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Guardian Angel For Many Unemployed Indians, Nirmit Parikh
Nirmit Parikh is the Founder and CEO of Apna, which is India’s biggest expert systems administration and open positions stage for India’s rising labor force. This Digital recruiting startup has turned into a unicorn in only 21 months of the making of the application, and only 15 months in the wake of beginning full-scale tasks.
Nirmit is a BTech graduate in Instrumentation and Control Engineering from the Institute of Technology, Nirma University, Gujarat. He is an ex-Apple employee where he worked in the branch of Product and Strategy, overseeing the item and methodology of programming stages.
He has been important for some remarkable and fascinating endeavors. One of them was Crutbox, which helps in planning Artificial Intelligence arrangements that can interact with tremendous measures of data to make perplexing and inconspicuous consistent associations consequently separating the boundary among individuals and machines.
He has an affinity for taking care of issues and that is unequivocally why financial backers are rushing to put resources into his most recent endeavor, Apna, a two-year-old expert systems administration stage for blue-and dark collar laborers, that brought $70 million up in a subsidizing round drove by US-based financial backers Insight Partners and Tiger Global.
The application has more than 70 networks for gifted experts like craftsmen, painters, field deals specialists, conveyance workforce, and others so they can develop their expert organizations, upskill through peer learning and discover gig openings.
The application is as of now live in 28 urban areas including Mumbai, Delhi, Bengaluru, Hyderabad, and Pune, among others. The stage has over 1.5 million positions and 10 million clients currently on its foundation. Consistently, the stage works with more than 15 million meetings, and the rundown of businesses on its foundation incorporates Flipkart, BigBasket, Amazon, Byju’s and Swiggy among others. By year-end it will cover every Indian city. It will then, at that point grow to the US, Southeast Asia, the Middle East, and Africa in mid-2022.
Apna has likewise collaborated with associations like National Skill Development Corporation, UNICEF Yuwaah, and the Ministry of Minority Affairs of India to give skilling and open positions to up-and-comers.