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Type of site | Private |
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Founded | 2014 |
Headquarters | Bengaluru, Karnataka, India |
Area served | India |
CEO | Sanchit Gaurav |
Industry | Internet |
URL | www.housejoy.in |
Housejoy is an Indian, Bengaluru-headquartered company that markets home construction, renovation, interior design, painting, maintenance, at-home beauty & salon services known as Zalon, packers & movers, home delivery of essential items known as Housejoymart, fumigation & sanitization service for homes and offices to mobile health checkup camps for general health & COVID testing known as Housejoycare.
Controversy
In 2015, an article in Tech in Asia said that although the brand had been growing at a fast pace, it had difficulty in ensuring quality of services because of the highly unorganized services sector in India, wherein training of service providers had not been standardized. The brand also faced some problems in its onboarding process of not vetting service providers, which it was sending to customer's homes.
Funding & Capitalisation
Housejoy received $4 million in Series A funding from Matrix Partners in June 2015. It then received another $23 million in Series B funding from Amazon, along with Matrix Partners, Qualcomm Ventures, ruNet, being the other participants in 2015.
References
- Kanth, Rajni (25 January 2016). "The joy of providing home services". Business Standard.
- Revathy, L. N. "Housejoy sees huge demand for sanitisation and fumigation services". @businessline. Retrieved 1 August 2020.
- Velayanikal, Malavika (15 December 2015). "Will $23m in funding help Housejoy resolve its home services mess?". Tech in Asia.
- Fok, Evelyn (19 June 2015). "Home services firm Housejoy raises $4 million from Matrix Partners for expansion". The Economic Times.
- Rao, Leena (15 December 2015). "Amazon Just Invested In The Indian Version Of Homejoy". Fortune.
Further reading
- Thomas, Anu (21 March 2016). "Interview with Saran Chatterjee: Housejoy to dominate beauty, laundry categories under home services in India". The Economic Times.
- Now I have a better work-life balance, says CEO of Housejoy Sanchit Gaurav on COVID-19 lockdown