Turbohire was established in 2017 when a gathering of previous IITians and NITians quit their jobs at Microsoft, Google, and ISB and met up to make an Augmented Intelligence-based platform to drastically change how associations settle on employing choices. For a startup to achieve success, it has to go through a large number of stages before it develops into an enterprise. From the commencement of the plan to building up itself as a huge part in its area, the development is a bit by bit measure which when completed in the correct manner, turns into a victorious business venture.
It has been a phenomenal journey for TurboHire from being a startup to being one of the Top-20 globally recognized AI-Based software in the Talent Acquisition market in only four years. The TurboHire team consists of talented and dedicated members who are continuously working towards solving recruitment problems and making TurboHire greater.
Let us look at a detailed mapping of TurboHire’s journey from 2017 to 2021, paying special attention to the milestones achieved each year and how it has contributed to the growth of the Talent Industry as a whole:
Year 2017: The Ideation of TurboHire
June 2017
In June 2017, the founding team: Deepak Agarwal, Aman Gour, Abhishek Kabra, Gaurav Kumar, and Rakesh Nayak got together and gave TurboHire its brand identity. They were then fixating on researching the top trends in the market and developed unique ideas to understand the market.
The most important part of development then was to develop TurboHire as a sellable and useful product. Regardless of how solid the idea of driving the product is, it can’t sell except if it is applied to suit the necessities of the customers – the main hero of our story.
October 2017
After four months, TurboHire onboarded its first advisors.
Amit Nandkeolyar
Amit Nandkeolyar is an Associate Professor in the Organizational Behavior section at the IIM Ahmedabad. He holds a Ph.D. in Organizational Behavior from the University of Iowa, an MBA from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, and a BE from the National Institute of Technology, Durgapur. Amit has published his work in top-level administration diaries like the Journal of Applied Psychology, Personnel Psychology, and Harvard Business Review. He has gotten numerous “Outstanding Reviewer” grants from the Academy of Management, USA.
Suman Gopalan
Suman Gopalan is currently the Chief HR Officer at Freshworks. She has been an Independent Consultant and HR advisor assisting leaders and associations with Performance Coaching, Talent Strategy, Succession Planning, Administration Improvement, and Executive Instructing. She had also worked with Dell Inc for 10 years as Executive Director.
All in all, Amit and Suman were huge achievements for TurboHire as they helped in ensuring if our services were efficient and consistent and how to help us grow into a venture.
Year 2018: The TurboHire Hustle
June 2018
As the company grew, its potential also grew. In view of this fact, the founders of the company had left their existing jobs at Microsoft, Google, and ISB to dedicate their full-time effort to make TurboHire the best AI-powered recruitment platform.
August 2018
In the month of August 2018, the team had been working to make the best Resume Parser in the market. In April, TurboHire’s Resume Parser reached commercially viable accuracy.
Today, TurboHire’s Resume Parsing Engine is celebrated as one of the best resume parsing engines for English Resumes that not just gives you extract information from a resume like Work-experience, Education, Personal Data but also over-lays the data with a later of intelligence to build an AI-Enhanced Candidate Profile.
Even better, we have recently crossed 1 Million Candidates Processed.
December 2018
By the end of 2018, the marketing strategies and selling points had started becoming clear. During this time, the initial customer discussions had begun and intensive market research was being carried out.
Client Discussions associated us with different customers to share any inquiries, experiences, and perspectives about the items accessible and their advantages.
Year 2019: TurboHire Was Being Recognised By Industry Leaders
January 2019
The year 2019 began with a blessing – Edwards Rogers. Ed Rogers joined our team as Advisor and Mentor. It was an honor to have him because of his sophisticated decision-making skills, and his co-operation with our organization.
Dr. Rogers has been the Chief Knowledge Officer at Goddard Space Flight Centre, NASA since 2003. He has received a Ph.D. in Human Resources from Cornell University focusing on the role of cooperation in high tech firms. Dr. Rogers has also done MIB from Darla Moore School of Business and a BS in Agronomy from Ohio State University.
February 2019
By the end of the year, TurboHire successfully incubated at Dlabs to develop as a full-fledged enterprise, present itself in the market, and for the significant growth of the company.
Dlabs is a business incubator that provides physical and virtual incubation support for startups across all domains. The selected startups will be eligible for a seed round of funding. The program contributions can be utilized by business visionaries to progress and scale up their dare to the following stage.
Supporting the business and constantly developing is the objective and the ideal result of this step. The development and supporting stages accompany their own arrangement of prerequisites and necessities that should be managed.
March 2019
TurboHire had started to connect the concepts of the product and its results to make it suitable for clients. In March 2019, we received our first paying customers namely:
- Gold Coast IT Solutions,
- Monocept,
- Pelatro
The first customers meant everything to TurboHire as they officially set us off in the market. We appreciate them for trusting us with their patience and for willing to pay for our products.
June 2019
The essential factor which decides whether a startup has formed into an undeniable endeavor is its market presence and client base. Getting recognized by contenders just as clients is the manner by which a startup understands that it is on its way to being a huge player.
By the middle of the year 2019, TurboHire had become a mid-market player in India. We had seen a growth in our customer base which helped us gain a reputation in the Talent Industry.
We specialized in screening ability, automated video analytics, added features for the recruitment process on the platform, and Automated Interview Scheduling. Have a look at the API Tools we provide to our customers, which are intelligent easy-to-adopt APIs to bring the AI of TurboHire into the preferred systems of choice.
September 2019
YCombinator gives seed funding to new businesses. Seed funding is the most punctual phase of a venture’s financing. It pays your costs while you’re beginning.
In September 2019, TurboHire was shortlisted for an interview with YCombinator. However, it did not go as planned and unfortunately we had to face rejection. At TurboHire, no experience is seen as a negative one. We grew out of it and worked harder in the months to come.
December 2019
The year 2019 ended contently for the TurboHire family as we ranked #4 on the Top 10 AI products of 2019 list by Analytics Insights alongside Google Cloud, IBM Watson, and Microsoft Azure ML. Customers have started to love our products and had started utilizing the robustness of our AI-based solution to the fullest.
Year 2020: TurboHire’s First Funding, Remote Work During Pandemic and More
January 2020
By the beginning of the year 2020, TurboHire had started gathering large enterprise customers into its customer base like ICICI Bank.
ICICI Bank is India’s largest private sector bank which hires more than 60,000 candidates every year. Given the volume of recruitment, ICICI Bank is at the forefront of using new-age technologies for recruitment optimization.
February 2020
In February 2020, we were blessed with an angel investment by Venkata N Peri and Prashant Gupta. Venkata N Peri joined us as a Mentor and Advisor. He is the founder and CEO at CognitiveCare. Prashant Gupta joined us as an Investor and Board Advisor. He currently works with Azure Cloud and AI Networks.
April 2020
In the early months of 2020, the breakout of the COVID-19 Virus affected our growth and we suffered a slow down due to it. However, we did not give in and thrived to survive the lockdowns and financial losses resulting from it.
To stay afloat we also launched a new initiative called Talent Network to connect people who have lost jobs and find jobs at growing companies. The initiative gained popularity with the blessing of Global VC Leader.
May 2020
By May 2020, TurboHire gained a partnership with Tata Consultancy Services which aided us with increasing our credibility. TCS COIN brings together a network of experts from the start-up, research, academics, and corporate worlds to work on collaborative innovations for TCS’ Fortune 1,000 customers.
June 2020
Microsoft for Start-ups is a global program dedicated to helping B2B startups successfully scale their companies. TurboHire achieved a partnership with them in June 2020. This ensured TurboHire’s access to powerful technologies like Azure and Github. This unlocked endless opportunities for TurboHire and maximized market access.
July 2020
By the middle of the year, TurboHire was named as Top-20 AI-based start-ups of 2020 by CIO Review. By this time TurboHire had gained a reputation for transforming the way, companies are recruiting with the help of machine learning and data sciences.
August 2020
In August 2020, Prabhir Jha joined the team as an Advisor and Investor. He is the Founder and CEO of the Prabhir Jha People Advisory. He is a Human Resources strategist with diverse industry experience, from civil services to engineering, Information Technology, pharmaceuticals, automotive, and a conglomeration of Hydrocarbons, retail, media, and telecom/ digital services. He has been the CHRO of two New York Stock Exchange-listed companies and also the CHRO of two Fortune 500 companies.
October 2020
By October 2020, TurboHire had processed 1 million candidates. The year 2020 witnessed an exponential growth in TurboHire usage by recruiters.
“While every new day is an opportunity to improve and grow, 1M candidate record is an indicator that we are in the right direction.” – Abhishek Kabra, Co-founder.
November 2020
November proved to be a very successful month for the company. TurboHire had raised US $1 million in seed funding with a progression of institutional and individual financial investors putting resources into our promising venture.
The investment was driven by Pentathlon Ventures, also including Kia Ora Ventures, and individual Investors Monish Darda, Sanjay Balram, and Prabir Jha.
Another remarkable achievement by TurboHire in the month of November was that we were featured as one of the Top 30 Startups To Watch: October 2020 by Inc42. Inc42 curates a rundown of 30 early-stage startups that have demonstrated the most promise in the previous few months. To be included on that list is an honor for TurboHire.
December 2020
We are so happy to be sharing with you the news that TurboHire has ranked #17 in a list of 101 Global Innovative Artificial Intelligence Startups of 2020, curated by The Startup Pill.
Here’s the full list.
It’s a great moment to be up on a list of exceptional startups with noticeable growth stories, who are pushing the envelope to innovate as well as solve problems using Artificial Intelligence.
Additionally, we have also been one of the top news-making fundraisings in the Indian HR Tech and Work Tech space this year by People Matters.
Here’s the full story.
Year 2021: TurboHire As A Globally Recognised Market Leader
January 2021
Orbis Research “as one of the world’s top 12 firms projected to lead the $6.4-billion global talent intelligence software market by 2026. This was a milestone for TurboHire to be in the Top-5 list of Talent Intelligence category. To be recognized among the finest leaders from the Talent Intelligence industry such as Eightfold, Ideal is the outcome of sustained focus on quality and performance, customer orientation, and pathbreaking practices in intelligent hiring.
February 2021
G2, the world’s leading B2B software and services review platform, shortlisted TurboHire in their industry report as a High Performer in the ATS category and Asia Pacific Market for the year 2021. This is a pivotal time for us as we’re transforming the overall growth in the TA industry globally, with a platform that is gradually becoming indispensable in hiring.
Going Forward, How Will TurboHire Shape The TA Industry?
TurboHire has achieved major breakthroughs in its journey of four years. However, this is not enough for a growing company. TurboHire has to work continuously to deliver the best product in the market. Before concluding this revolutionary journey, let us look at some major ratings that TurboHire has been able to achieve, so far:
Ratings Received
When a new business has developed into a successful enterprise, the next step is to keep the positive growth. The key is advancement and steady redesigns. Growing new products or improving the existing ones guarantees that the product stays significant and most importantly, the customers derive significant value from it.
When it comes to TurboHire, there’s no stopping.
The journey doesn’t end here. In fact, it has just begun. TurboHire has a huge to-do list and new objectives are added every day towards making TurboHire the best one not just in India but in a global presence.
Talent Acquisition faces the challenges of time, cost, and human bias. TurboHire is intelligently optimizing efficiency. Additionally, data extraction through AI reduces human bias and error. Employers increase time connecting with qualified candidates as a result. Use fewer resources for candidate sourcing and screening. Spend more energy on connecting. We, at TurboHire, believe that a quality hire saves costs on training, training time and contributes to the RoI of the role much faster. And each day, we are working towards revolutionizing the process.
Intelligent Hiring Begins With TurboHire
TurboHire is a new age AI-based talent acquisition system and our platform is packed with features that will help Recruiters and HR managers in the optimization of each stage in recruitment. We hope and trust you will continue counting on us for smart and intelligent recruiting. A shoutout to each one in the team for making the journey nothing less than a roller coaster ride. We have lots more announcements coming up.
