BREAKING  Welcome to the Jungle turns the job listing into a story 3.5M unique monthly visitors · "Find your people" 2024 · Acquires UK job-search app Otta to expand into UK & US Series C · $54M raised in Jan 2023 5,500+ partner companies use the platform ~€78M revenue in FY2025 · SaaS ≈62% of group revenue Named after a Guns N' Roses anthem BREAKING  Welcome to the Jungle turns the job listing into a story 3.5M unique monthly visitors · "Find your people" 2024 · Acquires UK job-search app Otta to expand into UK & US Series C · $54M raised in Jan 2023 5,500+ partner companies use the platform ~€78M revenue in FY2025 · SaaS ≈62% of group revenue Named after a Guns N' Roses anthem
Company Dossier · HR Tech · Paris

Welcome
to the Jungle

The employer-branding platform that made company culture something you can actually watch - videos, photography and honest storytelling instead of stock-photo job ads.

Founded 2015 HQ Paris, France Employees 300+ Stage Series C
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THE MARK. The Welcome to the Jungle wordmark - a decade-old French scale-up that grew from a Paris job board into a media-and-SaaS company serving 5,500+ employers. Logo via brand assets.
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The job ad, rewritten as a documentary

Most job listings tell you almost nothing true. A bullet-point wish list, a stock photo of people high-fiving, a salary band left blank. Welcome to the Jungle was built on the opposite bet: show candidates the real room they will sit in, the people they will work with, and the culture they are actually signing up for - and the right people will come.

Founded in Paris in 2015 by Jérémy Clédat and Bertrand Uzeel, Welcome to the Jungle - named, improbably, after the Guns N' Roses anthem - identified a structural gap in recruitment. Job seekers were making one of life's biggest decisions on the thinnest possible information. Employers, meanwhile, had no honest way to stand out beyond posting the same listing everywhere.

The company's answer was to treat employer branding like media production. Instead of a text listing, each company gets an immersive profile: high-production-value video, professional photography, editorial content and unvarnished detail about how the place really works. Observers took to calling it "Netflix for careers."

That media-first approach turned out to be more than a design choice. It became a moat. Anyone can copy a job board's search box; almost no one can cheaply replicate a decade of cinematic company storytelling. Editorial content now drives roughly 60% of the platform's traffic - people arrive to read, and stay to apply, with average sessions running over five minutes.

Underneath the consumer experience sits a serious B2B software business. Welcome to the Jungle Solutions is a SaaS suite that lets companies build and manage their branded profiles, post jobs, run recruitment campaigns and track candidates through an applicant tracking system. By FY2025, SaaS made up roughly 62% of the group's revenue.

"Welcome to the Jungle rewrote the rules of employer branding by turning static job listings into immersive, story-driven company profiles." — Company history, as widely reported

A soft idea, hard metrics

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Figures compiled from company announcements and press reports (2023–2026). Revenue and ARR figures approximate.

Two audiences, one platform

SIDE A · CANDIDATES

The job seeker

Roughly 3.5 million people a month, plus millions of registered candidates and the ~1.7M+ users who came with Otta. They use the platform to research culture, salary and values before applying - not just to scroll listings. For Gen Z especially, authentic culture has become the top hiring metric.

SIDE B · EMPLOYERS

The company

5,500+ businesses, from startups to enterprises, pay to build employer-branded profiles, post jobs, run campaigns and manage applicants. Accounts using native ATS integrations show around 92% retention - the software gets sticky once it is wired into hiring workflows.

The problem it solves. Recruitment has an information problem on both sides. Candidates can't tell what a workplace is really like until they've already taken the job; employers can't differentiate a genuinely good culture from a well-written listing. Welcome to the Jungle closes that gap by making culture visible and searchable - reducing mismatches that cost both sides time and money.

How it's different. Where Glassdoor leans on anonymous reviews and Indeed and LinkedIn lean on scale and search, Welcome to the Jungle leans on production. Its edge is craft: cinematic profiles and editorial that are expensive to fake and hard to commoditize. That is a different game from being the biggest job board - and a deliberately harder one to copy.

Media on top, SaaS underneath

The model is a hybrid: a large consumer media audience creates demand and campaign value, while a B2B SaaS suite - subscriptions, campaigns and an ATS - turns that attention into recurring revenue. Over time the software side has become the engine.

SaaS revenue ~62%
Media & other ~38%
Editorial traffic ~60%

Share of FY2025 group revenue (SaaS vs. media) and share of platform traffic driven by editorial content. Approximate, per press reports.

What you can actually do with it

2015

Job-search platform

A consumer job board and career-media destination that pairs listings with immersive company profiles, video, photography and editorial.

2019

WTTJ Solutions (SaaS)

The B2B suite: branded profile pages, an ATS (Welcome Kit), multiposting, recruitment campaigns and analytics for employers.

2016

Branding media production

In-house video and photography that let companies portray real workplace culture - the craft behind the "Netflix for careers" label.

2024

Otta

A candidate-first job-search app using matching technology to pair users with roles by preferences, skills and values across the UK, US and EU.

A decade in the jungle

2015

Founded in Paris

Jérémy Clédat and Bertrand Uzeel launch the platform, named after the Guns N' Roses song, to fix a structural gap in recruitment.

2016

Media-first company profiles

The platform begins producing high-quality video and photography to portray authentic workplace culture.

2019

SaaS solutions expand

The B2B suite broadens with employer-branding tools and candidate management for companies.

2022

Scale milestones

Reaches ~5,000 customers, ~€30M ARR and nearly 3 million unique monthly visitors.

2023

$54M Series C

Raises €50M to scale employer-branding solutions and expand internationally, targeting the US.

2024

Acquires Otta

Buys London-based candidate-first job-search platform Otta to expand across the UK and US.

2025

€78M revenue year

Reports ~€78M revenue with SaaS at ~62% of group revenue and strong ATS-integration retention.

2026

Founder transition

Co-founder Jérémy Clédat steps down as co-CEO, joins the board, and takes a creative role at Alan.

Founders and backers

CO-FOUNDER

Jérémy Clédat

Finance and entrepreneurial background; led the company for a decade as CEO / co-CEO. Stepped down July 1, 2026, joined the board, and became Chief Creative Officer at Alan.

CO-FOUNDER

Bertrand Uzeel

Media and production specialist whose expertise shaped the platform's signature media-first, storytelling approach to employer branding.

Funding. The 2023 Series C of $54M (€50M) brought total funding to roughly $86.2M. Investors span legacy backers - Revaia, XAnge and Bpifrance (via Digital Ventures) - plus new entrants Blisce, Cipio Partners, Groupe ADP, Kostogri and RAISE Sherpas.

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Questions people ask

What does Welcome to the Jungle do?
It runs an employer-branding and job-search platform that combines a consumer job board with immersive, media-rich company profiles - video, photography, editorial - plus a B2B SaaS suite companies use to build their employer brand and manage candidates.
Who founded it and when?
It was founded in Paris in 2015 by Jérémy Clédat and Bertrand Uzeel. The name comes from the Guns N' Roses song "Welcome to the Jungle."
How does it make money?
Through a hybrid media plus B2B SaaS model: companies pay for employer-branded profiles, job posting, campaigns and the ATS, while a large consumer audience drives demand. SaaS reached about 62% of group revenue in FY2025.
What was the Otta acquisition about?
In January 2024 Welcome to the Jungle acquired UK candidate-first job-search app Otta to expand into the UK and US and build a leading candidate-centric search experience across Europe and the US.
Who leads the company now?
Co-founder Jérémy Clédat stepped down as co-CEO on July 1, 2026 and joined the board; the company ended its dual-leadership model and began a search for a successor. Clédat became Chief Creative Officer at Alan.

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