Founded by Vijay Yalamanchilli in 2015, Keka is the leading HR tech platform in India. Keka was incepted with a mission to create awesome employee experiences by shunning clunky interfaces and offering easy and simple software solutions. The company started as a squad of 5 and ascended to become a stellar team of 950+. From automation of people processes to creating an engaged and driven culture, Keka is everything businesses need to build a good-to-great company. The software helps HR teams spend less time on mundane tasks and focus more on the vital assets of any organisation: the people. Keka streamlines and automates payroll, recruiting, leave & attendance, performance management and more with ease. It has managed to leave an indelible mark with a reach of 12,500+ customers across various sectors, including IT services, pharmaceuticals, manufacturing, professional service organisations, accounting, taxation, fin-tech and others. It currently runs the payroll of 2.5M employees across the world.

To Know more, visit www.keka.com

Today’s hiring leaders are expected to move faster, improve quality, and reduce costs — all while delivering a seamless candidate experience. Yet, a significant portion of HR bandwidth is still consumed by operational bottlenecks: screening large volumes of resumes, coordinating interviews, repeated phonecalls and managing fragmented candidate pipelines.

Hoogway addresses this not with generic automation, but with a structured, AI-driven hiring workflow that mirrors how recruiters think and operate.

Intelligent Screening That Goes Beyond Keywords

Hoogway’s AI evaluates resumes contextually — understanding role requirements, candidate experience, and relevance rather than relying on simple keyword matching.

• Prioritizes true fit over keyword density
• Surfaces high-quality candidates with explainable reasoning
• Continuously improves based on hiring patterns and recruiter feedback

This significantly reduces manual screening effort while improving shortlist accuracy.

Parallel, Real-Time Candidate Assessments

One of the biggest delays in hiring is scheduling and conducting initial interviews. Hoogway removes this constraint through AI-led phone assessments that run in parallel at scale.

• Candidates are engaged instantly, without waiting for recruiter availability
• Interview links are sent as email to qualified candidates
• Conversations adapt dynamically based on responses
• Structured evaluation ensures consistency across all candidates

This accelerates early-stage evaluation without sacrificing depth.

Asynchronous Video Interviews with Built-in Integrity

For deeper assessment stages, Hoogway enables candidates to complete video interviews on their own time — while maintaining trust and rigor.

• AI analyzes both verbal responses and behavioral signals
• Built-in multimodal fraud detection flags inconsistencies or malpractice
• Recruiters receive interview reels too instead of just full interview videos

This enables scale without compromising decision quality or process integrity.

What This Means for a CHRO

By embedding intelligence across each stage of hiring, Hoogway transforms recruitment into a continuous, data-driven, and scalable workflow.

• Reduced time-to-hire through instant screening and assessments
• Improved quality of hires with structured, insight-driven evaluation
• Increased recruiter productivity by eliminating repetitive tasks
• Consistent candidate experience through standardized interactions

The Strategic Shift

Hoogway is not just automating tasks — it is re-architecting hiring workflows.

Instead of fragmented, manual processes, hiring becomes intelligent, integrated, and scalable — while keeping humans firmly in control of critical decisions.

If traditional systems helped you manage hiring, Hoogway enables you to run it intelligently — combining speed, precision, and consistency without the operational drag that holds HR teams back.

To Know more, visit www.hoogway.ai

KNOLSKAPE is the world's largest experiential learning technology company, empowering organizations to become future-ready through AI-enabled, human-centric, and immersive learning solutions. Operating in over 20 countries, the company partners with 400+ global enterprises and engages more than 500,000 learners annually across industries and geographies.

Leveraging its proprietary GENIE platform, KNOLSKAPE delivers scalable, simulation-based learning in multiple formats - macro, micro, and nano - focusing on digital, leadership, cultural, and contextual skill development for specific domains and roles. Its unique approach combines Futurization, Personalization, and Humanization to meet the evolving needs of the modern workforce. Its offerings span a wide range of competencies by building core skills in the areas of Digital, Leadership, and Culture Transformation and contextual skills that help learners with domain readiness, organizational readiness, and role readiness. Some of these skills include AI readiness, digital literacy, agility, customer centricity, emotional intelligence, data literacy, communication, hybrid leadership, DEI, well-being, and ethical AI to name a few

Trusted by top global brands like BMW, Deloitte, Coca-Cola, and TCS, and academic institutions such as IMD, KNOLSKAPE is backed by a team of 150+ professionals and 500+ facilitators. Founded by Rajiv Jayaraman, the company is recognized as a Great Place to Work®, a Top 20 global gamification provider, and a multi-award winner in the L&D and talent transformation space.

To Know more, visit www.knolskape.com

FirstMeridian Business Services is one of the largest human resources investment platforms in India, backed by global investors including Goldman Sachs, Samara Capital, and Janchor Partners. Focused on building agile and future-ready talent ecosystems, the company delivers comprehensive, end-to-end workforce and HR solutions at scale. With a robust national presence, FirstMeridian partners with over 1,200 clients across 3,500+ locations and enables meaningful employment for more than 180,000 associates, driving impact across India's evolving workforce landscape.

Through its portfolio of specialized businesses such as V5 Global, Innovsource, FirstMeridian Global, CPM, and Innov Facilities, the company offers a diverse suite of services spanning general staffing, managed services, IT staffing, technology consulting, outsourced sales, facility management, and HR technology solutions. This integrated platform approach allows FirstMeridian to design scalable, customized workforce strategies that unlock efficiency and accelerate growth across industries including telecom, retail, BFSI, IT/ITES, e-commerce, manufacturing, engineering, and logistics.

At its core, FirstMeridian blends people-first thinking with technology-led innovation. Leveraging digital platforms, automation, and data-driven insights, the company enhances workforce productivity while enabling clients to stay ahead in a dynamic business environment. Guided by a commitment to trust, transparency, and collaboration, FirstMeridian continues to create enduring value and expand economic opportunities, empowering both businesses and individuals to grow and succeed.

To Know more, visit www.firstmeridian.com

FatakPay is a fintech company focused on making finance simple, accessible, and empowering for everyday Indians. Built around real-life financial needs, FatakPay started by addressing one of the country’s most pressing challenges—quick and reliable access to funds during emergencies. Today, the company is evolving into a comprehensive financial wellness ecosystem designed to support users across every stage of their financial journey.

FatakPay serves India’s working population, from blue-collar workers and gig workers to the growing middle-class segment, through offerings such as instant loans, personal loans, insurance, digital gold and silver investments, and credit-building solutions.

Through its B2B solutions, FatakPay partners with organisations to deliver Employee Financial Wellness program. The company’s Earned Wage Access solution enables employees to access a portion of their earned salary before payday, helping them manage short-term financial needs without stress. This not only improves financial security for employees but also drives higher productivity, stronger engagement, and better retention for employers.

At its core, FatakPay combines speed with trust and simplicity with reliability. With a long-term vision of becoming a trusted financial super app, . FatakPay is building the future of finance in India — one that is easy to understand, provides instant support, accessible to everyone and reliable in all aspects.

To Know more, visit www.fatakpay.com