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Popp AI raises £3.6m seed led by Emerge and SuperSeed to bring conversational AI to enterprise recruitment

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Popp AI
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Sam Dhesi; James Cochrane-Dyet; Ilyes Benmansour
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Emerge; SuperSeed Ventures
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£3.6m
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London, United Kingdom
Nov 21, 2024

Popp AI, the innovative conversational AI tool transforming recruitment, today announced it has raised £3.6 million in a seed funding round led by Emerge and SuperSeed Ventures. The fresh capital will be used to fuel rapid growth across enterprise recruitment teams, talent departments, and recruitment marketplaces, while enhancing Popp AI’s core focus of transforming conversations into actionable insights, combining human connection and AI-driven efficiency.

Founded by Sam Dhesi, James Cochrane-Dyet, and Ilyes Benmansour, Popp AI addresses the inefficiencies the co-founders witnessed firsthand during the pandemic. The company’s open-ended conversational AI allows organisations to engage candidates in meaningful dialogue at scale, automatically analysing responses to help recruiters make faster, more informed hiring decisions.

The £3.6m raised will accelerate Popp AI’s growth across enterprise recruitment teams, addressing a pressing need for scalable, AI-driven hiring solutions. The investment will also strengthen the platform’s capabilities to ensure it continues to provide a human-centric yet efficient experience for both candidates and recruiters.

By capturing deeper candidate insights and intelligently ranking responses, Popp AI helps recruiters make faster, more informed decisions—driving efficiency without compromising on quality.

We saw how rigid and impersonal recruitment processes were failing both companies and candidates. During a time when human connection mattered more than ever, conversations were missing from the equation. We created Popp AI to fix that—by making it possible to engage candidates in meaningful dialogue, even at scale.
Sam Dhesi, Co-founder & CEO
Popp AI was born out of a need to remove bottlenecks in hiring processes without removing the human element required to build real relationships. Our open-ended conversational AI allows companies to engage with talent in a way that feels human but operates at the speed and scale enterprise teams require.
James Cochrane-Dyet, Co-founder & COO
The future of hiring lies in intelligent, scalable solutions that make processes more human, not less—and Popp AI is leading that charge.
Jan Lynn-Matern, Investor at Emerge
Following a brilliant year of technological development and refining the company’s go-to-market strategy, SuperSeed is excited to co-lead the Seed round having backed the company initially as the lead investor at pre-seed.
Ferdinand Reynolds, Investor at SuperSeed Ventures