Mumbai: Native has acquired a strategic stake in India-focused recruitment course of outsourcing (RPO) enterprise Woven as a part of its plan to construct an built-in, end-to-end expertise options platform, the businesses mentioned on Thursday.
Over the previous few years, Native has grown from certainly one of India’s fast-growing government search corporations right into a multi-platform expertise enterprise. The most recent funding marks its entry into the RPO phase, increasing its capabilities past management hiring into embedded, scalable, and tech-enabled talent-delivery fashions.
“Our 2030 Imaginative and prescient has at all times been clear—to construct an built-in expertise platform that helps enterprises throughout each stage of management and workforce build-out,” mentioned Reuben Mistry, Native’s group chief government officer. “The RPO phase represents a ₹5,000 crore+ alternative in India and is turning into mission-critical for enterprises scaling at pace. With Woven, we’re not simply getting into a brand new phase—we’re strengthening our working depth and increasing our skill to serve shoppers end-to-end.”
Led by founders Vinod Subramanian and Mithun Shetty with 25 years of collective expertise in constructing and scaling a number of RPO programmes throughout India, the brand new enterprise will function beneath the model Woven. The 2 have held management backgrounds spanning world expertise organizations and convey working experience in enterprise hiring transformation.
Woven will function independently, with Native offering strategic oversight and enterprise integration assist. “Woven is designed as a devoted working muscle for embedded and scalable hiring,” Subramanian mentioned, including the partnership alerts a differentiated functionality constructed for execution depth, course of excellence, and long-term shopper partnerships.
Earlier this 12 months, Native launched Northward, centered on retained C-suite and board-level mandates, and launched AlterNatives to assist non-public fairness corporations and corporates with advisory and unbiased board appointments. The construction displays a broader shift inside government search—from transactional hiring to capability-building partnerships—notably as firms and traders search extra specialised and versatile management options.
With the stake in Woven, Mistry added that this may consequence within the creation of a completely built-in expertise ecosystem, providing a full stack of options spanning board, C-suite retained search, mid- to senior-level hiring, advisors-on-call, fractional and interim engagements, individuals consulting, and large-scale embedded options.