Pickmybrain Raises €1.8M Pre-seed To Expand AI Digital Brains Platform

The round was backed by a group of business angels, including Garri Zmudze, along with Raison.app and other undisclosed investors.

Founded in 2022, Pickmybrain enables professionals, public figures, and experts to turn their knowledge into AI-powered “Digital Brains” that provide on-demand guidance. Users can interact with these AI advisors or send more complex questions directly to the expert via asynchronous video.

The platform addresses a common challenge experts often struggle to scale their knowledge without spending excessive time on repetitive questions or content creation.

Pickmybrain trains AI models on curated, expert-approved content such as interviews, books and recorded insights, ensuring authenticity and control over data.

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For those with limited digital presence the platform offers tools to record and structure knowledge for AI training. This approach creates personalised AI advisors based on real expertise rather than scraped data.

Pickmybrain aims to move beyond the ad-driven creator economy toward an “expert economy” allowing professionals to monetise their knowledge through direct, utility-based interactions instead of relying on followers or constant content production.

The platform already hosts over 1,000 professionals across sports, entertainment, and business, including Peter Vesterbacka, Paul Pogba, and Bozoma Saint John.

Sergei Verbitski, founder of Pickmybrain, says: “While AI is often framed as a threat to jobs, it’s also creating new ways for professionals to share and monetise their expertise. There’s an emerging layer of personalisation: AI models built around a specific human’s knowledge, not just broad internet data. Just like Patreon helped creators monetise content, we are enabling professionals to monetise their expertise without becoming full-time content producers or mentors. Looking ahead, these Digital Brains will evolve into AI assistants that enhance workflows, maintain context over time, and act as persistent team members.”

“Khaby Lame selling his AI twin for €840.5 million ($975 million) illustrates how digital likenesses and AI-driven personalities are becoming a cultural phenomenon. Pickmybrain sits at the intersection of these trends, providing a platform that lets experts turn their domain-specific knowledge into AI-powered Digital Brains, making their insights accessible and scalable so users can instantly tap into their trusted expertise, get practical answers instead of generic AI responses, and apply guidance from top professionals directly in both work and life,” the Estonian startup mentioned in the press release.