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Bengaluru-based Pronto, helps to carry India’s largely casual home assist market on-line. As every day bookings climb and its metropolis footprint expands, buyers are opening their wallets.

The startup stated Tuesday that it raised a $25 million Sequence B spherical led by Epiq Capital, valuing the nine-month-old firm at $100 million. That’s greater than double its $45 million valuation in August 2025 and over eight occasions the $12.5 million level when it emerged from stealth in Could. Present buyers Glade Brook Capital, Normal Catalyst, and Bain Capital Ventures additionally participated, bringing whole funding to round $40 million.

Pronto presents fast, structured providers for on a regular basis chores — from mopping to utensil cleansing — promising skilled, background-verified professionals on demand.

The startup says it might dispatch staff inside about 10 minutes in a number of of its micromarkets (servicable areas inside cities it operates), positioning the service nearer to fast commerce than conventional dwelling providers. Every employee — whom the corporate calls a “Professional” — undergoes in-person coaching and background verification earlier than taking bookings, and is assigned structured shifts supposed to offer extra predictable revenue than the casual preparations widespread within the sector.

Pronto is now dealing with 18,000 bookings a day, up sharply from roughly 1,000 every day bookings final 12 months, founder Anjali Sardana (pictured above, heart) stated in an interview. The median time between a buyer’s first and second reserving is simply two days, she added, with the platform’s prime 10% of customers putting 9 or extra orders a month. Sardana stated the startup is focusing on 70,000 every day bookings by June.

The startup has additionally moved rapidly to widen its geographic footprint, increasing from one metropolis to 10 — together with Delhi NCR, Bengaluru, and Mumbai — and from 5 to greater than 150 micromarkets up to now seven months, Sardana stated. Nonetheless, the majority of exercise stays concentrated in a handful of markets, with the Nationwide Capital Area, which incorporates cities surrounding New Delhi, accounting for about half of whole bookings.

Sardana stated Pronto has barely begun to faucet India’s predominantly offline home providers market, the place most hiring nonetheless occurs by means of casual networks. “I nonetheless imagine that 99.99% of this market is totally offline,” she instructed TechCrunch. “In combination, lower than 100,000 persons are utilizing a service like this per day, whereas tens of tens of millions of households depend on offline preparations.”

Market analysis backs that up. The general dwelling providers sector, in response to a Redseer Technique Consultants report, was valued at round ₹5,100-5,210 billion (about $56–$57 billion) in FY 2025. But, on-line penetration stood at lower than 1% of web transaction worth, highlighting how deeply entrenched word-of-mouth channels stay. However the on-line section — at present small — is projected to develop at an 18–22% compound annual price by means of FY 2030, as rising incomes, urbanization, and demand for reliability and comfort push extra households to strive digital platforms.

Constructing the workforce

Pronto at present works with 4,500 lively professionals on its platform, round 99% of whom are girls, Sardana stated. Staff who full roughly 20 days of shifts a month earn a median of ₹23,000 to ₹25,000 (round $251–$273), she added. Month-to-month employee retention is above 70%. Even so, demand continues to outpace the onboarding of recent staff, with bookings rising about 20% week over week, the founder stated.

Pronto’s unit economics are nonetheless evolving because it expands into newer markets. Sardana stated the corporate is seeing “very optimistic inexperienced shoots” in its oldest micromarkets in Gurugram, the place contribution margins have turned optimistic, although newer markets stay in funding mode.

Sardana instructed TechCrunch that Pronto has burned about $8 million to this point and now has roughly two years of runway following the newest fundraise.

Pronto plans to deploy the recent capital primarily towards onboarding extra professionals, deepening its presence in present markets, and increasing into new cities, Sardana stated. It is usually piloting new choices resembling cooking, automotive washing, and canine strolling, and is exploring further classes together with salon providers. For now, nonetheless, core duties — together with sweeping, mopping, and utensil cleansing — stay the platform’s most-used providers.

The startup operates with a core staff of about 60 workers, together with roughly 15 to 16 throughout engineering, product, and design, whereas advertising stays lean with a small model and efficiency staff, Sardana stated.

The competitors

Pronto is working in an more and more heated section of India’s dwelling providers market, alongside rivals resembling Snabbit and publicly listed City Firm. Snabbit raised $30 million in late October at a $180 million valuation — greater than doubling in 5 months — and reported about 830,000 orders in February, up from roughly 500,000 in December. City Firm, in the meantime, stated its platform crossed 50,000 every day bookings in February.

Sensor Tower knowledge reviewed by TechCrunch suggests Pronto’s every day lively customers grew about 37% to roughly 101,000 between late January and late February, in contrast with about 30% development for Snabbit to round 93,000 every day customers over the identical interval.

Sardana stated Pronto stays centered on service high quality as competitors heats up. “On the finish of the day, prospects will come to the platform that gives the best high quality service,” she stated.