A startup that’s built AI agents to autonomously match job seekers with hiring companies has raised $20 million in funding.
London-based Jack & Jill has developed two conversational AI agents for each side of the recruitment process.
One agent, called Jack, works with job seekers. It gathers information from a candidate’s LinkedIn profile, CV, and a 20-minute introductory conversation. Jack then searches for suitable jobs across the internet, provides coaching, and conducts mock interviews.
Jill, the other agent, works with companies. It scans job descriptions and has a briefing conversation with the in-house talent team to understand what the company is looking for in a candidate. Jill can then review applicants, source candidates from public platforms like LinkedIn, and conduct initial interviews.
The two AI agents can also interact with each other and make introductions over email.
“The key insight that we had with Jack & Jill is that AI enables us to combine the nuanced understanding that a human can have, with the scale that you can get from technology,” Matthew Wilson, the startup’s cofounder and CEO, told Business Insider.
Wilson cofounded Jack & Jill six months ago with Saaras Mehan after they became frustrated with what they saw as inefficiency in the recruitment process.
The startup says it has more than 49,000 job seekers using its platform, and counts hundreds of companies, including Airtable, Airwallex, and TrueLayer, among its customers. The service is free for job seekers, while Jack & Jill charges companies 10% of the base salary of a successful hire.
Wilson said he thinks AI will be “very disruptive for a lot of roles.” He added that there’s still plenty of room for humans in the recruitment process, such as focusing on “quality conversations” and strategy. AI can instead handle work that’s not “hugely value-additive” like scrolling through LinkedIn and reviewing CVs, he said.
The startup has 12 employees, and Wilson told Business Insider that it uses AI in areas such as coding, AI-generated marketing videos, and reviewing user interactions to complete more work with fewer people.
Investors pumped $2.8 billion into agentic AI startups globally in the first half of 2025, according to Dealroom data. The buzzy space has seen startups build AI agents for coding, customer support, cybersecurity, and many other areas.
Jack & Jill’s seed round was led by Creandum. It was also backed by Dig Ventures, Entrepreneur First, Ada Ventures, Firedrop, Repeat.vc, Episode1, and Playfair, in addition to more than 50 angel investors from companies including Lovable, Anthropic, and ElevenLabs.
The startup plans to use the fresh funding to expand in Europe and the San Francisco area.
Here’s an exclusive look at the pitch deck that Jack & Jill used to raise its $20 million seed round. Some commercially sensitive content has been redacted.
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