Sequoia India backs Prismforce that helps IT firms construct higher expertise provide chain • TechCrunch

Prismforce, an India-U.S. startup that gives IT and tech companies firms with instruments to construct higher expertise provide chain, has raised $13.6 million in a Collection A spherical led by Sequoia Capital India.

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Prismforce is taking Amazon’s method to matching the demand for expertise with the provision for firms providing IT and tech companies, stated co-founder and CEO Somnath Chatterjee.

“We’re treating this as a provide chain downside, the place it’s important to standardize demand, standardize provide, make the match occur, virtually as in case you are an e-commerce engine and e-commerce market making an attempt to make a expertise market,” he stated in an interview with TechCrunch.

After spending 14 years as a associate at McKinsey, Chatterjee based Prismforce with Mohd Qasim in April 2021. Qasim additionally labored as a senior engagement supervisor at McKinsey.

Whereas working on the administration consulting agency, each co-founders served a number of IT suppliers, which helped them determine the issue that Prismforce goals to unravel.

Prismforce’s product catalog contains SkillPrism, which makes use of AI over a talent stock administration software to automate expertise profiling. The startup additionally presents IntelliPrism for an end-to-end useful resource administration module with AI-driven search and match, OutlookPrism to allow workforce planning and useful resource forecasting and InsightPrism to supply CXO dashboards.

The Delaware-registered startup, which has a wholly-owned India subsidiary and workplaces in San Francisco, Mumbai and Bengaluru, is presently on monitor to amass 10 purchasers by the tip of this yr, with the smallest shopper producing $400 million of income whereas the largest counterpart making greater than $10 billion. Chatterjee didn’t disclose their names however stated half of them have their presence in India, whereas half of them are U.S.-domiciled firms.

The chief stated that he expects the geographical ratio of the startup’s purchasers shift over time, with 70–80{3bf1a0b9f90a8591564e8a12da997102101d2267f2f3e5b921298d29714621c3} coming from English-speaking nations, such because the U.S., U.Ok. and Europe.

Though the first focus of Prismforce is restricted to firms providing IT and tech companies, it additionally targets entities within the enterprise IT area. The startup additionally plans to achieve skilled companies corporations sooner or later, together with accounting, tax and consulting corporations, Chatterjee stated.

“It’s much more pertinent for IT firms as a result of the underlying expertise are altering very quick, which isn’t the case for a lot of of those consulting {and professional} companies firms. However that may very well be the third horizon we are able to go to,” he famous.

With the contemporary funding from Sequoia Capital India and world angel buyers, Prismforce plans to scale up its go-to-market attain, improve its product suite and develop its expertise base from the prevailing staff of over 60 members to a 120–140 group within the subsequent 9 to 12 months.

“The expertise companies {industry}, with a cumulative market cap of over $4 trillion and a world workforce of over 20 million, is a core pillar of the worldwide digital financial system. Regardless of that, there isn’t a giant vertical software program vendor serving its different wants,” stated Abhishek Mohan, principal at Sequoia Capital India, in a ready assertion.

“Somnath and Qasim’s imaginative and prescient is to create the defining vertical software program firm for expertise {and professional} companies. Over the previous yr, this imaginative and prescient has been validated by a number of industry-leading IT suppliers, which have deployed Prismforce merchandise to nice affect.”

Prismforce has raised a complete of $15.4 million up to now, with $1.8 million infused in a seed funding spherical a yr in the past from an undisclosed group of angel buyers that included serial entrepreneurs and SaaS founders.