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While others expand for presence, Meraqui scales with purpose—ensuring consistent service and sustainable growth across 36+ locations and beyond

At Meraqui, growth has never been just about numbers - it has always been about meaningful impact, measurable outcomes, and scalable systems. As we expand our footprint to 36+ physical locations across India, the question we’re most focused on is not just how to grow, but how to grow right.

Sustainable growth requires more than ambition. It demands consistency, operational discipline, cultural alignment, and relentless focus on delivering value to our 300+ clients, partners including Reliance, TATA, L&T, Infosys, and the 1.4 million+ workers we serve. Here’s how we’re approaching this next phase of expansion:

1. Standardising Systems While Respecting Local Nuance

Uniformity doesn't mean ignoring diversity. We understand that every city, every region, and every client come with its own unique context. Yet, consistency in service delivery is non-negotiable.

We’re investing in standardised operating protocols, tech-enabled workflows, and a robust compliance-first framework, all designed to provide uniform service quality across geographies. At the same time, we empower local teams to adapt within those systems, offering the flexibility to customize for local industry trends and workforce realities.

2. Leveraging Technology as the Nerve Centre of Consistency

Our proprietary AI-enabled HR platform plays a critical role in ensuring consistency across our growing network. From onboarding and payroll to training and performance tracking, our tech stack enables:

Centralised dashboards to monitor workforce performance in real-time.

Automated compliance tracking to ensure zero deviation from labour laws.

Predictive analytics to forecast workforce demands and allocate resources effectively.

Digital onboarding and training to standardise the experience for every worker and client.

With real-time visibility across all 36+ locations, international presence in more than 8 countries, we can detect deviations, optimize operations, and course-correct proactively - without waiting for a quarterly review.

3. Training the Frontline, Scaling the Culture

When you’re growing fast, culture often becomes the first casualty. Not at Meraqui.

We’ve built a values-first operating model, and we protect it fiercely. Every location is led by individuals who embody our core values of inclusivity, reliability, performance, and purpose. Before any process is rolled out, we ask: Does it reflect who we are?

That’s why we’re investing heavily in managerial capability-building, frontline skilling, and leadership development programs. Each new branch is onboarded with Meraqui’s values at the core: integrity, inclusion, efficiency, and empathy.

We believe our culture should travel faster than our headcount. To achieve that, every new Meraqui hire undergoes structured onboarding aligned with our central vision, values, and quality expectations.

4. Client-Centric Growth, Not Growth for Growth’s Sake

We’re not opening new locations just to tick boxes; we're expanding to meet growing client demand and unlock opportunities for underserved workforce segments.

Each physical office is a strategic node, chosen based on:

This data-driven approach ensures that every expansion is aligned with real business needs, client proximity, and long-term viability.

5. Sustainability in Operations and Impact

We take “sustainable growth” seriously - not just in the economic sense, but in our environmental and social impact too. As we scale, we’re:

🌱 Meraqui: Scaling with Profit + Purpose🌱

Meraqui’s expansion across 36+ locations isn’t just about physical presence—it’s about building a future-ready organization that thrives economically, socially, and environmentally. Here's how we integrate purpose into every layer of our operations:

🔁 Minimising Operational Waste

What it means: Reducing anything that doesn’t add value—like unnecessary paperwork, excess travel, duplicate systems, or overuse of materials.

How it’s done:

Going digital instead of using paper (e.g., digital attendance, payroll, contracts)

Streamlining internal workflows & using shared tools instead of maintaining multiple platforms

Avoiding unnecessary electricity, printing, or logistics costs

👉 Less waste = lower costs + better efficiency

🏢 Investing in Green Office Infrastructure

What it means: Creating offices and workplaces that are environmentally friendly and energy-efficient.

How it’s done:

Designing office spaces for natural light and ventilation

Promoting recycling bins and digital document storage

👉 Better for the planet, and often reduces long-term operational costs too.

🌐 Enabling Remote Service Models Where Feasible

What it means: Providing services without always needing physical presence—by using digital tools and remote collaboration.

How it’s done:

Virtual onboarding or interviews through Zoom, MS Teams, etc.

Remote monitoring of employee performance using cloud platforms

Chat and ticket-based support systems

Using karam.ai for automated payroll, compliance

👉 This improves flexibility, saves cost, and reaches more locations without opening more offices.

🤝 Partnering with Local Skilling Bodies

What it means: Collaborating with ITI's, training institutes or NGOs that help people learn job-relevant skills.

How it’s done:

Aligning local talent to real-time job requirements (NAPS, NATS)

Upskilling people in rural or semi-urban areas where jobs are limited

👉 It ensures inclusive growth—giving opportunity to all, not just to metro cities.

Our ability to operate lean, smart, and impact-first is why we’re not just growing; we’re doing it profitably. That’s what made Meraqui an Indicorn 2025 - one of India’s most profitable startups with ₹100 Cr+ in revenue and real, tangible results.

6. Measuring What Matters

We operate with the mindset that you can’t scale 8hat you can’t measure. Every location, every process, every client interaction is tied to performance metrics we live by.

As we scale to 36+ and beyond, we’ve implemented framework that tracks:

Every branch head is empowered with real-time data, not gut feeling. Our central team monitors these KPIs daily, ensuring that actionable insights drive consistent improvements.

Meraqui: Industry Reach and Operational Excellence

🌿Diverse Industry Coverage: Meraqui operates across 30+ industries, including Manufacturing, Logistics, IT, BFSI, Healthcare, Retail, and more, providing tailored workforce solutions to meet sector-specific demands.

🌿Extensive Clientele: Serving over 300 clients, ranging from global MNCs to Indian blue-chip companies and unicorns, showcasing our versatility and reliability in workforce management.

🌿Geographical Footprint: With a presence in more than 26 states and 400 pin codes across India, Meraqui ensures localized support while maintaining consistent service quality nationwide.

🌿Workforce Empowerment: Managing 50 million of man-hours monthly, managing 4bn+ in payrolls, we focus on enhancing productivity and efficiency through our tech-enabled platform.

🌿Technological Integration: Our proprietary AI-driven platform, powered by karam.ai streamlines processes like sourcing, onboarding, payroll, and compliance, reducing operational costs by 30-40% for clients.

🌿Global Recognition: Meraqui has been featured in Forbes India’s DGEMS 2024 Select 200, acknowledging our potential for global business expansion and innovation in workforce solutions. We are proud to be 1 of only 8 to hit Indicorn Status in under 5 years.

The Road Ahead: Purpose-Driver Scale

Meraqui’s growth is accelerating, but our mindset remains grounded. For us, scale is not a destination, it’s a responsibility. Each new city, each new office, each new client is a chance to prove that consistent service, meaningful employment, and operational excellence can indeed go hand in hand.

As we move beyond 36 physical locations and into the next phase of expansion, we’re more focused than ever on doing things the Meraqui way: Purposefully. Sustainably.

Scale your business with Meraqui’s purpose-driven solutions, operational excellence, and unwavering reliability—empowering your organization to succeed with smarter, simpler workforce strategies.

🌐 www.meraqui.com | 📩 contact@meraqui.com | 📞 9625209004

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Meraqui: Building Bharat's Workforce OS with Tech, Trust, and Vision

With 50 million+ man-hours and Rs 4 billion in payroll, Meraqui scales dignified livelihoods in India.

Key Takeaways 

Meraqui is redefining India’s workforce infrastructure through its tech-first WaaS, TaaS, and OaaS models. 

With a focus on frontline workers, Meraqui connects aspirants from Tier 3/4 cities to organised employment across India and beyond. 

Bootstrapped, profitable, and operationally efficient, Meraqui exemplifies scalable, impact-driven innovation in workforce management.

In a nation poised to supply 40% of the global workforce by 2050, Meraqui is transforming India’s demographic dividend into a demographic advantage. Founded in 2019 by Dr. Shalin Maheshwari and Lalit Singh, this pioneering platform is reimagining how India's frontline workers are sourced, trained, deployed, and empowered.

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A Doctor’s Dream Beyond the Operating Table 

Dr. Shalin Maheshwari began his career as an orthopaedic surgeon. But it wasn’t long before he realised that impacting lives on a larger scale required a different kind of operating room—one that addressed India’s employment ecosystem. 

After experimenting with healthcare financing through his family’s lending business, Shalin met Lalit Singh, then the CTO. A shared vision for enabling dignified livelihoods in grassroots India became the seed for Meraqui.

With government-led reforms like Startup India, GST, and Jan Dhan Yojana setting a digital foundation, the timing was ripe. Together, they envisioned Meraqui not just as a staffing company but as an integrated, AI-powered Workforce as a Service (WaaS) platform.

The Meaning  Behind Meraqui

Inspired by the Greek word "Meraki," Meraqui stands for putting soul and creativity into one’s work. It’s more than a name; it’s the company’s ethos. Meraqui bridges the digital and human gap for India’s 550 million-strong youth population, many of whom lack access to formal employment and digital identity.

A Full-Stack Workforce Revolution

Meraqui’s offering is a three-pronged solution:

WaaS (Workforce as a Service): End-to-end lifecycle management—sourcing, onboarding, compliance, payroll, health and financial benefits, and career growth.

TaaS (Talent as a Service): Tech-driven, skill-mapped talent sourcing that ensures right-job-right-candidate alignment.

OaaS (Outcome as a Service): Performance-tied models where Meraqui delivers on business KPIs, from warehouse efficiency to telecom deployment.

All of this is powered by proprietary platforms like karam.ai and a low-code tech stack, providing scalability and precision across sectors.

From Villages to Global Verticals

Meraqui works with over 300 top-tier clients, including Reliance, Foxconn, Infosys, and L&T, across 30 industries and 28 Indian states. It connects aspirants from Tier 3/4 towns to permanent, gig, and contractual roles in Tier 1/2 cities, and now, international markets. In just six years, Meraqui has enabled over 50 million man-hours and managed ₹4 billion in payroll.

Its physical footprint has expanded from 12 to 36 offices nationwide, while acquisitions like Inara training and Skill development academy and Meraqui Eduventures private limited have supported growth in India, First Mile Consulting and First Mile Technologies have fast-tracked its global ambitions.

Scalable and Sustainable Growth

Meraqui is a rare breed—bootstrapped, profitable, and operationally agile. Early backing from Harsh Saraf’s family office and a robust balance sheet enabled the company to raise ₹55 crore in non-dilutive financing from banks recently to further a new 1500 crores orderbook in OaaS and WaaS. These funds have fueled geographic expansion, tech development, and worker services such as housing, skilling, and financial products.

The company’s ability to repeatedly raise debt from banks, based on a solid track record, Marquee bluechip client pool reflects its capital efficiency and business credibility.

Building for Bharat, Not Just India

While many competitors address slices of the staffing puzzle, Meraqui offers a holistic, worker-centric model. Its grassroots operations and tech-enabled transparency make it a trusted partner in a fragmented employment landscape. As digital literacy, compliance, and worker aspirations evolve, Meraqui is positioned as the backbone of India’s workforce transformation.

"Scale is meaningless without trust," says the founding team, emphasising localisation and empathy as foundational principles.

Toward a Workforce OS for India

Future plans include scaling further in Tier 2/3 India, enhancing skilling through Meraqui and expanding globally. The long-term vision is bold: to become the AI-powered operating system for India’s workforce—unifying employment, skilling, financial access, and social security.

Milestones and Recognition

Meraqui’s accolades include being named an income tax-exempt startup by DPIIT, winner of the CNBC TV18 SME Champion Award, and one of only eight INDICORNS to reach ₹100 crore+ and profitability in under five years. It has been featured in Forbes India DGEMS and recognised by CII for HRtech innovation. 

With 3 lakh job placements and presence across 300+ pin codes, Meraqui isn’t just building careers, it’s building a new India responsibly as a profitable enterprise.

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Meraqui — Your Trusted Partner in Workforce Management for the Growing Pharmaceutical and Healthcare Landscape in India

The pharmaceutical and healthcare industries are vital components of India's economy and public welfare. As of 2025, India's pharmaceutical market is valued at $55 billion and the healthcare sector is on a growth trajectory, expected to reach over $638 billion by 2025, according to a recent study by Bajaj Finserv AMC. This expansion is driven by factors such as an aging population, rising prevalence of chronic diseases, and increased healthcare awareness.

Challenges in pharmaceutical and healthcare industries

Despite this growth, the industries face significant challenges, particularly in workforce management and regulatory compliance. The shortage of skilled professionals is a pressing issue, with the sector expected to require millions additional jobs by 2030. This talent gap is exacerbated by factors like inadequate training programs and the migration of skilled workers to other countries.

The pharmaceutical and healthcare industry faces several workforce-related challenges, including:

Meraqui addresses these challenges by offering tailored workforce solutions that ensure efficiency, compliance, and scalability.

Let's explore how Meraqui, dominating as a trusted partner in workforce management industry for Healthcare, Pharma, and many other industries.

Meraqui: A strategic partner in workforce management

Meraqui, a leading talent as a Service(TaaS) platform provides end-to-end workforce management solutions tailored to the needs of the pharmaceutical and healthcare industry. With a robust pan-India presence and a global footprint across 8 countries, Meraqui has established itself as a trusted partner for organizations looking to streamline their workforce operations.

We leverage advanced AI and technology to ensure efficiency, compliance, and seamless workforce management. Whether you need temporary staffing, permanent recruitment, or regulatory compliance support, we have you covered.

Why Meraqui for Pharmaceutical & Healthcare Workforce Management

MERAQUI's impact is amplified by its extensive reach, managing over 4 billion payroll transactions across various industries, demonstrating a robust capability in handling large-scale workforce management needs.

Meraqui is the ideal partner for pharmaceutical and healthcare workforce management because of its innovative, tech-driven solutions tailored to the industry’s unique needs. With a strong focus on compliance, efficiency, and scalability, we ensure seamless workforce operations.

At Meraqui, we believe that the right people and the right processes create limitless possibilities. Together, let's build a healthier, stronger future.

Visit www.meraqui.com today and see how Meraqui can help your organization succeed with simpler, smarter workforce solutions.

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The Importance of Futuristic Courses in Employment

Traditional career paths and skill sets are no longer enough to meet the demands of modern industries. Today, success in the job market depends on being equipped with skills that align with the future. Meraqui Education offers futuristic courses designed to prepare students and professionals for emerging trends, cutting-edge technologies, and evolving industries — opening doors to exciting and rewarding career opportunities. These programs are delivered in collaboration with top autonomous colleges, ensuring high academic standards and strong industry alignment.

According to the World Economic Forum, 44% of workers’ skills will need updating within five years, with 85 million jobs potentially displaced by automation—yet 97 million new roles may emerge. LinkedIn reports AI, Cybersecurity, and Cloud Computing among the fastest-growing careers. PwC adds that 74% of workers are ready to reskill, showing the growing importance of futuristic education for career security.

In this blog, we’ll explore why futuristic courses are critical for employment and how they are crucial for today’s workforce landscape.

What Are Futuristic Courses?

Futuristic courses are programs designed to equip learners with the skills and knowledge required for emerging industries and technologies. They focus on cutting-edge domains such as Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning, Cybersecurity & Digital Forensics, and Luxury Brand Management. These courses aim to prepare students for careers in rapidly evolving sectors shaped by technological innovation and global market trends.

Why Are Futuristic Courses Important?

🔧 Built for Jobs That Don’t Exist Yet: From AI Specialists to Robotics Engineers, the future belongs to roles still taking shape. Futuristic courses align with global job trends, ensuring you're not just job-ready—but future-ready.

📉 Closing the Skills Gap, Fast: Industries are changing faster than traditional education can keep up. These programs directly address critical skill shortages in areas like AI, cybersecurity, and data science.

💼 Stay Relevant, Stay Hired: Automation is replacing outdated roles. Futuristic courses future-proof your career by teaching high-value, tech-forward skills employers are actively seeking.

💡 Fuel Innovation & Problem-Solving: It’s not just about tech—it’s about thinking differently. These courses develop creative, analytical minds ready to innovate and lead in tomorrow’s world.

📈 Powering Economic Progress: Nations with future-ready talent lead the global economy. These courses support personal growth while driving larger societal and economic transformation.

Examples of New-age Courses Driving Employment Trends

Career Opportunities with Futuristic Courses

Graduates of these programs are equipped to enter some of the most exciting and high-paying industries. Here are just a few examples:

Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning: Roles like AI Engineer, Data Scientist, and Automation Specialist in tech, healthcare, and finance sectors. Top Recruiters: TCS, Infosys, Wipro, IBM, Google, Accenture, NVIDIA

Cybersecurity & Digital Forensics: Careers as Cybersecurity Analyst, Ethical Hacker, and Forensics Expert protecting digital assets. Top Recruiters: Deloitte, KPMG, PwC, EY, Paladion, IBM Security, Quick Heal

Luxury Brand Management: Positions such as Brand Manager and Marketing Specialist in global luxury fashion, hospitality, and lifestyle industries. Top Recruiters: LVMH, Chanel, Gucci, Tata CLiQ Luxury, Reliance Brands, Aditya Birla Fashion

These roles are not just well-paying but also provide opportunities to work in innovative and dynamic industries.

How to Choose the Right Course

Conclusion: Future-Proof Your Career

The future of work is fast-changing, and traditional education alone isn’t enough to stay ahead. Futuristic courses like B.Sc. (Honours) in Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning, B.Sc. (Honours) in Cybersecurity & Digital Forensics, B.Sc. (Honours) in Luxury Brand Management offered by Meraqui Education equip students with the cutting-edge skills needed to thrive in high-demand industries.

These programs are conducted in collaboration with leading Autonomous colleges across Mumbai and Navi Mumbai, ensuring high academic quality and industry relevance. Partner institutions include CKT College, New Panvel (Changu Kana Thakur Arts, Commerce & Science College), KES Shroff College, Kandivali (B.K. Shroff & M.H. Shroff College of Arts & Commerce), Valia College, Andheri (Valia Chhaganlal Laljibhai College Of Commerce and Valia Lilavantiben Chhaganlal College Of Arts), Vaze College, Mulund (Kelkar Education Trust’s V.G. Vaze College of Arts, Science & Commerce), and Elphinstone College, Fort (Mumbai). These collaborations provide students with access to reputed campuses, experienced faculty, and strong placement ecosystems.

Invest in these forward-thinking programs to enhance your expertise and become a valuable professional, ready to lead in tomorrow’s technology-driven and globally competitive world.

Give wings to your dream with industry-ready education and exciting collaboration opportunities!

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