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THE BENGALURU EDITION 2026

Bengaluru’s
recruiting tech industry,
in focus.

The companies, capital and talent shaping recruiting tech in Bengaluru. Find the leaders. Understand the segments. See where the activity is.

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COMPANIES · CAPITAL · TALENT

An industry ecosystem,
measured in context.

Recruiting Tech illustration
Companies tracked 329Recruiting Tech ecosystem in Bengaluru Disclosed funding $512.87M57 companies · all recorded rounds Companies hiring 59With open roles at the snapshot Tracked open roles 15914 employers posted in the preceding 30 days
MEET THE COMPANIES

Explore Bengaluru’s recruiting tech leaders

24 featured companies from the funding, hiring, revenue and team-size leaderboards.

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Recruiting Tech company highlights in Bengaluru, snapshot 3 September 2026
Company
Apnaapna.co$193.5M—796Financial figure available in RadarView in Radar
BetterPlacebetterplace.co.in$97.95M—371Financial figure available in RadarView in Radar
WorkIndiaworkindia.in$47.08M—733$8.24MFYFY2025 filing
Awignawign.com$28.02M—241$20.93MFYFY2025 filing
Gigingigin.ai$25M—22—
GoodWorkergoodworker.in$23.02M—5—
Belongbelong.co$15M—32$0FYFY2025 filing
smartstaffsmartstaff.co.in$13.26M—2,924—
TalentXOtalentxo.com—8 roles11—
Uplersuplers.com—8 roles1,001$16.64MFYFY2025 filing
Direct Jobsdirectjobs.in—7 roles——
EarlyJobsearlyjobs.ai—7 roles——
Flexipleflexiple.com—6 roles24—
High Impact Talenthighimpacttalent.com—6 roles——
Hiret Consultinghiret.app—6 roles——
Risebirdrisebird.io—6 roles125—
BlueTreebluetree.in——110$2.69MFYFY2025 filing
Careerstncareerstn.com————
DoSelectdoselect.com——43$5.7MFYFY2025 filing
Freshersworldfreshersworld.com——210,726$625.9KFYFY2025 filing
Gigmo Solutionsgigmos.com——126Financial figure available in RadarView in Radar
Hamara Jobshamarajobs.ai————
HerKeyherkey.com——129$2.39MFYFY2025 filing
Talentinotalentino.in——210Financial figure available in RadarView in Radar
24 featured companies

Locked revenue figures are available in Radar; the eight company financial previews stay the same throughout this page. A dash means the figure is outside these featured lists. Revenue years vary by company; the figures are not a like-for-like revenue comparison. Compare annual accounts ↗

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THE KEY SIGNALS

Recruiting Tech industry KPIs in Bengaluru

A few useful ratios bring the size of this ecosystem into perspective.

3 September 2026
Hiring participation17.9%

59 of 329 tracked companies have open roles.

Funding participation19.5%

64 of 329 tracked companies have a recorded round.

Top 3 funding share66.0%

Share of disclosed capital received by the three largest recorded recipients.

Median disclosed round$401.49K

Midpoint of 132 rounds with a disclosed amount.

Scale is concentrated. Opportunity is broader. The three largest funding recipients hold 66.0% of disclosed capital, while 80.5% of tracked companies have no recorded funding round.

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CAPITAL & COMPANY FORMATION

How Bengaluru recruiting tech has grown

Recorded company formation and disclosed funding across the complete annual series shown.

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2016 — 2025

Disclosed funding by year

Sum of recorded funding rounds · USD

Bengaluru recruiting tech
$0$65.02M$130.04M$195.06M$260.08M2016: $14.47M20162017: $2.69M20172018: $8.54M20182019: $25.41M20192020: $32.69M20202021: $228.14M20212022: $78.6M20222023: $35.53M20232024: $25.62M20242025: $24.59M2025
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Annual recruiting tech funding and company formation in Bengaluru
YearFunding (USD)FoundedRaising
2016$14.47M299
2017$2.69M1312
2018$8.54M1910
2019$25.41M2313
2020$32.69M2714
2021$228.14M1514
2022$78.6M2811
2023$35.53M419
2024$25.62M286
2025$24.59M169
WHERE CAPITAL SITS

Funding concentration

Share of all disclosed company funding.

  • Apna37.7%
  • BetterPlace19.1%
  • WorkIndia9.2%
  • Other companies34.0%

Funding by stage

146 recorded rounds since 2016

NUMBER OF ROUNDS
Seed & Angel103 70.5%
Series A–B30 20.5%
Series C+ / PE6 4.1%
Grants, debt & other7 4.8%

Recent recorded rounds

Latest recorded rounds · USD
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Seed04/2026
Kovon $250K

Backed by TDV Partners.

Largest and notable recorded rounds

Each card is one recorded round
10 cards

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Series C09/2021
Apnaapna.co$100M

Backed by Tiger Global Management and Owl Ventures and others.

Series B06/2021
Apnaapna.co$70M

Backed by Tiger Global Management and Insight Partners and others.

Series A12/2024
Gigingigin.ai$25M

Participating investors were not recorded in this snapshot.

Series B08/2022
Awignawign.com$15M

Backed by Bertelsmann India Investments and Amicus Capital Partners and others.

Series A03/2021
Apnaapna.co$12.5M

Backed by Rocketship and Greenoaks and others.

THE BUSINESS BEHIND THE ACTIVITY

Revenue, profitability & financial strength

Annual accounts for reporting companies linked to this landscape, on like-for-like currency and reporting bases.

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₹ crore · standalone

Display conversions use the dated reference rates above. Where a verified rate is unavailable, figures retain their source currency. Each reporting cohort keeps its currency and accounting basis separate.

FY2025 · annual statements grouped by reported fiscal year; exact entity periods remain on preview rows · 84 reporting entities from 128 eligible matches.

Revenue in covered accounts₹1,601.5 crore

Sum of reporting-entity revenue; not Bengaluru market sales.

Net profit / loss₹-289.8 crore

Combined result for the same cohort.

Aggregate net margin-18.1%

Combined net income ÷ combined revenue.

Median company revenue₹0.9 crore

The middle covered reporting entity.

Profitable entities+40.5%

34 of 84 covered entities.

Top-five concentration+62.4%

Share of covered revenue from the five largest entities.

Annual account trend

Reported cohort totals by year; coverage is stated for every period.

Bar height shows revenue. Changes in coverage can affect totals.

Profitability has two perspectives

FY2025 · 84 reporting entities

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BENGALURU · INDUSTRY COHORTS

How does recruiting tech compare?

Each pair uses the same year, currency and reporting basis. Cohort overlap is disclosed.

IndustryCovered / eligibleRevenue totalMedian revenueNet profit / lossAggregate marginProfitable shareOverlap

Available-account cohorts are not estimates of whole industries. Overlapping entities can occur in more than one cohort; do not add cohort totals.

Coverage, calculations & financial sources

Filed annual accounts for exact designated national identifiers. Every aggregate and peer pair uses one fiscal year, source currency and reporting basis; periods, coverage and overlap are explicit; 2026 partials are excluded.

The same up to eight reporting entities remain open across years, filters and sorts. Other company figures are available in Radar.

Source currencies and accounting bases stay separate. Missing accounts are excluded rather than treated as zero. Exact reporting periods appear on company previews. Annual totals can change with coverage and do not measure growth of a fixed company cohort.

DIGITAL FOOTPRINT

Web traffic, app reach and release cadence

How the Bengaluru companies on this page show up online: the sites people visit, the apps they install, and how often those apps ship.

Most-installed apps

42 of these companies (12.8%) publish at least one Android app — 63 apps in all, carrying 135.5M installs between them.

AppInstallsRatingStore category
apna - Search Job, Vacancy AppApna62.2M4.4Business
WorkIndia Job Search AppWorkIndia53.1M4Business
Hamara Jobs (Qjobs)Hamara Jobs6.7M4.2Business
WorkIndia Recruiter AppWorkIndia6.3M4.1Business
Gigin JobsGigin1.9M1.9Business
Freshersworld JobsFreshersworld1.6M2.6Education
AwignAwign925.1K3.3Business
Taskmo: Money Earning AppTaskmo576.5K—Business
TimBuckDoTimBuckDo428.2K—Business
goBetter: Your personal HRBetterPlace410.8K—Business

Installs are lifetime totals to date at the June 2026 store reading — a measure of reach, not of people using an app today.

App reach by segment

The busiest app inside each of this page’s own segments, with the quarterly release trend behind it (2023Q1–2026Q2).

SegmentAppsInstallsLeading appRelease trend
Hrtech63135.5Mapna - Search Job, Vacancy App 62.2M
Gig Employer It212.2MAwign 925.1K
Artificial Intelligence31.9MGigin Jobs 1.9M
Enterprise Collaboration2333.1KJobWallet 331.5K
Food Tech2143.9KInstaHire - Restaurant Jobs 132.6K

A company can carry several segment tags, so these rows overlap and should not be added together. Trend lines are zero-based and share one quarter grid, so a flat line is a quiet segment, not a missing one.

Release cadence by quarter

New apps published, beside apps whose most recent update landed in that quarter — the second bar is how much of the shelf is still being maintained.

2023Q1: 12023Q1: 02023Q12023Q2: 12023Q2: 02023Q22023Q3: 12023Q3: 02023Q32024Q1: 12024Q1: 02024Q12024Q2: 12024Q2: 32024Q22024Q4: 22024Q4: 32024Q42025Q1: 32025Q1: 32025Q12025Q3: 12025Q3: 122025Q3

Darker bars are new releases, lighter bars apps updated. 28 of 63 apps carry a release date. The series ends at 2025Q3, the last quarter that closed before the June 2026 reading.

INSIDE THE INDUSTRY

The Bengaluru recruiting tech market map

Explore the segments behind the headline numbers.

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Where companies are building

Rank segments by scale, hiring or disclosed funding.

Enterprise tech295
B2c e-commerce190
Consumer digital185
Enterprise software115
Hr saas113
Saas113
Future of work85
Sharing economy45
Marketplaces44
Deskless workforce35
Native ai in human resources24
Artificial intelligence24

Companies can sit in several segments. Counts and funding overlap.

SEGMENT TO EXPLORE

Enterprise tech

The largest measured segment in this report snapshot.

295companies
18.3%have hiring activity

54 companies hiring · $509.02M disclosed funding

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How companies make money

Common revenue models; a company can use more than one.

Subscription279
Commission on transaction63
Advertising56
Fee-for-service44
E-commerce - service27
Freemium9
Affiliate marketing2
E-commerce - product1
THE COMPANIES IN MOTION

Who is listing, hiring leaders, launching and winning work

Recorded corporate activity linked to companies in this landscape.

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Recent corporate headlines 6 dated reports
Funding roundstimbuckdo.com ↗

TimBuckdo, a student-first social commerce platform, announces the successful closure of its ₹2.70 crore funding round, following its appearance on Ideabaaz, the national television entrepreneurship show aired on Z TV and Z5.

Funding roundsworkindia.in ↗

Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas & Co. (“SAM”) advised Eloquent Info Solutions Private Limited, operating the technology-driven recruitment platform WorkIndia, in connection with its USD 10.8 million Series B investment round.

Funding roundsmyrocket.co ↗

including Seven Seven Six-backed Vibecode and Rocket, fresh out of an Accel-backed $15 million Series A funding round.

Funding roundsbetterplace.co.in ↗

BetterPlace, a blue-collar workforce management platform, is raising Rs 31.9 crore ($3.8 million) in its Series D round led by Jungle Ventures.

Layoffshunar.ai ↗

His team went from 65 people to 45.

Earningsapna.co ↗

Apna managed to marginally trim down its consolidated net loss by 2.3% to INR 50.1 Cr during the financial year ended in March 2025, from INR 51.3 Cr in the previous fiscal.

Full recorded event mix

Top 9 categories among 30 recorded events in the 24-month window.

Funding rounds
13
Mergers & acquisitions
5
Leadership moves
3
Layoffs
2
Earnings
2
New products
2
Lawsuit
1
Company announcements
1
Contracts
1
2 activity cards

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Product launches

Products, platforms and features in the recorded window

Rocket ↗
Rocket 1.0

AI consulting platform

Workforce actions

2 companies with reported reductions

Rocket ↗

Scale not stated rolescost reduction

Hunar ↗

20 rolesAI automation

Mergers and acquisitions

Company-linked deal reports; status is preserved as recorded.

Acquirer → targetStatusDateValue / context
Rocket→redfinAnnounced2026-04-27Not stated in snapshot
Rocket→mr. cooper groupAnnounced2025-09-22$9.4B
mynavi→Awign ↗Announced2024-04-29Not stated in snapshot
quess corp→Taskmo ↗Announced2024-04-04Not stated in snapshot
BetterPlace→MyRobin2023-07-26Not stated in snapshot
BetterPlace→troopers2023-07-26Not stated in snapshot

A discussion or rumour is not a completed transaction. An unstated value is not zero.

PEOPLE & OPPORTUNITY

The talent market

1,536 postings in the preceding 12 months. The full 1,743-posting snapshot covers 71 employers.

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Most advertised job titles

Sr Marketing Operations Executive(Sfmc)18
Frontend Engineer16
Senior Full Stack Engineer14
Sr Marketing Operations Executive(Braze)11
Salesforce Platform Champion11
Marketing Intern11
6 internship postings

44 tracked postings mention remote work.

The seniority mix

878 postings specify a level.

unspecified
865
senior
369
lead
248
manager
211
intern
33
entry
17

Skills employers mention

Top skills across 1,743 tracked postings in the available jobs snapshot.

Python
371
Sql
227
Aws
215
Java
147
Javascript
141
Typescript
111
Docker
105
Kubernetes
101
Git
95
React
91
ADVERTISED PAY$15.6K/ year

Median across 302 postings with pay data, expressed in USD.

Salary by seniority

senior$15.9K/ year60 postings
lead$40.2K/ year60 postings
manager$33.0K/ year41 postings

Advertised posting medians do not describe all employees or roles.

THE PEOPLE BUILDING THE FIELD

Founders and leaders

301 founders and chief executives across 192 companies.

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12 profiles

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Education networks

60 profiles with education records.

IIT Kharagpur
9
BITS Pilani
8
IIT Kanpur
6
IIM Ahmedabad
5
IIM Calcutta
4
IIM Bangalore
3
Wharton School
3
Indian School of Business
3

Prior employers

12 profiles with prior-work records.

Flipkart
4
Amazon
3
Microsoft
3
Intel
1
Apple
1
Goldman Sachs
1

Profiles cover recorded founders and leaders; contact details remain in Radar.

DEMAND, SUPPLY & PLACE

Where demand signals run ahead of mapped supply — Bengaluru

Compare demand signals in Bengaluru’s newsflow with the recruiting tech categories mapped to each signal.

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HOW TO READ THE GAP

Signal percentile − supply percentile = gap in percentile points. Positive gaps highlight questions to investigate. A high signal can reflect spending pressure or access friction, as well as potential demand.

The comparison is relative to the signal families on this page. A supply percentile of zero means the lowest relative reading, not zero companies. It is a prioritisation clue, not measured market size or unmet demand.

COMPARISON PERIOD2025-05-01 to 2026-05-01Against 2024-05-01 to 2025-05-01Explore the signals ↓

The opportunity, in one view

Signal and mapped-supply percentiles, their gap, and change in the signal’s article share.

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3 Bengaluru demand signals compared with mapped recruiting tech supply
Signal familySignal percentileSupply percentileRelative gapGap (points)Signal share vs prior year
Open-source momentum ↗Ecosystem Signal50.00.0+50.0—
Tech workforce shifts ↗Spending Pressure50.050.0+0.0+29.4%
Cloud & platform build-out ↗Infrastructure Shift25.0100.0-75.0—

Showing all 3 signals. Select a family for its history and mapped categories.

Where the signals are loudest

All 12 city readings for these demand families in the comparison geography. Bengaluru is highlighted.

Mentions per 10,000 articles

Each city’s reading is a share of its own coverage. Rows cover all of India for this page's signal families; Bengaluru is marked.

Visakhapatnam167.2

Cloud & platform build-out · Tech workforce shifts

BengaluruThis page64.7

Tech workforce shifts · Open-source momentum · Cloud & platform build-out

Noida38.7

Tech workforce shifts · Cloud & platform build-out

Chennai33.5

Tech workforce shifts · Cloud & platform build-out · Open-source momentum

Hyderabad28.4

Cloud & platform build-out · Tech workforce shifts · Open-source momentum

Krishna27.9

Cloud & platform build-out · Tech workforce shifts

Pune25.5

Tech workforce shifts · Cloud & platform build-out

Mumbai17.4

Tech workforce shifts · Cloud & platform build-out · Open-source momentum

Ahmedabad17.4

Tech workforce shifts · Cloud & platform build-out · Open-source momentum

Amritsar15.4

Tech workforce shifts

Agra8.8

Tech workforce shifts · Open-source momentum

Thiruvananthapuram7.8

Tech workforce shifts · Open-source momentum

Inside the leading signals

Open any signal for its quarterly history
ECOSYSTEM SIGNALOpen-source momentum+50.0percentile-point gap
THE OPERATING HYPOTHESIS

Open-source momentum can seed the commercial layer around the projects teams adopt.

16.43mentions per 10,000 articles

Mapped recruiting tech categories

  • Enterprise Software115

Companies can appear in multiple categories; these counts are not a unique-company total.

Quarterly share of Bengaluru coverage

Mentions per 10,000 articles · zero baseline

0122537502024Q3: 02024Q32024Q4: 22024Q42025Q1: 22025Q12025Q2: 32025Q22025Q3: 32025Q32025Q4: 42025Q42026Q1: 432026Q1
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Open-source momentum in Bengaluru coverage
QuarterMentionsPer 10,000 articles
2024Q300.0
2024Q432.07
2025Q142.72
2025Q243.04
2025Q353.61
2025Q464.45
2026Q18243.43

Where this signal concentrates in the comparison geography

Bengaluru16.4 / 10,000
Hyderabad2.8 / 10,000
SPENDING PRESSURETech workforce shifts+0.0percentile-point gap
THE OPERATING HYPOTHESIS

Hiring, visa and layoff cycles can resize teams — per-seat budgets tend to follow.

35.35mentions per 10,000 articles+29.4%share change vs prior year

Mapped recruiting tech categories

  • Hr Saas113
  • Future Of Work85

Companies can appear in multiple categories; these counts are not a unique-company total.

Quarterly share of Bengaluru coverage

Mentions per 10,000 articles · zero baseline

0122335462024Q3: 212024Q32024Q4: 202024Q42025Q1: 292025Q12025Q2: 282025Q22025Q3: 402025Q32025Q4: 312025Q42026Q1: 302026Q1
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Tech workforce shifts in Bengaluru coverage
QuarterMentionsPer 10,000 articles
2024Q32821.92
2024Q43020.75
2025Q14429.88
2025Q23828.84
2025Q35640.42
2025Q44331.86
2026Q15830.72

Where this signal concentrates in the comparison geography

Noida36.0 / 10,000
Bengaluru35.4 / 10,000
Pune17.6 / 10,000
INFRASTRUCTURE SHIFTCloud & platform build-out-75.0percentile-point gap
THE OPERATING HYPOTHESIS

Cloud and platform build-out can multiply the pipelines and environments a team must manage.

12.95mentions per 10,000 articles

Mapped recruiting tech categories

  • Hr Saas113
  • Saas113

Companies can appear in multiple categories; these counts are not a unique-company total.

Quarterly share of Bengaluru coverage

Mentions per 10,000 articles · zero baseline

081624322024Q3: 72024Q32024Q4: 62024Q42025Q1: 122025Q12025Q2: 32025Q22025Q3: 52025Q32025Q4: 282025Q42026Q1: 112026Q1
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Cloud & platform build-out in Bengaluru coverage
QuarterMentionsPer 10,000 articles
2024Q3107.83
2024Q496.22
2025Q11812.22
2025Q253.8
2025Q385.77
2025Q43828.15
2026Q12211.65

Where this signal concentrates in the comparison geography

Visakhapatnam164.5 / 10,000
Chennai14.8 / 10,000
RESEARCH & CHANGING CONVERSATIONS

Related research and changing coverage

Bengaluru recruiting tech coverage

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RESEARCH CONTEXT · 2018

Quality Certification and the Economics of Contract Software Development: A Study of the Indian Software Industry

Research Showcase @ Carnegie Mellon University (Carnegie Mellon University)

8 citations in the snapshot

RESEARCH CONTEXT · 2017

An exploratory study on perception of Indian crowd towards crowdsourcing software development

6 citations in the snapshot

What is growing in this coverage

India coverage of this page's demand families

KeywordRecent articlesPrior articlesShare change
green data centers6925209.1%
vulnerability intelligence5625150.8%
cloud infrastructure297133150.1%
ai research17992117.9%
cybersecurity incident684281.3%

Share changes describe coverage in the stated comparison periods, not search demand or market size.

UNDERSTAND THE LANDSCAPE

Recruiting Tech in Bengaluru: key questions

Clear definitions for making better comparisons.

What does this landscape measure?

It measures the tracked company ecosystem, recorded funding, hiring and other available evidence. It is not a market-size estimate.

Can segment counts be added together?

No. A company can belong to several segments, so segment counts and funding can overlap.

What does a missing figure mean?

A dash or unavailable panel means the current reviewed source snapshot does not support that figure.

KEEP EXPLORING

Put Bengaluru in context

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