Mindler raises Rs 2.2 crore funding

NEW DELHI: Technology platform Mindler, which offers career counselling services to students, has secured Rs 2.2 crore in financing from two of its existing investors.

The Delhi-based company uses a platform based on artificial intelligence and machine learning to provide assessment programmes that can help school students decide their career path. Publishing house Taxmann had invested about Rs 1 crore in Mindler in June this year.

It has now invested over Rs 1.8 crore while the rest has come from IIM Ahmedabad’s Centre for Innovation Incubation and Entrepreneurship (CIIE), said Prateek Bhargava, chief executive, Mindler.

“We have implementing automation, psychometrics, gamification and other activities which we can collaborate with schools, tech players and government institutions to help students figure out the right path,” Bhargava told ET, adding that the company plans to raise a total of $1million (about Rs 6.7 crore) in this round over the next four months. Mindler employs 15 people and has about 20 external tieups that include career counsellors.