Harpeet Grover
and Vibhore Goyal didn’t exactly start on the best terms when they met as
roommates at IIT Mumbai. “He got the better bed so things were a little
frosty,” says Grover, who graduated in 2005. Matters improved, though, and the
duo have gone on to start a venture that has become India’s largest student
engagement and campus hiring platform. A casual conversation with a placement
officer made Grover realise that there was no formal platform for campus
recruitment and with over 30,000 colleges in India, companies, too, find campus
hiring a daunting task. So, with an initial investment of Rs.2 lakh, he and
Goyal launched CoCubes in 2007.
Based out of Gurgaon, the word CoCubes derives its origin from
the first two letters of three words — connecting colleges (and) companies. The
company currently has around 2,500 colleges on its network who pay an annual
fee, and plans to increase it to 7,000 colleges over the next year. Over 400
companies hire students through CoCubes: some 10,000 students have been placed
through them and 800,000 students are currently registered on the platform. The
company hopes to clock $4 million (₹22 crore) this
year, driven by the increase of colleges in the network.
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