Founders Unfiltered

Ep42: Digitizing Household services ft. Urban Company


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Raghav went to study in the US not knowing what to expect. Living there was an entirely new experience for him.

Even simple things like purchasing groceries had some technology involved for increased convenience.

He worked in the Bay Area as a software engineer at emerging startups including Yelp & Twitter. After 2 years, he realized the world outside SF was full of opportunities, with many problems yet to be solved, and decided to come back to India.


Having witnessed the era of emerging marketplaces like Airbnb, Uber transforming the US service sector, Raghav wanted to do something similar. He started his first business in the ride-hailing space which didn’t work out.

After a few months, he met Abhiraj & Varun at dinner through a common friend. The 3 of them discussed startup ideas late into the night and arrived at creating a marketplace for gig workers.

Thus, Urban Company was born.

Being in a highly competitive space with 60+ startups at one point in time, UC eventually emerged as the leader owing to its focus on quality user experience and mission to empower the workforce.

Today, UC has 32000+ trained professionals and has served over 5M happy customers.


For more visit: ajuniorvc.com/podcast

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