Bro4u.com, Bangalore-based home service market place, have raised undisclosed funds from Sargod Ventures led by Alok Sargod. Bro4u is an 8-month-old hyper-local home services app which promises seven minutes turnaround for users, which is the quickest compared to any competitors available in this expertise.
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Pramod Hegde, CEO & Co-Founder of Bro4u, said that their latest funding would be used to strengthen their position in home ground Bangalore. He also confirmed that they are in talks with Venture Capitalists to move into next level by expanding the services to Hyderabad and Pune market. Pramod believes that there is no clear leader in this segment yet, and anyone who has a right will come out as a market leader. He believes they have the right and competency added to it.
Bro4u is unique in terms of matching users’ need as customers can see the available service providers in real time while booking service. Pramod says, “This is just like how you see nearby cars in Olacabs, similarly here you see nearby service providers and users can book them seeing their prices and rating. This establishes more confidence to customers as they get instant result.” He congratulates Akshay Harish, CTO Bro4u, for developing this wonderful technology that matches demand and supply with almost zero manual intervention.
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Bro4u confirmed its participation in Black Friday Event scheduled from this Friday to Monday. Black Friday is very popular in the US and is gaining momentum in India this year. This is the biggest sale in consumer Internet space and they want to make this a big sale day for home services, where customers get huge discount offers from services providers across various services like House Cleaning, Pest Control, Doorstep Carwash, Laundry, Carpentry, Plumbing, Electricians, Packers and Movers and more. Bro4u believes they are the first one in this space to enter. By this sale we are targeting 2000+ houses to provide services.
Bro4u is competing with Delhi-based UrbanClap, Housejoy, Zimmber and LocalOye, who are all funded start-ups in the similar space.