London-based HRtech firm Jack & Jill, which creates AI agents for recruitment, has raised $20 million in a seed funding round led by Creandum to expand into the US.
- Established in 2025 by Matthew Wilson and Saaras Mehan, Jack & Jill develops AI-powered recruitment agents. The firm has created two conversational AI systems: Jack, which interacts with job seekers to understand their skills, experience, and career objectives, and Jill, which engages with hiring teams to capture the requirements of open roles and identify suitable candidates.
- Jack conducts structured conversations with candidates, curating relevant job opportunities, assisting with applications, and providing interview guidance.
- Jill uses insights from Jack’s interactions to match candidates to roles within companies, effectively functioning as a digital headhunter with access to a large network of potential hires.
- To date, the firm reported over 49,000 candidate interactions and integration with hundreds of hiring teams in high-growth London companies. The platform continuously collects and analyzes data from these conversations to improve job matching and candidate recommendations, offering a system designed to make recruitment more efficient and precise.
Details of the deal
- The seed round was led by Creandum and included backing from Ada Ventures, DIG Ventures, Entrepreneur First, Firedrop, Repeat.vc, Episode1 Ventures, and Playfair, along with more than 75 angel investors, among them Nico Rosberg and representatives from Lovable, Anthropic, and ElevenLabs.
"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,” said Peter Specht, General Partner at Creandum.
- Jack & Jill will use the $20 million seed funding to establish operations in San Francisco, expand their team, and scale their AI-driven recruitment platform for the US market.
- The investment will also support product enhancements and strategic marketing to connect candidates with high-growth companies efficiently.
