Local Services Aggregation Startups In India – Going Beyond JustDial

Naman Sarawagi
Naman is the founder of FindYogi.

Local service aggregators are growing in India. The services catered by these startups are highly fragmented, have low ticket size and low frequency of usage. Individually these services may not be big enough to justify making a Internet business around it, unlike Cars or Restaurants, but collectively this makes for a sticky use case. Until now consumers in this segment were completely dependent on referrals and with very few choices.

Here’s the list of startups aggregating local services:

LocalOye

Founders: Aditya Rao (BITS Pilani) + Anupam Tulsyan (Univ. South California)
Funding: from Sidharth Rao
Presence: Present in Mumbai.
WhatsApp Support & PlayStore Presence

Doormint

Founders: Abhinav Agarwal, Naman Lahoty, Piyush Ranjan (IIT Team)
Funding: No funding disclosed.
Presence: Present in Mumbai.
Play Store and App Store presence.

HouseJoy

Founders: Sunil Goel and Arjun kumar (Ohio University team)
Funding: Funding from K Ganesh and Meena Ganesh’s GrowthStory.
Presence: Present in Bangalore and Ahmedabad.
WhatsApp Support and PlayStore Presence.

Near.in

Founders: Sunil Goyal, Lomesh Dutta and Akshay Khanna (IIT D + DCE team.)
Funding: $300K funding from Manish Vij and Anupam Mittal.
Presence: Present in Gurgaon.
WhatsApp Support, Play Store and App Store presence.

Qykapp

Founders: Deepak Singhal, Sangharsh Boudhh, Shobhit Singhal and Anubhav Sahoo. (IIT B + KGP Team)
Funding: Funding from Zishaan Hayath, Sahil Barua and Abhishek Goyal
Presence: Present in Bangalore
Play Store Presence.

Taskbob

Founders: Aseem Khare (IIT B + IIM A team)
Funding: Funding from IndiaQuotient
Presence: Present in Mumbai
Phone Support & Play Store Presence

UrbanClap

Founders: Varun Khaitan, Abhiraj Bhal, Raghav Chandra (IIT K + UC Berkerly team.)
Funding: N/A
Presence: Present in Delhi/NCR
Mobile browser support only.

The challenge here is not in connecting the consumer and service provider but making sure that the transaction is smooth. Review/Ratings is needed but the logistics/workflow is equally important.

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