Startup XOR is developing AI chatbot technology for recruiters of multinationals like Heineken and IKEA, and exemplifies one of the most disruptive trends set to transform human resources in future.
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Our one-line pitch is…
Connecting companies with young professionals.
Introduce your team, and tell us one interesting thing about each member. We are…
We are Adi Cernat, Marius Huza, Vlad Curtifan, Andrei Panait and Alex Ramadan. We are all in our late 20s and we are working as friends and colleagues, building the dream. Adi has more than five years experience in the HR market and loves paragliding. We made a large life insurance on his behalf as he likes to live dangerously and that can be a little scary for us. Marius is the man who will most certainly write a book when he retires, about how to market a project with zero funds. He only uses his bike to travel and gets irritated each time a car splashes fumes on him. Andrei and Vlad (sales) are the kind of guys who would sell ice to an Eskimo. Vlad desperately tries to break Adi’s powerball record. He has a lot of work to do, still. Andrei has a peculiar way of sneezing. You might have heard him and thought it was a spaceship being launched into space. Alex (the PR rep) is set to put SmartDreamers on the cover of Time magazine. People are talking about Don Juan, the master of seduction but they haven’t yet seen Alex in action.
We received our initial capital through…
Our partnership with Tjobs Holding B.V.
The real pain about starting a business in Romania is…
Having to deal with the “perks” of bureaucracy. Visiting literally dozens of offices and completing hundreds of papers just so we could start helping people and companies get the best of the best.
The person that inspires us is…
Anyone who builds a startup from scratch and takes it to the highest levels of success. Someone who is not scared to challenge the bigger players in the business game.
The one app/servicethat we couldn’t live without is…
SoundCloud. Well, basically we work hard and let ourselves flow on the rhythms of good music.
The one thing we would save from our burning office is…
Our coffee machine.
The worst piece of advice we ever got was…
Focus on developing the product and don’t take it to the market until it is almost perfect.
The one thing that will make us quit is…
An asteroid, and Justin Bieber singing non-stop in our office.
Our inside joke is…
Doing Johnny Bravo’s “hoo ha hooah” noises in random daily moments. Like now. (We are all laughing as we write, by the way).
You might not believe it, but we…
Do a push-up for each bad joke. We only accept stand-up comedians in our company.
We’ll call ourselves successful when…
you’ll recruit your new team members no matter the country using smartdreamers.com.
The startup we really want to see on inventures’ Startup Pick is…
Sinapseria. Check it out 🙂
Visit www.smartdreamers.com to get in touch.
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Just in time for the start of the big application period for summer jobs, we have compiled our own list of startups that help find one’s dream job.
Austria
MercuryPuzzle
The Austrian startup partners up with big firms and attracts users by giving them the opportunity to joyfully explore their talents, linking them to the big corporates. By using personality tests and games, users can compete against each other and impress recruiters that search the network for young professionals. Read more about them here.
Bulgaria
Jobio
“I’m sorry, we’ve decided to hire a more experienced candidate.” Does this sound painfully familiar? It’s particularly challenging for young people trying to find a job. That’s why Bulgarian startup Jobio has decided to do something about it by helping job candidates to demonstrate their skills and have them matched with the most suitable job. Read more about them here.
Estonia
GoWorkaBit
The Estonian startup connects job seekers with companies that need extra staff for a short period of time and quite often, on short notice. Who is it for? People who want to have the flexibility to when and where they want to work. Read more about the team here.
Romania
TjobsRecruit
The Romanian venture is a recruitment portal that specialises in cross-border job openings and claims to have access to a network of 500 partner agencies and more than two million candidates in their online directory. Today, the team has offices in Romania, Germany, France and the UK.
Slovakia
InHiro
Team InHiro wants to solve one specific issue on the market for high potentials: They usually already have a job and, frankly, they don’t browse offerings. The founder duo believes that the best employees often come from startups’ existing networks and employees. With their help, startups on the search for talents can share their ad on social media and find the best candidates for a job. Read more about them here.
LiveDispatcher
Slovak LiveDispatcher allows HR managers to track the activities of their field workers in real time, while potential employees can view what jobs are available in their vicinity.
Ukraine
Scout-o-Matic
Discovering and hiring the right developer is – like with any other job position, not all that easy. Ukrainian Scout-o-Matic has therefore created a search engine that matches the skills and location of a developer with potential employers.
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Our one-line pitch is…
GoWorkaBit liberates the way of working by connecting people who want to work in flexible way with companies that need just-in-time workforce.
Introduce your team, and tell us one interesting thing about each member. We are…
Kristjan worked as a Sales Manager for Manpower for over seven years; he is the guy with the vision(s). Gerli’s strong suite is the ability to accomplish mission impossibles. She has run a national movie project that united over 2.000 volunteers from all over the country with almost no budget at all. Kei is also from Manpower. Nothing can be too crazy for her. She decided, as a recruiter, to get into the IT community, and so participated in the largest hackathon in Estonia with a super-crazy IT idea (and sheknew nothing about IT at the time). She sold the idea, gathered a team and developed the prototype in a weekend. Margus built a web-application last year, which was awarded Best Estonian E-service provider. Maido is one of the few Estonian designers that has been asked to join the Skype Design team and is today responsible for Skype UI for 40 million people all over the world. Ethel’s first “building” was the accounting software that she created when she worked as Customer Service Agent as a student in retail, and had to do boring reports in Excel. To avoid the boring all-day reports, she built software that did all this in five minutes.
We received our initial capital through…
Bootstrapping for four months. We can proudly say that we know everything about noodles and cheap wine! Luckily have received a seed round from Seedcamp in Spring 2014.
Photo credit: goworkabitThe real pain about starting a business in Estonia is…
In Estonia it is so easy to start a business. Two clicks and done – business started.
The person that inspires us is…
We have been participating in [a number of] different startup competitions in a row and have been surrounded by crazy-cool people who are determined to change the world. All of them have inspired us.
The one app/service that we couldn’t live without is and…
Skype 🙂 We work in different cities and our “office” is a Skype chat. It is open 24/7 and someone is in the office all the time 🙂
The one thing we would save from our burning office is…
We do not have an office at the moment so we don’t have to worry about the fire, thank God. If there were an office – our prizes from different competitions, because for everything else we have backups.
The worst piece of advice we ever got was…
If there have been such advice, we have not yet understood that it was bad.
The one thing that will make us quit is…
…well, maybe if most of our team gets hit by a bus (it can happen in the UK, because buses drive on the wrong side of the streets). So the answer is a Red Bus.
Our inside joke is…
WTP – What The Pivot!
You might not believe it, but we…
Started GoWorkaBit in a 48-hour hackathon Garage48 and we met there for the first time. Since then, we organise 48-hour hackathons every month for ourselves.
We’ll call ourselves successful when…
We can think back of the time we worked at GoWorkaBit and say “It has been f.cking exciting to change the world”.
The startup we really want to see on inventures’ Startup Pick is…
Krack
Visit goworkabit.com to get in touch.
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