How to Actually Get Hired

Georg is the commercial and strategic half of Handhold, and his career before founding the company is a direct preparation for the problem it solves. He completed a BSc in Business and Managerial Economics at King's College London between 2015 and 2018, giving him the financial and organisational thinking that underlies Handhold's B2B positioning. After graduating he joined Seedcamp's fellowship programme, Seedcamp is one of Europe's most consequential early-stage fund-accelerators, backing companies like Wise, Revolut, Carwow, and UiPath at the very earliest stages. Working inside Seedcamp's portfolio gives direct exposure to the playbooks that the best European startups use to grow, and Georg spent his time there advising and observing founders navigating the exact GTM and conversion challenges Handhold addresses. He then joined MeetFrank, the Estonia-based talent marketplace, as an early employee. He then became Chief of Staff and Head of GTM at Passbase, a Berlin-based identity verification startup, where he led the commercial function and grew the company through a critical scaling period. Passbase operates in the same world as Veriff (whose co-founder Janer Gorohhov later invested in Handhold), meaning Georg understood firsthand how enterprise identity and verification companies manage high-volume inbound buying journeys long before Handhold existed. He then spent time at On Deck, the professional community and fellowship programme, before founding Handhold in 2025 with Uku. His public writing describes the founding insight in personal terms: in past sales roles, he could be present for customers when they had questions, concerns, or expansion opportunities, and Handhold is the automation of that relationship at scale. He was selected for the Top 20 of the Slush 100 Startup Competition and presented on stage at Slush in Helsinki, which is the most visible investor-facing stage in Northern Europe.

Uku is the engineering half of Handhold, and his prior experience is the reason Handhold's AI agent product actually works in production rather than in demo. He completed a Master of Science in Computer Science at Tallinn University of Technology, TalTech, which is Estonia's primary technical university and has produced a disproportionate number of the engineers who built Skype, Wise, and Pipedrive, three of the most consequential products in European tech history. After TalTech he joined TransferWise (now Wise) as a Full Stack Developer, and over his time at the company rose to Senior Engineering Lead managing the Send squad, one of Wise's core consumer money transfer flows, processing billions of dollars annually and serving tens of millions of customers. That role is technically demanding in a very specific way: payment flows require zero-downtime reliability, strict compliance with financial regulation in multiple jurisdictions, and extremely high-quality real-time interaction under load. Building those systems for years gives Uku an engineering sensitivity to reliability and state management that is directly applicable to Handhold's conversation agent architecture, where a broken flow mid-demo loses the prospect permanently. He and Georg also built Align together before pivoting entirely to Handhold and relaunching as the current product, the decision to throw away existing product and revenue to start fresh is mentioned explicitly in Uku's LinkedIn posts and reflects the clarity of conviction that the Handhold thesis required. His hiring post on LinkedIn is written in a genuinely personal voice: 'We talk to computers all day and it's starting to feel pretty good. This is the most fun I've had building anything, come build it with us.' That is not a boilerplate job post. It is the founder who is also the CTO writing to find someone who will share the technical obsession.