More about Nirmit Parikh
Founder & CEO - Apna | India's largest jobs and professional networking platform
apna - India's largest professional networking & job opportunities platform. Hire on apna.co today!
Founded in 2019, apna.co is India's #1 jobs platform.
Over 50mn users and over 545k employers trust the Apna platform - India has a new destination to discover relevant opportunities.
We’re currently live in 74 cities and expanding rapidly to meet the growing demand for jobs, as India comes back to work - Mumbai, Delhi-NCR, Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Pune, Ahmedabad, Jaipur, Ranchi, Kolkata, Surat, Lucknow, Kanpur, Ludhiana, Chandigarh, Chennai, Nagpur, Indore, Patna, Bhopal, Vadodara, Rajkot, Visakhapatnam, Nashik, Agra, Goa, Aurangabad, Coimbatore, Vijayawada, Kochi, Thiruvananthapuram, Guwahati, Amritsar, Bhubaneshwar, Jodhpur, Gwalior, Mysore, Allahabad, Raipur, Malappuram, Asansol, Madurai, Varanasi, Jamshedpur, Jabalpur, Aligarh, Hubli, Kannur, Bhilai, Meerut, Dehradun, Mangalore, Bhiwandi, Jalandhar, Ernakulam, Guntur, Bikaner, Cuttack, Solapur, Salem, Kota, Kolhapur, Tiruchirappalli, Udaipur, Belagavi, Ajmer, Panipat, Ahmednagar, Dhanbad, Bareilly, Saharanpur, Warangal, Puducherry, Bhavnagar, Jamnagar, Gorakhpur and Ujjain.
Several of India’s leading companies, like Zomato, Burger King, Bharti-AXA, Delhivery, Teamlease, G4S Global, Shadowfax and 1MG rely on us to address their most urgent and critical hiring needs. In addition, we have partnered with some of India’s leading public and private organizations and also support the National Skill Development Corporation, UNICEF Yuwaah, the Ministry of Minority Affairs of India, in their endeavour to provide better skilling and job opportunities to candidates.
We’re just getting started and are looking for the best business, product and tech talent to join our team in this journey.
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Co-Founder, DevX
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Co-founder of Indiabizforsale and IBGrid, TiE Ahmedabad President
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