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ILIAS BESHIMOV

Ilias Beshimov is a serial entrepreneur and product builder with a deep love for using technology to elevate human potential. Trained as an economist, he was naturally drawn to data, which led him to AI. He has a passion for bringing creative, AI-driven solutions to life.

Over the past decade, he co-founded and scaled multiple startups, from early mobile gaming ventures at Scopely to AI-powered recruiting at Celential.ai. At Celential, they raised $10M in VC funding, scaled to hundreds of customers, reached multi-million ARR, and ultimately exited to Wellfound (formerly AngelList Talent). Along the way, he built a recruitment platform that tapped into 100M professional profiles and, more importantly, created the world’s largest talent graph of engineers. Ilias thrives on working with massive datasets, designing intelligent algorithms, and automating results at scale.

His journey into HR tech started with Good&Co, where he helped scale their user base from 100K to 1.5M by drastically improving retention and virality.

His startup career began in college when he founded a healthcare data company. He successfully raised $1.5M, built a dedicated team, and onboarded 1M+ patient records through partnerships.

His venture experience includes gaming, launching top titles at Zynga and Scopely that collectively hit 50M+ installs and $100M+ in revenue.

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