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Gurugram-based end-to-end SaaS platform GetWork has raised INR 7 crore in pre-Sequence A funding spherical from Samarthya Funding Advisors, NVS Wealth Managers and Artha Enterprise Fund. The spherical additionally noticed participation from marquee founders and angel traders like Pravin Agarwala (co-founder, Betterplace), Shuchi Kothari (director, Well being & Glow and DSP Group Household Workplace) and Saurabh Garg (co- founder, NoBroker). The fund raised will get utilized to onboard greater than 2,500 schools and over 12,000 employers, discover abroad markets and develop the GetWork Membership, in response to an official assertion.
“Over 42,000 schools and coaching faculties add 1.2 crore recent graduates to the working inhabitants yearly. Nevertheless, there is not a single platform that gives particular instruments, steerage, and job alternatives to recent graduates from tier 2 and tier 3 schools. GetWork’s placement platform and GetWork Membership deal with fixing this large drawback. This funding spherical introduced onboard an thrilling set of traders who will assist us scale the GetWork platform pan-India over the subsequent 18 months,” stated Rahul Veerwal, founding father of GetWork.
GetWork presently has 6,500 employers recruiting from the 13 lakh college students on the GetWork platform from greater than 1000 schools throughout India. Within the final 90 days, over 3,300 freshers obtained positioned with sought-after employers like ICICI Financial institution, Financial institution of Baroda, Reliance Retail, Hathway, and Justdial, and fast-growing startups equivalent to LeverageEdu, Lawyered, and Nutrifresh, claimed by the corporate within the assertion.
“The incumbent recruitment platforms deal with skilled candidates. They haven’t been capable of cater to the precise wants of recent school graduates and placement cells of tier 2 and three schools. That is the place GetWork has constructed a sturdy and revolutionary platform that aids within the discoverability of recent expertise from these schools by connecting them to recruiters searching for particular expertise for his or her pan-India job openings,” stated Jatin Karani, co-founder and associate of Samarthya Funding Advisors.
Launched in 2019, GetWork is a B2B SaaS platform for schools to put their recent graduates instantly into startups and corporates.
