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 providers 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 strategy to matching the demand for expertise with the availability for firms providing IT and tech providers, stated co-founder and CEO Somnath Chatterjee.

“We’re treating this as a provide chain downside, the place you must 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 accomplice 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 establish the issue that Prismforce goals to unravel.

Prismforce’s product catalog consists of SkillPrism, which makes use of AI over a talent stock administration software to automate expertise profiling. The startup additionally provides 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 at present on monitor to amass 10 shoppers by the top of this yr, with the smallest consumer 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 manager stated that he expects the geographical ratio of the startup’s shoppers shift over time, with 70–80% coming from English-speaking international locations, such because the U.S., U.Ok. and Europe.

Though the first focus of Prismforce is proscribed to firms providing IT and tech providers, it additionally targets entities within the enterprise IT area. The startup additionally plans to achieve skilled providers 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 abilities are altering very quick, which isn’t the case for a lot of of those consulting {and professional} providers firms. However that may very well be the third horizon we will 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 know-how providers {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 is no such thing as a massive vertical software program vendor serving its diversified 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 know-how {and professional} providers. 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 so far, 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.