HR tech start-up Skillr raises $1.2 mn from Binny Bansal, Kunal Shah

The funds will be used to build a strong team, boost product development, and co-build powerful hiring solutions with early customers in India and the United States~

HR tech platform Skillr, which helps companies identify and hire skilled talent, has raised $1.2 million in its pre-seed round. The start-up helps companies objectively measure the intangible behavioral skills that are necessary to succeed in customer-facing roles but are hard to identify in interviews.

The company’s pre-seed round of funding was backed by angel investors such as Binny Bansal (Co-founder, Flipkart), Caesar Sengupta (Co-founder, Arbo Works, and former VP, Next Billion Users, Google) and Kunal Shah (Founder, CRED), among others.

Co-founded in 2020 by Ankit Durga and Megha Aggarwal, who are second-time entrepreneurs and leaders in the skilling space, Skillr is