London-based Kinfolk, an AI-native HR workforce operations platform, has raised a $7.2 million seed round led by AlbionVC, with participation from PROfounders Capital and existing investors Ascension and Emerge. Angel investors, including Tony Jamous, Founder and Executive Chairman of OysterHR, also participated. The latest round brings Kinfolk’s total funding to $8.5 million.
HR and People Operations teams face growing productivity pressure as headcounts shrink and complexity rises. Much of their time is spent on repetitive administrative work, while legacy ticketing systems and basic AI chatbots often fall short, creating friction as companies scale.
Kinfolk is positioning itself to address this gap with what it describes as a new Workforce Operations category, starting with HR and People Operations. The platform combines agentic AI in Slack, request management, lifecycle automation, and analytics to manage employee support and people programs end-to-end.
Commenting on the challenge, Jeet Mukerji, co-founder and CEO of Kinfolk, said HR teams remain burdened by manual administrative work and outdated tools, often forced to choose between cumbersome ticketing systems and limited chatbots.
We built Kinfolk to break this cycle. By shifting from manual coordination to autonomous execution, we enable HR teams to scale their operations and focus on the strategic work that drives company growth. We’re excited to give People teams the operating system they deserve, one that performs work instead of simply managing it,
Mukerji added.
By replacing fragmented tools and manual coordination with a unified system, Kinfolk aims to help organisations scale operations, deliver more consistent employee support, and increase team capacity without adding headcount.
Unlike standard chatbots that primarily retrieve information, Kinfolk’s AI agents are designed to execute tasks autonomously across systems, including drafting documents, updating HRIS records, and managing employee lifecycle changes directly within Slack or Microsoft Teams. The shift from manual coordination to autonomous execution is intended to help HR teams scale operations while maintaining control.
With the new funding, Kinfolk plans to accelerate its agentic AI platform development, expand enterprise readiness, extend beyond core HR into payroll and IT workflows, and scale its go-to-market teams to meet growing demand.
