PakkaProfile, a game-primarily based assessment and recruitment platform for gig staff, has raised seed spherical led through Java Capital. The spherical additionally noticed participation from LetsVenture and Akshay Kothari, COO, Notion. The startup had formerly raised pre-seed investment from Entrepreneur First.
Launched in May 2019 through Nagmanjunath Shivakumar and Savio Sebastian, the Bengaluru-primarily based startup is reimagining gig staff tests the use of psychometric games, facial and speech reputation technologies, and deep learning, consequently assisting groups make independent selections and lease the right workforce.
Nagmanjunath, CEO, PakkaProfile, said, “Hiring gig people has been a piece of a black box. Employers are continuously seeking out better productivity, longer retention, and higher customer support from their staff. And gig people are commonly opportunistic, looking to maximise their profits over a brief duration of time, searching at bendy hours and possibilities in the direction of home. The possibility lies in bridging the gap. Moving farfar from conventional activity webweb sites to an on-call for platform for gig jobs is what we need to offer.”
“Vernacular video games are an powerful manner to construct a profile via way of means of measuring character traits, cognitive and language abilities of the staff and assist healthy the proper human beings for jobs,” he added.
Bhargavi V, Partner at Java Capital, said,
“PakkaProfile has a completely unique method of the use of video games, breaking all limitations of language and training levels to evaluate and match gig workforce to the right activity. It additionally builds a talent profile for every candidate evaluated thru the platform, which opens severa opportunities withinside the future.”
“PakkaProfile gives flexibility to employers via way of means of presenting them to choose both the evaluation+matching+ hiring platform or simply the evaluation+matching solution, which helped them to paintings with giants like Swiggy and Ola at a completely early level of their journey,” Bhargavi added.
Java capital is an funding syndicate that generally specializes in sectors such as fintech, healthtech, SaaS, cell internet, consumer, and deeptech. The organization companions with groups with an concept to prototype level and pre-product market fit stage, and actively work with them to guide them to the following level of growth.
