Blomma Secures $5M in Seed Funding to Build AI Career Coaching Platform

Most careers are shaped in the quiet moments no one claps for, the draft you never send, the feedback you soften, the meeting where you nod but do not push, and somehow those small decisions stack into something that looks a lot like direction, even when it is anything but. Meanwhile, the top of the org chart is playing a different game entirely, backed by coaching that sharpens instincts before the pressure hits.

Blomma heard that gap loud and clear and decided to do something about it, stepping in with a perspective that feels less like theory and more like lived experience translated into product.

Blomma, out of San Francisco, just pulled in $5M+ in seed funding, led by Felicis with Viviana Faga, General Partner at Felicis, driving the round, alongside a table stacked with operators who have actually built things, including Evan Sharp, Co-founder of Pinterest, Jonathan Shottan, Chief Product Officer at Tonal, Tanya Raheja, Operator with experience at Canva and Stitch Fix, Kunal Gupta, Founder and early-stage operator, Suman Chagarlamudi, Operator at Pinterest, Joe Hyrkin, Former CEO of Issuu, Malik Ducard, Chief Content Officer at Pinterest, formerly at YouTube, and Omar Seyal, Operator at Meta, formerly at Pinterest, the kind of lineup that usually signals something deeper than just capital moving around.

Credit where it is due, Silvia Oviedo López, Founder and CEO, and Siddhartha Dabral, Co-founder and CTO, are not guessing their way into this, with Silvia Oviedo López helping take Pinterest to 500M+ users and serving as SVP of Content and Discovery at Canva, leading teams at serious scale, while Siddhartha Dabral, Co-founder of Button, has built and exited companies and operated across mobile commerce, payments, and crypto infrastructure, which means the foundation here is less about ideas and more about pattern recognition earned the hard way.

Blomma is not trying to be another chatbot that gives you polite advice and disappears, it is an AI career coach designed to stay in the room with you, remembering what you said last week, what you are trying to fix this quarter, and what you keep avoiding, pulling in context from calendars, notes, resumes, and performance reviews and turning that into something practical, whether that is language for a tough conversation or structure when your thoughts are moving faster than your confidence.

The price point matters too, because around $25/month puts this in reach for people who were never getting a coach before, which quietly turns what looks like a feature into a distribution strategy with teeth.

A 2025 Hoover Institution survey says 95% of CEOs rely on coaches or trusted advisors, while the rest of the workforce gets a yearly review and a thumbs-up emoji, and at the same time the World Economic Forum projects 22% of jobs will be disrupted by 2030 and 39% of core skills will shift, which starts to paint a picture that feels less like a trend and more like pressure building under the surface.

Translation lands whether you like it or not, the ground is moving and most people are walking it without a map, and Blomma is building that map while you are still mid-journey, with the added twist that your data stays yours, not your employer’s and not the platform’s, which in a world where everything feels rented starts to sound less like a feature and more like a line in the sand.

This is what happens when product instinct meets lived experience and a market that has been overdue for sharper tools, not loud and not gimmicky, just precise, timely, and carrying just enough edge to make you pay attention a little longer than you planned.