Lensa

How We Built An AI-Powered $22M/Year Job Search Engine Platform

May 9th, 2023
Gergo Vari
Founder, Lensa
$1.5M
revenue/mo
2
Founders
130
Employees
Lensa
from Philadelphia, PA, USA
started August 2015
$1,500,000
revenue/mo
2
Founders
130
Employees
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Hello! Who are you and what business did you start?

Hi! I’m Gergo, a founder by nature. I first tasted entrepreneurship as a child selling fruit from my grandfather’s orchard.

My journey through founding, funding, and exiting successful startups has taught me a valuable lesson: the hiring process is broken. And so is the way we look for jobs and develop our careers. That’s why I created Lensa, a start-up that offers a technological solution to the crisis of the career marketplace.

In 2001, I founded and launched the profession.hu, Hungary’s leading recruitment platform. In just 4 years, we reached an extraordinary market share of 75%. When SanomaMedia purchased the company in 2005, the transaction was the largest of its kind in Hungary up to that time.

My passion for startups led me on to found and head e-Ventures, and later, in 2008, to the launch and sale of AffilateMedia, Network.hu, and Replise.These ventures opened my eyes to the need for recruiting and human resources technology that puts people first.

At Lensa, our mission is to help job seekers find their perfect career match using our advanced AI technology. By using a combination of skills and work environment...

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