Delhi-based laundry services startup Tooler has raised an undisclosed amount in angel funding from a group of investors led by Raghu Khanna, founder and CEO of CASHurDRIVE and Sameer Gupta, former general manager of Paytm.
Founded in June 2015 by Vishal Gupta along with ex-PayTM executives Himanshu Arora and Sukanth Srivastav, Tooler is a professional laundry service startup with highly standardized and curated process of washing of clothes in laundry and dry cleaning.
The App based startup provides services of laundry, dry cleaning and home maintenance in the Delhi-NCR area. It provides users with most economical and quick services just via few simple taps on their smart phones and provide easy pickup, assortment, washing and ironing of clothes with 48 hours delivery at your doorsteps.
"With the company already handling 100 orders per day growing at almost 2x on weekly basis with close to 80% repeat orders. The company would further focus on new marketing and customer experience strategies after the recent funding round" says one of the cofounder Himanshu Arora.
Within the next six months, the company targets to deliver 10,000 orders in a month and across the GMV over Rs 30-35 lakhs.
Some of the other Indian players in the home services marketplace include Mumbai-based Justdial, Bengaluru-based Localoye and Housejoy, Gurgaon-based Near, and Delhi-based Urbanclap, Goodservice, and Noida-based Mr. Right.
According to startup data tracker Tracxn, two notable app-based home services marketplace startups have had funding activity this year - Mumbai-based Doormint raised $3 million (roughly Rs. 20 crores) in funding, while Taskbob raised $1.28 million (roughly Rs. 8.5 crores). Pickmylaundry raised a seed funding round in late August.
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