Job&Talent closes €92m Series F to scale AI-driven workforce agents

Job&Talent, the Madrid-based workforce marketplace, has closed a €92 million Series F round to fuel expansion of its AI-driven staffing operations. The April 2025 round values the company at €1.3 billion. New and returning backers include venture firms Atomico and Kibo, asset manager BlackRock, and infrastructure-focused investors DN Capital, Hercules, InfraVia, and Kinnevik.

The investment reflects a shift in how staffing platforms compete. Rather than simply connecting job seekers with employers, Job&Talent is building agents that automate the recruiter's job itself. Its first agent, Clara, conducts interviews across text, voice, and video. It handles screening, candidate engagement, and onboarding tasks that traditionally require human attention. In its first few months, Clara ran over 180,000 interviews and helped place more than 7,000 workers. For European founders in hiring-adjacent spaces, this signals how quickly AI tooling can reshape hiring timelines and costs.

Growing beyond temporary staffing

The capital supports three priorities: accelerating its footprint across the ten countries where it operates, deepening its sales engine, and rolling out new AI agents across different workflows. Clara focuses on recruitment. Others, now in beta, target shift planning, attendance monitoring, and account management. These agents essentially automate different parts of the staffing operation a client might otherwise staff internally.

Job&Talent's AI agents learn from an unusual dataset: over one million worker placements and millions of shifts logged on its platform. That operational data allows the company to predict no-shows, anticipate staffing gaps, and match workers to roles with precision. Investors backing this round signal confidence that this advantage compounds over time and is defensible.

Where permanent workers fit

A strategic pivot matters for European HR teams. Job&Talent plans to extend its platform to permanent employee management by year-end. Currently available to select clients, the feature will open broadly in the second half of 2025. This moves the company beyond its core business of temporary labour placement into head-count management for permanent roles.

The expansion could reshape how tech companies and logistics firms approach hiring. These firms are often scattered across multiple vendors. A single platform managing both temporary and permanent placements reduces switching costs and centralises hiring data. It also opens a larger addressable market. Temporary staffing is cyclical and narrow, but permanent hiring is constant and spans every industry.

The numbers behind growth

Scale matters here. In 2024 alone, Job&Talent placed 300,000 workers across more than 3,250 client companies, mostly in logistics, warehousing, and retail. The United States, where the company operates a nationwide platform, grew revenue 27 percent year-on-year in the final quarter of 2024 and is now its largest market.

This growth comes as Job&Talent navigated a tougher macroeconomic period than earlier funding rounds. The company prioritised profitability and operational efficiency over headcount growth, a contrast to venture-backed norms between 2021 and 2023. That discipline appears to have paid off: the company remains profitable and commands investor confidence for growth-stage deployment of capital.

What comes next

With this round, Job&Talent plans to double down on two fronts: geographic expansion in Europe and North America, and deeper penetration of existing customer accounts with its growing suite of AI agents. The permanent worker announcement—modest in early rollout but significant if it scales—suggests the company sees its long-term business as a general-purpose hiring and workforce management platform, not a temporary labour specialist.

Co-CEO Juan Urdiales said the capital "reaffirms our shared vision for the future of Job&Talent" and positions the company as "a fully integrated employment platform that helps companies manage their temporary and internal workforces more efficiently." For European startups in hiring, recruitment tech, or workforce solutions, that positioning is worth watching.