Take2 AI

🚨 Take2 AI is hiring! 🚨 We are forming a superstar founding team and are hiring for multiple roles. Click below to learn more about Take2 AI and about our open roles. https://jobs.take2.ai/ We are team of Stanford alums (GSB & Engineering), with deep AI expertise and an exit under our belt. We are backed by world-class Future of Work investors and are on a mission to reinvent how companies recruit & train talent for high-volume sales roles. Join us on our journey!  Got questions for us? Shoot us a note at founders@take2.ai Kaushik Narasimhan Yaniv Shimoni

Earlier this month, I had the honor of representing Take2 AI on a panel at the General Atlantic Global Human Capital Series, where we discussed “Real Cases, Real Impact: How #GenAI is Shaping #HR.” A big thank you to Prasad Setty and the General Atlantic team for the opportunity, and to my fellow panelists – Ana-Maria Constantin and Parker Mitchell – for an insightful discussion! One of the highlights for me was witnessing the audience’s reaction during a demo of Take2 AI, where we showcased how, today, companies can already leverage AI to #scale interviews, #simulate role plays of real-life client scenarios to assess talent, and hyper-personalize #training of employees based on skill gaps! The technology is evolving rapidly – significantly faster than many companies can adapt their recruiting and training practices. However, the most successful implementations we are seeing are with clients that (a) align the technology with a specific business use case and measurable outcomes, (b) collaborate across teams to define a process for evaluating and operationalizing the technology, and (c) have a clear strategy on how they orchestrate different elements of their technology stack into their workflow. It is still early days, but I am incredibly excited and bullish that AI can unlock opportunities for both talent and employers! #Take2AI #recruiting #hrtech #training

Don't miss next Monday's brand new episode in our AI in Action series of The Alldus Podcast as host JP Valentine chats with Take2 AI Co-Founder Yaniv Shimoni. Check out this short teaser as he describes how Take2's AI-powered platform creates tailored sales simulations, helping companies assess applicants' skills and fit, reducing mis-hires, boosting retention and improving hiring efficiency. Full episode drops 09/23 so stay tuned to alldus.com/podcasts or wherever you get your favorite podcasts so you don't miss it #aiinaction #sales #recruitment #artificialintelligence #podcast Kaushik Narasimhan

Join us in Las Vegas at HRTech Conference, September 24-26! Come test drive our AI agents for sales recruiting & training. See you there at Booth # 4023. #HRTechConf

As we’ve written about in recent years, every company will be an edtech company, and every industry will need verticalized edtech solutions that provide #training and #reskilling tailored to the needs of its workforce. These two theses recently came together in a couple of new investments in the future of work: 📡 LabLabee,  led by Samir T. and Mahfoud Sidi Ali Mebarek, is pioneering lab-based training for telecommunications workers at a time when the networking industry is undergoing major transformation, accelerated by 5G, AI, IoT, and AR/VR. We’re delighted to lead its seed round and be joined by our friends at Brighteye Ventures! 👔 Take2 AI, co-founded by Yaniv Shimoni and Kaushik Narasimhan, is tackling one of the most acute pain points for many companies — recruiting and keeping good salespeople — with AI-powered simulations that vet candidates for skills, behavioral attributes, and culture fit. We’re happy to co-lead its seed round with SemperVirens Venture Capital . ✨ Learn more about our exciting new #workforce investments here! ✨ https://lnkd.in/eiZ2yWFj

I often feel like "Future of Work" means everything and nothing all at the same time. But what does it mean when we say we are investing in the future of work at Reach Capital? In general, I like to think that we are investing in products and tools that help to elevate workers and create pathways for economic mobility, wherever they are in their careers - exploring careers, landing the job, up killing / Reskilling, supporting and augmenting them throughout their work, providing the benefits/enablers they need to thrive in the workplace, and more. We've invested in companies, including WorkWhile (a worker-first on demand labor marketplace for hourly workers), Replit (collaborative IDE for developers), Stepful (training for the allied healthcare workforce), Take2 AI (simulation-based talent acquisition), Hopps (on-demand expert help marketplace), and so much more. As the concept of work, continues to change rapidly we've surrounded ourselves with an amazing advisory board that supports us and our portfolio companies (Maisha Gray-Diggs (MGD), Dermot O'Brien, Gordon Trujillo, Ekpedeme "Pamay" M. Bassey, Guillermo Miranda, David Landman, Ph.D., Q Hamirani) and have committed to continuously learn (check out our latest ReImagineWork report linked in the comments).  If you're building a company that is focused on improving the future of work, please reach out! You can find me at jomayra@reachcapital.com. Some areas I'm personally interested in right now: 👩⚕️ Tools to augment clinicians and reduce burnout (e.g. workflow automation tools, business-in-a-box for self employment, health system focused retention and engagement tools) 👩🏭 Products that help to increase supply / liquidity or improve the productivity of existing supply, through learning in the flow of work, in supply constrained markets (e.g. manufacturing) 💻 Skills inference tools that surface skills insights from the work people actually *do* and help large enterprises with workforce planning

Discover the inspiring journey of the co-founders of Take2 AI, Yaniv Shimoni and Kaushik Narasimhan in our exclusive Transform Spotlight Series! Learn how their passion for technology and skills-based hiring led to the creation of their innovative AI-powered job simulation platform. Hear about their challenges, breakthroughs, and the unique solutions they've developed to revolutionize sales recruiting. From early struggles to impressive successes with clients like Fenice Energy, get the inside scoop on their founder story and what’s in store for Take2 AI’s future. Don't miss the insights and lessons from these trailblazing founders! Read their Founder Spotlight (link 👇🏽) #AI, #Technology, #SkillsBasedHiring #FounderFriday #CommunitySpotlight

Catch up on the latest Reach Capital news in our May 2024 update, including: 💰 Our latest investments and portfolio additions: Take2 AI & Ednition 👨👨👧👧 Our newest team member Dehong Huang, and our Future of Work advisors Gordon Trujillo Maisha Gray-Diggs (MGD) David Landman, Ph.D. Dermot O'Brien Guillermo Miranda 💡 The 4 common traits of successful founders, by Jennifer Carolan

Prasad Setty stands out as one of the most insightful business leaders I've had the privilege of knowing. We are incredibly fortunate to have him on board as an advisor, closely collaborating with Take2 AI. We are proud that he chose to showcase the Take2 job simulation platform at the recent The Institute for Corporate Productivity (i4cp) conference, highlighting it as a prominent example of Gen AI's applications for HR leaders. In his presentation, Prasad delves into how Take2 is revolutionizing job simulations through Gen AI, enabling companies to mitigate short-term attrition, enhance the quality of hires, and broaden their reach to a more diverse talent pool. Prasad's presentation is both engaging and thought-provoking. For deeper insights into Take2 AI and live demonstrations of our job simulations, be sure to catch his segment around the 17-minute mark! #jobsimulations #skillbasedhiring #take2ai #

Take2 AI (TF7), an AI-powered job simulation platform, led by Transcend Fellow Kaushik Narasimhan, has raised a $3M seed funding round! 🎉 On a mission to reinvent how we hire and train talent for high volume sales roles, Take2 AI helps companies generate tailor-made simulations of real-world sales scenarios that vet job applicants for skills, behavioral attributes, and culture fit. Their seed funding round was led by Reach Capital and SemperVirens Venture Capital along with participation from Honeystone Ventures, J4.Ventures, Moai Capital, Manousos Investments, Techstars, the Transcend Network and Gurtin Ventures! As a co-founder, Kaushik has reiterated his commitment to providing high-signal performance data to employers. "This year has already been a significant one for us. From serving large enterprises to seeing our platform deliver incredible outcomes data for our customers, it has been inspiring to see our vision come to life and deliver the impact we wanted to create.” We are super proud of Kaushik and congratulate the team on this incredible milestone 🙌 -- PS: Kaushik is currently growing his team and hiring for founding technical roles. Learn more by visiting their page here: ➡ Take2 AI