Fika Jobs Raises $4M To Build Video-First Hiring Platform With AI Interview Agents

Stockholm-based startup Fika Jobs raised $4 million in a pre-seed round led by Luminar Ventures to build a video-first hiring platform where AI agents interview candidates and generate short-form video profiles.

“Fika Jobs raises $4M to build a video-first hiring platform where AI agents interview candidates Share: Stockholm startup Fika Jobs raised $4 million in a pre-seed fundraising round led by Luminar Ventures with participation from Alliance VC and Candy Crush co-founders to build a video-first AI hiring platform that uses Google Gemini models to generate personalized questions, run ~10-minute AI interview agents, and auto-edit responses into discoverable short-form profiles”

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TechCrunch says the process starts when candidates connect a LinkedIn profile, after which Fika’s AI reviews the candidate’s background and generates personalized interview questions.

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Candidates then complete a roughly 10-minute video interview with an AI agent powered by Google’s Gemini models, and after the interview Fika automatically turns responses into short video clips and organizes them into a profile.

The company positions the platform as replacing traditional resumes with short video profiles, and it plans to open early access to candidates this week with a broader public launch expected this fall in Sweden before expanding internationally.

Co-founders Jakob Dubois (CEO) and Alexander Dubois (CTO) said the idea came from their own recruiting experience while building their previous startup, social app Gaff.

TechCrunch quotes Jakob Dubois saying, “We ended up speaking with him anyway, and within minutes, his grit, drive, and ambition became obvious. Exactly the kind of person we wanted to hire.”

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Tech.eu adds that Fika Jobs is rethinking how candidates present themselves in a job market increasingly shaped by artificial intelligence, and it describes the platform as letting candidates complete a 10-minute conversation with an AI agent.

Tech.eu also reports that Fika Jobs anonymises attributes such as age, gender and ethnicity during the matching process, while employers only pay when a hire is made.

The platform’s video-first approach introduces bias and privacy risks, and CryptoRank says the reliance on video profiles introduces bias and privacy risks that could hinder adoption and will require transparent mitigation as the platform scales.

“Stockholm-based hiring platform Fika Jobs has raised $4 million in pre-seed funding to expand its video-first approach to recruitment”

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TechCrunch frames the same concern by noting that when employers can see a candidate’s race, age, gender, physical appearance, and accent before evaluating qualifications, it opens the door to discrimination that a resume, for all its flaws, at least partially obscures.

On adoption and timing, CryptoRank says Fika already counts about 100 companies on a waitlist with 50+ testers, while TechCrunch says more than 100 companies are on the waitlist and more than 50 companies have tested the platform including Plenty Labs, SICS.ai, Kognity, and Rebtel.

For monetization and consequences, TechCrunch reports that the platform is free for job seekers and that employers pay nothing up front but Fika takes 10% of a candidate’s first-year salary upon a successful hire, with the company noting this is lower than the 20% to 30% placement fees often charged by traditional recruiters and headhunters.