Vahan.ai, the Indian AI-powered hiring platform for blue-collar workers, has facilitated over 1 million job placements across 920+ cities, working with leading employers across quick-commerce, food delivery, mobility and warehousing. Now, the platform is expanding into India’s fast-growing manufacturing sector, with a sharp focus on textile and electronics production. As part of this expansion, Vahan.ai is hiring and mobilising workers from Jharkhand, UP and Bihar into manufacturing clusters in Karnataka and Tamil Nadu, strengthening the country’s push to build a future-ready industrial workforce.
According to Madhav Krishna, CEO and founder, Vahan.ai, “By activating talent pools in states such as Jharkhand, Bihar and UP and enabling their mobility to Karnataka’s and Tamil Nadu’s booming textile and electronics clusters, we are not just filling jobs. We are unlocking upward mobility and strengthening the talent backbone for India’s next phase of growth.”
Over the past year, Vahan.ai has managed to strengthen its position via strategic investments from Lemmatree (a Temasek fund), Persol Group and Khosla Ventures, which have enabled it to deepen its technology capabilities and widen its sectoral footprint. With this expansion, Vahan.ai is bringing the same scale, speed and efficiency to industries such as apparel, electronics assembly, components and precision manufacturing, enabling companies to reliably build labour capacity while reducing time-to-hire.
In line with India’s renewed push to accelerate domestic manufacturing, the platform is working closely with large textile and electronics manufacturers in Karnataka and Tamil Nadu to support high-volume hiring needs, further anchoring its expansion into the industrial ecosystem. Industry reports further indicate that the Indian manufacturing output is set to reach $ 1 trillion by 2025–26, thanks to improved logistics, global capital inflows and policy support across states.
Manufacturing, being a key pillar of the Viksit Bharat@2047 vision, is projected to grow from 17 per cent of India’s GDP to over 25 per cent, adding $320 billion in gross value added (GVA).
Vahan.ai’s expansion into manufacturing builds on the company’s strong momentum over the past year. It has saved employers thousands of recruiter hours through its AI-powered processes, helping organisations streamline sourcing, screening, interviews and documentation at scale. As India’s textile and electronics industries expand rapidly, Vahan.ai is on a mission to become the country’s largest digital workforce enabler for manufacturing, supporting both government-led industrialisation goals and the aspirations of millions of workers seeking stable, long-term livelihoods.
Madhav Krishna believes, “India’s strengthening manufacturing landscape will not be driven by factories alone. It will be propelled by people. As the country pushes to expand manufacturing to 25 per cent of GDP, we see a generational opportunity to bring millions of workers, especially women, into formal, stable and long-term employment. Vahan.ai’s vision is to build India’s most trusted pathway to livelihoods, where AI removes barriers of language, geography and access so that every individual, regardless of where they come from, can participate in the country’s industrial growth.”