Expanding Its Outreach, SHEROES Acquires Gharkamai.com

SHEROES, the career platform for women, has acquired Gharkamai.com - an online platform which helps professional home-based women find work. With the labor force participation of women in India witnessing a dip and over 300 million women eager to connect or reconnect to opportunities and achieve financial independence, this acquisition aids such women to find work on their own terms.

“SHEROES helps women to take control of their careers, whether it is home based, part-time, or full time. It also allows companies, the access to this diverse and high quality talent pool. We are very excited and welcome the users of Gharkamai to Sheroes and assure to help them find career success on their own terms,”said Sairee Chahal, Founder and CEO of SHEROES.

SHEROES is the largest careers community of women, with members from over 20,000 locations across India. Over 12,000 companies actively use the platform. SHEROES runs a career support helpline via phone and app. It also has its communities spread in all major cities across India including major metros, and upcoming cities like Jaipur, Indore and Pune.

“Gharkamai is beyond a business; it is a movement to redefine work for women. We turned working from home into a reality for thousands of women, keen on utilizing their experience and skills, whilst balancing the demands of modern life. With SHEROES that movement grows bigger, reaches further and changes more lives,” said Kachina Chawla, Co-founder Gharkamai.com.

Over the past 10 years Gharkamai has offered ten thousands women a platform to reach more than 1500 companies to find project based work.

SHEROES partners with over 12000 organizations to help them connect with female talent in form of employees, partners and customers. With over a million women served, SHEROES is putting women's careers on the nation-building map.

In August, SHEROES raised a Series A funding led by Lumis Partners along with participation from The HR Fund and angel investor Rajul Garg. In September, the company had acquired love, relationship, and sexual health counseling platform, LoveDoctor.in in an aim to broaden the type of support and community offered to over 800,000 platform members.

SHEROES Acquires Counseling and Support Platform LoveDoctor.in

SHEROES, the career platform for women has acquired love, relationship, and sexual health counseling platform, LoveDoctor.in in an aim to broaden the type of support and community offered to over 800,000 platform members.

LoveDoctor.in, a counseling service that has been operating for over 2 years via web-based chat, SMS, and WhatsApp has answered over 50,000 questions from young people aged 16-25 across the world, but with a focus on India, East Africa, and Southeast Asia.

LoveDoctor.in founder and CEO Avani Parekh joins SHEROES as Director of Community and Empathy with a goal of making SHEROES a one stop shop for women around the world to build their careers, find supportive community, level up their skill sets, and explore new possibilities for their lives beyond the workday.

Avani’s focus will be to build the career helpline #AskMonica, and create a seamless platform where women can get any type of counseling and guidance in an empathetic, expert manner. Lovedoctor.in will continue to provide counseling via WhatsApp and email during the transition.

SHEROES Founder Sairee Chahal, says, “SHEROES already has a strong community and has become a reference point for all things women and careers. Having LoveDoctor on board will help us strengthen the relationship with community, by offering them deeper support and connect. SHEROES already offers mentoring and career helpline support to its community and this will integrate with those efforts. Women need to navigate several issues, as they navigate their work and life and having LoveDoctor become part of the SHEROES family will help us address those needs. It is a good time to put women’s needs and aspirations on nation building map.”

Avani Parekh says “Joining forces with SHEROES allows LoveDoctor to bring essential counseling to hundreds of thousands of women. I hope that through this merger women feel safe, supported, and heard every single day through our counseling and other support channels. No one should feel alone. While the men have always used Lovedoctor.in frequently, we know that women have questions about love, relationships and sex too – but are shy, scared, or fear retaliation if they ask.”

SHEROES is the largest careers community of women, with members from over 20,000 locations. Over 12,000 companies actively use the platform. SHEROES runs a career support helpline via phone and app. It also has its communities spread in all major cities across India including major metros, and upcoming cities like Jaipur, Indore and Pune.

With a low women in workforce ratio and a over a 300 million women ready to connect to opportunities and financial independence, SHEROES has built a unique organization with women’s careers and aspirations at the center.

Lumis Partners, The HR Fund, Rajul Garg and Quintillion Media Invest in SHEROES

SHEROES – The career platform for women has raised a Series A funding led by Lumis Partners along with participation from The HR Fund and angel investor Rajul Garg. Existing investor, Raghav Bahl led Quintillion Media also participated in the round. The transaction is part of a larger commitment, out of which 12 crores come in immediately. Dexter Capital was the exclusive financial advisor and Vertices Partners was the legal advisors to SHEROES for the Transaction.

SHEROES had earlier raised an angel round from Raghav Bahl led Quintillion Media, 500 Startups and a group of individuals including Vijay Shekhar Sharma, Rajan Anandan, Binny Bansal, Mekin Maheshwari, Girish Mathrubhootham, Indus Khaitan and Krishna Mehra.

Talking about the latest round of funding Sairee Chahal Founder of SHEROES, says, “SHEROES is uniquely placed to solve a hard problem and has invested in building the entire ecosystem supporting women and their aspirations. With a large mission, a fast growing organization and an innovator’s mindset, getting the right kind of investment support is crucial. With this capital raise, we will further strengthen our investment in technology, resources and growing the SHEROES footprint.”

Highlighting the reasons behind choosing SHEROES, Sandeep Sinha, Co-Founder and Managing Partner at Lumis Partners said, “With SHEROES the size of the opportunity as well as the impact it can generate is really exciting. The Lumis advantage in helping build processes and scale can have a multiplier effect. The SHEROES team has demonstrated great results in very short period of time and we are looking forward to accelerating the same.”

Raghav Bahl, Founder Quintillion Media added, “SHEROES has a committed team and has shown great traction. It is an innovative business model and high impact makes it a compelling startup. We are proud and happy to help in building SHEROES into a formidable organization.”

Utkarsh Joshi, CEO of The HR Fund said, “Gender diversity is a pressing issue for India Inc and SHEROES is helping creating the right kind of linkages between women workforce and organizations. SHEROES is The HR Fund’s 5th investment and is a perfect fit for our portfolio. We are very excited to be a playing a significant role in shaping up this reality.”

Rajul Garg shared, "I feel SHEROES is led by a fantastic team and has deep understanding and empathy for its target market. I am excited to be a part of the journey ahead.”

SHEROES is the largest careers community of women, with members from over 20,000 locations. Over 12,000 companies actively use the platform. SHEROES runs a career support helpline via phone and app. It also has its communities spread in all major cities across India including major metros, and upcoming cities like Jaipur, Indore and Pune.

With a low women in workforce ratio and a over a 300 million women ready to connect to opportunities and financial independence, SHEROES has built a unique organization with women’s careers and aspirations at the center.

Sandeep Sinha and Pankaj Bansal will join the board of SHEROES parent – Applied Life Pvt Ltd.