June 7th, 2021Urban Company raises USD 255 million in funding led by Prosus Ventures, Dragoneer, and Wellington Management at a valuation of $2.1 billion.
January 20th, 2017Mumbai-based home services startup Taskbob has shut shop without specifying any particular reason.
In an internal communication, Taskbob co-founder and CEO Aseem Khare said the company shut down its operations as of January 19 due to unforeseen circumstances.
"...Due to unforeseen circumstances, Taskbob will be shutting down its...
August 31st, 2016
SBricks (www.sbricks.com) is a facility management & home services start-up
HomeCues (www.homecues.com) is into aggregation and providing professional household services
The merger is an all-stock deal
Entire business of HomeCues merges with SBricks
The combined entity will be known as...
July 5th, 2016Two former Google and SAP executives have joined hands to launch Home Inspection services in India and plan to expand the platform to North America, the UK, Singapore and the Middle-East.
Phi Property Management Services (PPMS), that performs independent third party end-to end pre-delivery checks - inspection services in the Real Estate...
May 23rd, 2016UrbanClap, India's leading marketplace for trusted services has teamed up with leading B2B e-commerce platform Industrybuying for its service professionals to offer them toolkits at subsidized prices, catering to the plumbers, electricians, carpenters, and appliance repair technicians registered on the UrbanClap platform.
Both company...
May 2nd, 2016The sun is blazing outside and the heat is unbearable. What happens when your AC decides to ditch you and breakdown in this scorching heat? What do you do in this situation? Scrambling for local directories to find AC repair services near your home is an obvious choice. But then, how reliable are the services or how trustworthy will the...
February 22nd, 2016February 22, 2016: TaskBob, a Mumbai-based Home services provider startup has raised Rs28 crore ($4 million) from Ivy Cap Ventures and existing investors Orios and Mayfield, according to a report in The Economic Times. Taskbob will use this fund to expand into other cities and boost growth.
This is the first investment in the home...
February 8th, 2016All Indians have faced situations where we need urgent services for our homes, be it an electrician, a plumber, someone to look under the hood of the car or just clean our carpets. Usually, the process is tedious where we ask our acquaintances for references or go to the Yellow pages or Google it and take our chances.
Then comes the...
