The UK job search engine has acquired the employment divisions of two multi-vertical classifieds aggregators from Lifull Connect, strengthening its presence in Spain, Italy and Latin America as its Japanese parent divests non-property assets.
Adzuna has acquired the Trovit and Mitula employment verticals from Lifull Connect, the digital classifieds group controlled by Japanese real estate operator Lifull.
The deal, announced today, is Adzuna’s third acquisition in four years, following its purchase of US business job search engine Getwork in June 2022 and social media recruiting platform Seiza in November 2024.
The transaction covers only the job search divisions of both platforms. Trovit and Mitula are multi-vertical aggregators operating in jobs, real estate and automobiles in more than 50 countries; the real estate and automotive verticals remain on Lifull Connect.
Adzuna says job companies are now fully integrated, with existing Trovit Jobs and Mitula Jobs sites automatically redirected to Adzuna and subscribers migrated with their saved searches and alerts.
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Trovit was founded in 2006 in Barcelona and was acquired by Lifull for €80 million in November 2014. Mitula, also born in Spain but listed in Australia since 2015, was acquired by Lifull for €118 million in December 2018.
In January 2019, the two companies merged under the umbrella of Lifull Connect, which has since operated them along with a growing portfolio of real estate portals in Southeast Asia, Latin America and Europe. The combined entity operates in more than 50 countries.
For Lifull Connect, the divestment of employment verticals is consistent with a strategic shift that has been underway for more than a year. The company was separated from its publicly traded Japanese parent in January 2025, passing operational control to the management team behind FazWaz, its Thailand-based real estate brokerage brand.
That transition came after a period of declining revenue in Lifull Connect’s aggregation business. With Adzuna taking over the company’s employment divisions and real estate portals generating most of its remaining business, Lifull Connect is effectively retreating into verticals where it can justify the capital.
Carlos Ruiz Comes, general manager of vertical search at Lifull Connect, described the deal as finding “the right player in the workplace” as the group sharpens its focus on the real estate sector.
Doug Monro, CEO and co-founder of Adzuna, framed the acquisition as a platform to offer its AI search technology to millions of new users in 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 developing AI-based systems. job search tools including ApplyIQ, an automated job application agent launched in April 2025.
Trovit and Mitula’s employment bases, particularly in Spain and Italy, where both brands have had a sustained presence, provide Adzuna with traffic and user data in markets where it has historically had a smaller presence.
Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.
