Providing advanced mobile platforms that help organizations worldwide to accelerate their distributed workforce engagements: TalentBridge Technologies Pvt. Ltd.

Mobile technology is transforming the relationship among business, technology and the IT organization. Whether the goal is to optimize business operations, automate processes, enhance communications, improve customer experience, drive brand awareness, or generate new revenue, companies of all types are turning to mobile. Thus, mobility has become a top priority for enterprises as it offers the promise to drive innovation and streamline operational efficiency. Understanding and creating a mobile IT development strategy is an important process for today’s development decision-makers who aim to open up new business opportunities or empower employees to be more productive with new capabilities. And TalentBridge helps companies by offering its mobile platforms that helps them thrive in today’s world.

TalentBridge Technologies Pvt. Ltd., based in Bangalore, offers cloud hosted and mobility delivered innovative business solutions in the domain of workforce engagement aimed at enterprise productivity enhancement. Its products are comprehensively designed and developed after extensive field trials in remote locations to manage instant collaboration & calibration in a controlled and secure environment.

Journey of the company so far

TalentBridge Technologies Pvt. Ltd. is a Technology Products company founded in the year 2009. The company focuses on offering cloud hosted and mobility delivered platforms to its customers across India. The company initially set out to bridge employability gaps amongst the higher education graduates across 35 specializations within the Indian higher education system. The company built the best in class platform on 21st century skills and sold it to over 85 institutions across India. With over 100,000 students having gone through its platform in the first 4 years of its journey till July 2013, the founders realized that it was very difficult to scale a business model in a highly regulated and immature environment. Having lost a lot of capital on building the learning platform through native & primary research, the founders had no recourse but to either shut down the business or pivot the business model.

New investors, wary of the company for having failed in its business model, started looking at the company from an arm’s length. But the founders of TalentBridge were determined not to give up and continued the journey of pivoting the business through small rounds of capital, raised innumerable times only through friends & family. Today, TalentBridge is not just a 50 peoples’ company; it is profitable with over 100 satisfied customers across the globe with monthly and continuous repeat business with TalentBridge.

ODIGO - the mobile platform offering from TalentBridge Technologies

The secure mobile engagement platform for a distributed workforce, ODIGO, is a mobile first Enterprise Engagement Platform for enhancing productivity on the move through collaboration, calibration and control to address the hierarchical & distributed workforce needs of an enterprise. ODIGO provides real time two-way collaboration within the group between the group leader and the group members in a one to many and one to one basis with messaging including multi-media content sharing with multi-media Contextual Personalization.Real-time collaboration for enhanced productivity & secure assessment for authenticated calibration is achieved in a controlled environment where security & integrity of content is protected.

Odigo is uniquely positioned as the only comprehensive mobile engagement platform for enterprises with hierarchical and distributed workforce. The platform is built on the latest technology stack including Google language (gooLang), which makes it very light, highly responsive and tremendously scalable. The founders,after spending nearly 15 years in technology domain and managing large distributed teams, understand the domain requirements as well as the need for continuous innovation. A 35-member product development team is selected through serious and involved selection process and trained in the best of technologies, the company adopts.

Providing business value to a range of industries

In terms of focus segments, TalentBridge is focusing on BFSI, FMCG & Pharma industries.Another vertical that the company is targeting globally is Advertising & Marketing Activation domain. It has already entered in to an exclusive, global and perpetual joint IP creation and revenue sharing engagement with one of the largest advertising companies in the world. The following are some of its big clients –

• National Skills Development Corporation, Govt. of India.
• Century Group, Nigeria.
• Mullen Lowe Lintas Group (MLLG)
• United Nations, Project MIPAD

Present and future focus areas

TalentBridge focuses on the following things that exemplify its customers’ satisfaction:

• It works with customers as partners in growth. Whenever any of its customers seek any enhancement, it evaluates the need and quickly includes the enhancement in the product roadmap.
• It works with the intent of earning customers’ respect and not just money. This is reflected in customer focus, support and in its pricing as well.
• It has not lost any customers in the past three and half years to any competition.

TalentBridge’s major and continuous focus is on scaling up the platform. Besides, Enterprise Sales is a serious and time-consuming engagement, and it is focusing on customer experience. Expansion to other geographies outside India is its priority. After India, TalentBridge is focusing on Middle-East, North Africa & Singapore; it is looking to take its product to the North American and the UK market as well.

Knowing the key executives

CEO, Gauravendra Narain Shukla: Gauravendra has 20+ years of experience in the domain of Channel Management, Sales Management, and Product Management in the IT industry across the globe. He has worked across sales & marketing within IT industry, from components to enterprise segment. Having handled Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) on emerging markets, Gauravendra has built expertise on IT Product Lifecycle Management. He has worked for some of the most respected companies like Ispat group, TECS (Now TSMG), Ingram Micro, Kobian Pte Ltd and IBM. He holds MBA Marketing from KJ Somaiya, Mumbai and BE Honours from NIT Surat (REC Surat).

Co-Founder & COO, Sandip Yuwanati: In a career span of over 11 years, Sandip has handled functional areas ranging from Sales, Marketing, Business Analysis, Operations, Finance, Product Management and Corporate Planning & Strategy. Prior to TalentBridge, Sandip worked with Asian Paints Ltd., Deloitte and Aliens Group.

“We have created the platform by working with our customers, listening to them without distraction and then doing extensive field trials to test the product and do further improvements. While everyone else is looking to acquire customers, our focus is earning customers’ respect.”