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Meet the participants of People Matters TechHR Singapore Startup Program

As more and more organizations accelerate their digitization journeys, the key focus of HR and WorkTech startups should now be on value creation and problem solving for the future. For this they need to understand the pain points of business leaders, HR leaders and the workforce, and also be aware of how the world of people and work is shaping up.

Keeping the importance of learning and networking for HR and work tech startups in mind, People Matters every year hosts a unique program for them, People Matters TechHR Startup Program. In February 2019, 48 startups participated in the first global edition of the People Matters TechHR Startup Program, which has been championing the cause of startups in India and the SEA region. Now the program is back again in a new avatar and is more global than before. 

So whether you want to fast track your way to your next funding round or have just started your company and have a vision to transform the world of HR and Work Tech, the TechHR Startup Program is just the right platform for you. From an Innovation Hub to online face-to-face meetings to networking on the go with a mobile app, People Matters TechHR Singapore Startup Program is back, in a new avatar to help the emerging HR and work tech entrepreneurs. 

Here are some of the HR and work Tech startups who have joined the program and embarked on the journey to fast track their way to a better future:

SkyHive 

Found in the year: 2017

Founded by: Sean Hinton

Headquartered In (Country): Canada

Key problems addressed by the solution:  41% of workers in ASEAN are 'acutely lacking' the IT skills new jobs will be demand. SkyHive is an enterprise SaaS platform that drives rapid workforce reskilling.

SkyHive invented and commercialized a unique methodology that analyzes workforces and labour markets at their most granular level to deliver real-time, skill-level insights. With world-leading technology, SkyHive allows organizations to rapidly assess skills of the existing workforce, identify future and emerging skills, and facilitates company-level workforce planning and individual-level reskilling. Based out of Canada and serving clients on four continents, SkyHive is actively acquiring strategic partners and new customers in the Asia region.

Reezomex

Found in the year: 2020

Founder(s): Sarita Joglekar and Vinayak Joglekar

Headquartered In (Country): India

Key problems addressed by the solution: The startup is dedicated to the disruption of decade-old, lengthy and painful IT recruitment practice.

Reezomex provides a technically sophisticated tool for IT recruiters to specialize them in their work. The tool computes a metric to measure the quality of hiring. This metric will guide the recruiters to improve their performance and the same can be shared with the hiring managers, candidates, and recruitment consultants. The tool can allow the recruiters to conduct the preliminary technical assessment and reject unsuitable candidates to improve the hit rate. 

The startup is dedicated to the disruption of decade-old, lengthy and painful IT recruitment practice and the building of a fast, efficient, transparent and trusted ecosphere for IT professionals, IT recruiters, HR managers and Hiring Managers by implementing Artificial Intelligence in recruitment with the help of Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning & Big Data.

Astarel Pte Ltd

Found in the year: 2017

Founded by: Josephine Chia

Headquartered In (Country): Singapore

Key problems addressed by the solution: Astarel’s solution aims to help employers in monitoring the entire hiring process and also help them in creating an engaging experience for the candidates.

The team at Astarel believes that hiring should be enjoyable, easy and purposeful and this is why they designed Mathilda, an interview experience platform to help employers transform their candidate-hirer engagement and build a stellar employer brand. 

The interview platform is designed from a 'user-first' perspective, to create a groundbreaking and intuitive solution that simplifies and shortens the hiring process. The idea is to automate the interview process while keeping all the stakeholders including the candidates, happy. 

Astarel’s solution has been built by combining modern technology with the values of old school hiring ethos. With Mathilda, the team brings forth creative solutions through design thinking which can bring back the human warmth of the traditional recruitment process. Some of the key features of the solution include Self-Service Timezone Scheduling, Smart Feedback and Hiring Leaderboard. Through these features of Astarel’s solution aims to help employers in monitoring the entire hiring process and also help them in creating an engaging experience for the candidates.

Evie.ai (Forty Two Labs Pte Ltd)

Found in the year: 2014

Founded by: Lee Jin Hian

Headquartered In (Country): Singapore

Key problems addressed by the solution: Evie.ai is on a mission to free talent acquisition teams from having to juggle busy work while doing their real jobs. 

It offers interview scheduling solutions powered by AI, complex workflow orchestration and enterprise-grade integrations, enabling a collaborative experience between interviewers & candidates.

With robust natural language understanding, Evie’s solution streamlines complex workflows and allows recruiters to collaborate with interviewers and candidates. 

HackerTrail

Found in the year: 2014

Founded by: Tushar Tejuja

Headquartered In (Country): Singapore

Key problems addressed by the solution: It uses technology to source, engage and curate talent, as per company and per job and with real-time gamified tech challenges to help match the right employer and talent.

HackerTrail, since its inception has worked with over a hundred clients in five cities and currently caters to candidates from over 80 countries. Its clients include Fortune 1000 companies and fast-growing startups. 

With an experienced team of close to 30 people in three cities, HackerTrail provides two key solutions to clients in five cities:

HackerTrail Recruit: An end-to-end solution for hiring quality tech talent: It uses technology to source, engage and curate talent, per company and per job, allowing only the most relevant talent to meet with employers of their choice, leading to swift outcomes. This solution can be deployed more transactionally (to hire one or two people) or more strategically (to build out an entire team or department)

HackerTrail Assessments: A dynamic customised client landing page asynchronously engages with candidates, urging them to participate in real-time gamified tech challenges that span over a hundred different tech skills including live coding for over 15 programming languages and adaptive question banks for the rest. 

Devcurate

Found in the year: 2019

Founded by: Aanas Ali

Headquartered In (Country): Thailand 

Key problems addressed by the solution: With its leading-edge AI innovation it enables organizations to meet the right candidates faster with valuable workforce insight, tapping into soft skills and personality traits. 

Devcurate is an intelligent career solution dedicated to purpose-driven people and organizations. Their leading-edge AI innovation allows organizations to meet the right candidates faster with valuable workforce insight, tapping into soft skills and personality traits. Their next-generation platform also helps talents optimize their potential and chances of landing their dream jobs to lead a positive impact in the world.

Their machine learning model is built on a dedicated NLP algorithm and the sector-based taxonomy. With their on-demand interview technology, Devcurate further screens best-suited candidates for individual roles.

Devcurate's core team and advisors consist of individuals from the impact sectors themselves (including the United Nations agencies) bringing direct domain insight and expertise to their solutions. 

Get a chance to experience these new age HR and work tech solutions and meet the team behind them at People Matters TechHR Singapore 2020, from 7th to 10th September 2020. Click here to know more. 

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