Roleo raises €2.9m to expand AI career agent across Europe

Roleo secures €2.9m for European expansion

Roleo has raised €2.9 million to expand its AI career agent across Europe and develop the service beyond finding suitable jobs, Tech.eu reports. Baltic venture capital firm Practica Capital led the investment, with Nordic investor Inventure also taking part.

The company’s wider backing includes Bolt founder Markus Villig, Sergei Anikin, Henrik Bohman, Kristina Lilleõis and Lemonade Stand, according to Tech.eu. The report names them separately from the two venture capital firms participating in the latest round.

Veriff and Wise experience behind a free career service

Roleo was founded by Janer Gorohhov, a co-founder of identity verification company Veriff, and Vahur Hansen, who worked in Wise’s early engineering team and co-founded Membo. Their new business targets technology professionals who want to hear about potential career moves without running an active job search.

The service is free for professionals. Rather than asking users to browse vacancies, Roleo builds an understanding of their experience, career ambitions and pay expectations. It also considers working flexibility, the responsibilities they want and their development preferences when assessing roles, Tech.eu reports.

Roleo’s agent examines hundreds of thousands of potential opportunities each week, usually narrowing the selection to three for each user. Since the start of 2026, it has connected users with 30,000 opportunities that they went on to explore, according to Tech.eu. That figure describes engagement with potential roles, not completed hires.

Professionals using Roleo include people working at Google, Amazon, Stripe and Spotify. Those names describe the platform’s user base; the source does not identify the four companies as customers or commercial partners.

When the agent finds a suitable role, Roleo can introduce the professional directly to a hiring manager without a formal application. Users decide how visible they are, control their personal information and choose whether to follow up on an introduction.

Roleo wants career planning to become continuous

The rationale presented in Tech.eu’s report is that professionals often give their careers sustained attention only when a problem arises or they have already decided to move. Roleo’s stated aim is to keep watch between those moments, reducing the chance that someone misses a relevant opening while concentrating on their current work.

For employers, the proposition is access to qualified professionals who are not actively looking but might consider the right offer. That gives the service a different recruitment focus from an application-led process: employers can reach people whose interest depends on the particular role rather than an existing decision to leave.

Technology hiring comes first in the European rollout

Roleo’s initial European expansion will concentrate on technology professionals and companies, Tech.eu reports. The supplied material does not name individual launch countries or give a country-by-country timetable, so it does not establish a specific UK rollout plan.

Part of the funding will go towards making the agent more responsive to each user’s needs. Roleo also plans to add capabilities supporting longer-term career development, although the report does not specify those features or when they will become available.

For technology companies building teams in Europe, Roleo offers a potential additional route to prospective employees rather than a guaranteed source of hires. Its matching criteria mean employers’ pay, flexibility and development opportunities can influence whether a role reaches a professional, making the substance of the offer important before any hiring conversation begins.