Founded by Sanjay Nediyara, Sieve is a platform for freelancers, which provides them with websites, digital signatures, invoicing, and payment management

Biz Stone, Co-founder of microblogging and social networking service Twitter, today annouced an investment in Indian startup Sieve.

Stone announced this through a video conference during the inaugural ceremony of the second edition of the startup event ‘Huddle Kerala 2019,’ in Thiruvananthapuram, the capital city of South Indian State of Kerala.

Founded by Sanjay Nediyara, a hearing-impaired entrepreneur, Sieve is a platform for freelancers and agencies. It provides them with all the infrastructure — from websites to digital signatures to invoicing to payment management. As per its website, Sieve is a “complete platform for running your freelance business without paying a percentage of your earnings”.

Sieve, mentored by Kerala Startup Mission (KSUM), currently serves in the US market and will soon be expanding to Europe.

Commenting on the investment, Stone said: “I have used the product of Sieve as a freelancer. As an angel, I consider the person first and the product second. I find Sanjay as a dedicated, empathetic and extremely hardworking individual.”

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Nediyara said this is one of the rare investments made by Twitter India and the first in Kerala. “Our larger vision is to build truly Internet companies in the cloud where people can form companies and work from anywhere in the world. Our other investor is Friends of Oorjja, which is an ecosystem for empowering the differently-abled community. Friends of Oorjja consists of senior professionals from the banking/finance industry, the UK, and Otis Elevators company.”

Nediyara was also selected as one of the Forbes fellows in 2018 and he has bagged Reach Award instituted by Eric Weihenmayer foundation in the US. He was also invited by Google to attend their largest developer conference Google IO as their guest.

Facebook to invest in Indian tech startups

Earlier in the day, social media major Facebook said it would make substantial investments in technology startups.

“We now have shown willingness to make direct investments in technology startups in India,” said Ajit Mohan, Vice President and Managing Director (India), Facebook. “We are willing to spend our time, and energy to tap the massive depth of engineering talent in the country.”

The two-day event at Hotel Leela Raviz, Kovalam is being organised by KSUM in association with Internet and Mobile Association of India.

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