Lokal
lokalapps.com
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Funding and backers
Total raised
$14.4M
1 round on record
Latest round
$14.4M
Series B · Apr 2023 · 3 yr ago
Team
501-1000
employees, estimated range
Hiring now
66
+37 posted in 30 days
The money's age
Long since its last round
41 months since the last round · and hiring
Momentum
32/100
hiring for its size, a new city
Last sign of life
this month
a posting or a news item
The story so fareach stage dated by its source: the company's releases, the press, registers, filings
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 9%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
Funding rounds
| Round | Date | Amount | Investors | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Series B | Apr 2023 | $14.4M | — | businessline |
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How Lokal hires
Truth index
A 85/100
Median time to fill
32 days
Ghost roles
0%
Stale roles
60%
Reposted roles
0%
Lokal scores A on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 10 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 0% look like ghost listings, 60% have gone stale and 0% are the same role posted again. Its roles close in a median of 32 days. It measures how much of what this employer publishes turns into a real, finite search - not the employer as a workplace. How the index is computed
Overview
Lokal is an Indian consumer internet company building regional-language mobile apps for people in tier-2 and tier-3 towns, covering local news, verified jobs, matrimony, astrology, peer-support listening, farm advisory and short-video skill learning. Started in 2018 as a WhatsApp group by co-founders Jani Pasha and Vipul Chaudhary, it has split into a family of apps including Lokal Jobs, Lokal Matrimony, GyanTV, Dostt, Eaze and AstroLokal, run through Behtar Technology. Hiring spans product managers, frontend engineers, payments operations and HR partners, plus performance marketers, video editors, script writers and telesales staff working in Telugu, Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada and Hindi.
News
Content platform Lokal raises 120 crore in Series B funding round
Lokal, a hyperlocal content, community, and classified platform, has raised 120 crore in Series B funding round. Lokal will use the fresh funds to grow in existing markets and launch new categories
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Tech stack
Technologies named in job postings at Lokal over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
52
Postings analysed
63
Stack modernity
87/100AI adopter
Languages
SQL14%
JavaScript6%
Python6%
Go3%
TypeScript3%
Java2%
Node JS2%
Frameworks & libraries
React Native5%
React.js3%
Appium2%
Detox2%
Redux2%
Jest2%
Next.js2%
NumPy2%
Databases
BigQuery5%
Google BigQuery5%
ClickHouse2%
MySQL2%
PostgreSQL2%
Cloud & platforms
Looker10%
Power BI6%
Tableau6%
AppsFlyer SDK6%
Figma3%
Expo2%
GitHub2%
Metabase2%
Developer tools
Adobe Premiere Pro22%
Adobe After Effects19%
Microsoft Excel14%
Canva5%
Rest API5%
Git3%
Adobe Photoshop2%
Maestro2%
AI & ML
LLM3%
ChatGPT3%
Claude2%
Gemini2%
Midjourney2%
Practices & domains
A/B Testing43%
Edge AI5%
State Management3%
CI/CD3%
Post-training2%
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Growth
Hiring Momentum
87/100
Scaling fast
Open positions
67
41 opened / 13 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
24 days
faster than 48% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~4 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics
+100%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
Marketing
45%
Communications
9% ▼
Operations
8% ▲
Analytics
7% ▲
Product
5%
HR
5% ▲
Actively hiring for Marketing (+22 in 30 days)
Activity Timeline
Added PostgreSQL to stack
Oct 2026
Added Pandas to stack
Oct 2026
Added NumPy to stack
Oct 2026
Added MySQL to stack
Oct 2026
Added Metabase to stack
Oct 2026
Added ClickHouse to stack
Oct 2026
Added Node JS to stack
Oct 2026
Added Java to stack
Oct 2026
Added GitHub to stack
Oct 2026
Added Expo to stack
Oct 2026
Added Midjourney to stack
Oct 2026
Added Canva to stack
Sep 2026
Offices
Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
1
Hiring now
1
Countries
1
Busiest office
Bengaluru
Bengaluru
India
HQ
48 open roles 68 posted in 90 days 10% engineering 17% remote 500-1000 est. staff
hires for Marketing, Analytics, Product
Jobs
≈ $16k – $37k per year (Estimated) • In office • Bengaluru
Edge AI
Management
WhatsApp
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In office • Full-Time • Bachelor's Degree • Bengaluru
Adobe Photoshop
Figma
Adobe After Effects
Canva
Management
WhatsApp
Apply
In office • Internship • Bengaluru
Figma
Adobe After Effects
Rive
Management
WhatsApp
Apply
≈ $12k – $28k per year (Estimated) • In office • Full-Time • Bengaluru
SQL
A/B Testing
Management
WhatsApp
Apply
In office • Full-Time • Bachelor's Degree • Bengaluru
SQL
Google BigQuery
BigQuery
AI/ML
Edge AI
Analytics
Tableau
Power BI
A/B Testing
Looker
Management
WhatsApp
Apply
≈ $17k – $35k per year (Estimated) • In office • Full-Time • Bengaluru
Python
SQL
Google BigQuery
BigQuery
AI/ML
Spark
Analytics
Tableau
Power BI
A/B Testing
Looker
Management
WhatsApp
Apply
≈ $17k – $48k per year (Estimated) • In office • Bengaluru
Python
JavaScript
SQL
React Native
Firebase
Maestro
DevOps
CI/CD
Management
Agile
Scrum
QA
Appium
Sentry
Detox
Charles Proxy
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≈ $26k – $52k per year (Estimated) • In office • Full-Time • Bachelor's Degree • Bengaluru
WhatsApp
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Financials
Total raised
$14.4M
Latest round
Series B
Funding rounds
1
Funding rounds
| Round | Announced | Amount | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Series B | 2023 | $14.4M | Details |