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Backed by Tiger Global and Lightspeed, home services startup, LocalOye, has launched its pan India online service category. This development will allow customers to get authentic and factual advice from over 100 certified & verified LocalOye partners.
Through this innovative platform, LocalOye becomes the first player to gain a Pan India access of its consumers.
These services include:
- Online Astrology Services
- Online Fitness Consultant
- Online Financial Consultant
- Online Legal Help
- Parenting Consultant
- Depression help
- Anger Management Consultants
- Online Marriage Counselling
- Career Counselling
- Sexual Issues Consultant
- Relationship Counselling
- Grief Counselling
The Pan India category will allow LocalOye to get hold in every possible city of India including Chennai, Kolkata, Hyderabad, Pune, Ahmedabad, Chandigarh, Indore, Jaipur, Cochin and many more.; it recently launched services in Delhi and Noida.
Started in 2013, LocalOye currently operates across 4 cities, Mumbai, Bangalore, Delhi and Gurgaon. The startup currently works with more than 4,500 partners across 35 services and has serviced more than 2 lakh customers. It’s 5 major categories include home services, education services, beauty services, health & fitness services and event planning services.
With the help of LocalOye’s in-house technology recommendation engines, it has able to scale from 200 service requests per day in April (2015) to 3,500 service requests per day in August (2015).
Aditya Rao, founder & CEO of LocalOye said “We have noticed that the customer does not mind paying additional charges provided the counselling offered to him is of absolute precision.”
With such boost, the company has now geared up and are aiming for at least 600 service requests per day across all services.
“Going forward, we intend to launch 10 more online services in the next 3 months.” said recently appointed Bharati Balakrishnan who serves as a Chief Business Officer with over nine years of work experience across finance and healthcare categories.
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