Job&Talent, the Madrid-based digital marketplace transforming how companies manage their frontline workforce. Has just closed a major round of funding. The company secured €92 million in Series F equity financing. Pushing its valuation to €1.3 billion and marking a major step toward its ambition of becoming the go-to AI-powered platform for modern employment.
The round saw participation from both new and long-time backers, including Atomico, BlackRock, DN Capital, Hercules, Infravia, Kibo, and Kinnevik. With this new capital, Job&Talent plans to ramp up international expansion and double down on AI development to help employers manage temporary and permanent workers more effectively.
Founded in 2009 by Juan Urdiales and Felipe Navío, the company was born out of the 2008 financial crisis. When job seekers and businesses struggled to connect in a fractured labor market. The two founders saw an opportunity to rebuild the employment model using technology. Addressing inefficiencies, cutting administrative complexity, and improving conditions for workers.
Today, Job&Talent offers a digital platform that handles everything from recruitment and onboarding to payroll and workforce management. For workers, it offers flexible jobs, daily pay, and a smoother experience. For companies, it reduces friction and improves staffing outcomes—especially in high-turnover industries like logistics, retail, and warehousing.
Now active in 10 countries, Job&Talent is one of Europe’s fastest-scaling worktech companies. Since launching in the U.S. in 2021, it has seen its American business become the company’s fastest-growing market, with a 27% year-over-year revenue jump in Q4 2024. In just the past year, it placed over 300,000 workers across 3,250 companies worldwide.
But Job&Talent’s biggest bet is on AI agents—intelligent digital assistants trained on data from more than 1 million job placements and millions of shift logs. These agents take on roles like recruiter, account manager, and attendance coach. They engage candidates through text, voice, or video, automating tasks such as job matching, scheduling, interview coordination, and absence tracking.
The first of these, Clara, is already in testing. In just a few months, Clara has conducted 180,000 interviews and helped fill over 7,000 positions, delivering results equivalent to a large recruitment team—at a fraction of the cost. Several more AI agents are currently in beta and will launch later this year, with the goal of reshaping workforce management at scale.
CEO Juan Urdiales believes this is just the beginning. “We’re now in a strong position to evolve into a fully integrated employment platform,” he said, noting that the next generation of AI agents will unlock greater productivity, better outcomes for workers, and significant cost savings for employers.
By mid-2025, Job&Talent plans to expand its AI features to cover permanent employees, not just temporary workers. That means companies will soon be able to manage their entire workforce—from part-time to full-time—on a single platform.
As frontline industries face rising labor costs and ongoing shortages, Job&Talent is positioning itself as the default infrastructure for modern work, combining AI, automation, and real-world expertise to make hiring faster, smarter, and more human.
