HR start-up Skipp, which is developing a platform for hiring IT specialists, has raised $635,000 during the first round. The funds will be used for international development and attracting developers from the CIS countries.

The overall valuation of the startup at the end of the round was $5 million, Forbes reports. Investors included co-founder of Skyeng Denis Smetnev, the Managing Partner at Skyeng Alexander Laryanovsky, and the former CEO of Delivery Club Andrey Tsytsenko.

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Alexey Odin, the founder of Skipp

Denis Smetnev, the co-founder of Skyeng,

Alexander Laryanovsky, the Managing Partner at Skyeng

Andrey Tsytsenko, ex-CEO of Delivery Club

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Skipp was founded by Alexei Odin, the former CTO of the Lingualeo educational platform. According to him, there are now more than 5 thousand Russian-speaking job seekers in the startup database. The monthly revenue, according to him, exceeds 14 million rubles.

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