Delhi: No Naukri if you don’t know how to use Naukri.com? Those days are gone. There’s a new app that helps first-time internet users and non-English speakers especially those hardest hit by the lockdown and Covid19 business downturn to access job opportunities by entering their name, age, and skills to generate a virtual “business card” that’s shared with potential employers. The app called aptly, Apna, has been created by Nirmit Parikh formerly of Apple.
Less than a year after its December launch, Apna has 1.2 million users. It has generated over a million job interviews in the last month for workers such as carpenters, painters, and field sales agents, growing over 3X month-on-month, according to the company. The company added that Amazon.com, online grocer BigBasket and HDFC Bank have hired through the app. The Appl is similar to LinkedIn in its output!
Now it has got funding too. it has raised USD 8 Million from investors like Greenoaks Capital, Rocketship VC as well as existing backers Lightspeed India and Sequoia Capital. The Company expects to use the money to ramp up operations and roll out in more cities across the nation, the company said in a statement published on Tuesday. It also wants to grow across verticals such as accounting, customer service, and nursing. Currently, Apna is in five cities.
