Ahmedabad-based digital recruitment startup JobSquare has raised ₹1 crore in funding from Snapdeal’s co-founders Kunal Bahl’s and Rohit Bahl’s venture firm Titan Capital. JobSquare’s funding stands at ₹3 crores in total adding this recent one.
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The startup plans to strengthen its presence in the existing market using the freshly raised capital. Furthermore, JobSquare plans to enter international markets soon.
“We plan to multiply our India operations by 2020 and our goal is to also expand to the UK and USA by 2021,” said Ishit Jethwa, founder and CEO of JobSquare.
Founded by Ishit Jethwa in 2019, JobSquare is a technology-enabled recruitment system that connects candidates and recruiters in real-time. Its current clients include Larsen & Toubro Infotech, Reliance Jio, Urban Ladder, Wipro, UpGrad, BookMyShow, Sodexo, Urban Clap, and Alembic Pharmaceuticals.
JobSquare’s mission is to simplify the hiring processes for both applicants and recruiters. The platform uses technologies to run faster implementation of processes including map listing, social verification for both recruiter and the candidate, hyper-localized search and mutual connections.
The startup serves more than 3,000 clients and has processed more than 65,000 job applications and helped around 6,000 candidates to land a job. The platform is free for recruiters as well as applicants. JobSquare is functional is cities like Delhi NCR, Mumbai, Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Pune and Ahmedabad.
Other companies working in the sector are Info Edge-backed Naukri.com, Monster, Shine, Indeed and more.
