Asian Intern Site Acquired
upGrad, Asia’s leading integrated skilling and workforce development company, has announced the acquisition of Internshala, the world’s largest early-talent marketplace, for an undisclosed amount — in a 90% stock-swap transaction.
The acquisition strengthens upGrad’s position across the full career lifecycle — connecting education, skilling, and employment on a single platform. Founded in 2010, Internshala has built a community of over 34 million registered users and 450,000 employers, with ~3 million active applicants annually. The platform sees most of its traffic organically and serves students across India, including more than 40% from Tier 2 and Tier 3 markets.
With the integration, upGrad reinforces its commitment to building structured ecosystems for learners and employers — enabling students to discover internships, build job-ready skills, and transition into full- time roles more efficiently. To fuel this growth, upGrad will invest additional resources to accelerate product innovation, AI-led talent matching, and enterprise hiring models, with a target to scale Internshala’s ₹45 crore revenue base to ₹100 crore and beyond.
2 Years of Running a Niche Job Board: What I’d Do Differently in 2026
Two years ago I wrote an article on HackerNoon about building a niche job board in Go.At the time the site was only a few months old and I had just crossed about 5,000 monthly visitors. I was still figuring out what worked and what didn’t.
Two years later the project is still running and I’ve launched a second job board. Looking back, I’ve learned quite a bit; some of my assumptions were right, and some were completely wrong.
So I thought it would be useful to revisit the topic and explain what I’d do differently if I had to run that race again.
New Recruiter Job Board
Every recruiter job in one place. That is the idea behind RecruiterRoles.com a new job board that launched recently.
The problem is obvious to anyone who has worked in recruiting. You need a new role. You open Indeed or LinkedIn. You type “recruiter jobs” and get back software engineers, sales reps, and office managers mixed in with actual recruiting positions. There is no filter for agency versus in-house. No way to narrow by recruiting specialization. The general boards were not built for this search, and it shows.
The site only lists recruiter jobs and talent acquisition jobs. Every listing is a recruiting role: technical recruiter positions at SaaS companies, healthcare recruiter jobs at hospital networks, agency staffing roles, talent acquisition manager positions at Fortune 500s. Job seekers can filter by remote recruiter jobs versus on-site, agency versus in-house, entry-level recruiting jobs versus senior talent acquisition roles, and sectors like technical, healthcare, finance, or legal recruiting.
Listings cover every major US metro, with strong concentration in the Mid-Atlantic corridor from DC through New Jersey, Southeast cities like Atlanta, Charlotte, and Nashville, and large metros including New York, Chicago, Dallas, and San Francisco.
HireSecurityTalent.com announced the official launch of the hiring infrastructure built exclusively for the electronic security industry.
Designed specifically for integrators, manufacturers, and Security SaaS companies, the platform introduces structured, industry-aware hiring capabilities that generic job boards do not provide.
Electronic security roles are certification-driven, technically specialized, and operationally nuanced. Yet most hiring platforms treat them as generic listings.
HireSecurityTalent.com was built to reflect the structural realities of the industry.
“For years, the electronic security industry has relied on hiring platforms that don’t understand its complexity,” said Joe Mignone, Co- Founder & CEO of HireSecurityTalent.com. “Access control, video surveillance, intrusion detection, fire systems, and security SaaS are specialized disciplines. Hiring infrastructure should reflect that. We built HireSecurityTalent.com to serve this ecosystem directly.”
