Blue-collar recruitment platform Vahan.ai secures $10 mn funding in Sequence B led by Khosla Ventures

Vahan.ai, an AI-powered recruitment platform for India’s large blue-collar workforce, has rasied $10 million in collection B funding. This funding spherical was led by Khosla Ventures, based by Vinod Khosla together with Y Combinator, US-based VC agency Gaingels, and Indian tech entrepreneur Vijay Shekhar Sharma, Founding father of Paytm, amongst others.

The funds raised shall be used to develop AI recruitment expertise to help 8 main Indian languages.

The Bengaluru-based startup, is a technology-driven platform that helps blue-collar staff discover jobs and employers the precise candidate. Up to now, the corporate has positioned greater than 500,000 staff throughout greater than 480 cities.

Based in 2016, the key shoppers embody Zomato, Swiggy, Flipkart, Zepto, Blinkit, Amazon, Rapido and Uber.

With over 25,000 recruits every month, Vahan.ai considerably reduces prices and turnaround for recruitment, setting a brand new customary in how AI can revolutionise hiring processes and drive large-scale employment.

With India’s blue-collar staff poised to drive 70 per cent of India’s new job development by 2030, Vahan.ai is leveraging Synthetic Intelligence to bridge the entry hole between employers and blue-collar staff.

“We’ve come a good distance from offering 600 jobs a month throughout the pandemic to 25,000 jobs a month now. With our influence rising multi-fold, we’re excited to drive optimistic change and assist the youth of Bharat discover employment,” mentioned Madhav Krishna, Founder and CEO. “This funding will allow us to additional leverage AI, to supply these staff with unprecedented development alternatives and elevate their skilled journeys. Over time, we wish to assist over a billion folks discover livelihood.”