London-based AI startup Jack & Jill, which has built two conversational agents designed to streamline hiring, just raised $20m in seed funding to expand into Europe and the US.
The round was led by Creandum, an early backer of Spotify and Klarna, with participation from Dig Ventures, Entrepreneurs First and Ada Ventures, alongside 75 angel investors from companies including Lovable, Anthropic and ElevenLabs. Ex-Formula One racer Nico Rosberg also invested.
Founded earlier this year by Matthew Wilson, the founder of HR tech scaleup Omnipresent, and Saaras Mehan, the YC-backed founder of Kular.ai, Jack & Jill aims to “fix recruitment” using autonomous AI agents that replicate — and improve upon — the work of human recruiters.
The company's pitch is straightforward enough: Jack helps jobseekers find the best role for them, while Jill helps companies find the perfect hire.
Both operate as autonomous AI agents, meaning they can hold thousands of simultaneous conversations and deliver what the founders describe as “the service of a world-class recruiter at a fraction of the cost”.
Though just six months old, Jack & Jill says it has already “spoken” to 49k candidates and has hundreds of fast-growing companies using Jill within their hiring teams, including open banking platform TrueLayer.
“Jack & Jill is one of the most exciting businesses leveraging agentic AI to have come across our desks. The significant market traction they have gained at such an early stage is proof of the market demand,” says Peter Specht, general partner at Creandum.
