Profilcultura Srl

What Profilcultura Srl does

Profilcultura Srl is a Bologna-headquartered, privately held Italian company operating a vertical job board and recruitment platform dedicated to the culture, creativity, media, and teaching sectors. Its core product, ProfilCultura Lavoro (profilcultura.it), is a self-serve two-sided marketplace where employers (theaters, museums, cultural foundations, conservatories, universities, publishers, broadcasters, and media companies) post job listings and candidates search, save, and apply. The platform is organized into six primary verticals — Arte/Artigianato/Architettura/Design, Arti dello spettacolo, Audiovisivo, Beni culturali/Politiche culturali/Turismo, Editoria/Stampa/Comunicazione, and Web/Multimedia — and offers registered candidates CV storage, saved-job and application-tracking tools, and the ALERT-Lavoro email job-alert service.

The company's product surface extends beyond the core job board to a separate training portal, ProfilCultura Formazione (profilcultura-formazione.it), which aggregates professional development courses, master programs, and short courses in cultural sectors. A French-market sub-brand, ProfilCulture Emploi France (profilculture.com), replicates the Italian offering for France, and the platform supports listings beyond Italy, including Switzerland, other EU countries, and selected non-EU markets. Recruiter-facing features include the Account Pubblicazione for self-serve job posting, alongside professional services such as search & selection (ricerca e selezione), candidate coaching, and skills assessment.

Commercially, Profilcultura monetizes through recruiter job-posting fees on a transactional/pay-as-you-go basis, professional services revenue from search & selection engagements, and fees from candidate coaching and skills assessment. Pricing is not publicly disclosed beyond the existence of a "Servizi e tariffe" page. The company is structured as an Italian SAS with a small team (2-11 employees), no disclosed outside funding, and no public revenue figures; its scale signals are its self-described positioning as Italy's first job site in the culture-creativity-media-communication sectors and a roster of posting customers that includes institutions such as Teatro La Fenice, Teatro Carlo Felice Genova, Sky Italia, Warner Music Group, MART, and several Italian universities and conservatories.

Name

Profilcultura Srl

Legal name

PROFILCULTURE SAS

Website

https://profilcultura.it

Company type

Private

Founded year

2018

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Profilcultura Srl operates a vertical job board and training portal connecting employers and job seekers across Italy's culture, media, creativity, and teaching sectors, with a parallel French sub-brand and ancillary recruitment and coaching services.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Online Job Board and Recruitment Marketplace

NAICS

Employment Placement Agencies (561311)

SIC

Services-Employment Agencies (7361)

akta.pro primary industry

Professional & Technical Direct Hire (IT, Engineering, Finance, Healthcare) (BPACAFAC)

akta.pro secondary industries

Education Direct Hire (Teachers/Administrators) (BPACAFAI), Remote & Global/Multilingual Direct Hire (BPACAFAO)

Keywords

• Niche job board
• Culture sector recruitment
• Creative industries jobs
• Media job listings
• Teaching sector employment

Headquarters

HQ city

Bologna

HQ country

Italy

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B and B2C

Offering type

Digital Commerce or Content

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Recruitment Advertising: Charging employers to publish job listings on the platform
2. Search & Selection Services: Professional recruitment services for employers (Ricerca e selezione)
3. Professional Development Services: Coaching and skills assessment services for job seekers

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

Profilcultura Srl operates ProfilCultura Lavoro, a niche Italian job board connecting employers in culture, creativity, media, communication, and teaching sectors with specialized candidates. Employers pay to publish job listings via recruiter accounts, while candidates use free candidate accounts to search jobs, store CVs, activate email job alerts, and track applications. The company also offers assisted Search & Selection recruitment, coaching, and skills-assessment services for employers and candidates.

Product overview

Profilcultura Srl operates a dual-platform job marketplace for Italy and France focused on culture, media, creativity, and teaching sectors. The core offerings consist of ProfilCultura Lavoro (job board) and ProfilCultura Formazione (training portal). These platforms are supported by user-facing features including Account Candidato for candidates to manage CVs and job alerts, ALERT-Lavoro for email notifications, and Account Pubblicazione for recruiters to manage postings. The Italian and French platforms serve as complementary regional offerings under the ProfilCulture brand.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• ProfilCulture Emploi France: French version of the job portal serving the French market for culture and media employment

Products and services

• ProfilCultura Lavoro Italian-language niche job board that aggregates and publishes job listings for the culture, creativity, media, communication, and teaching sectors, allowing employers to advertise roles and candidates to search, filter by sector, and apply.
• ProfilCultura Formazione Training and education portal dedicated to cultural, creative, media, and communication sectors, listing master programs, short courses, vocational training, and professional development opportunities for cultural-sector professionals.
• ProfilCulture Emploi France French-language version of the ProfilCultura job board serving cultural-sector employers and candidates in France, with the same vertical specialization (culture, media, communication).
• Ricerca e Selezione (Search & Selection) Fee-based assisted recruitment service in which Profilcultura's team sources, screens, and selects candidates for cultural-sector employers seeking specialized talent.
• Coaching Fee-based career coaching service for cultural-sector professionals and job seekers, supporting career planning, interview preparation, and personal development.
• Skills Assessment (Valutazione delle competenze) Paid skills-assessment service for cultural-sector job seekers to benchmark their competencies against role requirements.

Quantifiable outcome

• Covers all 20 Italian regions plus international locations

Named customers20 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature1 record

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Broad incumbents

• LinkedIn: Global professional network with a jobs marketplace that increasingly covers cultural, media, and education roles. Comparable as a job-listing destination competing for the same candidate eyeballs and employer postings, but operates as a generalist platform rather than a vertical specialist.
• Indeed: World's largest job aggregator, with a strong Italian presence (Indeed Italia). Comparable as a competing channel for both job seekers and employer job-posting budgets across all sectors including culture/media, though undifferentiated by vertical.

Direct peers

• Backstage: US-focused niche job board for performing arts, film, TV, and creative industries. Comparable as a vertical-specialist marketplace serving performing-arts and media employers — a core vertical ProfilCultura also targets via its 'Arti dello spettacolo' and 'Audiovisivo' categories.
• Mediabistro: US-based niche job board and community for media, publishing, and creative professionals. Closely comparable as a vertical-specialist job marketplace serving the same media/creative employer and candidate segments, but US-focused rather than Italian.
• The Drum: UK trade publication covering the creative industry, including a jobs board for marketing, advertising, design, and media roles. Comparable as a niche destination for creative-sector recruitment, addressing the same cultural/media employer base ProfilCultura serves.
• ArtsProfessional: UK specialist job board and news outlet for the cultural sector. Directly comparable as a niche job-listing platform dedicated to arts and cultural employment, sharing ProfilCultura's vertical specialization and B2B2C marketplace model.

Emerging players

• Stage32: Global networking and jobs community for film, TV, and content creators. Comparable as an emerging niche marketplace for entertainment and creative professionals, intersecting ProfilCultura's audiovisual and performing-arts verticals with a community-driven model.

Regional players

• Monster Italia: Italian arm of the global Monster job board network. Comparable as a domestic generalist competitor for Italian employer job-posting spend and candidate traffic, including cultural-sector roles.
• InfoJobs: Leading Italy/Spain generalist job board, owned by Adevinta. Directly comparable as a domestic Italian job-listing platform competing for the same SMB and enterprise employer recruitment budgets across sectors including cultural and creative roles.
• Jobrapido: Italian-founded job search engine with strong domestic market share. Comparable as an Italian job-listing destination competing for the same candidate traffic and employer postings, though generalist rather than culturally specialized.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Facebookfacebook.com/profilcultura
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/profilcultura
• Instagraminstagram.com/profilcultura

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Subsidiaries1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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