Airblack raises $5.2 mn Series A; Intervue, Nestroots raise early rounds
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Over 75% of Airblacks 100-member team comprises women, with 50% in leadership roles, the statement said.Airblack enables people to upskill and become micro-entrepreneurs in the beauty skilling market through do-it-together courses. At Airblack, we are fueling this economy by empowering people to learn a practical skill in a fraction of time and cost of traditional education and launch their livelihoods on the internet, founder and CEO Videt Jaiswal said.India is already home to the second largest freelancer community in the world and COVID has only accelerated this trend. We believe that Airblack is well placed to become the learning and enablement brand for millions of internet-first entrepreneurs in the coming decade, Elevation Capital vice president Vaas Bhaskar said.Airblack claims to clock over 45,000 hours of live classes every month that are supplemented by take-home assignments. It is a SaaS-based platform that helps hire better people faster collaboratively using a live coding environment and video calling along with features such as whiteboarding, take-home assignments and question bank. To further strengthen our product, we are integrating it with Google Calendar, Outlook Calendar, Slack, VSCode, Calendly and many other tools to make it super smooth for engineers, Rahul Arora, the companys founder and CEO, said in a statement.Intervue is currently being used by companies such as InVideo, Karza Technologies and Okra.Home decor startup Nestroots has raised $100,000 in debt and equity capital as part of its seed funding round.