While LinkedIn is helpful for displaying people’s educational and professional achievements, there exists a world of self-taught tech talent whose skills are not so easily reflected on the networking site. Rather, their expertise is hidden in the lines of code they write.
Aspecta is trying to fill that gap by providing an AI-powered profile builder for developers who wish to create LinkedIn-like identity pages for themselves. This is done by using large language models to review the quality of the code in projects to which they contribute. The platform also takes into consideration social endorsement and applies network analysis to see if a programmer’s work has been “liked” by other recognized experts.
The number of web3 developers has been surging despite the crypto winter, and naturally, Aspecta’s data reach extends to the blockchain world. Its algorithms take clues from how users’ wallet addresses interact with smart contracts and tag their types of activity accordingly. This, according to Jack He, co-founder at Aspecta, is an “easier” process than vetting, say, GitHub data because “on-chain data is more structuralized.”
Aspecta is currently integrated with GitHub, so when users sign in with their accounts on the code hosting site, they receive an automatically generated identity page with all their technical achievements that look sort of like a gamer’s trophy page. The platform has also included Google, Stackoverflow and MetaMask in its data sources and is in the process of onboarding Twitter.
Aspecta’s alpha version has attracted some 130,000 people to its waitlist. Investors have taken notice of its traction, and today, the startup announced that it has closed a $3.5 million seed round that would allow it to launch the beta edition of its flagship digital identity product, Aspecta ID.
Key institutional investors from the round include ZhenFund, which is known for backing Chinese entrepreneurs expanding globally, as well as crypto-focused HashKey Capital and Foresight Ventures. The startup has also attracted several strategic investors that would potentially tap its identity service, including Galxe, Dorahacks, CyberConnect, Mask Network and P12.
While LinkedIn is helpful for displaying people’s educational and professional achievements, there exists a world of self-taught tech talent whose skills are not so easily reflected on the networking site. Rather, their expertise is hidden in the lines of code they write.
Aspecta is trying to fill that gap by providing an AI-powered profile builder for developers who wish to create LinkedIn-like identity pages for themselves. This is done by using large language models to review the quality of the code in projects to which they contribute. The platform also takes into consideration social endorsement and applies network analysis to see if a programmer’s work has been “liked” by other recognized experts.
The number of web3 developers has been surging despite the crypto winter, and naturally, Aspecta’s data reach extends to the blockchain world. Its algorithms take clues from how users’ wallet addresses interact with smart contracts and tag their types of activity accordingly. This, according to Jack He, co-founder at Aspecta, is an “easier” process than vetting, say, GitHub data because “on-chain data is more structuralized.”
Aspecta is currently integrated with GitHub, so when users sign in with their accounts on the code hosting site, they receive an automatically generated identity page with all their technical achievements that look sort of like a gamer’s trophy page. The platform has also included Google, Stackoverflow and MetaMask in its data sources and is in the process of onboarding Twitter.
Aspecta’s alpha version has attracted some 130,000 people to its waitlist. Investors have taken notice of its traction, and today, the startup announced that it has closed a $3.5 million seed round that would allow it to launch the beta edition of its flagship digital identity product, Aspecta ID.
Key institutional investors from the round include ZhenFund, which is known for backing Chinese entrepreneurs expanding globally, as well as crypto-focused HashKey Capital and Foresight Ventures. The startup has also attracted several strategic investors that would potentially tap its identity service, including Galxe, Dorahacks, CyberConnect, Mask Network and P12.
Source: TechCrunch
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