Vahan Technologies: Enabling Blue-Collar Employment

This case delves into the entrepreneurial journey of Madhav Krishna and his company, Vahan. Initially focused on providing speech recognition tools for English learning in skilling centers, Vahan undergoes several pivots as a platform for blue-collar employment. The case underscores iterative venture development, learning and pivoting, user-data responsiveness, platform adoption (like WhatsApp), distribution partners for scaling, and the nuances of business-model fit in India’s evolving internet landscape in a blue-collar space.