Gig employee infrastructure startup Nia.one has raised seed funding of $2.4 million, or about Rs 21.3 crore, from impression investor Elevar Fairness.

The Bengaluru-based startup mentioned it is going to use the recent capital to hurry up the rollout of its Nia.one hubs, known as Niadels, in main employment corridors throughout Delhi NCR, Bengaluru and Pune. It additionally intends to develop its AI expertise layer, often known as Rafiki, and spend money on new expertise because it scales.

Based in 2024 by Chhabra and Lt. Col. Pushkar Raj, Nia.one operates a full-stack, phygital platform for migrant and gig employees. Its providing combines entry to verified jobs, lodging, meals, mobility, and fundamental necessities, aiming to transform migration into long-term stability.

On the coronary heart of the system is Rafiki, an AI assistant that gathers information from employees and matches them to alternatives aligned with their abilities, expertise and most well-liked places. The startup claims that its method improves retention charges, boosts employee financial savings, and ensures a extra constant provide of manpower for enterprises in logistics, ecommerce, manufacturing and providers.

It presently helps greater than 3,000 employees throughout 50 cities and goals to scale that quantity to over 8,000 within the coming quarters. Its Niadels are located inside a kilometre of huge worksites in logistics and industrial clusters, providing employees a mix of job placement, housing and every day requirements in a single location.

“At Nia.one, we’re constructing the lacking bodily layer between the street and the rented mattress,” mentioned Pushkar Raj. “Each Niadel hub is designed so {that a} employee can stroll to work, return to a secure, inexpensive mattress, entry scorching meals, and improve their life with out debt traps or brokers.”

“Infrastructure for migrant employees has been handled as an afterthought for too lengthy,” mentioned Sachin Chhabra, Founder and CEO. “We’ve confirmed that our mannequin delivers 80 p.c retention and improves with scale. Our focus now could be to develop metropolis by metropolis and present {that a} robust community of Niadels can construct higher lives for employees and stronger outcomes for enterprises.”