Eight years in India, and the same five people at the top of it.
Redrob is built by 102 people across three entities, 79% of them in India. We bootstrapped here for six years before taking outside capital, and we are three years into the venture journey.
Footprint
- New YorkUnited States
- PuneIndia
- NoidaIndia
- SeoulKorea
4 cities and 3 registered entities, listed west to east. Noida and Pune are both under the India entity.
What we are building
Every internet era hands its value to whoever owns the first screen. India has a champion in every vertical and nothing sitting above them. That seat has been open for twenty years, and an agent is the first thing that can take it. We came in through work because it is the question people bring first, and because getting it right is the hardest way to prove an agent is worth trusting with the rest of the day.
India will have a front page. We are building it.
Why India, and why this shape.
Three facts decided how this company is built. None of them is about the model.
- 01
The first screen is unclaimed.
India has a leader in commerce, payments, mobility, content and hiring, and nothing sitting above them. The layer that reads a stated intent and assembles the services behind it has been empty for twenty years.
- 02
Cost is an engineering problem.
A frontier stack costs the same to run in Delhi as it does in Denver, and the industry read that and concluded India could not be served. The correct conclusion was narrower. What it costs to answer a question is an engineering decision, and it is the one we spent three years on.
- 03
The rails are already public.
Aadhaar for identity, UPI for payments, ONDC for commerce and APAAR for academic records are national infrastructure, published open and free to build on. We build the interface that sits above them. The state already shipped the rest.
The company, in figures.
Everything below is recorded rather than projected. Nothing on this page is a forecast.
- 102
- PeopleAcross three entities, in four cities.
- 79%
- In India81 of the 102. The field organisation, product and delivery are all in market.
- 1,048
- Companies on the platformEmployers who hire and screen through Redrob, alongside the consumer product.
- 2.15M
- Monthly active usersAcross the agent and every surface behind it.
- 400
- CampusesOf 1,338 Indian universities. Placement support, credentialing and hiring events run directly.
- 820,000
- Skill Tests takenPaid, proctored, human-reviewed, and portable off our platform.
Three entities, one company.
Strategy and model research run from Korea. The field organisation, product and delivery run from India. The enterprise and university channels run from the United States.
Korea
McKinley Rice Co., Ltd.
17
17 people
Strategy, model research and IP
India
McKinley Rice Creativity Pvt. Ltd.
81
81 people
Field organisation, product and delivery
United States
Redrob Inc.
4
4 people
Enterprise and university channels
Four cities.
Where the work happens, and which entity employs the people doing it.
Noida
India
Field organisation, product and delivery
McKinley Rice Creativity Pvt. Ltd.
Pune
India
Field organisation, product and delivery
McKinley Rice Creativity Pvt. Ltd.
Seoul
Korea
Strategy, model research and IP
McKinley Rice Co., Ltd.
New York
United States
Enterprise and university channels
Redrob Inc.
How it was built.
Three moments, eight years apart end to end.
2018
Founded
The employer-of-record business was built on customer revenue, with no institutional capital behind it. Foreign companies hired in India through us, and every role they opened became a listing only we had.
2023
The agent
Korean institutional investors came in and we built the hiring agent on top of the supply we already owned. Job Search and Skill Tests launched the same year.
2026
The surfaces
Four more surfaces shipped, our own model stack reached third worldwide among open-source models, and we raised our Series A2.
Leadership.
The same five people have run this company for eight years, through the collapse of the outsourcing model and the boom that replaced it.
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Felix Kim
Founder and Chief Executive Officer
Yonsei, BBA and JD. A practising attorney and a board member of the Korean Bar Association, which is why labor and entity compliance is run in house rather than outsourced.
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Seunghyun Seok
Chief Strategy Officer
Yonsei, College of Educational Sciences. Serial founder. Owns the surface roadmap and the gate every new product has to pass before it ships.
- Photo pending
Janghoon Lee
Chief Technology Officer
Minerva, BS Computer Science and MS Data Science. Shipped four model families and the image model that placed third worldwide among open-source models.
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Kartikey Handa
Chief Operating Officer
McGill, MEng. Former Fiat Motors executive. Runs the 81-person field organisation and the campus network behind it.
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Jae Gardner
Managing Director, United States
Harvard, Economics and Sociology. Citigroup. Founded and exited The Ivy Key after fifteen years. Owns the US enterprise channel.
Between two governments.
The Korea-India corridor is not a market we entered. It is the one we were asked to speak for.
The 2026 state summit
Redrob was chosen to present the talent agenda at the state summit between President Lee Jae Myung and Prime Minister Modi. When two governments needed someone to speak for this corridor, they picked us.
Research paid for by grant
$2.1M of Korean government research funding paid for the model stack, won across four competitive programmes rather than raised, Scale-up TIPS among them. Research runs jointly with Seoul National University and Yonsei.
A seat at the table
A Minister of Science and ICT commendation, and a standing place on Ministry of SMEs and Startups delegations to India, including the hiring session we ran at IIT Delhi.
Backed by
The institutional investors backing Redrob.
- Korea Investment Partners
- KB Investment
- Kiwoom Investment
- KDB Capital
- DS&Partners
- Murex Partners
- Daekyo Investment
- Wanted Lab
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