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Ribbon, founded in 2022 in Toronto, Canada, provides an AI-driven platform for voice interviews to help manufacturing and hospitality industries quickly identify top job candidates.
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- 2025-04$8M
Investors · GD1、Social Leverage、Radical Ventures、Cadenza
Source · SVTR Weekly #099
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