Tag: StartUp

In a bid to cut costs and focus on profitability, LEAD, an edtech platform, has laid off a significant number of members from its...

Geekster, the career-focused edtech platform has managed to raise $1.30 mn in a pre-series A round led by Inflection Point Ventures. MyNavi Corporation, Japan-based...

Lattice, a San Francisco-based company is offering funds to the tune of $100,000 to employees who decide to leave the Company and set up...

The trend of letting go employees continues in the startup space. Some employees from India working for the Indonesia-based startup, Lummo, have been asked...

The Dubai-based mass transit solutions startup, Swvl, will lay off 32 per cent of its workforce. The objective is to enhance business efficiency, reduce...

PrepInsta is gearing for 100 per cent expansion of team. The edtech startups plans to take its present headcount of 50, to at least...

AdmitKard, the edtech startup, which simplifies access to higher education opportunities, is on an aggressive hiring spree. It plans to onboard around 100 employees,...

MFine, the Bengaluru-based healthtech startup, has had to lay off at least 500 employees as it is facing a massive financial crisis. The exact...

Unacademy, the Indian edtech startup, has let go of about 600 employees from its almost 6,000-strong team — about 10 per cent of its...

slice, a fintech startup, is gearing to hire almost 800 people for various roles across its operations, design, product, and engineering verticals in the...

Ask a newbie about the reason for joining a startup, and the most common answer would be that it’s exciting and thrilling to be...

byteXL, the experiential learning platform for IT career aspirants, has raised a seed fund of US$2,00,000 in an angel round. Joseph Joy, president, Joy...

This question has led to endless debates. Not surprising, since both have their pros and cons. Specialists are experts in their fields, and well-versed...

Leegality, the eSign, eStmap and document workflow platform, has set itself a target of 10x growth in revenue in a year’s time. Anticipating huge...

In Kerala, the state labour commissioner has issued fresh guidelines for employers, including precautionary measures to be taken amidst the second wave of the...

Fixcraft, the young car after-sales services startup is working to double its manpower in the first quarter of the new financial year. With about...

With the recent funding of $4 million received by Pickrr Technologies, the Indian logistics tech start-up has begun hiring technology experts, specialists, business developers,...

Databricks, the artificial intelligence (AI) startup —that helps organisations get rid of the costs and complexities associated with legacy data architectures to facilitate better...

American cloud-based software company, Salesforce, has invested in Indian developer of HR software, Darwinbox. This is the first time Salesforce.com is investing in India. Darwinbox,...

Four years ago, Vernacular.ai was established by two graduates from IIT-Roorkee. This AI-driven voice engine aims to improve customer experience, as it is equipped...

Gaurav Munjal-led Unacademy tripled its valuation to 1.45 billion after raising funds to the tune of $150 million from Masayoshi Son-led Softbank’s Vision Fund 2. The...

Gurugram and New York-based people analytics startup, inFeedo, has raised $700,000 in financing from Y Combinator, a Silicon Valley-based start-up incubator.   The Company had earlier,...

Zwayam, the recruitment startup, has achieved ‘Microsoft co-sell ready partner’ status. The hiring startup, driven by artificial intelligence (AI), provides a SaaS platform for...

Bengaluru-based home design and decor startup, Livspace, has reportedly laid off close to 450 employees from its 2,800-strong workforce.  This news of layoff comes...

As part of cost-cutting measures, Cure.fit, the Bangalore-based gym and wellness startup, has laid off almost 800 of its employees — including fitness trainers...

The current pandemic has threatened to disrupt businesses and organisations are worried about continuity and timely payment of salaries. This will particularly affect the...

When a former architect in Apple’s custom processors wing left the Company after nine years to start his own venture, he was sued by...

With the online education sector reported to have the potential to touch $1.96 billion in the next two years, online education technology startup, Springboard,...

Anuranjita Kumar has left her seat as the managing director and head-HR, international hubs, Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS), after almost two years of...

Health benefits startup, ekincare, has managed to raise $US 3.6 million in a series A funding round, led by a new investor. This takes...

Saba Adil, who has joined Avanse Financial Services as chief people officer (CPO), is looking forward to her stint with the startup in its...

Talent Litmus, a game-based assessments & learning platform, has managed to raise significant funding from Inflection Point Ventures (IPV) as well as Haptik co-founder,...

School of Accelerated Learning (SOAL), which is the country’s first startup hybrid learning venture, has raised US$ 300,000 in its first round of funding....

Skillate, the tech startup, recently raised $1 million in a pre-series A funding from a host of angel investors, such as Mynavi Corporation, Incubate...

Way back in the 1980s, Klaus Schwab, founder and executive chairman, World Economic Forum, had said, “In the new world, it is not the...

The Company is focussed on delivering a seamless and superlative consumer experience with the help of its team of experts and its advanced technological...

Employee perks and rewards startup, Advantage Club, has managed to gather funds to the tune of a million dollars, in a pre-series A round,...

Zeta, a Bengaluru-based startup offering meal and other group benefits to corporate employees, has received funding worth $60 million from French employee benefits organisation,...

Moglix offers a variety of products from safety and electronics to office tools. The Company aims to make an impact worth $100 billion dollars...

Gajendra Chandel, who hails from the auto industry, and has worked with Tata Motors for five years and Tata AutoComp Systems for over eight...

The instant messaging service had acquired two startups last year.

Betterplace plans to expand its solutions into skilling, compliance and fintech services.

While all the nine promising start-ups, identified by Forbes, bring innovations across domains, Vantage Circle is the only HR-related company to have featured in the list

All existing and former employees of Flipkart and group companies were given the opportunity to sell a part of their ESOP units to the Company

App-based HR offerings, that are tech savvy and convenient to use are the latest trend

The Company aims to help organisations optimise their workforce and acquire talent.

Startups tend to ignore their work culture in a hurry to scale up.

Five winning startups to secure equity-free funding and opportunity to become a Capgemini partner.

Grocery delivery service, Grofers has decided to lay-off 10 percent of its workforce, and at the same time has revoked joining of 67 fresh hires.

The two-year old startup with a search technology that draws on artificial intelligence, has a search index containing profiles of over 400 million jobs.