COMPANY UPDATE
Take2 AI is an AI-powered job simulation platform for sales recruiting. We started Take2 AI with the mission of reinventing how companies recruit talent for high volume sales roles – roles that are extremely hard to hire for, and that account for roughly 14% of all jobs in the U.S.
Employers hiring for these roles spend countless hours reviewing applications and struggle to effectively vet the viability of candidates. This results in high short-term attrition – 1 in 3 sales people churn each year, 3x more than any other occupation, and every bad sales hire costs companies over $100,000 & 4 months to fill.
We help companies solve this problem by generating tailor-made simulations of real-world sales scenarios that vet job applicants for skills, behavioral attributes and culture fit. By leveraging generative AI, we recreate company & role specific sales scenarios that not only immerse job applicants in the role, but also provide high-signal performance data to employers — a game changer for high-volume sales roles. Our approach leads to higher quality of hire, reduced mis-hires and improved retention.
Today, we are excited to announce our $3m seed round led by ReachCapital & SemperVirens, with participation from Honeystone Ventures, J4 Ventures, Moai Capital, Manousos Investments, Techstars, Gurtin Ventures, Sequoia Capital Scout Program, The Stanford GSB 2021 Fund and HR leaders from Visa, Disney, HP & Google.
OUR VISION FOR TAKE2 AI
Our founders, Kaushik Narasimhan and Yaniv Shimoni, met at Stanford Graduate School of Business. They started Take2 AI based on insights from research on skills-based hiring they conducted at Stanford.
"There has been so much buzz around skills-based hiring in recent years, yet most employers still heavily rely on resumes. In high-volume sales roles particularly, resumes are not helpful at predicting fit, leading to extremely high short-term attrition.” (Yaniv Shimoni, co-founder at Take2 AI).
One of our customers, a large solar energy company, saw the 90-day attrition of their sales representatives fall from 58% to 15% within four months of using Take2 AI. "We had a profound impact, not only allowing them to build their team faster and hit quota, but also reducing their time-to-hire by eliminating two rounds of interviews from their recruiting process." (Kaushik Narasimhan, co-founder at Take2 AI).
Sales recruiting is just our starting point. We plan to expand our technology into training, coaching and onboarding, and eventually becoming an end-to-end sales talent management solution that every sales leader in the world will use to maximize the performance of their sales teams.
Excited about helping bring our vision to life? We are hiring for multiple technical roles, please send us an email at founders@take2.ai.
Interested in learning more about Take2 AI, or want a demo of our platform? Please visit our website at www.take2.ai.
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