Fika Jobs raises $4M to build a video-first hiring platform where AI agents interview candidates

A Stockholm-based startup is building a video-first hiring platform where AI agents conduct interviews with job candidates instead of relying solely on traditional resumes and applications. Candidates create roughly 10-minute video interviews powered by AI, which are then converted into short video clips organized into profiles that employers can browse and discover. The platform addresses long-standing criticism that hiring processes are inefficient and that important traits like communication skills and personality are difficult to assess from written applications alone. However, video profiles introduce bias risks because employers can see candidates' appearance, race, age, and other characteristics before evaluating qualifications, potentially enabling discrimination that resume screening partially obscures.