TrustIn YourStory feature: Women entrepreneurs tapping tech to take India’s legal system into the future

TrustIn’s founder and CEO, Meghana, was featured in a lineup of legal tech founders in a recent YourStory article. For the full article, click here: https://yourstory.com/2020/03/womens-day-women-entrepreneurs-legal-tech-startups

Meghana Srinivas is the founder and CEO of TrustIn, a seven-month-old Bengaluru-based legal-tech startup for reporting and redressal of POSH (Prevention of Sexual Harassment) cases and also supports end-to-end implementation.

“At TrustIn, we believe everyone should feel safe and empowered to pursue their goals. And we know this sense of safety matters at the workplace — companies and college campuses — where we spend most of our time,” Meghana says.

Starting with the Prevention of Sexual Harassment (POSH) legislation, TrustIn’s reporting-redressal system encompasses all labour, civil, and service laws to implement safety at the workplace.

“With best-in-class legal and tech frameworks, we’re empowering companies to implement a culture of confidentiality and compliance, including a comprehensive, central case workflow that includes annual and case reporting, automated deadlines and documentation, legal upskilling chatbots for Internal Committee members, and role-based restricted access to ensure effective data handling,” Meghana says. “We’re also integrating sensitive support structures that enable all employees to educate, escalate, and advocate for themselves, with real-time updates and support dashboards for complainants and respondents of each active case,” she adds.

Meghana is a UC Berkeley graduate and is passionate about enabling equitable access to all. She has managed multiple programmes and teams in the social impact space at major nonprofits, including Teach For India.

In the past seven months, the TrustIn enterprise reporting-redressal platform has gained three clients, supporting 3,500 pan-India employees. “We’re also beta piloting a super admin platform for POSH partners to manage and scale their services,” Meghana says.

While the US, UK, and some other countries have platforms for complaint escalation, there is little to no support or standardisation for the underserved Asian workplace safety market, according to Meghana.

Apart from India, 15 other Asian countries employ a civil court system of adjudication for workplace misconduct (including Singapore’s POHA, or the Prevention of Harassment Act). TrustIn aims to bridge the implementation gap across these countries by empowering both enterprises and employees.

Read more at: https://yourstory.com/2020/03/womens-day-women-entrepreneurs-legal-tech-startups