Intelligent chatbots are proving that there's no talent shortage when you know how to personalize employee recruitment. Just ask Bipul Vaibhav, founder and CEO of Skillate, a startup in India with an AI-based talent intelligence platform. In the post-pandemic job market, AI-based intelligence is just what recruiters need to attract top talent quickly. "We help organizations quickly find the most qualified candidates, using intelligence to speed up hiring while improving the candidate experience and addressing diversity and inclusion objectives," said Bipul Vaibhav, founder and CEO of Skillate. "Candidates appreciate having clarity on where they stand and what to expect next, reflecting well on the organization's culture, and improving its ability to attract top talent over time."

AI-based HRTech startup Skillate has raised an undisclosed amount of funding from Incubate Fund India, and Industry expert and Director of Zyoin, Anuj Agrawal, says co-founder Anand Baranwal. The newly raised funding will be used to accelerate product development, expand its team and bolster marketing initiatives to ramp up its customer base in India and abroad. Founded by IIT Guwahati Alumni, Bipul Vaibhav and Kumar Sambhav and ex-Tracxn member Anand Kumar in 2016, Skillate aims to empower the recruiters to hire the best talent using artificial intelligence and machine learning. With a team of seven, Skillate is currently incubated in SAP Startup Studio and is based out of its premises in Bengaluru. The HRTech startup is also working with few large enterprises in BFSI, FMCG and manufacturing sectors.

Anuj Agrawal, 35, has dabbled in the recruitment industry since 2005. With 100 employees and two offices in Noida and Bengaluru, his firm Zyoin offers recruitment and consultancy services to over 300 companies, including Amazon, Goibibo, Play Games and PayU. But there were some constant niggles. With no universal template around which resumes are written and structured, mining and matching thousands with job positions was a huge task. Available parsing technologies were basic and didn't sort and match well. Also, the resumes in their database would often get dated. Last year, Agrawal got a cold email from Anand Kumar, founder of Bengaluru-based Skillate, an artificial intelligence (AI)-based recruitment solution platform that helps companies read and match resumes.