French startup Welcome to the Jungle has raised a brand new $22.three million funding spherical (€20 million). The startup is each a media firm and a tech startup that desires to empower tech corporations in the case of recruitment. It doesn’t discover the correct candidate for you, it helps you get publicity, observe utility and facilitate onboarding.
Gaia Capital Partners is main the spherical with present buyers Bpifance, XAnge and Jean-Paul Guisset additionally taking part. With right this moment’s funding spherical, the corporate desires to develop to extra international locations and develop new merchandise.
This can also be Gaia Capital Partners’ first funding. The agency raised a $110 million fund (€100 million) with round 40 restricted companions, comparable to Sycomore Asset Management, Generali Investments and Bpifrance. The progress fund headed by Alice Albizzati and Elina Berrebi goes to concentrate on corporations which have a constructive environmental or societal influence at Series B stage and above.
Welcome to the Jungle is at the moment accessible in France, Spain and Czech Republic. Up subsequent, the corporate goes to open places of work in Germany and the U.Ok.
The firm works with photographers and a video crew to create prime quality profiles of different corporations which are actively recruiting. This means, potential candidates can browse these profiles, study extra about corporations and make up their thoughts.
Companies pay for these profiles to enhance their branding, particularly in the case of recruitment. And it appears to be working properly as there at the moment are over 2,500 purchasers, together with 250 in Spain and 100 in Czech Republic.
More just lately, Welcome to the Jungle has began to develop past these showcases to sort out the recruitment course of at giant. The startup launched Welcome Kit, an applicant monitoring system to handle job presents and maintain job purposes.
With Welcome Kit, you possibly can design a profession web site, write job postings and create utility kinds. Your recruitment crew then receives purposes, feedback and collaborates with the remainder of the crew, sends emails utilizing templates and extra.
4,000 corporations are utilizing Welcome Kit. Collectively, they’ve posted about 150,000 job presents and acquired 2.5 million purposes.
And now, Welcome to the Jungle is about to launch Welcome Home, the startup’s tackle the great previous intranet. The firm realized that too many individuals who be a part of an organization don’t really feel at house straight away. And some folks will even stop simply a few months after becoming a member of an organization.
You will be capable of create an worker listing, submit company-wide bulletins and get info utilizing Welcome Home. All of this could assist create a extra welcoming setting for newcomers.
