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From CVs to Human Potential.
CV Tellers is the candidate-owned career readiness layer before recruitment begins: validated soft skills, targeted development, and candidate-controlled matching with employers.
Why now
The CV is becoming a weaker signal.
AI makes CVs easier to produce, not more informative. Degrees, tools and keywords are visible. What decides whether a hire lasts (collaboration, adaptability, resilience) is not.
- 72%
- of employers struggle to find the talent they need
- ManpowerGroup, 2026
- 63%
- see skills gaps as a barrier to transformation
- WEF, 2025
- 59 in 100
- workers will need training by 2030
- WEF, 2025
What we build
One readiness journey, owned by the candidate.
- 1
Engage
gamified Mythos Cards
- 2
Discover
validated soft-skills assessment
- 3
Grow
reports, Academy, practice
- 4
Connect
role-relevant opportunities; the candidate decides
- 5
Measure
reassessment, updated signal
Candidates: students and graduates first, then every adult looking for work or a next step. Free gamified entry, special access terms through partner universities, paid certified assessments, reports and reassessment.
Employers: pay to activate relevant candidates who choose to apply, not to access a CV database.
Partners: a recognised psychometrics house, a major Greek job platform, and universities as distribution.
Business model
Free scale, paid employer value.
- Employer annual partnerships and role campaigns
- Success fee per completed application
- Role-specific assessment credits
- Premium candidate products (certified assessments, career reports, Academy, reassessment)
Employers pay for a stronger signal, not more CV volume.
Market (bottom-up)
| Base | Scope | |
|---|---|---|
| TAM | 51.8M core tertiary and vocational learners | EU27 + US |
| SAM | 29.3M learners | Europe first |
| SOM | 151k annual assessments, 98 paying employers | Greece, Year 5 |
Eurostat 2023 tertiary and 2024 VET enrolments; NCES 2023; U.S. Department of Education. Career movers and job seekers outside education are not included in TAM and SAM.
Why we win
- Candidate-controlled flow: no CV selling, no raw psychometric data, the human decides.
- Matching on skills only: gender, photo and age play no part.
- Validated soft skills as a first-class object, with reassessment over time.
- Our own skill taxonomy and matching engine, provider-agnostic: partner-enabled, not partner-dependent.
- Institution-led distribution: one career office activates a whole cohort.
- Privacy and compliance by design (GDPR, EU AI Act) as a competitive advantage.
Impact
People enter and move through work without career clarity, while AI reshapes jobs at every level. We turn self-knowledge into skills and skills into opportunities, and we measure it: journey completion, career clarity, interviews and placements generated.
Where we are
- App live with the first gamified games (Mythos Cards) at app.cvtellers.gr
- Partnerships in progress with a recognised psychometrics house and a major Greek job platform
- HR market validation survey under way
- First public activation at a major career festival in Athens, November 2026
- Next: university pilots in spring 2027 and 5 employer design partners
Greece proof → Europe scale → U.S. beachhead
Team
Panagiotis Asimakis
Founder & Product Lead
Vaso Mirtsou-Kyropoulou
Co-Founder & Marketing
Michael Dritsas
Partner, Strategy & Business Development
Panagiotis Stathopoulos
Partner & CTO
Maria Alefragki
Advisor, Senior HR & Talent Acquisition
Platform developed by Yolt Labs.
Request the investor deck.
We are raising a pre-seed round to complete the platform, run the first university and employer pilots, and build a repeatable B2B package. The investor deck, financial plan and use of funds are available on request.