Cakeresume
Founded 2016 · 50 employees on LinkedIn · 1 known investors
Cake is a career platform offering job search, company listings, AI-powered resume and portfolio building tools, and recruitment services for employers. It serves job seekers and hiring companies across markets including Taiwan, Vietnam, and Indonesia, with features like an AI resume builder, applicant tracking, and employer-of-record services.
Also known as Cake · Cake.me · CakeResume · Trantor Tech, Inc · 川陀數位股份有限公司
Investors · 1
Company profile
researched Aug 2026Cake (formerly and still widely known as CakeResume) is a Taipei, Taiwan-based online career platform that combines resume and portfolio creation tools with job search and recruitment services. Job seekers use a drag-and-drop resume builder with more than 50 templates to produce customized, ATS-oriented resumes that can incorporate images, video, custom fonts and embedded iframes — for example software engineers embedding GitHub projects or designers embedding data visualizations. Completed resumes can be downloaded as PDF, shared online with view tracking, and linked to portfolios and a public Cake profile.
Alongside document tools, the platform offers job listings with stated salary ranges and company information, saved search alerts, company follows and AI-driven job recommendations. A set of AI features marketed as Cake AI includes a resume health check/checker, an AI cover letter generator, writing suggestions and job and connection matching. A networking layer, "Meet" (introduced with the Talent Network feature), lets users swipe through and message employers, recruiters, industry experts, mentors, students and other job seekers, with an AI icebreaker to start conversations; profile analytics report on profile performance. The service is delivered through the web and a mobile app.
On the employer side, the company provides talent search and sourcing tools, including resume and portfolio walls and a talent search consultant team, supported by an AI talent recommendation engine developed over several years that lets recruiters specify criteria such as role, location and salary band and returns candidate matches; the company has said it is intended to cut candidate sourcing time by 40% to 50%.
Founding story
The company was founded by Trantor Liu, who serves as its founder and has described the platform's multimedia resume capability as its core point of difference.
Business model
The platform is offered free to job seekers for building resumes and portfolios and browsing job openings, while companies and recruiters pay to source candidates; more than 7,000 client companies were using it to source job candidates as of August 2023, and the app listing cites 10,000+ companies. Employers can also engage a talent search consultant team.
Revenue comes from employers and recruiters that use the platform to source and hire candidates; resume building, portfolio creation and job browsing are provided free of charge to individual users.
Traction
Reported roughly 5 million users worldwide and more than 7,000 candidate-sourcing clients in August 2023, up from 20 employees in August 2020 to over 100 employees at that time. Its Google Play listing later cites over 8 million users, 10,000+ companies and 100K+ app downloads, and the website references featured resumes from over 9 million job seekers.
Latest developments
Following the 2023 Series A, the company added networking features (Meet / Talent Network with AI Icebreaker), expanded its Cake AI suite with a resume checker, cover letter generator and job and connection matching, and continued mobile app development, with an app update logged in August 2026 citing over 8 million users and 10,000+ companies.
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Market position
A Taiwan-headquartered talent platform serving Asian markets, stating around 5 million users and 7,000 client companies as of August 2023 and over 8 million users and 10,000+ companies in its 2026 app listing. Employers cited include Google, L'Oréal, TSMC, Yahoo, Trend Micro, Garmin and Fourdesire. The company has stated an aim of transforming Asia into a global hub for technology talent.
The founder has cited multimedia resumes — allowing engineers and designers to embed work samples such as GitHub projects and data visualizations, and to customize images, video and fonts — as the main differentiator from other job sites such as LinkedIn. The combination of free resume/portfolio building, a public profile and job listings with transparent salary and company information, together with a swipe-based professional networking layer, is positioned as an all-in-one career platform.
Technology
A drag-and-drop, template-based resume and portfolio editor supporting multimedia content (images, video, fonts, embedded iframes) and PDF export, plus mobile applications. AI components include a talent recommendation and matching engine for recruiters, AI job recommendations for candidates, an AI resume health check/checker, an AI cover letter generator, AI writing suggestions and an AI icebreaker for networking conversations. The company describes its resume builder as patented.
Go-to-market
Free self-serve tools (resume builder, portfolio maker, public profile, job search, mobile app) drive job-seeker acquisition, supported by a career resource center, resume templates and shared resume/portfolio examples; employers are reached through paid talent search products, a talent search consultant team, and AI-assisted candidate recommendations.
Two sides: individual job seekers and professionals — with an emphasis on technology roles such as software engineers and designers, plus other fields including FMCG, design, engineering, customer service, management, sales, retail, marketing and finance — and employers, in-house recruiters and headhunters seeking to source talent.
Geography
Headquartered in Taipei, Taiwan (Songshan District, Nanjing East Road Section 3). Significant user bases in Taiwan, Indonesia (1.8 million users as of August 2023) and India, with funded expansion targeting Indonesia, Vietnam and India and broader Southeast Asia.
History
TechCrunch first covered the company in August 2020, when it had about 20 employees, and again in August 2023 when it announced a $5 million Series A. Headcount grew to more than 100 over that period and the product expanded from resume building into job search, AI talent matching and professional networking; the brand is presented as "Cake" on its current site and app while CakeResume remains in use as the domain and legacy name.
Compiled by commissioned research from 8 cited public sources — announcements, filings, and press listed under research sources below.
Key figures
latest reportedCompany-reported or press-reported figures, each dated to when it was claimed — not independently audited.
Timeline · 3
launches, deals, and filingsThe company stated that Series A proceeds would fund expansion into countries including Indonesia, Vietnam and India, with a focus on onboarding more companies in Indonesia and growing in Southeast Asia.
CakeResume announced a $5 million Series A round led by returning investor Mynavi, a large Japanese human resources company. Proceeds were earmarked for expansion in Indonesia, Vietnam and India, new networking tools and continued work on its AI talent recommendation engine.
$5M source ↗
Part of the Series A funding was allocated to networking tools, including a mobile app feature called "Talent Network" that lets users swipe on profiles of people they want to meet, such as headhunters, job seekers and mentors.
Dated company events from announcements, filings, and press; legal rows summarize public dockets and regulator releases.
▸Research sources · 8
primary sources listed
- Cakeresumecakeresume.com · web
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Frequently asked questions
- What does Cakeresume do?
- Taipei-based career platform combining multimedia resume and portfolio building, job search and AI-powered talent matching.
- Who are Cakeresume's investors?
- Cakeresume's investors include AppWorks Ventures.