Slinger raises £500k in pre-seed funding led by Fuel Ventures to modernise hospitality recruitment.
Fuel Ventures led the pre-seed round, which will fund product development, marketing, and team expansion.
Slinger operates a hospitality job platform in the UK that connects workers with employers while ensuring real living wage pay. The company seeks to replace traditional recruitment methods like CVs and trial shifts with streamlined digital tools.
London based hospitality platform Slinger has secured £500k in a pre-seed funding round led by Fuel Ventures. The capital will be directed towards product development, paid acquisition efforts to drive client growth, and expanding the internal team.
The funding arrives as the UK hospitality sector continues to grapple with severe staff shortages and recruitment inefficiencies following Brexit and the pandemic. Slinger aims to address these challenges by providing flexible shift work that guarantees the Real Living Wage, eliminating traditional roadblocks such as CV vetting and trial shifts.
From the founder
"The hiring process for the Hospitality industry is currently not fit for purpose and needs to be shaken up completely—we have a vision to make the CV redundant"
Theo-Lee Houston
Founder at Slinger
Investor perspective
"We’re looking forward to working with Theo, the founder of Slinger, a platform that addresses the UK’s hospitality worker shortage by connecting the UK’s 10.3 million frontline workers to Living Wage opportunities."
Mariama Boumanjal
Black Founders Fund Manager for Europe and Africa, Google for Startups Black Founders Fund
Use of funds
- 01Continue product development
- 02Invest in sales and marketing
- 03Grow the team
Investors
Fuel Ventures
Ufi Ventures
Cornerstone Partners
Resolution Foundation
Mariama Boumanjal
Google for Startups Black Founders Fund