Type of site Job search engine Key people SEAN Blagsvedt, CEO Alexa rank 15,328 | Available in English Website www.babajob.com | |
Slogan(s) "Better Jobs for Everyone" | ||
Babajob.com is an online job portal for blue-collared jobs in India. Babajob.com lists jobs for the informal service sector in India, this sector consists of semi-skilled workers including: maids, drivers, masons.
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Introduction
It was founded in 2007 by Sean Blagsvedt (now CEO), Ira Weise and Vibhore Goyal. Bajajob.com lists jobs from the informal sector in India -blue-collared and grey-collared jobs. It connects job-seekers to employers via their website, voice services and SMS-texting. Currently, it has 3.7 million job openings across 206,000 different employers across India. Babajob.com is based in Bangalore but is present in 9 cities across India.
Funding
It was initially funded by the founder Sean Blagsvedt and his step-father Ira Weise. They then did a seed round of $200,000 with angel investors. Round A of funding was led by Gray Ghost Ventures and Khosla Impact Fund (Khosla Ventures) in 2012, they raised 7 Crore rupees. In 2015, they raised $10 million (64 Crore rupees) from SEEK Limited (an Australian public company) the largest global online employment marketplace. The injection will be focused on mobile app development and on improving telephony services. The company also received $1.1 million as a grant from the United States Government.
Partners
In 2013, Babajob.com announced that it would join with Business Call to Action (BCtA), an initiative of the United Nations. With the addition of mobile technology they pledged to connect to 15 million low-income job seekers by 2016.
Babajob.com partnered with Internet.org to offer its app free of cost.
Babajob.com partnered with Reliance Communication to bring classifieds to the mobile platform.