Recently, the artificial intelligence search engine Perplexity announced the acquisition of Read.cv, a professional social platform competing with LinkedIn. Following this acquisition agreement, Read.cv will gradually cease operations starting this Friday, and users will have the opportunity to export their data, including profiles, posts, and messages, by May 16.
In Read.cv's official blog, the team expressed admiration for Perplexity and stated that joining Perplexity marks an exciting new chapter. Read.cv founder Andy Chung also shared the news on social media, calling it a "bittersweet moment," but expressed confidence in future collaboration. Perplexity's CEO, Aravind Srinivasan, also mentioned on social media that the team is looking forward to working with the Read.cv team and plans to launch more exciting features in the future.
Founded in 2021, Read.cv aims to provide users with a range of tools to share resumes and connect with other professionals in the industry. The platform also offers organizations features like team profiles, job postings, and candidate searches. Recently, Read.cv launched a "Website" feature, allowing users to publish personal websites through their Read.cv profiles and choose to obtain a ".cv" domain linked to their profiles. Read.cv also plans to start migrating the ".cv" domain to partner Hello.cv on January 31, allowing users to continue managing these domains.
As for Perplexity's future plans for Read.cv, they remain unclear at this time. However, Perplexity is increasingly focusing on investing in enterprise features, having launched an enterprise plan last summer that includes user management and "internal knowledge search" capabilities. Analysts point out that these moves may be related to Perplexity's investors, who are eager for returns. Perplexity has raised over $500 million from various investors and is believed to be valued at $9 billion.
Notably, this acquisition marks Perplexity's third deal following its acquisitions of Carbon and Spellwise, the latter's CEO having now joined the Perplexity team to develop its mobile application. Perplexity's acquisition efforts demonstrate its ambitions in the AI and knowledge management fields, potentially offering users more innovative social and enterprise features in the future.
