Fika Jobs raises $4M for video-first AI interview hiring platform

Fika Jobs raised a $4 million pre-seed round to build a video-first hiring platform that uses AI interview agents and short-form candidate profiles, the company announced. The round will fund continued development, team growth and preparation for a wider launch later this year, with early access opening this week.

What is Fika Jobs and how does the platform work?

Fika Jobs is a Stockholm startup building a video-first hiring product where candidates connect a LinkedIn profile and complete an AI-powered interview that lasts roughly 10 minutes. The AI reviews a candidate’s background, generates personalized interview questions, conducts the interview using an AI agent powered by Google’s Gemini models, and then automatically turns responses into short video clips organized into a live profile employers can browse.

That profile model is designed so candidates maintain a single, discoverable record instead of repeatedly applying to roles. The founders, brothers Jakob Dubois (CEO) and Alexander Dubois (CTO), said the idea grew from hiring experience while building their prior app. Jakob Dubois recalled, "When we were building [social app] Gaff, we spent a lot of time recruiting and almost passed on a candidate because his resume did not really stand out." The platform is free for job seekers and employers pay nothing up front.

How will Fika Jobs make money and who backed the round?

Fika Jobs charges employers only after a successful placement, taking 10% of a candidate’s first-year salary on hire. The company contrasts that with the 20% to 30% placement fees common among traditional recruiters and headhunters. The $4 million pre-seed was led by Luminar Ventures, with participation from Alliance VC and Sebastian Knutsson and Riccardo Zacconi, the King co-founders.

The company said more than 50 companies have tested the platform, including Plenty Labs, SICS.ai, Kognity, and Rebtel, and that more than 100 companies are on its waitlist. Fika plans to open early access to candidates this week, expects a broader public launch this fall, will initially focus on Sweden, and anticipates reaching around 10 employees by the end of the year.

Why it matters

Fika Jobs shifts early screening from text to short video and an automated interview layer, making communication skills and personality explicit earlier in the funnel. That could help early-career candidates and those from non-traditional backgrounds whose potential may not show on a resume. At the same time, showing faces and accents introduces bias risks employers must manage, because video exposes race, age, gender, physical appearance, and accent—factors some companies try to hide with blind resume screening.

What to watch

Watch whether employers who test the platform hire at comparable or better rates than with resume-first pipelines, and whether Fika’s 10% placement fee converts waitlisted companies into paying customers. Also track the public launch expected this fall and the startup’s planned expansion beyond Sweden.