VOIZ secures $2M seed funding from Omidyar Network India
Summary
Gig work marketplace VOIZ has raised seed funding of $2 million led by Omidyar Network India and other investors. Omidyar Network India has previously backed startups such as White Hat Jr, Vedantu, 1MG, Bounce, Dealshare, Quikr, Scripbox etc.In the pre-pandemic world, gig work mostly consisted of blue-collared jobs like driving cabs, bikes and delivering food, small packages etc. Post the pandemic, gig work has now moved to white collared jobs like tech programming, graphic designing, digital marketing and sales. A significant segment of this workforce is expected to be in the remote workspace for simple transactional work and VOIZ with its unique offerings in the grey-collar workforce market is poised to take advantage of this explosive growth.Founded by Rajesh Bernard, Vineet Patil and Sandeep Nyamati, VOIZ connects businesses with independent professionals for work fulfilment of simple online jobs like customer service, tele-calling, sales, data entry, recruitment, virtual assistance, tech support, and online reputation management.In a joint statement, the Co-Founders said, We are excited to partner with ONI in our next phase of growth. Our vision is to disrupt the gig workforce economy and create employment for over 3 million independent professionals in the next 5 yrs.Launched in July 2021, VOIZ has onboarded 100+ clients including some of the biggest Unicorns in E-commerce, Food delivery, Ed tech, Fintech and other industries.