Tally Solutions Pvt Ltd, India's leading business management platform, has announced a strategic investment in OTU India, an HR technology platform owned by Kaamlo Platform Pvt Ltd. This investment is focused on exploring scalable workforce management solutions for micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSMEs).
Strategic Investment Details
The investment reflects Tally's continued focus on expanding its connected business ecosystem and exploring adjacent solutions that can create greater operational value for MSMEs. OTU India's SaaS-based platform, OTUHRPLUS, digitises the employee lifecycle, spanning hiring, onboarding, workforce operations, and post-joining management workflows. The company focuses strongly on solving workforce and HR management challenges for India's MSME ecosystem.
Collaboration Goals
As businesses increasingly look for integrated and scalable digital tools across finance, compliance, payments, and people management, the collaboration aims to evaluate and build solutions that address evolving business needs more holistically. As part of the engagement, both companies are also conducting joint go-to-market opportunities and Tally integration and have already piloted OTU HR solutions with select customers to better understand adoption and business relevance within their ecosystem.
Executive Comments
Commenting on the investment, Tejas Goenka, Managing Director of Tally Solutions, said, "As MSMEs continue to evolve and scale, their expectations from business technology are also expanding beyond accounting and compliance into areas such as workforce management and operational efficiency. Our strategic investment in OTU India reflects our larger vision of building a more connected ecosystem for businesses, while continuing to simplify critical workflows for our customers."
Pratik Maheshwari, Co-founder of OTU India, said, "We are excited to partner with Tally Solutions, a company that has built deep trust and reach within the MSME ecosystem over several decades. This collaboration gives us an opportunity to further strengthen our platform and explore how HR and workforce management can become more connected with the day-to-day operational workflows of businesses. Together, we look forward to building solutions that are intuitive, scalable, and meaningful for growing enterprises."
About Tally Solutions
Tally Solutions Pvt Ltd is a tech and innovation-led company providing business management software globally. Established in 1986, it has revolutionised business operations with simple yet powerful solutions. Its flagship product, TallyPrime, integrates accounting, inventory, compliance, and banking into a unified platform, serving over 2.5 million businesses and 7 million users across 100+ countries. Tally has also expanded into Tally Capital, which enables easy and secure lending to help entrepreneurs grow their business with confidence. Tally's commitment to skill-building and making youth employable is reflected in Tally Education, which operates across 1,000+ centres in 400+ towns, equipping professionals with industry-relevant expertise.
About OTU India
OTU India is an HR technology platform started with a vision to organise the unorganised HR processes and operations like searching for jobs, hiring people, or managing them post-hiring. OTU's main goal in creating solutions for the industry is to keep it user-friendly and reasonably priced. Before investment from the Tally group, OTU is backed by well-known names like Sangam Industries, Sattva Ventures, and the Zerodha group. It has around 1 million user base on its job platform (www.otuindia.com), which is also integrated with National Career Services (Govt of India job platform), and 200+ corporates on its HRMS platform (www.otuhrplus.com) within the first year of operation. Having headquarters at Bengaluru and a corporate office at Ahmedabad, apart from a regional office at Mumbai, OTU is planning to expand its footprint across the country in the coming years.
