Ricky Doyle

The Bridge Between Training and Employment Outcomes

📍 United Kingdom🔄 Updated September 2026💼 7 investments📅 4 years investing🗓 Last invested Feb 2025
VC🌍 United Kingdom
7
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3
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1
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4y
Years active

Portfolio

7 investments · sorted by recency
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Feb 2025
TalentMatched.com, automates job applications, with instant qualification and analysis, providing ready made shortlists to Recruiters and Talent Acquisition professionals, with detailed and personalised writeups. All applicants get personalised and informative feedback, offering up skilling and development suggestions. No more time spent manually reviewing thousands of Job applications. No more missing quality applicants. No more ghosting applicants. Fast, efficient and effective application qualification, management and communication. Ensuring faster time to hire, improved brand strength, reduced operational costs and increased revenue. TalentMatched.com is the first Front End applicant qualification and communication tool, that is fully integrated to all ATS and has unified email accessibility. White labelled to your brand and configured as you need. TalentMatched.com is making huge improvements in efficiency, quality, cost savings, revenue generation, diversity and inclusion and brand perception. This is the future of Recruiting.
Investor
May 2024
Elevate Your HR Solutions with Our Advanced Al Job Seeker Tools Branded for Your Business
Investor
May 2024
At InovAi8, we’re revolutionising the hiring process with the power of AI. InovAi8 is the umbrella company to two incredible AI products, Talentmatched.com and The Hub. At Talentmatched.com, our cutting-edge recruitment software helps companies find, assess, and hire top talent faster and more efficiently than ever before. By leveraging advanced machine learning and data-driven insights, we streamline candidate screening, reduce bias, and enhance decision-making—so you can focus on what truly matters: building the best teams. Whether youre a start-up or an enterprise, our AI-driven platform optimizes every step of the hiring journey, from sourcing to onboarding. Join us in shaping the future of recruitment, where hiring is smarter, faster and fairer. At The Hub, we empower job seekers with the tools, resources, and support they need to land their dream jobs. Whether youre navigating a career change, re-entering the workforce, or aiming for your next big opportunity, we’re here to guide you every step of the way. Our platform offers expert resume reviews, AI-powered job matching, interview coaching, and networking strategies to help you stand out in today’s competitive market. We believe that every job seeker deserves a fair chance at success, so we provide personalised support to make your job search smarter, faster, and more effective. Your next career move starts here. Let’s make it happen!
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May 2024
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Apr 2024
We use a combination of data, patented technology, and beautifully-designed hardware to remove the barriers that stop people participating in sports. BatFast technology re-engineers playing fields to fit inside urban entertainment spaces, training venues, and the home. Making sports more accessible to beginners and aspiring professionals - playing solo or in a group. The software delivers an engaging real sports experience while collecting detailed data for elite-level training and performance improvement.
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Apr 2024
Were a UK online retailer and importer of artisan wines. We have a knack of finding the hidden gems of the wine world, chosen for their taste and story. Were a wine retailer and importer specialising in artisan wines from around the world. Perfect Cellar not only sells wine online, we offer wine experiences, wine club membership, a fine wine collectors scheme and a trade arm to encompass every need. And in everything we do, we bring the passion and energy that was there from the very beginning.
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Aug 2022
Metaverse Learning leads the global transformation of education, training, and assessment through Extended Reality (XR) technologies, including Virtual Reality (VR), Virtual Environments (VE), and Augmented Reality (AR). We collaborate with education providers, training organisations, local authorities, and industry to co-create immersive, sector-specific learning programs. By sharing time, expertise, and costs, we deliver innovative experiences that boost learner confidence, engagement, and attainment, closing local, national, and global skills gaps. Our realistic metaverse simulations break the boundaries of traditional training, offering accessible, intuitive, and highly engaging solutions that prepare learners for real-world success. With over 25 years’ experience in pedagogy and immersive learning, our expert team combines deep sector insight with a passion for technology-driven skills development. Working across healthcare, engineering, renewables, and more, we tackle workforce challenges head-on. By 2030, we aim to make virtual learning an essential tool for every educator and trainer, empowering learners to maximise their potential and succeed.
Experience · 10 entries
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Investments (7)
Founder (2)
2026
CEO & Founder
Jan 2026
We replace unreliable CV filtering at the top of the hiring funnel with structured, role-aligned screening that generates reviewable evidence before interview. Hiring teams often make early decisions using limited or inconsistent information. CVs reward formatting and self-presentation, not capability. FirstProof introduces a structured screening layer that ensures every applicant is assessed against the same criteria, producing transcripts, scoring, and defensible evidence aligned to your defined standards. Designed for UK-based organisations hiring 50–300 applicants per month, FirstProof is built for operational, frontline, and early-career roles where volume is high and accountability matters. We are not an ATS and not a generic video interview tool. FirstProof replaces a decision, not your systems. If you’re responsible for early-stage screening and want clearer signal before committing interview time, FirstProof helps you make hiring decisions you can trust.
2025
Investor
Feb 2025
TalentMatched.com, automates job applications, with instant qualification and analysis, providing ready made shortlists to Recruiters and Talent Acquisition professionals, with detailed and personalised writeups. All applicants get personalised and informative feedback, offering up skilling and development suggestions. No more time spent manually reviewing thousands of Job applications. No more missing quality applicants. No more ghosting applicants. Fast, efficient and effective application qualification, management and communication. Ensuring faster time to hire, improved brand strength, reduced operational costs and increased revenue. TalentMatched.com is the first Front End applicant qualification and communication tool, that is fully integrated to all ATS and has unified email accessibility. White labelled to your brand and configured as you need. TalentMatched.com is making huge improvements in efficiency, quality, cost savings, revenue generation, diversity and inclusion and brand perception. This is the future of Recruiting.
2024
Investor
May 2024
Elevate Your HR Solutions with Our Advanced Al Job Seeker Tools Branded for Your Business
Investor
May 2024
At InovAi8, we’re revolutionising the hiring process with the power of AI. InovAi8 is the umbrella company to two incredible AI products, Talentmatched.com and The Hub. At Talentmatched.com, our cutting-edge recruitment software helps companies find, assess, and hire top talent faster and more efficiently than ever before. By leveraging advanced machine learning and data-driven insights, we streamline candidate screening, reduce bias, and enhance decision-making—so you can focus on what truly matters: building the best teams. Whether youre a start-up or an enterprise, our AI-driven platform optimizes every step of the hiring journey, from sourcing to onboarding. Join us in shaping the future of recruitment, where hiring is smarter, faster and fairer. At The Hub, we empower job seekers with the tools, resources, and support they need to land their dream jobs. Whether youre navigating a career change, re-entering the workforce, or aiming for your next big opportunity, we’re here to guide you every step of the way. Our platform offers expert resume reviews, AI-powered job matching, interview coaching, and networking strategies to help you stand out in today’s competitive market. We believe that every job seeker deserves a fair chance at success, so we provide personalised support to make your job search smarter, faster, and more effective. Your next career move starts here. Let’s make it happen!
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May 2024
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