HONO has raised USD 1 Million from different particular person buyers resembling Hemant Sultania, Amit Khanna of Amaya Ventures, and Harsh Gupta of Udayat Group.
They now intend to scale the enterprise and their gross sales vertical, and plan to double their consumer numbers, aiming at supporting 5 million folks on the HONO platform within the present monetary 12 months 2023.
Speaking to the TOI, Chaudhry mentioned: “We had a very good experience with HONO as partners for the last five years and I personally believe that post Covid the need for better HR, especially AI driven, productivity driven, HR platform is becoming a need. And we feel that without our experience of scale up and managing people, we can actually build a very good business for the owners.”
“We are bringing in a lot of experience. We understand technology because we are good at Edtech, we understand scaling because we scale all across the country, understand branding and marketing, we understand talent identification and talent build up all across the country differently in a very, very different and hostile environment. I think there is a whole gamut of experience, mentorship, and enablement that we can bring to the table,” added Chaudhry.
Strategically, HONO is wanting to leverage the recent corpus of funds to increase its operations throughout India, the Middle East, and Southeast Asia, with expansion plans in UAE, Singapore and Indonesia.
Mukul Jain, founder and CEO, HONO mentioned: “From current $4 to 5 million revenue we want to scale up the journey to 15 million dollar revenue in the next one and a half to two years. This is the plan today, 1 million user base is there, which you want to take to three to four million user base. This strong happening will lead to substantial value to the company and to our product also.”
Chaudhry mentioned that deep know-how is a a lot larger revolution than IT because it has crept into the lives of everybody irrespective of their age, socioeconomic standing and work profile. “Any innovation, especially in deep innovations around technology, will be far deeper in terms of reach, revenue potential and in life changing transformation than it showed in the 90s.”
“There is a deep involvement of technology in our day to day lives. And I see that becoming more and more entrenched when technology moves into healthcare where there is predictive diagnosis, there are far better results that we can throw in from our artificial intelligence, for example, radiology is going through a very, very different space right now. There are a lot of roles that technology can play – healthcare is one, environment is the second area that is of interest. But apart from that, food consumptions, education, lifestyle habits, all of that is going through a transformation.”