Blue-collar Workforce Management Platform Smartstaff Raises $4.3M In Funding
Smartstaff (previously Qikwork), a Blue-collar workforce management platform, has raised $4.3M in funding from Blume Ventures, Nexus Venture Partners, and Arkam Ventures. The funding round also saw participation from Gemba Capital and some angels.
The startup plans to utilise the raised funds for further enhancing the product and building the team.
Smartstaff | Blue-collar Workforce Management Platform
Started by Arpit Dave, Gnanesh Chilukuri, Viral Chhajer, and Aravind Reddy (ex-colleagues at Runnr) in October 2020, Smartstaff is a full-stack blue-collar workforce management platform that helps businesses hire and manage their blue-collar workforce by digitising workforce management practices.
Smartstaff eliminates the challenges of a legacy system and facilitates better workforce management for the manufacturing industry while empowering India’s large blue-collar workforce population to get better access to work.
Speaking on the development, Arpit Dave, Co-founder and CEO of Smartstaff, said,
“With more and more industrial workers getting access to smartphones, we see a huge potential in using technology to reimagine workplace processes and unlock massive value for companies and workers alike.”
The startup helps businesses source, hire, manage, engage & retain their blue-collar workforce. Leveraging the power of technology, the startup is on a mission to help 100 million blue-collar workers in India find better work.
Karthik Reddy, Part of Blume Ventures’ investment team, said,
“Indian manufacturing is silently powered by tens of thousands of SMBs and their workforces. And yet, the ability to enhance that labor discovery, employment, productivity, and transparency is alarmingly low. The Smartstaff team is all set to change that. Their solution has already wowed some of the smaller and largest employers in the space. We will soon see the core of Indian manufacturing be powered by Smartstaff.”
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