Mikhil Raja

Mikhil Raja is an Indian-origin entrepreneur, born in Mumbai and the Co-founder and CEO of SonicJobs, the London-based AI-powered job search platform on a mission to fix the broken candidate application experience. He came to the UK to study at Millfield School in Somerset before completing a First Class MA in Economics and Business at the University of Edinburgh. He then spent nearly a decade in investment banking at Deutsche Bank and Rothschild, raising over €25 billion for companies, shareholders, and governments across EMEA through IPOs, rights issues, and accelerated placements. His experience with data-driven decision making and process efficiency would later prove foundational in building SonicJobs.

Raja co-founded SonicJobs in 2017, motivated by a simple observation: the job application process was fundamentally broken. Candidates clicking on a job listing were redirected to individual employer career sites — a fragmented, repetitive experience that produced a market-wide apply conversion rate of just 5%. SonicJobs' proprietary Robotic Process Automation (RPA) and AI technology reads each employer's application process, completes the form on behalf of the candidate without redirection, and stores their details so applications become increasingly seamless over time. The result is a 26% click-to-apply conversion — five times the industry average.

SonicJobs raised a £4.2 million Series A led by Triple Point Ventures, TMT Investments, and Ufi Ventures. It quickly scaled to become one of the UK's fastest-growing job platform apps and has since launched in the US, partnering with Fortune 500 companies including Walmart and Sysco. Raja is widely recognised in the British tech community for his resilience and focus, traits he attributes to competitive tennis — he reached the quarter-finals of the Indian national under-10 championship aged eight and was scouted by the Nick Bollettieri Academy.