India’s Apna Unicorn Aims at Making More than 2B Users
According to Nirmit Parikh, the Apna app is a platform that is more or less like LinkedIn but for the people that are non-English speaking and not affluent Indians. Apna is an app startup that will help the blue-collar workers of the country to look for jobs. More about the app and its founder follows below.
Unicorn India – The Apna Job App
The Apna job app has raised as much as $70 million from Insight Partners and Tiger Global at a valuation that was found to be worth $570 million. Sequoia Capital India and Lightspeed India took part in the Series B funding as existing investors.
The proceeds raised will help in technological advancements, acquisition of talent, and expansion to other countries like Southeast Asia and the United States, as announced by this Bangalore-based startup.
India is one of the countries that has been hit the hardest during the pandemic due to Covid-19. However, it is being observed that the employment rate is gradually getting back to normal in the country, the third-largest economy in Asia.
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