Belong launches new hiring solution- Belong Experts

Belong, a predictive outbound hiring platform provider, announced it has raised $10 million in Series B funding led by Sequoia Capital India, with participation from existing investor Matrix Partners India. The company said it will use the funds to accelerate product development, expand sales and support operations, and hire new talent across engineering, data science, enterprise sales and customer success. Gautam Mago, Managing Director at Sequoia Capital India Advisors, has joined the Belong Board of Directors, which includes Tarun Davda, Managing Director at Matrix Partners India, and Raju Reddy, Founder and ex-CEO of Sierra Atlantic.

Launching New Hiring Solution Belong Experts

Timed with the investment, Belong also announced the launch of Belong Experts, a platform-based solution that connects employers to a verified network of independent talent experts for start-to-finish hiring support.

With Belong Experts, companies can:

Engage ready-to-interview candidates who have been custom-sourced and qualified for their hiring needs.

Get end-to-end hiring support from domain-specific talent experts, including candidate engagement, interview scheduling and coordination, and offer management.
Get the Belong platform advantage, which includes AI-driven search, in-app collaboration with recruiting teams, and powerful job-based analytics to optimize hiring.

Launched as a pilot last year, Belong Experts is already being leveraged by some of the fastest-growing companies, including Uber, LendingKart, Xola and Postman.

According to Abhinav Asthana, CEO and Co-founder of Postman, “Belong Experts has been our go-to talent platform for over a year now. We have made offers for highly complex roles in about 10-14 days on the platform. It's, in fact, one of the few solutions that combines high quality candidates with low time-to-fill ratios for our recruiting team.”

Outbound hiring solutions are seeing rising demand because of diminishing returns on inbound hiring with top talent today no longer “applying” into jobs. Belong addresses this challenge head-on. While the platform’s Discovery solution uses machine intelligence to help recruiters target highly relevant candidates open to pursuing new opportunities, its Engagement solution enables recruiters to convert target candidates into interested candidates with three times more efficiency than traditional platforms.