Atma intends to create an ecosystem that includes a job marketplace, an upskilling institute, and a community-based support system. The company has announced a $5 million pre-seed round of funding led by AC Ventures with participation from Global Founders Capital.
GoTo Group, Advance Intelligence Group, Ula, Lummo, Kopi Kenangan, Sampoerna Strategic, MMS Group, and Xiaomi also participated.
Indonesian Social Job Platform Atma Nets US $5 Million Pre-seed Funding
Atma intends to use the funds to improve its product, implement a go-to-market strategy, and grow its team. The venture aims to build an end-to-end ecosystem that includes a job marketplace, an upskilling institute, and a community-based support system to address pain points in the lower and middle-income job segment.
Effective innovation has not improved the same job search and candidate search experiences. Atma sees a huge opportunity for large-scale product solutions to redefine the existing job search and candidate search experiences.
According to Atma, there is widespread inefficiency in Indonesia’s current job market. Companies face several weeks of lead time between posting an open position and receiving qualified candidates.
Poor recruitment processes, such as lead generation, CV screening, and interviewing, result in candidates having extremely negative experiences or receiving no responses.
Atma CEO Edy Tan commented,
“Job seekers in the lower and middle-income segment describe their job search experience as emotionally traumatising, while companies often describe their candidate search experience as a random walk.”
He continued,
In Atma, we are building a product to redefine these experiences by overhauling existing dated systems with a first-principle approach. Simplicity, interactivity, sociability, personalisation, and gamification will be the core elements of our product,”
Michael Soerijadji, Founder and Managing Partner of AC Ventures said,
“Over 100 million active workers in the lower to intermediate level income bracket face significant inefficiencies in searching for the right job that matches their skillsets and preferences. Atma is going to help workers find the right jobs more easily and provide them with career advancement opportunities by taking additional certifications or training.
He also added,
“They also help employers screen for applicants with more relevant qualifications. Atma will redefine the job-seeking experience and help candidates increase their potential,”
Edy Tan (ex-Chief of Driver at Gojek), Chris Gunawan (Co-Founder of RestoDepot and Product Executive at Vara), Susan Suhargo (ex-Strategic Initiatives at Tencent and Regional Marketing at Gojek), Tim Young (ex-investor at Atlas Asset Management and Fixed Income Trader at HSBC), and Monica Oudang (Chairperson of YABB – GoTo Foundation) co-founded Atma in 2022.
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