[Jobs Roundup] Here s how you can work for India s newest social media unicorn ShareChat
ShareChat is looking to grow its user base and build a world-class organisation. It is also looking to strengthen its creator community, AI-powered recommendation engine, and platform health.
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ShareChat and its parent company,
Mohalla Tech, which also houses short video app
$502 million in its latest round of funding and joined the list of India s recent unicorns.
The round was led by
Lightspeed Ventures and
Tiger Global, along with participation from
Snap Inc, Twitter, and India Quotient, among others. With this round, the Indic language social media startup is valued at
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Bhanu Pratap Singh, Farid Ahsan, and Ankur Saxena had one goal: to build a strong product and tech company out of India.
The IIT Kanpur grads had participated in hackathons, built different kinds of products and tech offerings during their college years, and were sure that they wanted to build a strong and stable business.
Founders of ShareChat
When they graduated in 2014, the trio were considering building a debating platform. However, they soon realised that debates didn’t have mass appeal.
“We had met Madhukar of India Quotient in 2014 and he had suggested looking at ideas that would possibly touch new internet users. The internet was then restricted to metro cities. Most were still using WhatsApp,” Bhanu says.
With Moments, Los Angeles startup aims to wean social media users away from ‘likes’, followers
The Moments social calendar app launched by the startup allows users to share plans and memories as photos and videos with friends and family.
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With social media geared towards “likes”, shares, followers, and comments, a Los Angeles-based startup aims to rewind to an era when it was simply about feeling connected.
Aptly called Moments, the social calendar app lets users share plans and memories in the form of photos and videos with friends and family.
“Social media today has become about the number of followers. It hardly is about sharing that one precious moment or feed,” says