Part-time work platform Awign raises $4 mn Series A from investor group
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Our strong technology-enabled platform with a unique offering of delivering work and not workforce has helped us build expertise and win the favour of marquee customers across FMCG, CPG, Retail, BFSI, Telecom, Ecommerce and Mobility sectors,” said Gurpreet Singh, cofounder at Awign. Founded in 2016 by IIT alumni Singh, Annanya Sarthak and Praveen Sah, Awign gets enterprise functions executed through a distributed workforce. It works with clients such as Swiggy, Oyo, Accenture, BCG, Udaan and others across 300 cities in India and registered supply base of 4 lakh candidates. Awign’s innovative model provides measurable value to large companies and simultaneously impacts a distributed workforce at scale,” said Rahil Rangwala, director programs at Michael and Susan Dell Foundation in the statement. Awign competes with players in the gig work economy like TapChief which recently raised $1.5 million from Blume Ventures as well as women’s networking platform Sheroes which was backed by Leo Capital which connects women job-seekers.