What festive season hiring holds for companies and candidatesE-commerce companies are expected to hire a lot of gig workers in preparation for the busy festive season. Awign Co-Founder & CEO Annanya S...
Factors that make highly qualified people choose freelance careers over one-off gigsA report from work-as-a-service platform Awign based on data from ASSOCHAM reveals that India had 15 million independent workers in 2020, w...
IT sector driving demand for high-skilled gig workers: SurveyAs companies face the brunt of cost optimisation, the gig economy has emerged as a vital solution to variabilise their fixed costs while wo...
Govt notifies online gaming rules; Binny Bansal's fund leads Rs 300 crore infusion into CurefoodsThe referee has finally notified the final rules for online gaming. On Thursday, the government unveiled a number of measures to regulate t...
White-collar jobs the next gig thing in tech-driven economyThe participation of high-skilled workers in the gig economy surged by 240% last year, primarily driven by the growing demand for tech role...
Unitus Ventures logs first close of opportunity fund at Rs 80 croreUnitus Ventures has already backed some portfolio startups such as BetterPlace, Cuemath, Awign, Masai, Eduvanz from the opportunity fund, w...
Work fulfilment platform Awign rolls out first ESOP buyback worth Rs 4 croreUnder this programme, eligible employees will be able to participate in this ESOP buyback and liquidate their part of the vested stock in t...
SC says no conclusive proof on Pegasus; IT firms juggle myriad issuesThe Supreme Court said while the panel found no conclusive evidence that Pegasus was used on the 29 phones it examined, the petitioners had...
ETtech Deals Digest: Servify stands tall in a dry funding weekDevice management startup Servify pulled in $65 million in funding led by Singularity Growth Opportunities Fund.
Gig startup Awign raises Rs 120 crore in funding led by Bertelsmann India, Amicus Capital PartnersAwign will use the funds to enhance technological capabilities, expand digital services into the US and Middle East markets, and ramp up th...
Awign raises $15 million in Series B round, co-led by Bertelsmann India Investments and Amicus Capital“We will be focusing on people, technology, and building up our brand, and the raised funds will be instrumental in our efforts to take mul...
Hiring of gig workers rises, but companies delay long-term contractsWhile ed-tech, fintech, financial, diagnostics and ecommerce companies have been driving demand so far, staffing services providers also ex...
Tech-led jobs platform Awign raises funds from Michael and Susan Dell Foundation and othersSet up by Annanya Sarthak, Gurpreet Singh and Praveen Sah in 2016, Awign has worked with over 1.5 lakh people, and grown 25x in the last 2 ...
Awign to hold virtual job fest from Nov 7The event is expected to bring flexible positions from the firm’s varied lines of businesses like last-mile delivery, auditing, new busines...
Awign gets $4 million to growAwign plans to strengthen the workforce while also developing robust sales and marketing channels.
Awign Enterprises raises Series A funding of $4 mn"This round comes in at the right time where the aim is to invest in technology and touch more than 10 million lives within the next financ...
Unitus gets Rs 100 crore from Bill Gates, DellWhile the first fund was focused on healthcare and education, this fund will also have significant focus on fintech, said Srikrishna Ramamo...