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The Interview Startup That Learned to Guard the Exam Room
Talview began by making interviews easier to conduct. Now it tries to answer the harder question behind a remote exam or hire: can you prove that the right person earned the result?
Honorlock Built a Digital Exam Room. The Hard Part Is Making It Feel Human.
A spreadsheet prototype became a $40.65 million-funded proctoring company when remote exams went mainstream. Its next test is harder: stopping AI-enabled cheating without turning every honest candidate into a suspect.
Glider AI Bet the Résumé Was Broken. Then AI Made It Worse.
The hiring platform began by testing what candidates could actually do. Six years, a $10 million Series A and a Findem acquisition later, it is selling something more urgent: proof that the candidate on screen is real.
Saurabh Gupta
Saurabh Gupta is the CEO and co-founder of Edorer, an AI-powered education platform on a mission to internationalize universities and give students academic freedom to move across institutions, pick courses online or on-campus, and earn stackable credentials. An IIT Kanpur engineer with a Harvard credential, he calls himself a 'Higher Ed rebel' and is building CredX, a blockchain-based global credits exchange. Before Edorer he founded or co-founded TalentGrids (acquired), Talent For Work, Campus to Corporate, and serves on the board of the World Assessment Council, which supports over 100,000 educators worldwide.
Tom Nakata
Tom Nakata (Tomofumi Nakata) is the co-founder and CEO of Qlay, a San Francisco AI startup he built after stints at McKinsey, J.P. Morgan, and Disney and a Harvard statistics degree. Qlay began as a generative-AI consumer-sentiment engine and pivoted into AI-powered interview proctoring - eye-gaze tracking, speech-cadence analysis, and multi-camera monitoring that catches AI-assisted cheating in remote technical interviews. Raised across Singapore, Tokyo, and California, Nakata describes his team as 'a shark that never stops,' chasing authenticity and measurable impact while sourcing engineering talent across Africa, Vietnam, and beyond.