Short · checked 29 September 2026
The Cardiff job site that turned away recruiters and became a learning community.
A 2016 Cardiff jobs platform for digital professionals that banned recruiters, raised £275,000 with public backing in 2018 and progressed into Stryve, a peer learning community for tech skills, in 2020.
Only a directory card for Digital Profile survives in the Stompstart archive, saved in May 2016, and it placed the startup in Cardiff. Its tagline read "Digital jobs. Digital professionals. Brought together." The excerpt set out "a mission to overhaul digital recruitment": the site did not accept recruiters, only digital professionals and digital companies, and the profile itself "will replace the CV," with one-click applications for jobs. It was listed as a public beta.
The Development Bank of Wales says the platform launched in June 2016. In January 2018 the bank announced that Digital Profile, founded by Dan Lewis, had raised £275,000 from the bank, private investor Giles Phelps and Cardiff Council. At the time it reported more than 450 approved businesses and over 3,000 individual users, offering "living" digital CVs and a way for companies to advertise opportunities directly to schools and education providers. Startups.co.uk reported that the company was based at TramShed Tech in Cardiff and counted Cardiff Council and Admiral among its users.
In June 2020 Lewis launched Stryve, an online community where people could learn tech skills from their peers and share courses, podcasts, blogs and events, with a jobs board and digital CV built in. Wales 247 and the Development Bank of Wales both reported that Digital Profile "has now progressed into Stryve." Launch partners included the bank, Newport and Bristol councils and private investors.
Stryve's Product Hunt page gives its address as westryve.com. When checked in September 2026, that address redirected to a GoDaddy domain-sale page.