Internship platform YouVah raised $210K Pre-seed funding from CIIE.CO IIM Ahmedabad, others
The co-founders of American Chase and CIIE.CO IIM Ahmedabad led a pre-seed funding round for the internship platform YouVah that saw a total investment of $210,000.
According to a press release from YouVah, the money will be used to implement new programs and carry out research to speed up growth.
Chetan Jachpure, Raghav Parsai, and Rohit Jain founded YouVah, an online portal for internship applications, in 2021. Users of the platform have access to courses for content writing, social media editing, video editing, and other tasks as well as the ability to enroll in, complete, and access internships. Users can also create resumes on the company’s platform, which offers features like guided assessment, practical experience with employers, internship training, etc.
The Indore-based startup asserts that it has collaborated with more than 80 schools, including those that follow the CBSE, ICSE, and IB curricula, and that it has placed more than 2,000 teenagers as interns in businesses and corporations. Additionally, YouVah asserts that over 50,000 users have registered on its platform and that over 1 lakh visitors per month have used it in the previous six months.
YouVah claims that with the help of its user-friendly website interface, it hopes to establish a global presence and give teenagers the option to conveniently sign up for multi-disciplinary internship programs from the comfort of their homes.
YouVah is in direct or indirect competition with organizations like Youth4work, Internshala, Letsintern, Twenty19, Skillenza, and others.
