# Matthew Wilson

> Matthew Wilson is the co-founder and CEO of Jack & Jill, a London-based startup building two conversational AI recruiters - Jack for job seekers and Jill for employers - to replace the resume-and-keyword model of hiring. An Oxford-trained theoretical physicist turned serial founder, he previously co-founded Veratrak and scaled the global-employment company Omnipresent to a roughly $600M valuation in three years before its acquisition by Deel. In October 2025, six months after starting Jack & Jill, he raised a $20M seed round led by Creandum with backing from over 75 angels including Nico Rosberg.

- **Role:** Co-founder and CEO at Jack & Jill
- **Organizations:** Jack & Jill, Omnipresent, Veratrak, Entrepreneur First
- **From:** Yorkshire, United Kingdom
- **Nationality:** British
- **Education:** Physics, followed by a Masters in Theoretical and Mathematical Physics, University of Oxford
- **Known for:** Scaled Omnipresent to a ~$600M valuation in roughly three years before its acquisition by Deel, Raised a $120M Series B for Omnipresent, Co-founded Veratrak to bring blockchain to the pharmaceutical supply chain

## Career timeline

- **pre-2012** — Worked in academia on theoretical particle physics
- **2012** — Left academia to build software and work with small businesses
- **2017** — Co-founded Veratrak, digitising the pharmaceutical supply chain using blockchain
- **2019** — Joined Entrepreneur First and co-founded Omnipresent with Guenther Eisinger
- **2021** — Met his ~120-person global Omnipresent team in person for the first time at a retreat in Madeira
- **2019-2022** — Scaled Omnipresent to a roughly $600M valuation and 150+ employees across 35+ countries; raised a $120M Series B
- **2025** — Co-founded Jack & Jill with Saaras Mehan to rebuild recruitment with conversational AI
- **2025** — Raised a $20M seed round led by Creandum, six months after founding

## Achievements

- Scaled Omnipresent to a ~$600M valuation in roughly three years before its acquisition by Deel
- Raised a $120M Series B for Omnipresent
- Co-founded Veratrak to bring blockchain to the pharmaceutical supply chain
- Raised a $20M seed round for Jack & Jill, led by Creandum, six months after founding
- Grew Jack & Jill to nearly 50,000 candidate conversations in the London market within months of launch

## Latest updates

- **2025-10** — Announced a $20M seed round led by Creandum to take Jack & Jill's AI recruiters global, including a San Francisco expansion.
- **2025-09** — Gave a joint interview with co-founder Saaras Mehan outlining Jack & Jill's vision for voice-led, passive career management.

## Links

- Website: https://jackandjill.ai
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/matthew-wilson-671a757a
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FpOUSHDqhbk

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Last updated: 2026-06-22