Recruitment App DebutRaises $6.7 Million To Rip Up Résumés

LinkedIn made it passé to send dozens of résumés to potential employers. Now Debut is finding the perfect match for graduates with personality tests and math quizzes, degrees be damned. It's a British competitor to New York-based WayUp, and investors here seem to like its targeted approach to recruitment: the startup has just raised $6.7 million (£5 million) to make its recommendation algorithms for job-seeking graduates smarter. Debut already has 60 corporate clients, including Google, Apple and Barclays, that pay it an annual subscription to parse the data flood of graduate applicants who have completed psychometric and personality tests on its app. "Most jobs applications have generic information," says founder Charlie Taylor, a former consultant at Ernst & Young who also ranked on Forbes' 30 Under 30 in European tech in 2017.