Jack & Jill
jackandjill.ai
$38M
Series A
Matthew Wilson
Co-founder & CEO
- Matthew Wilson trained as a physicist before building Jack & Jill's AI recruiting agents.
Series AAI-NativeSecond-Time FounderEnterprise
21 HR & Recruiting companies raised a combined $199.8M across 3 pre-seed, 11 seed, 7 series a. Tracked daily from announcement. Founder contacts and growth signals included.
- Matthew Wilson trained as a physicist before building Jack & Jill's AI recruiting agents.
- Daichi Tachibana previously served as a director at Bengo4.com leading its CloudSign e-signature business before founding PeopleX in April 2024.
- Lander Degreve co-founded Spott with two university friends after they saw recruitment inefficiencies firsthand while working at McKinsey, Bain and BCG.
The HR & Recruiting sector saw 21 funding rounds tracked on FundedStartupsDaily this year, totalling $199.8M. The median round sits at $6M, with 67% of activity at pre-seed and seed stage and the remaining 33% at Series A and later. Pre-Seed rounds dominate, accounting for 14% of all HR & Recruiting activity in 2026.
Geographically, HR & Recruiting funding is concentrated in United States, which accounts for 9 of the 21 raises (43%). The remainder is distributed across other regions tracked by FundedStartupsDaily.
The largest HR & Recruiting round in 2026 is Jack & Jill's $38M series a, led by Matthew Wilson. HR & Recruiting activity accelerated through Sep, when raises jumped to 6 announcements.
Every entry on this page is sourced from public funding announcements, then enriched with founder LinkedIn handles, company websites, and growth signals. If you're a founder, operator, salesperson, or recruiter tracking HR & Recruiting, this page updates every weekday with new rounds.
| # | Company | Stage | Raised | Founder / CEO | Region | Signals | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 50skills 50skills.com | Series A | $6M | Kristjan Freyr Kristjansson Co-founder & CEO | Iceland | Series A Enterprise Vertical SaaS | |
| 2 | Spott spott.io | Series A | $21M | Lander Degreve Co-founder & CEO | Belgium | Series A B2B Enterprise | |
| 3 | Factrika factrika.com | Seed | $1.0M | Kshitij Puri Co-founder | India | Seed B2B Marketplace | |
| 4 | ReFresh refresh.tech | Seed | $2.5M | Harrison Kennedy CEO and Co-founder | Australia | Seed Second-Time Founder Enterprise | |
| 5 | Jack & Jill jackandjill.ai | Series A | $38M | Matthew Wilson Co-founder & CEO | United Kingdom | Series A AI-Native Second-Time Founder | |
| 6 | PeopleX peoplex.jp | Series A | $34M | Daichi Tachibana Representative Director & CEO | Japan | Series A Revenue-Generating Enterprise | |
| 7 | Jem jemhr.com | Series A | $8.4M | Simon Ellis Co-founder & CEO | South Africa | Series A Revenue-Generating B2B | |
| 8 | FlairMakers flairmakers.com | Pre-Seed | $635K | Raluca Epureanu Co-founder and CEO | United Kingdom | Pre-Seed B2B Marketplace | |
| 9 | Buildforce buildforce.com | Series A | $10M | Moody Heard Co-Founder & CEO | United States | Series A Marketplace B2B | |
| 10 | Guthrie AI guthrie.ai | Seed | $4M | Ted Baumgardner Founder & CEO | United States | Seed B2B Vertical SaaS | |
| 11 | Carefam carefam.com | Seed | $14.5M | Matan Hoffmann CEO & Co-founder | United States | Seed Enterprise B2B | |
| 12 | Fika Jobs fika.jobs | Pre-Seed | $4M | Alexander Dubois Co-Founder | Sweden | Pre-Seed AI-Native Marketplace | |
| 13 | Orbio orbio.ai | Series A | $21M | Sergi Bastardas Co-founder & CEO | United Kingdom | Series A B2B Enterprise | |
| 14 | Contrario contrario.ai | Seed | $2.3M | Arya Marwaha CEO & Co-founder | United States | Seed YC Backed Revenue-Generating | |
| 15 | Fresh People freshpeople.com | Seed | $3M | Jose J. Burgos Lancero Founder & CEO | Spain | Seed AI-Native B2B | |
| 16 | Saile saileapp.com | Pre-Seed | $2.2M | Marc Ayoub Co-founder | United States | Pre-Seed Healthcare Marketplace | |
| 17 | Certifyde certifyde.com | Seed | $2M | Skylar Hauswirth Co-founder and CEO | United States | Seed Enterprise AI-Native | |
| 18 | Windmill windmill.com | Seed | $12M | Max Shaw CEO & Co-founder | United States | Seed AI-Native B2B | |
| 19 | Dex dex.ai | Seed | $5.3M | Paddy Lambros Co-Founder & CEO | United Kingdom | Seed B2B AI-Native | |
| 20 | Paraform paraform.com | Seed | John Kim Co-Founder & CEO | United States | Seed Marketplace B2B | ||
| 21 | Novaworks novaworks.ai | Seed | $8M | Kelley Steven-Waiss Co-Founder & CEO | United States | Seed Enterprise AI-Native |