The document summarizes an Indian software company that provides talent analytics services through cloud-based applications. The 15-employee company uses a proprietary skills profiling tool and comprehensive skills database to offer solutions in areas like skills profiling, talent selection, and training marketplace. It has raised INR 120 lacs in personal funds so far. The company aims to strengthen its team, enhance products, and expand its market with additional funding.
2. Industry: Software Product on cloud
Sub Sector: HRTalent Analytics
Number of Employees: 15
Location:Chennai, India
Differentiator:
Capability Profiling IP
Unique Skills ProfilingTool
Comprehensive Skills Database
Wide choice of apps
Revenue model: Pay AsYou Go (SaaS)
Market Opportunity:US$1+ Bn.
Market Growth: ~22% CAGR
Current Investors: INR 120 lacs + (Personal
Funds)
Use of Funds:
Strengthen team
Product enhancements
Market development
Intellectual property filing
Investment Highlights
3. Our Vision
Influence the development of
individuals and businesses
through intelligent SKILL-
centric applications delivered
through theWeb.
4. Our Target Customers
Working Professionals seeking
career and self-development
Employers wanting to manage
and foster employee talent
Providers of talent-centric
services such as training, HR
consultants, etc.
5. The Opportunity
Individuals
What are the career possibilities for me?
How do I get there?
What skills do I further develop?
What skills are emergent in my field?
Can my special interests be of use to my job
/ career?
How do peers view my capabilities?
Companies
What are the skills available in our company?
What skills need to be developed?
The good talent managers are unaffordable!
My HRIS doesn’t help me address talent
development issues!
Who has the potential to be the next leader
in xyz space?
Can we better match candidates with
internal requirements?
6. The Solution
The Solution Model –
Clinic + Pharmacy
The solutions take individuals and companies
through diagnosis, prescription &
marketplace process for talent improvement
A Novel Skills Profiling Application
3D Capabilities Profile (3DCP) – proprietary
holistic and comprehensive skills profiling
across industries, functions and levels
7. Solution Strategy
Talent Intelligence
Concepts & Frameworks
Database of Skills
Talent Analytics
Thought Leadership & Research
WebTechnologies
Open Source
Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)
Software as a Service (SaaS)
Hosted on secure cloud
Intelligent, Simple & Frugal talent apps for anyone, anywhere
8. Service Offerings
3D Talent Services Target Segments
Core Engine Applications Value Proposition
Skills / Capability Profiling tool
• The only one of its kind in the
market
• Intuitive & simple
Skills Database
• Comprehensive
• Cross Industry
• Cross Functional
• Pan-Geographic
• Intelligent
• Constantly learning
• Deeply analytical
Intuitive and simple applications for
various uses
Skills Profiling
Skills Inventory
Skills Analytics
Recruitment
Performance Management
Training and Development
Career Planning
Succession Planning
Employers
Skill availability and talent analytics
Precise talent selection
Better talent development and deployment
Improve employee engagement and retention
Productivity Improvements & transformational HR activities
Very low cost
Individuals
Appreciation of one’s skills and capabilities
Identify development opportunities & career choices
HR Management Consultants
Better analysis and advice
Greater client traction and retention
Job Consultants
Complete talent selection tool with end to end process management
Clarity on skill needs
Trainers and Training Providers
Understand training needs of individuals
Target right audience improving success rates
Government / Industry Bodies
Understanding skill availability in the economy
Better plan policy interventions for bridging skill gaps
9. 3D Capabilities Profile (3DCP)
3DCP
My
3DCP
3D
Talent
Analytics
3D
Talent
Selection
Training
Orbit
Goal
Setting
A skills profile is at the heart of every
talent initiative.
The 3D Capabilities Profile (3DCP)
forms the core of every 3D application.
10. 3DCP Application Construct
The 3DCP application construct
relies on:
• A powerful conceptual framework
• Well-researched, exhaustive &
constantly updated skills database
• Powerful & actionable talent
intelligence
• A simple interface that allows for
extremely simple & fast end use
11. 3DCP – Conceptual Framework
Skills Roles
Functional /
Technical Skills
Individual
Contributor Role
Behavioral / Soft
Skills
Managerial Role
Managerial /
Leadership Skills
Entrepreneur /
Business Leader
Role
Proficiencies in
those skills
Value delivered
across these
roles
19. 3D’s Solutions
For Individuals
Skill Profiling
PeerValidation of Skills
Skill Gaps Identification
Goal Setting
Training Marketplace
ENABLE
Career & Self-Development
For Companies
Employee Skills Profiling
Skills Inventory & Analytics
Talent Selection
Performance Appraisals
Training Marketplace
ENABLE
Talent Management & Development
20. 3D’s Solutions
For Service Providers in the Talent Space
Training Providers
PublishTraining Courses in various
methodologies and in any area
Platform for conducting virtual
classrooms
Consultants (HR / Management)
Skill Gaps Identification
Segment-wise identification of training
needs in companies
ENABLE
Business Growth through lead generation
21. Individual Development Process
Skills Profiling
Profile & Analyze
skills across
functional,
behavioral &
managerial areas
in addition to role
configuration &
value indicators
Career Options
View available
career options /
paths to decide
short and long
term career goals
Skills Gap
Analysis
Align career goals
to current skill
profile to identify
gaps that need to
be bridged
Feedback
Gather feedback
on skills / goals
from friends,
family &
professional
network
Goal Setting
Create an action
plan with
activities &
milestones to
achieve desired
goals
Training Needs
Get the right
training to
achieve goals
22. Enterprise Talent Management Process
Workforce Planning – Streamline resource management to align employees to best-fit roles and maximize productivity
Talent Analytics – Aggregate and analyze employee talent data to support business decisions
Development Needs Fulfillment – Search for and acquire the right training to meet objectives
Development Needs Identification – Align organizational and department needs with skills gap analysis to create individual development plan
Performance Appraisals – Undertake holistic performance appraisals that tracks goals achieved in addition to charting out future development plans
Goal Setting – Create, manage and track organizational and individual goals and progress
Skills Profiling – Collect and validate skills of employees across functional, behavioral & managerial areas in addition to roles performed & value added
Talent Selection – Hire the right candidate by managing expectations & minimizing distortions in hiring
23. A Look at 3D’s Application Suite
3D Talent Selection (3DTS)
33. Competition Landscape
3D as a whole with its skill
based approach – No
competition
Few commercial applications
meet some needs but only
partially
34. Competition Landscape
3D Offering Competitors Why are we better?
Skills Profiling Some systems offer
competency &
psychometric profiling
We are the only ones
for skills profiling with
Exhaustive, well-
researched skill database
Training Marketplace BookMyTrainings,
WizIQ, Coursera &
other training
marketplaces
“Intelligent” marketplace
that aligns training
courses with training
needs to maximize
adoption
Performance Appraisals,
Goal Setting, etc.
Cornerstone on
Demand, FairSail, etc.
Way more affordable,
tight integration with
skills profile and talent
analytics to enable clear,
transparent actions
Talent Analytics System Some HRIS which have
modules on talent
management
Completely talent-
centric
Unburdened with
transaction-processing
systems
35. Revenue Model
FREEugal principle of offering
FREE for services offered to individuals
Enterprises to pay a small fee on per
employee per month basis for using the
apps
Talent Service providers to pay for lead
generation
No software licensing
36. Business Promotion Strategy
Target 100-1000 employees
enterprise customers in India
through email, networks & direct
sales | Offer free trial
Partnerships with HR consultants
Online / Social Media promotion
for expanding individual user base
SEO / Content for organic traffic
generation
After significant traffic, promote
services to training providers
37. Growth Strategy
Create different applications for different
purposes on talent
Attract users to use any of the applications
that they need
Up- / Cross-sell applications
Expand market by offering services at low
cost
Attract traffic and volume on individual front
by offering free services for the segment
38. Technology Overview
Open-source platform – Linux,Apache, mySQL, PHP
(LAMP)
No licensed software used
Site hosted at secure servers on Rackspace
Leading edge technologies such as jQuery,AJAX &
JSON used
Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) with
interoperable applications employing Single Sign-On
(SSO)
Designed to generate APIs for applications to talk
with third party applications
Multi-tenant architecture with high levels of scalability
and security
39. Business Status
Critical products are live including My3DCP,
Training Orbit, 3DTAS,Talent Selection
New products are in development
Promotion activities & demos to corporates
Organic traffic starting to flow
Reasonable presence in social media created
Enquiries being received on daily basis
Investment of INR 125 lakhs (~ $ 200,000) made
so far
40. Client Speak
A leading data analytics company
This is an interesting system, exhaustive and we are happy to get it to work to
improve our organization
A Fortune 50 multi-conglomerate leader
Designed exhaustively. Really appealing, especially the skills inventory. Very
appealing and would help business leaders to make better decisions. My boss and I
were looking for something like this.
One of India’s leading IT services & consulting provider
...comprehensive talent management system. I think you have a really good
product and I can definitely see the value in it.
A medium scale loans & mortgages company in the US
...your product looks very interesting and is something we have been discussing
for years over here.
A US based world leader in online video advertising
Looks like a very interesting product!
41. Client Speak
A prominent real estate group in Pune
It seems a brilliant idea to explore it further. I would like to associate with such a
project.
A leading US based BFSI company
Sounds like a great product you are developing.When at E&Y we were testing a
similar product for our staffing.
A prominent, medium scale facility management company
We are a growing facility management company and your product looks really
nice to start with.
Companies we are currently demoing with:
TechnoPak Advisors
Cadila Pharma
Biocon
Kotak Investment Banking
Dwellworks LLC
Electromed, Inc.
GEP Worldwide
42. Core Team
G. Ramu
Ideator & Founder
B.Tech (IIT-BHU), MBA (XLRI)
Worked in HCLTechnologies,
Asian Paints, Britannia
Entrepreneur since 2005
R. Babu
Co-Founder & Software Head
B. E. (Govt. College of Engg.
Coimbatore) / M.E. (PSGTech)
Over two decades of experience in
software engineering
Worked in HCLTechnologies |
Previously heading operations for
Force 10 (a Dell company)
Nandakumar. P
Co-Founder - Strategy & Talentscape
Intelligence Head
B.Tech (IIT-BHU), MS (SUNY, US),
PGDBM (IIM-Kolkata)
Worked at ICRA (Associate of
Moody’s),Tech Mahindra, ACC, State
Industrial Development Corporation