JobsUPI, a Voice AI-powered employment platform, has raised $250,000 in a pre-seed funding round led by IIMA Ventures, with participation from angel investors including Alok Bansal, Anshoo Sharma, Amit Jain, and Manoj Sinsinwar, the company announced in May 2026.
The startup plans to use the funds to strengthen its product capabilities, scale distribution, and expand into new geographies.
JobsUPI was co-founded in 2025 by Shrey Bansal and Shubham Periwal. The platform is multilingual and multimodal, designed to improve job access for blue-collar and skilled workers across India. It currently operates in North India and is in the process of expanding to other regions.
The company describes its model as “quick commerce for jobs,” targeting a hiring turnaround of as little as 30 minutes by streamlining job discovery, matching, and applications. The platform is built on an open network architecture with a focus on speed, accessibility, and hyperlocal discovery.
Over the long term, JobsUPI aims to unlock 100 million jobs by enabling 10 million MSMEs and enterprises to hire more efficiently. The company positions itself as a potential foundational layer for employment infrastructure in India, with the stated goal of making access to livelihoods as seamless as access to commerce.
The platform competes with players such as Apna, Smartstaff, and AamDhanE. The pre-seed raise suggests early investor confidence in the platform’s approach to serving a segment of the workforce that has historically faced barriers to efficient job matching.
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