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Naukri today announced the broad rollout of its AI-powered recruitment platform, with AI-Rex, Talent Pulse, and PremiumX scaling across enterprises. The Company is also expanding AI offerings for jobseekers.
Reflecting its long-term commitment to AI, Info Edge invested approximately Rs 70 crore in AI during FY26, with investment expected to reach approximately Rs 150 crore in FY27. The platform today hosts over 118 million candidate profiles with an average daily new addition of around 25,000 profiles and serves approximately 13 million monthly active users.
Naukri AI-Rex is the Company's flagship Agentic AI product designed to enhance recruiter productivity across the hiring workflow. Multiple specialized AI agents work together across mandate refinement, candidate sourcing, personalized outreach, screening and qualification, enabling recruiters to build high-quality candidate pipelines with significantly less effort.
Commercial adoption is accelerating. AI-Rex is now live across 4,000+ enterprise customers and recruitment firms, with more than 10% already converted to paid clients. Hiring mandates through the AI-Rex platform have grown 3.7x between February and June 2026, with adoption spanning IT, BFSI, Sales, Finance, Healthcare, BPO, Core Engineering, among others.
Talent Pulse, Naukri's AI-powered talent intelligence platform, now has over 600 paid customers with adoption ranging from large enterprises to smaller organizations. The platform enables enterprises to benchmark compensation, analyze talent availability, evaluate employer branding, and make workforce planning decisions using AI-powered insights. Together with Executive Intelligence, these products expand Naukri's addressable market into talent intelligence and strategic workforce planning.
Naukri's AI investments extend to the candidate side as well, reinforcing the same data flywheel that powers its enterprise products. Jobseeker agent Neo offers AI-guided career navigation and job matching; AI Resume Maker helps candidates build stronger profiles; and AI Mock Interview Prep provides personalized mock interviews and feedback ahead of real conversations with recruiters. Premium subscriptions for these tools are contributing to stronger revenue growth within Naukri's jobseeker revenue pool.
PremiumX, Naukri's AI-powered premium hiring platform, serves over 1,800 enterprise customers and enables them to reach the vast majority of India's white-collar professionals earning above ₹30 lakh annually, using AI-driven talent discovery and Naukri verified (NChecked) profiles to identify both active and passive candidates. Naukri Top Tier extends this to an invite-only network for senior professionals, while iimjobs and hirist extend their reach into management/leadership and premium technology hiring, respectively.
Himanshu Agarwal is a qualified Chartered Accountant, Company Secretary and Cost and Management Accountant. He has over three decades of experience in finance leadership, corporate governance, mergers and acquisitions, and business transformation across listed organisations in India and internationally.
Agarwal has held senior finance leadership positions at ICI India, AstraZeneca Pharma India, AkzoNobel India (where he also served as Whole Time Director), Huhtamaki Oyj (Flexible Packaging Division), Bennett, Coleman and Co. (Times Group), and is currently serving as whole time director and chief financial officer of Cohance Lifesciences.
Info Edge (India) is India's premier online classifieds company in recruitment, matrimony, real estate, education and related services.
The company’s standalone net profit jumped 21.2% to Rs 309.13 crore on 17.17% increase in revenue from operations to Rs 805.09 crore in Q4 FY26 over Q4 FY25.
The counter declined 3.09% to settle at Rs 978.85 on the BSE.
Its deeptech portfolio includes 30 companies across sectors such as robotics, semiconductors, spacetech, biotech and electric mobility. Info Edge has invested Rs 455 crore in these ventures, which are currently valued at Rs 559 crore, translating into a 1.2x multiple and an estimated gross IRR of about 15%. The company noted that the deeptech portfolio is younger in maturity, with most companies backed at the IP creation and R&D stage.
The company said consumer technology remains the largest segment of its startup portfolio. Investments of Rs 2,755 crore across 45 consumer-tech and consumer-AI startups are currently valued at Rs 37,214 crore, delivering a 13.5x multiple and an estimated gross IRR of nearly 34%. A significant portion of this value is derived from its investments in listed companies Eternal (Zomato and Blinkit) and PB Fintech.
Overall, Info Edge and the alternative investment funds (AIFs) it manages have invested about Rs 4,900 crore across 135 startups. The portfolio is now valued at around Rs 41,300 crore, representing an 8.4x multiple and an estimated gross IRR of approximately 33%. The company noted that some startups are classified under multiple themes, such as consumer AI firms that are included in both the consumer technology and AI portfolios. As a result, theme-wise figures should not be aggregated.
The company said it remains focused on backing Indian founders and believes future value creation will be driven largely by AI, deeptech and consumer technology, with AI expected to reshape both startups and established internet businesses.
For the full year,net profit rose 50.69% to Rs 1449.81 crore in the year ended March 2026 as against Rs 962.14 crore during the previous year ended March 2025. Sales rose 15.27% to Rs 3284.73 crore in the year ended March 2026 as against Rs 2849.55 crore during the previous year ended March 2025.
The operating profit grew by 39.4% YoY to Rs 322.7 crore, and the operating profit margin was 40.1% of revenue in Q4FY26. The company generated cash from operations (before taxes) of Rs 621.1 crore during the quarter.
Total billings stood at Rs 1,057 crore during the quarter, registering the growth of 7.4% compared with Rs 984 crore in Q4 FY25.
In Q4 FY26, the recruitment business recorded a sharp 95% YoY increase in billings to Rs 811 crore. Tech, IT & BPM segments posted 6% growth, recruitment consultants expanded 8%, other sectors climbed 14%, whereas GCCs witnessed a 1% decline.
Billings from the 99acres business increased 1.9% year-on-year to Rs 163 crore in the March quarter. The matchmaking segment, comprising Jeevansathi and Aisle, recorded 23% growth to Rs 49 crore, whereas Shiksha witnessed a 13% decline to Rs 45 crore.
On full year basis, the company’s standalone net profit soared 615.74% to Rs 5,535.70 crore on 15.01% increase in revenue from operations to Rs 3,052.02 crore in FY26 over FY25.
Hitesh Oberoi, managing director and chief executive officer, said, “FY26 was a steady year. Topline grew at a measured pace, and operating margins improved through the year, especially in the Recruitment business. 99acres and Jeevansathi continued to gain market share and strengthen their market positions. We also made significant progress in deploying AI across our businesses, deepening its usage in matching, recommendations, and developing new AI-native products and features, improving the value we deliver to users and customers.”
Meanwhile, the companys board recommended a final dividend of Rs 3.60 per equity share on face value of Rs 2 per equity share for the financial year ended March 31, 2026. The company has fixed Friday, July 24, 2026 as the record date for determining the entitlement of members for the final dividend. The dividend will be paid on or after 2 September 2026.
The company has agreed to acquire 14,01,214 0.0001% Compulsorily Convertible Debentures (CCDs) at an issue price of Rs. 214.10/- each including premium of Rs. 114.10/- per CCD. Post this investment, SIHL remains the wholly owned subsidiary of the company.