Emgage - Mobile first SaaS HR platform built to help Startups & SMEs to create smarter and productive workplace

Emgage is a mobile-first SAAS HR platform built to help Startups & SMEs to create a smarter and productive workplace.

Here's the excerpts from eChai with Surendra Varma, Founder, Emgage.

About Emgage Team.

We are two co-founders, Sarfaraz Malek (CTO) and me (Surendra Varma – CEO).

We both were working together with Cyberoam, I was part of HR team and Sarfaraz was part of Tech Team.

I have more than 20 years of Exp. in the HR field, with 10 plus years of work experience with Corporate and 10 years of Exp. in running an HR services venture and Emgage is my brainchild.

How Emgage Works?

https://youtu.be/6blkQRgx2PM

Eureka Moment

When Surendra joined a two-member HR team as the HR Manager of a growing tech company, they struggled big time in implementing HR processes and an HRMS platform owning to the complexities of the platform, limited knowledge, and (of course) the bandwidth!

The challenges grew 3x fold when he started his own HR consulting & outsourcing firm, years later! They were using spreadsheets and documents to keep up with Payroll and processes. A ton of stuff was slipping through the cracks.

Their customers weren’t happy, and neither were they! So they looked for a better solution. Unfortunately, what they found was that the HRMS platforms available in the market were way more than their small yet growing business needed, and costly too. Packed with features that they’d never use, the HRMSs they tried were all complex and overwhelming.

That’s when and why the ‘Emgage’ was born!

Emgage is a simple yet powerful HRMS platform for growing businesses that helps you and your HR team deliver exceptional employee experience. We built it with a minimal feature set that your business needs and left out everything else!

No clutter. No complexity. No extra features to confuse and overwhelm you and your employees. They are proud to say that Emgage is the product that they wish existed back when they were looking for the perfect small business HRMS. And They are also proud that their 50+ customers agree.

Whether you’re ready to move on from the physical documents and spreadsheets, or you’re fed up with complex HRMS software, We hope you’ll give Emgage a try.

We are confident that you’ll love it and it will make your team more productive and your employees happier!

USP

This platform is build by HR Subject matter experts who have more than 100 Plus years of cumulative HR exp. for HR to simplify and streamline Human Resource Management. With Emgage your HR process becomes better and smarter.

Business Model

We are into B2B business model primarily focused to solved HR challenges of Startups and SMEs.

We sell our platforms to Startups and SMEs, directly and through channel partners as well.

Our Vision is to create better employee engagement through our Emgage Application and increase the application adaptability rate of end users to 95%. Emgage should be first choice for Startups and SMEs for HRMS tool and should be a differentiating tool to attract and retain the top talents.

Target Audience

Startups & SMEs – Companies with 50 to 500 Employee

Traction

We have got 80 Plus customers generating 7000 Payslips every month.

Looking for Entrepreneurial Talent

We are looking for enterprising technical team who are passionate about building out of box product. Java, Springboot. Also passionate HR professionals who are looking to build their careers in HR tech industry.

CoRising with the community

We can help other startups to create right culture which will help them to build dream team and scale their startups faster than their competitors. We can be in panel of speakers and advice lot of startups on people management.

Community Support

We are looking to connect with fellow entrepreneurs and learn from their experiences and sharing, looking to connect with investors and help fellow entrepreneurs wherever we can. 

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