“I’m excited to continue driving our technology strategy forward. We will further accelerate our technological innovations, embedding AI as a platform capability to deliver better experience and contextual intelligence to our customers,” said Singh, who has experience of working in the consumer and SaaS tech industries.
Hyderabad and Singapore-based Darwinbox achieved unicorn status in January 2022 after raising $72 million in a funding round led by Netflix-backer TCV, at a valuation of $1 billion.
The firm helps organisations manage their HR needs, including hiring and onboarding, touchless attendance and employee management.
“He has been pivotal in realising Darwinbox’s vision to build a global-standard enterprise tech product from India,” said Chaitanya Peddi, cofounder of Darwinbox. “He has scaled the platform into a full-fledged HCM suite with15 modules in just six years, which is faster than any other enterprise HR tech. He was the first one to join our team back in 2015 and has successfully scaled our engineering and R&D teams into the 400-member strong unit that it is today.”
Darwinbox is backed by global investors such as Microsoft, Salesforce Ventures, Peak XV, Lightspeed and Endiya Partners. It has grown three times over the last two years and is now expanding into new markets such as the US and UK, the firm said.
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ET had reported earlier about the company’s plan to double down on expansion and accelerate product development.Darwinbox has more than 900 global enterprises across 130 countries as clients, including new-age firms like MakeMyTrip and Swiggy, as well as traditional companies such as Adani Group firms.
