Heaptalk, Jakarta — Lumina, Indonesia’s job community platform for blue-collar workers, announced to seize investment from Y Combinator (YC) and Alpha JWC Ventures. The fresh capital will be allocated to advance the platform, making it to be more effective in facilitating Indonesia’s workforces to reach better economic opportunities.
The Group Partner of Y Combinator, Gustaf Alstromer, revealed a statement, “This funding will unlock Lumina’s potential to transform Indonesian workforces. We perceived that startups in other countries has presented this labor market by online and Lumina is the right team to encounter this challenge,”
Lumina has assisted more than 100,000 job seekers and provided more than 20,000 job opportunities from thousands of companies, including Shopee, Lemonilo, Sirclo, Kargo, and Astro. For its contribution, Lumina has seized a great response from its users. This digital platform is reported to accomplish 1,000 new users and added 3,000 new jobs every day.
On the other hand, the CEO and Co-Founder of Lumina, Aswin Andrison, delivered his statement, “Indonesia’s blue-collar workers have not had decent opportunities presently. They found difficulties to access opportunities and career development, an access that allows them to gain better economic chances. Lumina is eager to provide them an effective platform for self-development,”
Likewise, Aswin also added, “By leveraging the power of our exclusive community and artificial intelligence-based job recommendations, we aim to democratize the hiring process and automate the quality matching between blue-collar workers and job providers.”
Lumina intends to be an advanced platform dedicated to Indonesian workers. This platform expects to improve the consumers’ skill, contribute to organizations, and evolve meaningful relationships with other job seekers. In line with the company’s objectives, this job community platform has a mission to assist around 120 million of Indonesia’s blue-collar workers to access job opportunities. The assistant is carried out through its recruitment and community-based platform.
The Co-Founder and General Partner of Alpha JWC Ventures, Jefrey Joe, also added a statement, “We believe that Lumina will play an essential role in optimizing workforce sphere as well as the potential of business and each individual. We are excited to work with Aswin. We expect to assist them to realize their vision.”
The Platform delivers a complete solution of workforce technology-based, starting from an efficient interview process to a community forum for job seekers interactions. This platform presents jobs’ application result quickly and delivers comfortable experience for job seekers in the process of submitting their application to various companies. (SFM)
