Welcome to the Jungle builds rich employer profiles (including photo and video shoots) and a job board where companies post openings and detail benefits, culture and teams. The platform also offers an applicant tracking system and paid upgrades such as exclusive content, boosted listings, metrics and third‑party integrations. It reports roughly 3 million unique monthly visitors, works with 5,000 customers, generates €30 million in annual recurring revenue and employs over 300 people. The startup launched in 2015 and has expanded beyond France into Spain and the Czech Republic. Management says it plans to expand to the U.S., which will require localization work and additional hires. The company has raised capital since inception and positions itself to continue growing its recruiting and employer‑branding services. Welcome to the Jungle combines media-style company profiles (produced with photographers and a video crew) with recruiting software to help employers showcase their brand and manage hiring. Companies pay for high-quality profiles to improve recruitment branding; the platform now has over 2,500 client companies, including 250 in Spain and 100 in the Czech Republic. The startup also offers Welcome Kit, an applicant tracking system used by 4,000 companies that have posted about 150,000 job offers and received 2.5 million applications collectively. The company is available in France, Spain and the Czech Republic and plans to open offices in Germany and the U.K. It is expanding its product suite and will soon launch Welcome Home, an employee-facing intranet product to improve new-hire retention and onboarding. The business raised new capital to support international expansion and product development. Welcome to the Jungle is a French recruitment media and SaaS company that produces high-quality employer profiles, quarterly university magazines, an annual paper magazine, and a SaaS hiring product called Welcome Kit. The startup charges companies for bespoke profiles and pages on its website and offers Welcome Kit as a freemium platform to list positions, create application forms, and track candidates. The site has partnered with roughly 1,000 companies and attracts about 600,000 unique visitors per month; it also produces quarterly magazines for around 100 universities. With the new $8.4M (€7M) funding from XAnge, Bpifrance, Kima Ventures and existing backers Jean-Paul Guisset and Michael Benabou, the company plans to expand internationally. Target expansion could begin in Spain, though the company expects slow, localized rollouts requiring local teams to create content in each market. Welcome to the Jungle has been gradually ramping up Welcome Kit to replace basic jobs pages and drive more paid SaaS features and branding upgrades. Welcome to the Jungle is a media company focused on making recruitment more engaging by producing rich employer profiles with videos, photos and articles. It publishes free quarterly magazines for business and engineering schools and a yearly coffee-table book sold in bookshops for about $15. The site has referenced hundreds of startups in Paris and operates live verticals including Welcome to the Jungle and Show Must Go On, with Born to Be Wild about to launch. The company is rebranding to Jukebox Group and expanding into multiple industry verticals beyond tech, including fashion, luxury and finance. It raised $2.1 million (€2 million) from business angels to support these efforts. Jukebox Group is also developing a software-as-a-service recruitment product to manage job pages on startup sites and plans to combine sponsorships, branded content and recruitment solutions as revenue streams.

Total raised

$87M

Funding rounds

4

Latest round

Series C

Latest activity

Jan 2023