# London-based Jack & Jill, which offers Jack, an AI agent for job seekers, and Jill, an agent for companies, raised a $40M Series A, after raising $20M in 2025 (Chris Metinko/Axios)

> London-based Jack & Jill has raised a 40 million dollar Series A, following a 20 million dollar round in 2025. The startup runs two AI agents that work opposite sides of the hiring market: Jack acts on behalf of job seekers, while Jill represents companies looking to fill roles. The pitch is essentially to automate the awkward early stages of recruiting, matching candidates and employers through agents rather than endless applications and recruiter calls. It is an unusually direct example of AI agents negotiating with other agents, with the hiring process as the testing ground. Whether that improves outcomes or just adds a new layer between people and jobs is the open question. Recruiting is full of noise and bias already, and handing more of it to automated intermediaries could cut friction or entrench the same problems at greater speed. The fresh funding, roughly doubling what the company had raised before, at least buys it time to find out.

_Section: [AI Funding Tracker](https://www.wortins.com/funding) · Source: Axios · Published Tuesday, September 15, 2026_

## Wortins' read

London-based Jack & Jill has raised a 40 million dollar Series A, following a 20 million dollar round in 2025. The startup runs two AI agents that work opposite sides of the hiring market: Jack acts on behalf of job seekers, while Jill represents companies looking to fill roles. The pitch is essentially to automate the awkward early stages of recruiting, matching candidates and employers through agents rather than endless applications and recruiter calls. It is an unusually direct example of AI agents negotiating with other agents, with the hiring process as the testing ground. Whether that improves outcomes or just adds a new layer between people and jobs is the open question. Recruiting is full of noise and bias already, and handing more of it to automated intermediaries could cut friction or entrench the same problems at greater speed. The fresh funding, roughly doubling what the company had raised before, at least buys it time to find out.

## Source

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