Published: May 7, 2026 at 9:03 am
Silicon Valley investor Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) has backed a London firm looking to transition the recruitment sector’s reliance on CVs to real-world experience using AI.
Ethos is aiming to shift the focus from static credentials to real-world expertise and says traditional platforms capture the wrong data as a CV is just a list of where you’ve been, not what you can actually do.
The company also tackles the problem of fake or AI-generated CVs, which make it harder to confirm a candidate’s real skills.
The firm’s CTO Daniel J. Mankowitz is a former research scientist at Google DeepMind. His co-founder James Lo previously worked in growth and transformation at the SoftBank Vision Fund – he was part of the turnaround team at WeWork during its 2019 IPO collapse – and at McKinsey.