London)
Dhiraj Mukherjee, (co-founder of Shazam), Simon Samuel (search and recruitment executive), and Geoff Hughes (Microsoft director and Honorary
Research Associate at UCL) have also invested and join the MeVitae board.Prior to this, the startup has been funded by a number of grants,
These came from Innovate UK, European Space Agency BIC, and Regional Growth Fund, amongst others
The funding was used to finance over 3 years of RD as MeVitae built the technology and got its current product offering to market.
