Lumina, a Jakarta-based job community platform for underserved blue-collar workers, announced today its new backers — Silicon Valley-based accelerator Y Combinator (YC) and Southeast Asia-focused venture capital firm Alpha JWC Ventures.
The amount of funding is not disclosed.
With this, Lumina plans to triple the size of its engineering team, aiming to build a one-stop-shop platform where workers can upskill and contribute to organisations that they work for.
“By leveraging the power of our immersive community and AI-based job recommendations, we aim to democratise hiring and automate quality matching between blue-collar workers and employers,” said Lumina Co-Founder & CEO, Aswin Andrison.
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Co-founded in September 2021 by CEO Andriso and CTO Tri Ahmad Irfan, who was a Twitter employee, Lumina provides an easy-to-use, community-based recruiting solution for small and medium enterprises (SMEs) and a networking platform for Indonesia’s working class.
It targets to help 80-120 million Indonesian blue-collar workers to interact with fellow job seekers via a streamlined interview process and community forum.
Lumina also reduces the amount of paperwork for applicants and replaces long waiting times and application follow-ups with progress notifications. Besides, it relieves applicants from the burden of having to look for jobs in multiple locations and platforms.
Within two months, Lumina claims to have brought on more than 100,000 job seekers and 20,000 jobs from thousands of companies including Shopee, Lemonilo, Sirclo, Kargo and Astro, among others.
The startup also boasts of significant traction with 1,000 new daily user sign-ups and 3,000 new daily jobs added.
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