Vahan.ai
Putting a Billion Workers on the Map
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Madhav Krishna founded Vahan.ai, a platform connecting blue-collar workers with employers at scale. Since launch, Vahan has facilitated over 1 million job placements across 920 cities in sectors such as logistics, warehousing, mobility, and quick commerce. Krishna, who studied artificial intelligence at Columbia University, built the platform with voice-first and multilingual interfaces rather than traditional text-heavy recruitment flows. This makes it usable for workers with limited digital familiarity.
Vahan has raised over $30 million to date from investors including Y Combinator, Khosla Ventures, Gaingels, LemmaTree (backed by Temasek), and Vijay Shekhar Sharma.
The aim is to make hiring less fragmented in India’s informal labor economy, while building a system that can stay with workers beyond the first placement and map their earning journey over time.
