Huzzle Raises £1.4M to Be the Job Search App That Actually Works for Students

Huzzle, a UK recruitment technology company, has raised £1.4 million from 10x Founders and business angels to develop its job aggregation platform for university students and recent graduates. The company is building an app that aggregates entry-level job listings, internships, and work experience opportunities from across the market and presents them to students in a format that is specifically designed for their situation — filtered by university, by course, by graduation year, and by the practical constraints that distinguish early-career job searching from experienced professional job searching.

The graduate job market is one of the most information-asymmetric labour markets in the economy. Employers with competitive graduate programmes invest millions in recruitment marketing, university partnerships, and careers fair presence, but the information about these programmes reaches students unevenly — concentrated around a handful of well-resourced universities with strong careers services, and spread inconsistently across the rest. Students at institutions with less developed employer relationships, or students in courses without a clear professional pipeline, often struggle to find and navigate opportunities that exist but are hard to discover. Meanwhile, large general job boards like LinkedIn and Indeed are designed for experienced professionals and not well suited to the specific filtering needs of students — graduation year, course relevance, degree classification requirements, and application deadline tracking across a cohort of applications submitted simultaneously.

Huzzle's platform addresses this by aggregating opportunities specifically relevant to students and presenting them through an interface designed for the graduate hiring process. The app allows students to set up a profile that captures their university, course, and graduation year, and then surfaces the opportunities most relevant to their situation, including opportunities from employers who specifically target their institution or discipline. Deadline tracking and application management features help students navigate the multi-application process that graduate hiring requires without losing track of where they are in each pipeline.

10x Founders, a UK early-stage investor, brings networks in the technology and recruitment sectors. The funding will be used to develop the platform, expand the employer and job listing coverage, and grow the student user base across UK universities.

Sources

• Huzzle — company website