Roleo raises €2.9M to make job-hunting passive — with an AI agent that works in the background

Roleo (Tallinn) has raised €2.9 million in a round led by Practica Capital, with Baltic-Nordic venture firm Inventure and angels including Markus Villig (founder of Bolt), Sergei Anikin, Henrik Bohman, Kristina Lilleõis, and Lemonade Stand also participating. The company's total funding now stands at approximately €3.46 million. Founded in 2025 by Janer Gorohhov (CEO, co-founder of Veriff) and Vahur Hansen (formerly at Wise), Roleo builds a passive AI career agent for tech professionals: a background service that monitors the European job market continuously and surfaces matched opportunities directly to users, without requiring an active job search.

The passive job market

The standard model of job-hunting requires the candidate to search job boards, identify relevant roles, tailor applications, and submit — a time-intensive process whose expected return is highly uncertain. Roleo's model reverses this: the agent monitors the market on the user's behalf, builds a representation of what the user does and what employers in relevant roles require, and surfaces matches directly. The candidate's action is reviewing and accepting introductions rather than constructing applications.

The company reports that its agent has surfaced more than 30,000 career opportunities to users since the start of 2026. Roleo launched on an invitation-only basis and has focused on European tech professionals as its initial user base.

What the €2.9M funds

The round is directed at product development on the core agent and European market expansion. Roleo has not specified which markets it is prioritising in the next phase, beyond the European tech sector broadly.

Practica Capital is Lithuania's most active seed-stage investor, with an €80M fund and a portfolio spanning Baltic and Central European tech. Inventure is a Nordic VC with investments across Finland, Sweden, and Estonia. The angel group — led by Bolt's Markus Villig — reflects the depth of the Tallinn and Baltic operator network.

Gorohhov's track record at Veriff — an identity verification company he co-founded that processed billions of verifications before reaching unicorn status — brings operational credibility and access to European enterprise buyers. The relevant question for the next 18 months is not whether the technology works. It is whether Roleo can maintain durable access to the job inventory that makes the matching accurate: job boards and ATS vendors have structural incentives to limit third-party agents, and the business model depends on access to listings that those intermediaries currently control.