Ex-BCG executive and laid-off Novo employee raise funds for AI job-search platform

Thomas Føge, a former top executive at a major consulting firm, and his wife Sannah Brieghl, who was laid off from Novo, have raised capital for Skiftr, an AI platform meant to change how people search for jobs. Føge is co-founder and CEO, and Brieghl is co-founder and chief operating officer.

Skiftr finds jobs directly on Nordic companies' own websites and aims to match job seekers with positions that are never advertised through the usual channels. In doing so it challenges the established job portals, such as Jobindex, which is among the companies named in the coverage.

The founders came to the idea from personal setbacks about two years ago. Føge left a senior post at a consulting firm and describes it as the crisis of his life. Brieghl was dismissed from Novo, where she worked as a scrum master, a facilitator who leads project processes. After her dismissal she joined "Klub 5000", a LinkedIn network of laid-off Novo employees. Her closest circle at Novo then included more than 30 other scrum masters who had also lost their jobs.

The available text does not say how much money Skiftr has raised, who the investors are, or how the matching technology works. What it does establish is the product's aim: to make it easier for job seekers to reach hidden vacancies, and to compete with the established job-board model in the Nordic market. The story is filed under recruitment and career changes within the tech sector.