The UK job search engine has acquired the employment divisions of two multi-vertical classifieds aggregators from Lifull Connect, bolstering its presence in Spain, Italy, and Latin America as its Japanese parent offloads non-real-estate assets.
Adzuna has acquired the jobs verticals of Trovit and Mitula from Lifull Connect, the digital classifieds group controlled by the Japanese real estate operator Lifull.
The deal, announced today, is Adzuna’s third acquisition in four years, following the purchase of US enterprise job search engine Getwork in June 2022 and social media recruitment platform Seiza in November 2024.
The transaction covers only the employment search divisions of both platforms. Trovit and Mitula are multi-vertical aggregators, operating across jobs, real estate, and cars in more than 50 countries; the real estate and automotive verticals remain with Lifull Connect.
Adzuna says the jobs businesses are now fully integrated, with existing Trovit Jobs and Mitula Jobs sites automatically redirected to Adzuna and subscribers migrated across with their saved searches and alerts.
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Trovit was founded in 2006 in Barcelona and acquired by Lifull for €80 million in November 2014. Mitula, also Spanish-born but publicly listed in Australia from 2015, was acquired by Lifull for €118 million in December 2018.
In January 2019, the two businesses were merged under the Lifull Connect umbrella, which has since operated them alongside a growing portfolio of real estate portals across South East Asia, Latin America, and Europe. The combined entity operates in more than 50 countries.
For Lifull Connect, the divestiture of the jobs verticals is consistent with a strategic pivot that has been underway for over a year. The company spun off from its publicly listed Japanese parent in January 2025, passing operational control to the management team behind FazWaz, its Thailand-based property brokerage brand.
That transition came after a period of declining revenue in Lifull Connect’s aggregation business. With Adzuna taking the jobs divisions, and the company’s real estate portals generating the bulk of its remaining commercial activity, Lifull Connect is effectively retreating to the verticals where it can justify the capital.
Carlos Ruiz Comes, Vertical Search General Manager at Lifull Connect, described the deal as finding “the right player in the jobs space” as the group sharpens its focus on real estate.
Doug Monro, Adzuna’s CEO and co-founder, framed the acquisition as a platform for delivering its AI search technology to millions of new users across Europe, the US, Asia, and Latin America.
Adzuna was founded in 2011 by Monro and Andrew Hunter, both formerly of Gumtree, and is backed by Index Ventures, LocalGlobe, and Smedvig Capital. It now operates in more than 20 countries and has been building out AI-powered job matching tools including ApplyIQ, an automated job application agent launched in April 2025.
The Trovit and Mitula jobs bases, particularly in Spain and Italy where both brands have had sustained presence, provide Adzuna with traffic and user data in markets where it has historically had a lighter footprint.
Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.
