Area served Worldwide | ||
Headquarters Bangalore, Karnataka, India Founder(s) Siddharth MallAjinkya MalasaneAkshay Lal | ||
Playment is a mobile crowdsourcing platform which helps businesses offload large scale data operations to players(users). It breaks down large problems into micro-tasks and distributes among its large community of players(users). It works on the principle of Microwork, where a series of small tasks which together comprise a large unified project, and are completed by many people over the Internet.
Contents
Players(users) can browse through existing tasks and complete them in exchange for points, the points can be further exchanged for vouchers on online e-commerce sites such as Flipkart, Amazon(India) and Paytm.
History
Playment was founded in August 2015 by Siddharth Mall, Ajinkya Malasane, and Akshay Lal, alumni of Indian Institute of Technology Kharagapur, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati and Indian Institute of Technology Kharagapur respectively. They worked at Flipkart.com as Senior Business Analysts, and left to create their new company Playment. On July 2, 2016, Playment run by Crowdflux Technology Pvt Ltd raised $700k Seed capital in funding from SAIF Partners
Use Cases
Cataloging, Image tagging, Text Analysis, Lead Generation, Merchandising Audits, Mystery Shopping, Offline data collection.