Cybersecurity firm WiJungle to hire over 120 professionals across departments

Cybersecurity startup WiJungle will be hiring over 120 people in the next six months. The hiring will happen across departments including engineering, sales, and support.

“We have been consciously expanding to capture the market demand. The addition of new team members will help the organisation to launch new products and achieve the targeted topline,” said co-founder Karmesh Gupta. The company has announced that with the recent hiring plans, the headcount will double to 240 this year. 

The Gurugram-headquartered startup was founded by Karnesh and Praveen Gupta in 2014 initially as a free WiFi service. Since its pivot to the cybersecurity space, the startup has been offering artificial intelligence and machine learning-based security solutions like network firewall, web application firewalls, data leak prevention, load balancer, and vulnerability assessment, among others.

The company serves clients verticals such as hospitality, defence, education, healthcare, and transportation; its major traction comes from small and medium businesses, and the government. In April last year, the company raised seed funding at the valuation of $22 million from the US-based global venture capital firm SOSV.

Several tech companies including Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, and Twitter have resorted to mass layoffs amid the global economic slowdown. Information technology services company Accenture announced last month that it is laying off 19,000 people across organisation. Further, the developers’ platform GitHub was reported to fire its India team, impacting the engineering staff in particular.