Founded by Jovanay Carter, Jolene Bernagene and Moyosore Okeremi
A hiring intelligence platform that helps companies learn what makes a great hire for them and replicate that success as they grow.
"A hiring system built to be more fair than humans."
The product moved from interview prep for candidates to assessment for employers across 2025 and 2026, and won the TechRise Season 5 kickoff along the way. Updated September 2026.
The first screen is where most candidates get filtered out on the least informative evidence. The Dev Difference replaces it with an interview that produces a readable picture of how somebody actually works through a problem.
Small and growing technology teams that are hiring. Job seekers use the same platform for free mock interviews.
It assesses past just a simple interview test, and detects a candidate leaning on an AI assistant or a deepfake mid-interview. It also has a social mission to give candidates who have fewer connections or access an opportunity to get through the application stage based on skills.
Contributions go into the fund that writes them. If The Dev Difference exits one day, our share comes back to the fund and goes out again, which is what makes us an evergreen fund.
Works inside small accounting firms as an outside AI lead, building the automations that take the grind out of tax season.
One membership dashboard of classes, coaching, lender connections and software discounts for minority-owned businesses.
Threat detection and encryption for critical infrastructure and the organizations legacy vendors ignore.
Updates on the founders we back and the work behind the checks.
