On a Tuesday morning at any given French employer of size, a hiring manager opens a Welcome to the Jungle company page and sees something closer to a magazine spread than a careers tab. That editorial layer, sold as a recruiting and employer-branding subscription, is what the Paris-based company has built into a business of roughly €30 million in annual recurring revenue and 5,000 customers as of the end of 2022 [Sifted].
Founders Jérémy Clédat and Bertrand Uzeel started the company in 2015 [Dealroom.co]. The product has since widened from a media-led job board into an all-in-one hiring suite: employer branding pages, job matching, candidate sourcing, and an applicant tracking system [Crunchbase]. The most recent product push is into AI-assisted candidate sourcing, with the company claiming access to 2 million engaged candidates and roughly 18 million additional profiles, and a 40 percent average response rate on outbound messages [Crunchbase].
Total disclosed funding sits at about $87.3 million across three rounds, with SGPA leading the seed and Blisce, Revaia, XAnge, Bpifrance, Cipio Partners, Groupe ADP, and Kostogri appearing across the cap table [Crunchbase].
| Metric | Value |
|---|---|
| ARR (end 2022) | €30M |
| Customers (end 2022) | 5,000 |
| French corporate clients | 5,500+ |
| Yearly unique visitors | 22.5M |
| Employees | 200 to 300 |
| France P&L | breakeven |
The bear case was made visible in January 2025, when the company announced a restructuring that included layoffs [AIM Group, Jan 2025]. International expansion in job boards is historically brutal, and enterprise HR buyers in Germany, the UK, and the Nordics have their own preferred suppliers. The bull answer is that France is already breakeven and producing cash to fund a more disciplined expansion, and the AI-sourcing product widens the contract value per existing customer.