Welcome to the Jungle

Founders and Team

Welcome to the Jungle was founded in 2015 by Jérémy Clédat and Bertrand Uzeel [Dealroom.co].

How the Company Got Here

Welcome to the Jungle is a Paris-based recruitment media and software company that has spent a decade building one of Europe's most-visited employer-branding destinations. Founded in 2015 by Jérémy Clédat and Bertrand Uzeel, the company began as a content-led job board that profiled employers in long-form video and editorial, then layered on a SaaS recruitment product (originally Welcome Kit) for client companies [TechCrunch, May 2018]. By the start of 2023 it had reached roughly €30M in annual recurring revenue and around 5,000 customers, and announced a $54M Series C round to push international expansion and product depth [TechCrunch, Jan 2023] [Sifted]. The platform reports more than 22.5 million yearly unique visitors and a community of over 3 million candidates, with notable French enterprise clients including Sephora, Société Générale, Criteo, Fnac Darty, PWC and Johnson & Johnson [LinkedIn]. The cumulative disclosed capital sits at roughly $87.3M across four rounds, with backers including SGPA, Blisce, Revaia, XAnge, Bpifrance, Cipio Partners, Groupe ADP and Kostogri [Tracxn] [Crunchbase]. The product is moving toward an all-in-one hiring suite combining employer branding, job matching, AI-assisted candidate sourcing and an applicant tracking system, with the company citing access to roughly 2 million engaged candidates and 18 million additional profiles for sourcing [Crunchbase]. In January 2025, the company underwent a restructuring [AIM Group, Jan 2025].

Data Accuracy: GREEN -- Confirmed by TechCrunch, Crunchbase, Sifted, Tracxn and LinkedIn.

Product and Technology

Welcome to the Jungle's product surface has two halves that reinforce one another: a consumer-facing media destination, and a B2B hiring suite sold to employers. On the media side, the company publishes editorial content, video profiles and detailed company pages, reporting more than 22.5M yearly unique visitors and roughly 5 candidates applying every minute [LinkedIn].

On the employer side, the product is an all-in-one hiring suite that combines employer branding, job matching, candidate sourcing and an applicant tracking system [Crunchbase]. The sourcing layer is positioned as AI-assisted, with the company citing access to approximately 2 million engaged candidates and 18 million additional profiles, and claiming a 40% average response rate on engagement messages [Crunchbase]. The technology stack is categorized in third-party databases as Software (Non-AI) at the core, with AI emerging as a feature layer [Crunchbase].

Data Accuracy: YELLOW -- Product features confirmed by TechCrunch and Crunchbase; AI sourcing claims sourced primarily from company-adjacent material.

Market Research and Opportunity

Welcome to the Jungle sits at the intersection of employer brand, content and direct sourcing. The company's disclosed figures include more than 22.5M yearly unique visitors, more than 3M candidates worldwide, more than 10,000 companies on the platform globally, and over 5,500 corporate clients in France alone [LinkedIn] [Crunchbase]. France is the home market where density is highest, and the reported breakeven there suggests the unit economics of a content-plus-SaaS model can work in a single geography at scale [Sifted].

Metric	Value
Yearly unique visitors	22.5M
Candidates worldwide	3M+
Companies worldwide	10,000+
French corporate clients	5,500+
ARR (end 2022)	€30M

Data Accuracy: GREEN -- Confirmed by LinkedIn, Crunchbase and Sifted.

Competitive Landscape

Welcome to the Jungle competes against global giants on raw reach but differentiates on editorial depth and employer-brand storytelling.

Company	Positioning	Stage / Funding	Notable Differentiator
Welcome to the Jungle	Content-led job platform plus hiring SaaS	Series C, ~$87.3M raised	Editorial employer profiles, video, France density
LinkedIn	Global professional network and recruiter platform	Public (Microsoft subsidiary)	Scale of professional graph, recruiter seat distribution
Indeed	Global aggregator job board	Private (Recruit Holdings subsidiary)	Pay-per-click listings volume and SEO reach
Glassdoor	Employer reviews plus listings	Private (Recruit Holdings subsidiary)	Employee review corpus and salary data

Data Accuracy: YELLOW -- Competitor identities confirmed by Tracxn and Crunchbase.

Opportunity

If Welcome to the Jungle executes, the size of the prize is the default employer-brand and hiring platform for a meaningful slice of European mid-market and enterprise employers. The company has a large, branded consumer audience and a paid B2B base that can absorb new product modules [LinkedIn] [Sifted].

Data Accuracy: GREEN -- Scenarios anchored in TechCrunch, Sifted, Crunchbase, Tracxn and LinkedIn disclosures.

Sources

1. [TechCrunch, January 2023] Welcome to the Jungle grabs $54M for its slick job platform
2. [TechCrunch, May 2018] Welcome to the Jungle raises another $8.4 million
3. [Crunchbase] Welcome to the Jungle - Crunchbase Company Profile & Funding
4. [LinkedIn] Welcome to the Jungle | LinkedIn (English)
5. [Sifted] Welcome to the Jungle ARR and customer disclosures (end 2022)
6. [AIM Group, January 2025] Welcome to the Jungle restructuring and layoffs
7. [Tracxn] Welcome to the Jungle - 2025 Company Profile, Team, Funding & Competitors