The labor market struggles to effectively connect temporary workers with employers due to administrative hurdles, labor shortages, and poor worker experiences. Job&Talent, a globally recognised marketplace for essential work and an AI-driven workforce management provider, addresses these challenges through its digital platform. The platform streamlines recruitment, onboarding, payroll, and workforce management while offering workers flexible job options, daily payments, and an improved overall experience.
To drive the future of workforce management, Job&Talent has completed its Series F fundraising round, securing €92 million in equity financing. The round valued the company at €1.3 billion and included participation from new and existing investors: Atomico, BlackRock, DN Capital, Hercules, Infravia, Kibo, and Kinnevik.
The new funding will support Job&Talent’s long-term strategic goals, including international expansion and AI technology advancement. The company will invest heavily in sales and product development, enhancing its AI capabilities to boost client workforce reliability and productivity.
Juan Urdiales, Co-Founder and co-CEO of Job&Talent, stated: “This capital infusion reinforces our collective vision for the future of Job&Talent. Based on the platform we have developed over the years, we are now in a strong position to evolve into a fully integrated employment platform that enables companies to manage their temporary and internal workforces more effectively. Our next-generation AI agents will lead to substantial gains in productivity, create better opportunities for workers, and deliver essential cost savings for businesses.”
Addressing the inefficiencies in the labor market
Founded in 2009 in Madrid, Spain, by Juan Urdiales and Felipe Navío (former McKinsey & Company), Job&Talent emerged from the founders’ recognition of labor market inefficiencies. During the 2008 economic crisis, they observed a significant disconnect between available jobs and the talent pool, noting how job seekers and employers struggled to connect effectively.
The company aimed to transform recruitment through technology by improving job seeker-employer matching efficiency. Its mission focuses on empowering workers with stability, faster job placements, and fair treatment while helping companies manage flexible workforces. The founders targeted rising unemployment rates and labor shortages, particularly in blue-collar and temporary positions, working to create a more transparent and efficient labor market.
Today, Job&Talent remains dedicated to making work accessible, reliable, and flexible for workers while providing businesses with dynamic workforce management solutions. The company continues to innovate with AI-driven tools and expand globally to address labor market challenges.
Since its 2021 launch, the US has become Job&Talent’s largest and fastest-growing market, showing a 27% year-over-year revenue increase in Q4 2024. This growth stems from the nationwide rollout of its technology-driven workforce management platform. Earlier this year, the company expanded platform availability to all 10 countries where it operates, strengthening its global presence.
Over the past two years, Job&Talent has successfully navigated a challenging macroeconomic environment by focusing on profitability, operational efficiency, and product innovation. In 2024 alone, the company placed over 300,000 workers globally across more than 3,250 companies in key logistics, warehousing, and retail sectors.
How Job&Talent transforms workforce management with AI
As part of its innovation strategy, Job&Talent is developing AI agents customised to enhance specific aspects of workforce management, supporting candidates, employees, and supervisors. These intelligent agents are trained on operational data from over 1 million worker placements and millions of recorded shifts, covering performance metrics, shift management, absenteeism, and more.
The AI agents, including recruiter, account manager, and attendance coach roles, use text, voice, and video to automate routine tasks while helping employers hire more effectively, manage their workforce better, and reduce operational costs. These agents can contact numerous candidates minutes after application, predict staffing needs, automate shift scheduling, and monitor attendance by identifying real-time no-shows.
Clara, Job&Talent’s first AI recruitment agent, is in trials with select clients. She has already conducted over 180,000 interviews in just a few months — matching the output of thousands of recruiters — and has directly enabled more than 7,000 hires, contributing to industry-leading fill rates even during peak demand. With several agents in beta testing, the company plans to introduce more throughout the year to address various aspects of workforce management.
This year, Job&Talent will extend its platform and AI agents to include permanent workers, allowing companies to utilise these capabilities and cost benefits across their entire workforce, not just those employed through Job&Talent. The rollout will begin with select existing clients and should be available to all companies in the second half of the year.
Through this expansion, Job&Talent strengthens its value proposition to the entire frontline workforce, offering companies the flexibility to hire and manage temporary and permanent workers through a single, integrated platform.
