Social Leverage Investment in Ribbon - The Verification Era

Good morning everyone.

We recently led a seed investment in Ribbon, whose mission is to build the network of professional profiles you can trust.

From my partner Matt, who led the investment:

At Social Leverage we invested in Ribbon as Dave and his cofounder Arsham have been working on solving this exact problem. Verify career accomplishments, verify organizations you are a part of, verify projects you have completed, and verify community service you have performed. The use cases are endless. Employers are recognizing that employees want a culture where they are recognized for their achievements. But they also want a way to take that recognition with them. Many people can relate to winning an internal award like customer service representative of the year, or exceeding a metric like 120% of your quarterly quota, and being recognized internally is exciting. But what’s more exciting is if this was verified, captured, and you had the ability to build your accomplishments profile. So when you look for your next opportunity, the data, the work, it speaks for itself.

I am excited about a future where we can look back as individuals on what we have accomplished. A CV that shows what I have done, what I have accomplished, both the small and large wins. Awards I have won, goals I have achieved, tests I have passed, and eventually being able to share that with others in a verifiable way.

You can read Matt’s full post here.