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AI Startup Helping Hire Gig Workers Gets Vinod Khosla Backing
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Vahan.ai, an AI-powered recruiter of blue-collar workers, has secured $10 million in funding led by Silicon Valley billionaire Vinod Khosla’s Khosla Ventures, bringing artificial intelligence to a hiring segment in India long dominated by mom-and-pop operators.
The Series B round also drew capital from other US investors such as Y Combinator Inc. and Gaingels LLC to tackle a segment that Vahan expects will account for 70% of India’s new job growth by 2030. The new funds will be deployed to hone the technology and expand the languages covered, the startup said in an announcement Thursday, casting a wider net to capture the hundreds of millions of potential hires in India’s smaller, more remote towns.