AI recruitment firm Jack & Jill raises £14.9m led by Creandum with Entrepreneur First
This article covers seed funding on 16 October 2025 for Jack & Jill, a London-based AI recruitment company, founded by Matthew Wilson and Saaras Mehan. It raised £14.9m in a round led by Creandum and backed by Dig Ventures.
What does Jack & Jill do?
Jack & Jill provides an AI recruitment service that uses two autonomous agents, Jack and Jill, to manage hiring conversations. It matches candidates to roles and helps employers screen, shortlist and communicate with candidates during the hiring process.
Why is Jack & Jill useful?
Problem
Businesses face inefficient, costly and often biased hiring processes that frustrate candidates and companies. These processes rely on manual screening and keyword matching that miss skilled candidates and waste time.
Solution
Jack & Jill explains that it helps by using two AI agents, Jack and Jill, to match candidates and companies. Jack interviews candidates to uncover true fit while Jill consults hiring teams to find ideal hires quickly and fairly.
How much did Jack & Jill raise?
Jack & Jill raised £14.9m ($20m) in seed funding, led by Creandum alongside Dig Ventures. This makes it the 8th largest funding round in October 2025 (47 recorded). As of 16 October 2025, the round is the 121st largest of the year (519 total) in the Startupmag database.
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Who invested in Jack & Jill?
Key investors in the round included the following:
- Creandum: A European early-stage venture capital firm that invests in technology startups across consumer and B2B sectors.
- Dig Ventures: A UK early-stage investor that backs technology-driven startups across a range of sectors.
- Entrepreneur First: A talent-focused investor and company builder that backs founders at pre-seed stages, particularly in deep tech and software across Europe and Asia.
- Ada Ventures: A UK venture fund that supports founders building technology businesses, often with a focus on social impact and inclusion.
- Firedrop: A technology company specialising in AI-driven web and design tools that participated among the investors.
- Repeat.vc: An early-stage investor that focuses on software and developer-oriented startups.
- Episode1: A UK venture firm that invests in scaling digital businesses across the UK and Europe.
- Playfair: An early-stage VC that provides seed funding to technology startups across Europe.
- Nico Rosberg: An angel investor with a background in motorsport and an interest in sustainability and technology.
- Lovable: A consumer-focused company whose representatives joined the investor group.
- Anthropic: An AI research company focused on developing large language models and AI safety that participated in the financing.
- ElevenLabs: A company specialising in AI voice and speech synthesis technologies that took part as an investor.
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Who founded Jack & Jill?
The founders of Jack & Jill are Matthew Wilson and Saaras Mehan.
Where is Jack & Jill based?
Jack & Jill is based in London, UK.
What sector is Jack & Jill in?
Jack & Jill operates in the artificial intelligence sector. This sector builds systems that perform tasks that usually need human intelligence. In plain terms, it helps machines learn from data to make decisions or give answers.
Key trends and challenges in AI recruitment:
Proliferation of autonomous conversational AI
AI agents now screen and match candidates at scale, for example chatbots conducting thousands of conversations daily.
Bias, fairness and explainability
Models trained on historical hiring data can reproduce bias, so explainability and audits are essential to prevent discrimination.
Data privacy and candidate trust
Recruitment AI uses sensitive personal data, so GDPR compliance and clear consent are vital for candidate trust.
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They've invested in Jack & Jill
Get to know these AI investors
| Investor | Sector | Stage | Activity | Team | Connect |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Creandum | 6 investments investments | 15 contacts contacts | |||
 Dig Ventures | 3 investments investments | 4 contacts contacts | |||
 Entrepreneur First | 12 investments investments | 10 contacts contacts | |||
 Ada Ventures | 38 investments investments | 2 contacts contacts | |||
 firedrop | 1 investment investment | more info | |||
 Repeat.vc | 1 investment investment | more info | |||
 Episode 1 Ventures (Episode1) | 46 investments investments | 5 contacts contacts | |||
 Playfair Capital (Playfair) | 12 investments investments | 4 contacts contacts | |||
 ElevenLabs | 3 investments investments | more info |
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