British HRtech startup Jack & Jill has raised $20 million in seed funding to take its AI-powered recruitment platform global, starting with a significant expansion into the United States. The London-based team plans to debut in San Francisco in the coming months as part of its rapid international growth.
The Future of Hiring: Meet Jack and Jill
At its core, Jack & Jill is reimagining how people find jobs and how companies hire, using conversational AI agents that act like digital recruiters.
Their two main agents, Jack and Jill, each handle one side of the hiring equation.
- Jack chats with job seekers, learns about their skills and career goals, and connects them only with roles that truly match.
- Jill, built for employers, analyses hiring needs and searches through Jack’s candidate pool to find the right talent, fast.
Together, they automate what human recruiters struggle with: endless filtering, screening, and repetitive communication.
Why Investors Are Paying Attention
The round was led by Creandum, the European VC known for early bets on companies like Spotify and Klarna, with participation from Ada Ventures, Dig Ventures, Entrepreneur First, Episode1, Playfair, and more than 75 angel investors, including Formula 1 champion Nico Rosberg and executives from Anthropic and ElevenLabs.
For a company that launched only six months ago, the momentum has been impressive. Over 49,000 candidates have already interacted with Jack, and Jill is now integrated into hundreds of hiring teams across London’s startup ecosystem.
According to Co-Founder and CTO Saaras Mehan, the traditional hiring process is broken:
“Recruiters can only handle so much at once, while job boards overwhelm candidates and flood employers with mismatched applicants. We built Jack & Jill to fix that.”
Growing Fast and Thinking Big
Jack & Jill’s data shows that clients using their system are seeing faster hiring times, better-quality matches, and lower recruitment costs than through agencies or job boards.
The team, currently 12 people strong, is now setting its sights on San Francisco, a city synonymous with tech and innovation. The U.S. launch marks the next step in Jack & Jill’s mission to make AI-driven hiring accessible and efficient for companies worldwide.
Investors see this as a defining moment for HRtech. Peter Specht, General Partner at Creandum, praised the startup’s early progress:
“Jack & Jill is one of the most exciting agentic AI companies we’ve seen. The traction they’ve achieved in such a short time shows real market demand. The U.S. expansion will be one to watch.”
