Kinfolk has raised more than £5m to develop its agentic AI HR platform.

The London firm says outdated ticketing systems continue to be used by human resources teams, whereas those using chatbots can only provide answers rather than truly help staff.

Its platform combines agentic AI in Slack, request management, lifecycle automation and analytics to manage employee support and people programmes.

The seed round was led by AlbionVC, with participation from PROfounders Capital and existing investors Ascension and Emerge, as well as Tony Jamous, founder and executive chairman of OysterHR.