BPI France et al. in €7m round for Welcome to the Jungle

The latest funding round follows on from a first held in January 2017, when Welcome to the Jungle raised an initial €2m – backers included Jean-Paul Guisset, who launched the fund SGPA, and Michael Benabou, the co-founder of Vente-privée. Including this round, the company has raised a total of €9m to date.

With the fresh capital, the company plans on accelerating its development in France and begin expanding internationally. It plans to launch its platform outside France by late 2018 and intends to hire additional staff members.

Company
Founded in 2015 and headquartered in Paris, Welcome to the Jungle is a recruitment platform. It claims to create content to make businesses attractive to candidates, as well as offering company sector statistics such as skills sought, number of employees and average age of employees.

It has 1,000 corporate clients including LVMH, Saint-Gobain, My Little Paris and AccorHotels. It employs a staff of 45.

People
Welcome to the Jungle – Jérémy Clédat, Bertrand Uzeel (founders).

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