Beep, a Pune-based EdTech startup, has raised $850,000 in a pre-Series A funding round from Knowhere Ventures LLC, Pacific Global Solutions and LeadAngels FLV, along with individual investors Vipul Prakash, Founder of wowJobs, and Sandeep Johri, CEO of Checkmarx.
With this round, the company’s total funding raised to date stands at $1.5 million.
The fresh funds raised will be used to scale its platform to 5 million users and onboard 150 additional colleges over the next nine months. Beep will also invest in building more industry-relevant programs that equip students with practical, job-ready skills aligned with real hiring needs.
Founded in 2021 by Saurabh Mangrulkar, Rakhi Pal, and Yogesh Nogia, Beep is building an AI-driven career platform for students and early-career professionals, with a focus on tier II and tier III cities.
As a comprehensive career ecosystem, Beep is serving over 6.5 million users, partnering with more than 1,500 colleges and working with 7,800 hiring companies across India.
The platform integrates career guidance, structured mentorship, industry-aligned learning and AI-powered hiring tools to ensure faster and fairer transitions from education to employment. Its offerings include a career-building app that provides mentorship, resume support and access to jobs and internships, professional upskilling programs with placement assistance, UniBeep for institutional placement management and BeepHire.ai for AI-powered fresher recruitment.
Currently, the platform runs more than 28 live programs across design, work-ready certification and experiential internship tracks, helping learners transition from education to employment faster.
Since its inception, Beep has enabled more than 30,000 young talents and early professionals to secure placements, internships and gig work opportunities through its platform.
Saurabh Mangrulkar, Founder and CEO of Beep, said, “Tier 2 and Tier 3 students have the same ambition as Tier 1, only the system does not give them the same access. This fundraise is fuel for our mission to build a Tier 1-like career ecosystem at scale, where every student can explore, learn and earn faster, smarter and with real outcomes. Along with this, we have launched new product upgrades across the Beep ecosystem, including AI career tools, job-ready learning programs and stronger recruiter and college workflows to improve real student outcomes.”
