Type Privately held company Headquarters Bangalore, India | Founded 2014 Number of employees 100+ | |
Industry Internet; Human Resources Founders Manjunath Talwar Abhijit Khasnis | ||
Hiree is an Indian startup headquartered in Bangalore, India, launched in 2014. Founded by Ex-Yahoo employees Manjunath Talwar & Abhijit Khasnis, the firm started as myNoticePeriod.com in 2014 and rebranded to Hiree in May 2015.
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Funding
Hiree raised $330K in seed stage backing in September 2014 when it was running with just half a dozen people including founders and being incubated at NASSCOM 10000 Startup Warehouse programme. The money was raised from IDG Ventures India, with participation from a group of individuals including Prashant Kirtane, CTO and co-founder of travelmob.com; Shamsunder Talreja, owner of JetSet Capital; Raghu Krishnananda, former senior director (Product Engineering) at Yahoo and Ravi Gururaj of Frictionless Ventures.
Hiree raised Series A funding of $3 Million from IDG Ventures in February 2015.
Founders
Hiree was founded by two Ex-Yahoo employees Abhijit Khasnis and Manjunath Talwar. The company started with an objective of helping recruiters reduce lead time for hiring by creating an exclusive database of readily available candidates; an idea that was born out of the drag in hiring process that the founders had faced in their previous jobs.
History
Conceptualized by two friends—Manjunath Talwar and Abhijit Khasnis, alumni of IIM and BITS Pilani respectively, the startup was founded as myNoticePeriod.com in December 2013 at the Nasscom Startup Warehouse.
Android App
Hiree rolled out an industry-first Recruiter app that facilitates faster real-time communication between recruiters and candidates using WhatsApp, SMS and other mobile communication platforms. The app lets an employer set search parameters, filter and sort search results, rate job seekers and securely interact with the candidates.