Bangalore-based start-up, VOIZ (https://www.voizworks.com/) – a marketplace for gig work professionals has raised seed funding of $ 2 Million (approx. Rs. 15 Crores) led by Omidyar Network India with participation from other investors. The company will use the funds to scale up its technology, onboard more talent on the platform, and expand their market presence.

Founded by Vineet Patil, an alumnus of Alliance Business School, 2005 – 07 batch along with Rajesh Bernard and Sandeep Nyamati, VOIZ connects businesses with independent professionals for work fulfilment of online jobs like customer service, tele-calling, sales, data entry, recruitment, virtual assistance, tech support, and online reputation management. By making it easier for companies to hire gig workers in more traditional roles, VOIZ is reimagining the entire lifecycle of entry-level jobs.

In a report published by NITI Aayog in June 2022, there were 68 lakh gig workers in India in 2020 which is expected to grow to 2.35 crore workers by 2030. A significant segment of this workforce is expected to be in the remote workspace for simple transactional work and VOIZ with its unique offerings in the grey-collar workforce market is poised to take advantage of this explosive growth.

“There are very few platforms out there building for the future of work. Our vision is to disrupt the bpo & call centre market by employing home-bound gig workforces to do the calling jobs. In doing so, over the next 5 years, we are looking to create employment for over 3 million people who are unemployed today. We are excited to partner with Omidyar Network India in our next phase of growth.” said Vineet Patil, Co-founder, and Chief Business Officer at VOIZ.

Prior to VOIZ, Vineet has co-founded two other successful startups – Realbridge (a gaming company) and LaundroKart (an on-demand laundry company), both based in Bangalore.

About VOIZ

VOIZ (https://www.voizworks.com/) is a ‘future of work’ platform operating in the grey collared segment of the gig work landscape. VOIZ enables work completion of simple online jobs on its platform VOIZ (voizworks.com) via gig work professionals.

Launched in July 2021, VOIZ has onboarded 100+ clients including some of the well-known unicorns in e-commerce, edtech, food tech, fintech, and logistics tech industries and has more than 1 lakh+ independent professionals signed up for gig work.