There are over thirty million youngsters in India, graduating with their career vision, dreams, and plans. The majority of them lack proper guidance and career hacks to get their dream jobs. With required mentoring from experts in their field of interest, their profession is assured. To address the issue two IIT Bombay grads Vivek Gupta and Jatin Solanki came up with a brilliant idea – Expertrons.
Headquartered in Mumbai, Expertrons is the world’s first AI videobot platform, founded in February 2019, to heighten career opportunities for students and professionals. Experts from top companies and universities guide students to meet their career destination.
In this article, learn about Expertrons, its founders, business and revenue model, funding, acquisitions, growth, and more.
Expertrons – Company Highlights
| Startup Name | Expertrons |
|---|---|
| Headquarters | Mumbai, India |
| Sector | E-learning |
| Founders | Vivek Gupta, Jatin Solanki |
| Founded | February 2019 |
| Parent Organization | Expertrons Technologies Private Limited |
| Website | www.expertrons.com |
About Expertrons
Expertrons – Founders & Team
Expertrons – Mission & Vision
Expertrons – Name and Logo
Expertrons – Business Model & Revenue Model
Expertrons – Growth
Expertrons – Partnerships
Expertrons – Funding & Investors
Expertrons – Acquistions
Expertrons – Competitors
Expertrons – Future Plans
About Expertrons
Expertrons is an interactive AI-built videobot platform. The platform contains videobots of experts who have cracked interviews at leading companies or esteemed universities. It is the world’s first and largest AI videobot platform to help students and professionals to get their dream job through tips and tricks from experts. Besides interacting with an expert’s videobot, users can also connect to an expert on request and interact with her one-on-one. Expertrons provide students the opportunity to get trained, get referred to top companies, and get placed. The platform also offers Capstone courses related to various in-demand skills that help students get hired.
In line with its goal of helping students land their dream career, Expertrons also provide placement and hiring services to businesses and educational institutions. Educational Institutions can sign up for Expertrons’ Career Acceleration Program, wherein the students of the institution get a one-on-one consultation with experts from their industry and training from top professionals in the industry.
As for businesses, Expertrons provide them with the option to hire trained candidates from different fields at zero cost.
Expertrons also build videobots for businesses, that help businesses automate their customer communication to a great extent and thereby cut down on costs related to it. Besides the website, Expertrons is also available in the form of mobile and web apps.
Tanusha Verma
Expertrons – Founders & Team
Vivek Gupta
Vivek Gupta is an alum of IIT Bombay. Other than Expertrons, Vivek also Co-founded Plancess EduSolution Private Limited, which is one of India’s leading platforms for online preparation of NEET & JEE.
Vivek worked as Advisor at gamified learning platform ‘Eduisfun’. He also co-created ‘PrepLane’, an online self-assessment platform that helps students prepare for NEET & JEE.
Jatin Solanki
An IIT Bombay graduate, Jatin also founded innovative ed-tech startups like Schoodle and Eduisfun, a gamified learning platform. Jatin has been a part of many early startups, building upon amazing ideas. He is a TEDx speaker, a swimmer, and also the winner of the Nashville International Film Competition’11.
Pratyusha Srivastava
Expertrons – Mission & Vision
Expertrons’ mission is to be at the forefront of career guidance and management to enable the right direction for youngsters. The company’s vision is to facilitate the youth and professionals with their AI videobot technology for their career enhancement.
“Expertrons is essentially a Netflix for career hacks. We founded it with the vision to reimagine career decisions for the 1.87 billion professionals globally who change their careers 5 to 7 times in their lifetime,” said Vivek Gupta, co-founder of Expertrons.
Expertrons – Name and Logo
The name ‘Expertrons’ reveals the company’s motto of augmenting the advancements of careers through their experts’ advice.
Expertrons’ logo has the saying, “Inspire Success”.
Expertrons – Business Model & Revenue Model
Expertrons offer both B2B and B2C services. Its B2C services include courses, training, and one-on-one consultation with experts for its individual users. For B2B, Expertrons ties up with colleges and educational institutions and offers training and expert guidance to the students of these institutes. Expertrons also sells its VideoBot Technology to businesses. Businesses can also hire talent from Expertrons’s database of students that too at zero cost! Expertrons also offer franchises.
Expertrons has multiple sources of revenue:
- Users pay for a one-on-one consultation with experts
- Paid plans for students i.e Expertrons Pro & Expertrons Plus
- Revenue earned by offering courses on various in-demand skills
- Revenue earned by offering ‘Expertrons Carrer Acceleration Program‘ to colleges
- Revenue earned by offering Franchise.
- Revenue from the sale of videobot technology to business
Expertrons – Growth
Expertrons is built around a unique concept and the startup is receiving a good response from its target audience. Presently Expertrons have over 6000 domain-specific experts on board. The platform has experts from top companies such as Google, Mastercard, Reliance, TATA, ITC, and a lot more.
Over 5000 companies are associated with the platform as hiring partners. The company has provided its videobots technology to many businesses and has successfully enrolled many franchise partners.
Expertrons was ranked among the Top 3 Startups across the globe to get selected for the TecLabs Accelerator, in Mexico. The startup is partnered with Mexico’s university – Tec De Monterrey, to help them enhance their placements and admissions.
Expertrons impacted over 3.5 lakh aspirants to date.
Piyush Mishra
Expertrons – Partnerships
Some of the hiring partners of Expertrons are:
Expertrons – Funding & Investors
Expertrons recently raised a funding round on August 7, 2023, from Hindustan Media Ventures Ltd. (HMVL), the parent firm of Shine.com. The new funding will be used for expansion, SEO efforts, and general development, which will allow the firm to reach more professionals globally.
| Date | Round | Amount | Lead Investors |
|---|---|---|---|
| August 7, 2023 | Seed Round | – | Hindustan Media Ventures Ltd |
| July 30, 2023 | Seed Round | – | Peaceful Progress |
| September 21, 2021 | Seed Round | Kunal Shah, Anant Maheswari | |
| August 16, 2021 | Pre Series A | $2.3 million | Venture Catalyst, Lets Venture, ah!Ventures |
| November 2, 2020 | Venture Round | – | Ivycap ventures, Iceland Venture Studio,Sarcha Advisors |
| September 20, 2020 | Seed Round | – | The Batchery |
| April 29, 2020 | Seed Round | $700K | LetsVenture,Rohit Chanana, Nikhil Vora |
Expertrons – Acquistions
Expertrons acquired Foxmula in August 2023. Foxmula is an education tech company, and the mission of this company is to engage with businesses and supply them with an effective workforce in order to help students develop in a way that addresses the issues of unemployment in India.
Expertrons – Competitors
Though Expertrons is a unique concept, there are several platforms built around similar ideas. Expertrons’ top competitors include Interviewing, Phenom, Ocelot, and Gloat. The company sustains its leading position with its AI videobot platform and experts from almost every field.
interviewing.io
interviewing.io lets aspirants appear for mock technical interviews with engineers from top companies like Google and Facebook.
Phenom
This HR Technology company helps aspirants discover their potential and find the right job.
Ocelot
Ocelot combines the power of chatbots, live chat, and video libraries to help students find the answers they need.
Gloat
Gloat is an internal talent marketplace that allows businesses to shuffle talent among projects, teams, locations, and more.
Charudath K Nair
Expertrons – Future Plans
Expertrons’ future plans include expanding their associations with various colleges, universities, and brands across the world. It also aims to influence the lives of over 1.87 billion professionals globally and help them redefine their career decisions.
“A key area of focus right now for us would be to tap into the job-seeking market of professionals looking to land their dream job opportunities or seeking a career change, and Expertrons aims to be the one-stop platform to empower them for the same,” said the Expertrons founders after the company’s funding round raised in September 2021.
Following the acquisition of Foxmula in August 2023 and the completion of their most recent round of funding, Expertrons’ founder Vivek Gupta stated that they will have a large target audience and expertise in tech-based certification, penetrating through online and offline channel partners across India and providing more comprehensive support to aspiring professionals.
Expertrons – FAQs
What does Expertrons do?
Expertrons is the World’s first AI VideoBot platform that helps students and job aspirants get career guidance from Industry experts through VideoBots and face to face. Expertrons also offers placement services to educational institutes, and VideoBots technology to businesses. Businesses can also hire from Expertrons.
Is Expertrons Career Free?
Expertrons Careers is a completely free product, while Expertrons Admissions and Expertrons Communications are paid products.
Who is the founder of Expertrons?
Two IIT Bombay graduates Vivek Gupta and Jatin Solanki founded Expertrons in 2019.