India-based HR tech firm Darwinbox sees first PH gov’t agency deal inked by December

Hyderabad-based human resources (HR) management technology firm Darwinbox is further expanding its presence in the Philippines as it is now in talks with a couple of government agencies to transform bureaucratic HR processes.

In an interview with GMA News Online, Darwinbox Philippines country manager Sasank Raavi said that since the HR tech firm set foot in the country three years ago with only one client, Darwinbox has grown its clientele to over 50 enterprises, catering to over 150,000 employee-users of its HR solutions.

“In the Philippines, we started in 2021, our first customer was the Gokongwei group… across roughly 12 different businesses and 14,000 employees,” Raavi said.

“Today, we work with the Top 10 banks in the country —BPI, Security Bank, Chinabank, EastWest Bank, UnionBank…We also work with large conglomerates like parts of Metro Pacific, Meralco, Filinvest, parts of Ayala Group, which is BPI… and Monde Nissin, Toyota Motors, Isuzu,” he added.

Darwinbox’s expansion in the Philippines, however, does not stop in the private sector.

“So far we’ve only been operating in the private space… we’ve built our foundation right, made a mark in the private sector,” Raavi said.

“Now, we’re going to be bullish about entering the government sector… very soon we will scale up to the government,” he said.

The Darwinbox Philippines country head said the HR tech firm is “talking to at least three or four large government agencies.” 

Raavi, however, declined to disclose the names of the agencies due to confidentiality matters.

“By the end of this year, we should land our very first government customer in the Philippines… by December, before Christmas we have our very first government client,” he said.

Raavi said Darwinbox would be bringing an HR solutions tailored fit to the needs of the public sector, which would be “following the standards of CSC (Civil Service Commission).”

“Government [HR] is limited because their technology is legacy, they don’t have applications that are mobile-centric… They are still reliant on manual interventions… which leads to more cost, effort, and time. We want to eliminate all of that and allow the government to scale on the platform,” he said.

Founded as a startup in 2015, Darwinbox is now catering to over 900 customers with more than three million users across 130 countries worldwide.

The company provides human resources management software and digital solutions to ease and simplify day-to-day HR processes of organizations.—AOL, GMA Integrated News