ATTA Leads Investment in Jobbi to Transform Hiring in Central America
El Salvador, March 2025. ATTA has announced its participation as lead investor in Jobbi, a company dedicated to revolutionizing how professionals and businesses connect. This investment underscores ATTA’s commitment to supporting innovative solutions that enhance access to employment opportunities and empower the next generation of talent in Central America.
Bridging the Gap Between Companies and Skilled Job Seekers
For many regional professionals, the job search process remains frustrating and inefficient. Traditional hiring systems often fail to address the needs of the modern workforce, who value flexibility, transparency, and meaningful work. Simultaneously, businesses are finding it increasingly difficult and expensive to attract Tech-empowered talent, especially in the Western Hemisphere when near-shoring is a priority.
Jobbi is addressing these challenges head-on.
From left to right: Balbino Aylagas (Co-founder & CTO), Gabriela Daboub (Co-founder & CEO), Felipe Clautier (Co-founder & CPO).
Through its AI-powered platform, Jobbi is reshaping hiring by making the process faster, more transparent, and more efficient by improving the quality of matches between employer and job seeker. By offering shorter, dynamic applications as an alternative to conventional resumes, Jobbi enables candidates to showcase themselves in a more authentic and engaging manner.
The future of work is borderless, and talent in Central America is ready to take on global opportunities. Jobbi is here to bridge that gap—leveraging AI and innovation to connect the right people with the right jobs, effortlessly. With this round, we’re accelerating growth, enhancing our product, and expanding into the US and EU enterprise market to create more opportunities for Latin American talent. This marks a pivotal moment for Jobbi and the future of work in Central America. With ATTA’s support, we’re doubling down on our mission to make hiring faster, fairer, and more efficient—unlocking global careers through AI-driven innovation
– Gabriela Daboub - Co-founder & CEO Jobbi
Why ATTA Invested in Jobbi
Jobbi stood out because they are scaling impressively quickly and generating high impact in multiple categories critical to ATTA’s thesis, simultaneously tackling pressing challenges in employment, financial inclusion and even climate:
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Innovative Approach: The platform offers tech-driven solutions specifically designed to attract the remote-ready, digitally fluent candidates that employers are seeking.
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Scalable Model: Jobbi’s model is built to allow expansion across various industries and geographies. This is already validated by their growing talent pool in Central America (40%), Colombia (15%), Argentina (12%), Mexico (13%) and other Latin American countries (20%).
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Impressive Team: A driven, well-balanced, and skilled team with over 20 years of combined experience in the sector.
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Compelling Growth Metrics:
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37% month-over-month growth in active users.
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Retention rate of 93%, highlighting strong user satisfaction and repeated platform usage.
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+500 job applications processed per month, with a continuously rising engagement rate.
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Average time-to-hire reduction of 5-12 days, significantly enhancing efficiency for employers.
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Job Creation in Central America: Jobbi is unlocking the potential of an overlooked talent market in Central America. In 2024, the platform:
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Created 206 new jobs in Latin America, with 52% of talent placed being from Central America.
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Generated broader economic impact by supporting an estimated 742 indirect beneficiaries.
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Delivered $9,000 in employee transportation savings through remote work.
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Saved hiring companies approximately $47,000 in recruitment costs compared to traditional placement agencies.
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Saved an estimated $22,000 in economic value by eliminating 1,757 employee commute days at Latin American minimum wage rates.
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Reducing Emissions from Commutes: By facilitating remote job placements, Jobbi is helping to reduce unnecessary commutes and supporting environmental sustainability. In 2024, the platform's job placements contributed to a reduction of 198,000 kg of CO2 emissions.
Historically, we have observed how Latin American talent has migrated in search of better opportunities. Jobbi not only contributes to retaining this talent within the region, generating significant economic benefits as a result, but also links these individuals with the right opportunities in high-powered sectors such as technology, marketing, and finance, among others. At ATTA, we are dedicated to supporting teams like Jobbi, whose model demonstrates the amazing potential of the professionals in this often-overlooked region and empowers them to excel. By monitoring this impact, we continue to gather valuable data that substantiates their success and is a powerful motivator for us. We are extremely pleased to lead this round and support Jobbi in its expansion into new markets.
– Abigail Napsuciale, Head of Investments at Atta Impact Capital.
The Future of Jobbi
With this investment, Jobbi plans to further accelerate its growth, enhance its platform with AI-driven features, and expand its reach to talented professionals with job opportunities in markets beyond Latin America. Looking ahead to 2025, the company anticipates enabling over 700 new jobs across Latin America, potentially supporting around 2,500 indirect beneficiaries through job creation. This growth is expected to contribute to economic development in the region, while also preventing approximately 680,000 kg of CO2 emissions through remote job placements.
ATTA is proud to support Jobbi’s mission and looks forward to the company’s continued success and outsized impact through reshaping the job market in areas previously ignored.
➡️ Learn more about Jobbi: jobbi.me
About Atta Impact Capital, Inc
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Atta Impact Capital increases access to capital in emerging impact investment ecosystems. Through the Mesoamerican Catalytic Fund I, they invest in impact-driven companies in the "missing middle" of Central America and Southern Mexico. For more information, please visit www.attaimpact.capital. If you are looking for funding for your company, apply here and we’ll reach out to you soon.
Abigail Napsuciale | Head of Investments & Co-founder | abigail@attaimpact.capital