Grand Ventures has completed a Pre-A investment in Career Day, an AI-driven expert matching platform, to capitalize on the inefficiencies of the traditional expert consultancy market.

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Career Day, led by CEO Kyung-Min Kang, is an AI-driven expert matching platform that connects businesses with current white-collar professionals possessing industry-specific expertise in various advisory projects, lectures, and consulting services. The platform enables corporate clients to recruit necessary experts in an average of just 1.9 days. Career Day provides a digitalized one-stop dashboard for the entire process, from expert recruitment to contract signing and payment, thereby reducing both time and costs. Key features include transparent pricing information categorized by project type and an automatic verification system for expert credentials, enhancing the platform's credibility and the quality of matches.

To date, Career Day has amassed a talent pool of approximately 25,000 professionals and has successfully facilitated over 4,000 expert matches. The company plans to diversify its revenue model and expand its pool of industry experts by introducing community networking programs and one-on-one mentoring services in the future.

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