AI recruitment company Jack & Jill has raised £15 million in seed investment to build and expand in Europe and the United States.
The business was co-founded by Matthew Wilson and Saaras Mehan to address the frustration they felt with the inefficiency and bias in the recruitment system while building previous startups.
AI recruiters ‘Jack’ and ‘Jill’ respectively help candidates find and land the next step in their career while introducing companies to a small number of well-matched candidates.
‘Jack’ speaks to professionals to learn deeply about their experiences, skill sets, and ambitions, only surfacing jobs that truly match.
‘Jill’ speaks to hiring managers and talent teams to understand what they are looking for and then scans thousands of conversations from Jack’s network, to pick ideal candidates.
The round was backed by leading European early-stage firm, Creandum, as well as prominent VCs including Dig Ventures, Entrepreneur First, Ada Ventures, Firedrop, Repeat.vc, Episode1, Playfair and over 75 high-profile angel investors, including Nico Rosberg, and from companies such as Lovable, Anthropic and ElevenLabs.
“Jack & Jill is one of the most exciting businesses leveraging agentic AI that we have seen,” said Peter Specht, general partner at Creandum, who led the investment.
“The significant market traction they have gained at such an early stage is proof of the market demand. We have no doubt that Matthew, Saaras, and the team are leading a revolution in this industry, and we can’t wait to see the response in the US.”
Jack & Jill is already scaling rapidly in London with Jill integrated into hundreds high-growth companies, recruiting from Jack’s network of 49,000 top talent. Customers are reporting faster time-to-hire, higher candidate quality and savings on the traditional recruiter fees of up to 50%.
Following early traction in the UK, Jack & Jill is preparing for imminent expansion into the US market, targeting the Bay Area, to serve a global audience of candidates and employers seeking more intelligent, cost-effective and frictionless hiring.
CEO Wilson said: “Imagine a world where every person is in their perfect job, doing their best work, fulfilled and impactful, and every company has the right people working for them, driving innovation and success.
“We’re a long, long way from that today. Our mission is to fix recruitment so that everyone in the world gets unimaginably good support while hiring or finding a job.”
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