Abu Dhabi - Sharikat Mubasher: Professional.me, an Abu Dhabi-based AI-powered talent management platform, successfully closed a $3.1 million seed funding round led by Raha Beach Ventures, bringing total funding to $4.6 million.

The fresh capital will enable Professional.me to expand its engineering team, broaden its data and research partnerships network, and enhance platform access to more employers across Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (EMEA), the company announced in a recent press release.

Professional.me introduces personalized micro-LLMs, custom-trained language models for employers and professionals. For employers, the platform analyzes organizational structures, current team dynamics, business unit goals, and past hiring outcomes, building predictive success profiles grounded in real context.

Additionally, the platform works directly with individuals to structure public signals, such as portfolios, published work, thought leadership, project contributions, and peer recognition, and private indicators like ongoing learning, internal impact, mentoring, certifications, and industry engagement.

Ryan Adams, CEO of Professional.me, said: “We’re not digitizing résumés; we’re replacing them. Each company and each professional gets their own micro-LLM that acts as a context-aware advocate. It surfaces the best-fit matches automatically and meaningfully.”

Since its launch in October 2024, Professional.me has created over 300,000 professional profiles, attracted 140,000 followers in professional networks, and built a fast-growing user base across Europe, the UK, and MENA. Its AI models are trained on hundreds of millions of data points spanning 167 industries and 1.2 million tasks.