CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Mar 10, 2026--
Talvy, a platform that’s pioneering video-first professional profiles, today announced its $2M seed round led by Link Ventures. In the current hiring market, employers are struggling to find meaningful ways to evaluate candidates at scale, especially as application volume has exploded with AI-generated CVs flooding recruiting pipelines.
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Talvy replaces static resumes with short-form video profiles, allowing job seekers to share stories that highlight their craft, mindset, and growth. These videos form a new layer of human signal by capturing communication style, energy, and interpersonal presence that resumes have never been able to hold. For employers, Talvy's natural language search surfaces a shortlist of candidate video profiles, so hiring teams can see someone before they meet them, getting the instinctive culture-fit read that usually only emerges in an interview. Recruiters can also invite candidates from their own applicant pools to submit Talvy profiles into a private review group, giving them the same upfront read before any interview is scheduled.
“We built Talvy because we've been the candidate who got filtered out for the wrong reasons, and we've been the hiring manager drowning in AI-generated noise. There had to be a better way,” said KJ Hardrict, CEO and co-founder of Talvy, a Stanford PhD dropout and content creator who built the platform after seeing firsthand how often exceptional candidates are filtered out before anyone ever speaks to them. “Every job I've ever landed came from people seeing me – not reading about me.”
Imagine a recruiter scrolling through talent the way people scroll TikTok – meeting real candidates, hearing real stories, and feeling real presence in seconds. In the age of AI, what matters now is whether someone can actually show up, communicate, and connect. That's what Talvy captures.
“We invested in Talvy because the hiring system is blind to real potential. The best leaders, builders, and operators don’t always stand out in a LinkedIn world,” said Frazer Anderson, Managing Director at Link Ventures. “Talvy’s video profiles give job applicants a voice beyond their resume.”
Alongside the launch, Talvy is introducing Talvy Spotlight – a curated program for exceptional candidates that Talvy has personally vetted and would confidently hire themselves. Spotlighted candidates are actively championed by Talvy's team, introduced directly to hiring managers in their network, and featured publicly, including on a Times Square billboard.
For more information on Talvy, visit: https://talvy.com/.
About Talvy
Talvy is a video-first networking platform that lets professionals showcase who they are, not just what's on their resume. By enriching static resumes with authentic video responses, Talvy helps employers see the humans behind the PDFs and make better hiring decisions. Founded by MIT and Harvard alumni, Talvy is led by CEO KJ Hardrict, an engineer, investor, and creator with over 115K YouTube subscribers. Hardrict previously worked as a founding and senior engineer at multiple startups, and as a Principal Investor at Link Ventures. The founding team also includes co-founder CTO Yoeal Efrem (ex-Palantir), Product & GTM Lead Lisa Vo (5x founder), ML Engineer Yaateh Richardson (ex-Meta), and Chief of Staff Sebastian Esquivel (ex-Unilever). The company is based in Cambridge, MA, and has raised $2M in seed funding led by Link Ventures.
Talvy Spotlight candidates are actively championed by Talvy's team, introduced directly to hiring managers in their network, and featured publicly, including on a Times Square billboard.
Talvy replaces static resumes with short-form video profiles, allowing job seekers to share stories that highlight their craft, mindset, and growth.
TAMPA, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Mar 10, 2026--
Trustate is proud to announce that Leah Del Percio and Tara Faquir have been named to Inc.’s 2026 Female Founders 500, an annual list honoring the most dynamic women business leaders in the United States. The honor recognizes founders whose bold ideas, resilience, and execution are shaping the future of their industries.
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The 2026 Female Founders honorees collectively generated approximately $12.3 billion in 2025 revenue and $12.2 billion in funding to date, underscoring the economic impact of women-led businesses across sectors.
Each year, Inc. editors evaluate applications through a rigorous, multi-round selection process. Founders are assessed on both quantitative performance metrics, including revenue growth, funding, sales, and audience size, as well as qualitative factors such as innovation, social impact, and brand momentum. The final list represents entrepreneurs who have demonstrated exceptional leadership and measurable progress over the past year. Previous honorees have included such game-changing leaders as Billie Jean King, Sallie Krawcheck, Serena Williams, and Emma Grede — all of whom have transformed their industries and broken barriers along the way.
"As a trusts and estates attorney, I've seen firsthand how fragmented and data-intensive legal practice can be—for professionals and for the families they serve. The legal industry has long lacked the infrastructure to surface, organize, and act on the data that matters most. We built Trustate to change that. We're a data company built for lawyers and law firms, giving practitioners the tools to uncover assets, streamline complex workflows, and deliver high-quality legal documents and work product more efficiently across the full scope of their practice. What drives us is something simple: better data and better tools mean better outcomes for clients during some of the most consequential moments of their lives," says Leah Del Percio, Trustate co-founder and CEO.
“We are incredibly honored to be named to Inc.’s Female Founders list, but what it really reflects is the work our team is doing to modernize an industry that hasn’t changed much in decades,” says Tara Faquir, Trustate co-founder and COO. “At Trustate, we’re focused on giving trusts and estates professionals better tools, better documents, and better data so they can serve families more effectively. The Great Wealth Transfer is underway, and our mission is to help professionals meet that moment with confidence.”
Honoree selection is also honed through the evaluation of the program’s advisory board, which includes Patty Arvielo, co-founder and CEO of New American Funding; Tiffany Dufu, president of the Tory Burch Foundation; Joy Mangano, co-founder and CEO of CleanBoss; Michelle Cordeiro Grant, founder and CEO of GORGIE; Sheila Lirio Marcelo, co-founder and CEO of Ohai.ai and founder of Care.com; and Melissa Mash, co-founder and CEO of Dagne Dover.
Since founding Trustate in 2020, Del Percio and Faquir have built a rapidly growing technology platform that’s redefining how lawyers manage their work. Through a series of product launches and strategic partnerships, Trustate is consistently introducing new tools that help professionals locate financial accounts, manage workflows, and produce high-quality estate planning and legal documents within a single system.
Today, Trustate supports more than 1,000 law firms and financial institutions nationwide. Trustate was started to help trusts and estates law firms operate more efficiently while strengthening their estate planning and administration practices. Professionals using the platform save about 400 hours per client and see an average bottom-line boost of $62,000 per firm annually.
Across the platform, Trustate has supported the creation of over 250,000 legal documents and the discovery of $32.5 million in previously unknown assets. It has also facilitated more than 4,200 asset and liability searches, identified nearly 2,000 liabilities, and helped firms complete tens of thousands of tasks that would previously have been done manually.
"Each year, we are increasingly amazed by the extraordinary leaders on our Inc. Female Founders 500 list,” says Bonny Ghosh, editorial director at Inc. “The honorees on this year’s list include innovators in AI, beauty and wellness trendsetters winning devoted fans, and nonprofit leaders making a real impact in their communities. Together, they’re showing all of us what trailblazing female leadership looks like.”
Several honorees will be featured in Inc. magazine’s Spring print issue, on newsstands March 17, 2026. To see the complete list of honorees, please visit: https://www.inc.com/female-founders/2026.
About Inc.
Inc. is the leading media brand and playbook for the entrepreneurs and business leaders shaping our future. Through its journalism, Inc. aims to inform, educate, and elevate the profile of its community: the risk-takers, the innovators, and the ultra-driven go-getters who are creating the future of business. Inc. is published by Mansueto Ventures LLC, along with fellow leading business publication Fast Company. For more information, visit www.inc.com.
About Trustate
Trustate is the only all-in-one technology platform built for trusts and estates professionals, bringing together the entire estate lifecycle–from estate planning document drafting, trust funding, asset and liability discovery, and probate–into a single modern system. Built to replace multiple subscriptions to outdated tools, Trustate helps firms streamline complex estate work, uncover critical financial information, and operate more efficiently. For more information, visit www.trustate.com.
Tara Faquir (Left), Leah Del Percio (Right)
