about us.
Our Vision.
We envision a world where anyone with the drive to succeed has the instant opportunity to prove themselves—free from barriers of chance, bias, or limitations.
Our Mission.
Our mission is to empower organizations to discover true talent by providing every candidate with an unbiased, immediate opportunity to prove their skills. Through scalable AI-driven interviews, we eliminate inefficiencies and barriers, ensuring fair, thorough, and impactful hiring for both companies and candidates.
Founding Team.
Mehran Mehri
Co-Founder & CEOMehran is a senior data scientist and simulations expert with leadership experience at Bayer and Henkel, where he built advanced AI systems to optimize global supply chains, pricing, and manufacturing. He holds a postgraduate diploma in Data Science and Statistics from MIT (Institute for Data, Systems, and Society) and is affiliated with King’s College London (King’s Business School) through his postgraduate studies in Computational Finance and Banking. At Hibana, he is focused on building a world where every candidate has a fair and immediate chance to prove their talent—eliminating bias, inefficiency, and guesswork from hiring through scalable, intelligent interview technology.
Roberto Alonso
Co-Founder & CTORoberto is a lead machine learning engineer and former postdoctoral researcher in computer science at the Technical University of Munich, where he specialized in graph mining and anomaly detection. He has led AI and data architecture efforts at BASF and Henkel, building enterprise-scale MLOps pipelines and intelligent systems for manufacturing and supply chain. At Cognitix, he developed machine learning models for real-time cyber threat detection using graph-based methods. At Hibana, Roberto leads the technical vision—designing secure, scalable infrastructure to power intelligent, automated interviews at enterprise scale.
Our Story.
The Challenge We Observed
We observed a fundamental disconnect in hiring: Despite millions invested in talent acquisition, 98% of candidates are filtered out unheard, often because resumes are misused as crude assessment tools. Costly interviews then rely on subjective gut feelings, not objective data.
The financial toll is stark—typically over €100,000 wasted annually by a 1,000-person company from bad hires and inefficiencies. This forces candidates into mass applications and keyword gaming, fueling a vicious cycle.
Compounding this, traditional assessments like case studies are now compromised by AI tools, rendering much of the evaluation process unreliable.
Our Insight
We pinpointed hiring's fundamental flaw: not inadequate technology, but the entire approach.
Instead of merely filtering candidates, Hibana enables comprehensive evaluation at scale. Our breakthrough reimagines job requirements as structured, multi-dimensional mathematical spaces—moving beyond keywords to precisely define role success for thorough, objective evaluation.
This foundation powers our reasoning engine and conversational AI system, which conducts interviews that adapt in real-time, assessing both technical knowledge and cognitive abilities with unprecedented precision.
This first-principles reimagining allows us to thoroughly evaluate every candidate, dramatically reducing costs and improving hire quality.
Building Hibana
Guided by this insight, Hibana’s co-founders leveraged their deep expertise in AI, engineering, and firsthand hiring experience to transform talent acquisition from the ground up. Collaborating with a network of specialists in mathematical graph theory, HR, psychometrics, and talent management, they designed Hibana to eliminate key hiring flaws: subjective assessments, excessive costs, missed talent, and compromised evaluations.
Our platform empowers companies to interview every candidate thoroughly, enabling data-driven decisions at scale and breaking the vicious cycle of ineffective filtering. Hibana marks a fundamental paradigm shift: we discover talent by giving every individual the chance to demonstrate their true capabilities through AI-powered comprehensive interviews, rather than filtering them out.
Join our Journey.
For Future Customers & Partners
We're transforming how companies discover talent and how candidates showcase their abilities. If you're ready to move beyond traditional hiring limitations and build stronger teams more efficiently, we'd love to show you how Hibana can help.
For Members of the Press
Hibana is reimagining hiring assessment from first principles. If you're covering innovations in AI, HR technology, or the future of work, we're eager to share our story and insights with you. Our team is always happy to make time for thoughtful conversations about the future of talent discovery.
For Investors & Strategic Partners
We're addressing a massive market inefficiency with a fundamentally new approach. If you're interested in supporting our mission to transform talent discovery, we'd be happy to discuss our vision and growth plans.
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