Merify

Merify has developed a recruiting and human capital management platform designed to facilitate fairer and more efficient hiring and career growth. Founded in 2020 and headquartered in Portland, Oregon, the company aims to improve traditional hiring systems.

The core of Merify's service is a system that provides recruiters with a quantitative summary of a candidate's skills, which are verified by the candidate's professional network. This approach allows for the comparison of candidates based on standardized skill data before a resume is reviewed, focusing on objective qualifications. The platform is built to track any skill, whether technical or non-technical, across various industries. It emphasizes psychological safety by allowing reviewers to provide anonymous, quantitative feedback. This continuous feedback loop generates real-time skill profiles that are automatically updated, providing dynamic insights into an employee's development.

Merify employs patent-pending statistical network analytics to ensure the accuracy and trustworthiness of its data without manual overhead. The system re-evaluates the employee, the reviewer, and the entire network with each new piece of feedback, using over 20 metrics to weigh data points and vet the results. This creates clear, transparent, and equitable skills-based talent matching. The platform supports individual development plans, career progression frameworks, and the identification of skill gaps within an organization. The company is backed by the StartOut Growth Lab accelerator and is in a revenue-generating stage.

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