Pune Startup YourNextLeap.com Raises Series A Funding
If you scout around for quality product Startups in Pune, chances are that you stumble up on YourNextLeap.com. It is an web based product start-up from Pune, that has successfully raised a Series A investment from Nirvana Venture Advisors and looks poised to lead the Pune Startups list.
- (1888PressRelease) August 22, 2011 - Pune: If you scout around for quality product Startups in Pune, chances are that you stumble up on YourNextLeap.com. It is an web based product start-up from Pune, that has successfully raised a Series A investment from Nirvana Venture Advisors and looks poised to lead the Pune Startups list.
Founded by Suruchi Wagh, YourNextLeap.com is one of its kinds of Startup in Pune that uses a web-based recommendation engine for career counseling for students to enable them to make smarter career decisions. As a unique technology product startup company in India, YourNextLeap.com plans to continue providing innovative and creative product to consumer to help enhance their career options.
Mohit Gundecha, formerly the Head of India Operations for mig33, joins the company as the Co-founder and CEO. With the development, Amit Patni, from the Patni Family and Rajan Mehra, formerly the Country Head for eBay in India, joins the Board of Directors.
The Pune based startup which was launched in October 2010 plans to utilize the investments for scaling up and growing the team. The Pune Startup has started hiring Developers for Ruby on Rails (ROR) jobs. So if you think you have fast and effective ROR job skills you know where to head now! You can find more on the Ruby on rails jobs from the company website.
On the investments, Suruchi Wagh, Founder and COO of the company said, "Several million students in India make uninformed career decisions based on anecdotal information and social pressure. YourNextLeap.com's virtual career counselor has already helped several thousand students make better career decisions on colleges and streams of study. The investments are an opportunity for us to scale up our web infrastructure and grow our team."
"Our investment is driven by an impressive founding team and their insightful use of social media and analytics, to help Indian students make education choices and plan their early careers" said Rajan Mehra, Managing Director of Nirvana Venture Advisors.
YourNextLeap.com's virtual career counselor involves a suite of online tools, which use psychometric evaluations and math models on past admission patterns, to give out personalized suggestions. University Suggestor and College Suggestor tools help students increase their chances of admissions into Colleges, and Branch Suggestor helps students choose streams of study.
YourNextLeap.com has a freemium business model with an ARPPU of Rs. 500.
Mohit Gundecha, CEO of the company said, "YourNextLeap.com is solving a real problem for students and their parents. The intelligence built in the virtual career counselor, enables scientific evaluation, a key differentiator from the fragmented career counseling methods prevalent in the education industry today."
Nickhil Jakatdar, CEO of VuClip and Alok Kejriwal, CEO of Games2Win are on the Advisory board of the Company.
About YourNextLeap.com
YourNextLeap.com is a recommendation engine which acts as a virtual career counselor to help students make smarter career decisions. It involves a suite of online tools, which use psychometric evaluations and math models on past admission patterns, to give out personalized suggestions.
Online tools like University Suggestor and College Suggestor help students increase their chances of admissions into colleges and Branch Suggestor helps students choose streams of study. Headquartered in Pune, YourNextLeap.com was started by Suruchi Wagh in October 2010 with a team of young and enthusiastic professionals from top Indian Colleges. In a short period of time, YourNextLeap.com has aided thousands of students in making more informed career choices.
For more information please visit - http://yournextleap.com
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