Once full of promise, HR tech startup Darwinbox hits a rough patch

Amid a slowdown in the overall SaaS industry, the Hyderabad-based company is realizing that it may have overestimated the Indian HR tech market

Darwinbox is on a sticky wicket. 

The software-as-a-service (SaaS) company focused on human resources technology is struggling to expand its customer base, say two former employees, the founder of an HR tech platform and an investor in the segment, all requesting anonymity. On top of this, some of its big clients have moved back to legacy HR software providers like Workday, Oracle and SAP, according to these four people. 

This couldn’t have come at a worse time for the Hyderabad-based company. Earlier, in June, Darwinbox was struck off from the list of unicorns—a startup valued at or more than $1 …

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Parvathi Benu

Parvathi covered tech startups and large corporates at The Morning Context. She has been a journalist for eight years. Previously, she worked as a data journalist at The Hindu BusinessLine.

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