Spain-based Jobandtalent, a marketplace matching temps with employers needing casual labor, raises €100M Series D from SoftBank's Vision Fund 2
Jobandtalent, a Madrid, Spain-based workforce marketplace … Amy Thomson / Bloomberg : SoftBank and BlackRock Invest $218 Million in Jobandtalent
Context & Ripple Effects
This round lands weeks after Jobandtalent's ~$108M January raise brought its total funding to $290M on the back of 80K+ workers placed in temporary gigs last year — so the company is stacking rounds inside a single quarter, with Bloomberg reporting SoftBank and BlackRock together put in $218M.
The Series D also opens a distinctive chapter for Vision Fund 2: across 2021 it backed not just Jobandtalent but Eightfold AI's $220M Series E and Sense's $50M blue-collar recruiting round, making workforce technology one of the fund's most concentrated themes that year.
First-order effects
- Jobandtalent converts a fast follow-on raise into balance-sheet firepower for its temp-matching marketplace, while SoftBank gains a Spanish labor-marketplace position and BlackRock co-invests alongside it.
Second-order effects
- Vision Fund 2's parallel stakes in Eightfold AI and Sense turn its portfolio into a de facto coalition across white-collar AI recruiting and blue-collar hiring software, squeezing rival staffing platforms that lack equivalent backing.
Third-order effects
- The arc that follows — a $500M Series E at $2.35B led by Kinnevik, then a $103M Series F at $1.5B — shows how quickly capital-intensive temp marketplaces reprice when the funding cycle turns, a template likely to discipline future valuations across gig-staffing.
The trend: Vision Fund 2's 2021 cluster of bets on Jobandtalent, Eightfold AI, and Sense marks workforce tech as a favored theme whose later valuation resets show how hard gig-staffing multiples corrected after the funding peak.