INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
French startup Welcome to the Jungle is raising a funding round of $8.4 million (€7 million) from XAnge, Bpifrance and Kima Ventures, as
well as existing investors Jean-Paul Guisset and Michael Benabou.
Welcome to the Jungle is taking a different approach to job recruitment
The startup isn&t going to find employees for you
Instead, Welcome to the Jungle wants to give you the tools and exposure to get enough inbound applications.
The company started by profiling
hundreds of tech companies in Paris
Instead of creating a giant Excel spreadsheet, Welcome to the Jungle works with a video crew, photographers and a writing staff to produce
high quality content about your company
Think about it as glossy paper articles with Condé Nast-like production budget.
All of this is pricy
Companies pay for these profiles and get their own page on Welcome to the Jungle website
In addition to that, Welcome to the Jungle also produces quarterly magazines for a hundred universities and a thick paper magazine once per
year.
And it true that Welcome to the Jungle has covered a ton of companies in Paris
When you think about a company name, chances are you can find a profile on Welcome to the Jungle.
Overall, a thousand companies partnered
with Welcome to the Jungle
The website now attracts 600,000 unique visitors every month
For engineers, you can now filter depending on your skill set and your technical stack.
In addition to that, the startup has been slowly
ramping up its software-as-a-service recruitment platform called Welcome Kit
Imagine somebody reads about your company in Welcome to the Jungle magazine and then ends up on a poorly designed job page.
Welcome Kit
replaces the &Jobs& link in your website footer
The platform lets you list positions, create application forms and track candidates
Basic features are free and you can pay for additional features and branding options.
With today funding round, it time to look further
The company now wants to expand to another country, which could be Spain
It going to be a slow expansion as Welcome to the Jungle needs to put together a local team in each country to create content.
