Kudos To The Startup That Is Helping Organisations Motivate Employees During Covd19

Guwahati based Startup, Vantage CIrcle connects corporate employees with service providers allowing a mutually beneficial relationship. Vantage Circle negotiates various deals and exclusives with service providers across different categories such as dining, holidays, insurance, utilities, hospitals, etc. and bring it on one platform for you. It personalize the offerings as per any business' demographics, preferences, and usage.

Vantage Circle has been a leading source of exceptional privileges and offers for corporate users across India from various leading brands. Vantage Circle is an online corporate employee privilege platform, where users can engage with various brands through different mediums like exclusive deals, online deals, red carpet, mailers, contests, surveys/polls, etc. This platform has a user-base of 300,000+ employees from some of the top corporates in India like HCL, Tech Mahindra, HP, Deloitte, Infosys, WIPRO, Aricent, GE, Accenture, Mu Sigma, Capgemini, Ericsson, Bausch & Lomb, and Encore. On this platform they have a range of exclusive privileges across varied categories and segments, offered to employees. Be it dining, holidays, hospitals, utilities or insurance, Vantage Circle currently provide 400-plus hand picked privileges which are specially personalized and customized as per employee demographics, usage, and preferences. Currently, we are working with more than 200 brands such as Samsung, Tata Motors, redBus.in, cleartrip.com, Tata Sky, Carat Lane, Toyota, Croma, Mahindra First Choice, Apollo Pharmacy, Nissan, Blackberry, etc and more than 190 vendors across India.

Anjan, founder of Vanatge Circle has served for more than 17 years as freelance ecommerce consultant in the UK. He has been building and architecting enterprise web application for over a decade and has spent time working for global giants like Tesco, Thomas Cook, Philips, and Royal Mail. Ever since he returned to India, he has been involved in building and mentoring the product, operations, and marketing team at Vantage Circle.

Initially, when it was founded there were only 2 people in the team and is growing in numbers everyday .They aspire to grow team to 100 members. Anjan beleives that employees are the pillar of any company and it is only the employees which stand as a pillar for any growth. Maximum members of vantage Circle are based locally in Guwahati and they face significant challenges in getting skilled manpower. Urgent hiring is always a big problem for them. 

The company is now profitable with the employee revenue generated reaching more than $500,000. Even in terms of clients, Anjan says that it is growing massively with almost all major corporates outsource their employee engagement part to them. “Currently, we have eight of the top 10 Indian IT firms as our clients and have offices in Delhi, Bengaluru, and are expanding rapidly in Guwahati. We have partnered with major ecommerce portals like Amazon, Flipkart, Myntra, etc to provide customised deals and discounts to corporate employees in India.” Last year, Vantage Circle was awarded a large contract for the Employee Rewards and Recognition platform by one of the largest enterprises in the US. Through this, Vantage Circle’s platform will provide over 90,000 employees of the clients based in the US and India an easy way to redeem their rewards.

COVID-19 has caused an unprecedented shift in people’s work habits, with millions of people forced to work remotely since the crisis began. Companies now depend on tools for video conferencing, team management, and more permanent collaborations. Under this pandemic, deploying employee engagement measures might be tough. It is, thus, crucial to keep the businesses cultivate a satisfied, motivated workforce and Vantage Circle’s latest cloud-based technology helps in the same. Vantage Circle incorporates rewards points, on-spot recognition, peer-to-peer appreciation, and unique awards to boost morale. 

For future, on the technology front, vantage  Circle plans to make the platform easy-to-use and scale globally. They also want to achieve operational efficiency by automating a lot of tasks they do.