Scooter raises $156,000 pre-seed to rethink sales hiring
What's the deal? Pune-based sales hiring startup ScooterDealroom has a profile for this one. Try Dealroom → has raised US$203.7K (roughly $156,000) in a pre-seed round led by Aviral Bhatnagar's AJVCDealroom has a profile for this one. Try Dealroom →. Founded in 2024 by Kartik Mandrekar and Saumya Seth, the company helps startups hire sales professionals by assessing candidates on real sales scenarios instead of relying mainly on CVs.
How it works: Scooter sources verified sales professionals, assesses them through real sales scenarios, and sends hiring managers a shortlist of three to five candidates. Managers can review short video clips from assessments before viewing a candidate's CV.
What's the endgame? The proceeds will fund the product and simplify the sales hiring process for both candidates and hiring managers. The goal is to cut the time it takes startups and sales teams to find and evaluate candidates.
The founders: Mandrekar has led sales teams at Gartner, ShoptimizeDealroom has a profile for this one. Try Dealroom →, and Graas. Seth is a behavioural scientist with a master's degree from the University of Pennsylvania.
Traction: Scooter works with more than 50 companies, adding 14 customers in recent months, and has built a pool of over 10,000 sales candidates. One customer made a sales hire through the platform in six days.
The signal: The round is AJVC's first in a Pune-based startup, a nod to hiring tech that leans on skills-based assessment over résumés.
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