Otta operates a database-style jobs platform that aggregates detailed company information (founder bios, employee reviews, salaries, industry) and matches that data to roles at tech companies. The product is positioned as a more transparent, candidate-first alternative to traditional job sites — described in the article as a sort of “CrunchBase for Jobs.” Otta reports strong user engagement growth: it went from 1,000 applications sent per month at launch to more than 5,000 applications every day. The company highlights user preferences (37% of users name meaningful work as their top priority) to target candidates who value mission and fit over compensation. Otta plans to expand its American presence with an on-the-ground Commercial team and to double its Product and Engineering team in London. The business competes with LinkedIn on job search but emphasizes a candidate-first approach rather than recruiter- or advertiser-driven listings. Otta provides a curated job-discovery product that uses an initial online quiz, a one-job-at-a-time interface and a matching algorithm that learns from candidate feedback to improve recommendations. The platform handpicks more than 300 of London’s innovative companies and surfaces details like visa sponsorship, exact office location, recent funding and founder profiles. Since launching in August 2019 the site says “thousands” of job seekers have shortlisted over 20,000 roles. The company is not yet monetising its service and has declined to charge companies to post or to allow paid influence over search results. Its planned monetisation is to charge companies to proactively engage Otta’s high-quality pool of candidates while preserving candidate experience. Otta was founded in June 2019 by Sam Franklin, Theo Margolius and Xav Kearney; the founders were reported as being 25 years of age or younger.

Total raised

$1M

Funding rounds

2

Latest round

Seed

Latest activity

Dec 2019