Home Services Startup Myla.in Launches Special Services for Elders To BooK Services By Just Giving Call

Putting the spotlight on the plight of the elderly population, Myla.in launches multiple services to ease the life and well-being of the elderly population. Now, senior citizens can book services like priests, tailoring, healthcare, passport applications, home cleaning, appliance repair, and a lot of other services by simply calling.

The senior citizens of our country have been the most affected and vulnerable section of our society after the unprecedented outbreak of the Covid-19. Myla.in has been very proactive in the empowerment of its vendors and now they are also taking steps to take care of the most vulnerable and forgotten part of our society.

Sidharth Kulbhaskar

Speaking on this initiative, Mr. Sidharth Kulbhaskar, Founder & Director of Myla.in, said,
"For us, it has always been about making a real difference in people’s lives and with this initiative, that is the attempt. The goal is to cater to their needs and offer a sense of belongingness in society. The elderly section of our country has been in social isolation and through this initiative, they can avail a myriad of services offered by us with easy accessibility. Our service providers have always been well trained with soft skills and etiquette. This will result in enhanced service delivery resulting in the satisfaction of our customers."

These services are launched with the aim of helping our aging population to book a service at their convenience and ease. This initiative will also contribute to turning Myla.in into the services Super app by offering its numerous services to all walks of life. Often, a lot of initiatives taken by the companies have targeted the younger generation. This initiative is taken to specifically provide some customized as well as some on-demand services as chosen by the customer and as per their requirements, the services can be availed at home.

About Myla.in

Myla.in is a home services start-up aiming to bridge the gap between individual and small-scale service providers and customers looking for quality service. With a mission to empower grass-root service providers digitally and transform the way services are delivered to the customers, Myla.in is actively trying to turn the dream of Digital India true.

For more details, check out the website - Myla.in

Mumbai-Based Prohandz Lets You Book For 60 Professional Home Services

Providing helping hands to its users through a number of services such as home maintenance, home interior, home exterior, gadget maintenance, special services etc., ProHandz is a mobile app has the capability to become your go-to app on a daily basis.

Inspiration behind starting ProHandz?

First and foremost, lets assume you and me never heard of UrbalClap, Housejoy, Zimmber etc. So, now lets hear it - according to the startup, the "Pro" in ProHandz stands for professional, and this is exactly what they wish to add to the currently unorganised home service market. Using skilful, professional hands “Handz”, the startup is hopeful to bring a revolution in the home service market and set the customers free from the tedious task of finding professionals specific to certain services.

What makes ProHandz different from others?

The home service market is currently a hotbed for startups, and in order to carve its own identity in the herd, ProHandz gives its users a 30-day guarantee for each of the 60 professional services that they provide. Further, keeping in mind the time is money mantra, the startup allows the users the luxury to customise their services in order to suit their needs.

In addition to all this, in order to ensure the safety and provide its users a worry free experience, the startup runs a thorough background check of all its service providers.

Founders -

ProHandz has been conceived by three gems, Hemant Patel, Vipul Raval, and Gurmeet Singh Bindra, having a collective experience of 60 years working in the industry.

Hemant Patel- Having more than 15 years of experience in investment banking and institutional equity research by his side, Hemant aspires to build a platform that provides clear, effective and quick communication.

Vipul Raval- The 12 years that he had spent in the consumer durable niche, prior to ProHandz, has helped him acquire full knowledge and understanding about consumer behavior and requirements. He's known in the industry for being the youngest Non-German MD in Bosch & Siemens, a home appliances company.

Gurmeet Singh Bindra - Having invested two decades in developing software for MNCs, Bindra has a stranglehold in the IT field.

What are they doing to succeed?

According to the startup, while their IT department is experienced enough to churn out a unique customer interface and market place, but it is their consumer insights and execution capabilities that can help them establish their dominance in the competitive home service market.

Funding -

ProHandz is a combination a funded startup as well as a self-funded startup.

Future Plans of ProHandz -

Having just gotten started, the startup aspires its app to be the most successful online market place for home services. According to startup, they wish to measure success not by any scale, but its ability to build a brand that stands out from its competitors for providing value-addition to consumers. In order to achieve all this, they're currently working on building a revenue model that would enable them to grow and derive profits in this competitive environment.

The only downside for now is, that ProHandz is only available for Smartphones users in Mumbai.

Delhi Based Houzmax Is India's First House Possession Platform

While moving into a new apartment/house is always a matter of joy, all the workload associated with moving and fixing and making the place one's own, takes a lot of time,effort and energy out of one's system. Playing fairy to one's new apartment needs is a Delhi NCR based startup called Houzmax.

Promoted as India's First Possession Focused Marketplace, the startup is a crowd-sourced, collaborative, content and commerce driven platform aimed at building a synergy between buyers and the builders. It further helps real estate home buyers to move in to their apartments faster and smarter.

The platform's major offerings include pre-configured possession kits under different categories for different kinds of apartment owners. For example, if the owner of the apartment is considering renting out his/her apartment then the startup offers them rPK kits i.e. Rent Possession kits. These kits are cost effective and can be turned around in a faster time frame which helps the owners in getting a faster return on their real estate investment.

"We realized that the biggest pain point for any real estate buyer is the delayed possessions and the financial strains it creates for them and hence we wanted to ensure that there is a platform which addressed this pain point by way of transparent information sharing and answering the most challenging questions like when will I get my apartment and after I get it how do I monetize it for real gain," said Pankaj Dewan, co-founder, Houzmax.

Houzmax addresses the common problem related to post apartment/house poseession by anchoring its online platform in social, crowd-sourced content, community & commerce that will address home owners' pain points, solve their problems across the value chain – possession of apartments, builder buyer collaboration, preconfigured kits across category of products eg. our Essential Possession kits (ePK) and Design Possession Kits and Rent Possession Kits (rPK).

Houzmax is hyperlocal and offer curated multiple services on demand with extremely fast delivery times. It help home-owners get to thier house faster, smarter and also gives a platform to showcase prized possessions through Housewarming celebrations.

With HouzMax.com, the founders real aim was to create a platform that addresses real customer issues in the real estate sector. Their mission, as the proudly claim, is to provide – 'Maximum Housing experience to the customers'. Their pre-possession discussion forum, helps a buyer connect with the builder for a smooth journey to pre-possession.

What makes the startup standout from its competition (Housing.com, Nestaway, Zimba etc.) is that, it is a horizontal platform which offers its customers services across multiple category of services for apartments, right from electrical preconfigured kits, to pest control and project centric apartment designs with themes. Further, they also provide possession updates and advisory services for a smarter house possession.

The three brains behind the project, Rohit Dewan, Vikas Bagga and Pankaj Dewan are all professionals with good experience in real estate domain and technology besides the marketing and sales sector. Rohit Dewan, is a veteran with more than 20 years of global IT Project delivery experience with TCS, Vikas Bagga, on the other hand is a marketing veteran instrumental in launching the famous Woodland brand. Further, Pankaj has a strong strategy and management background having worked with world’s largest software companies SAP and Oracle.

In what seems to be like a dream run, Houzmax got its first order within a few days of its launch. The order was an online order of approx 2.2 lacs for its rPK wardrobe kits and the entire payment was made online. Not only was the first order delivered with the best quality but it also went on to create immense value to the customer with the apartment renting out in within 25 days for approx 32,000/ a month.

E-Media Solutions based out of Noida, is Houzmax's digital platform development partner and has been instrumental in helping the startup launch the website and add more functionality on demand which has helped the Delhi based startup considerably

The startup's immediate plans include launching the service in Gurgaon region shortly and ramping up the product and services categories by adding more housing financial products like apartment insurance besides getting builder participation on its platform.

Delhi Based Houzmax Is India's First House Possession Platform

While moving into a new apartment/house is always a matter of joy, all the workload associated with moving and fixing and making the place one's own, takes a lot of time,effort and energy out of one's system. Playing fairy to one's new apartment needs is a Delhi NCR based startup called Houzmax.

Promoted as India's First Possession Focused Marketplace, the startup is a crowd-sourced, collaborative, content and commerce driven platform aimed at building a synergy between buyers and the builders. It further helps real estate home buyers to move in to their apartments faster and smarter.

The platform's major offerings include pre-configured possession kits under different categories for different kinds of apartment owners. For example, if the owner of the apartment is considering renting out his/her apartment then the startup offers them rPK kits i.e. Rent Possession kits. These kits are cost effective and can be turned around in a faster time frame which helps the owners in getting a faster return on their real estate investment.

"We realized that the biggest pain point for any real estate buyer is the delayed possessions and the financial strains it creates for them and hence we wanted to ensure that there is a platform which addressed this pain point by way of transparent information sharing and answering the most challenging questions like when will I get my apartment and after I get it how do I monetize it for real gain," said Pankaj Dewan, co-founder, Houzmax.

Houzmax addresses the common problem related to post apartment/house poseession by anchoring its online platform in social, crowd-sourced content, community & commerce that will address home owners' pain points, solve their problems across the value chain – possession of apartments, builder buyer collaboration, preconfigured kits across category of products eg. our Essential Possession kits (ePK) and Design Possession Kits and Rent Possession Kits (rPK).

Houzmax is hyperlocal and offer curated multiple services on demand with extremely fast delivery times. It help home-owners get to thier house faster, smarter and also gives a platform to showcase prized possessions through Housewarming celebrations.

With HouzMax.com, the founders real aim was to create a platform that addresses real customer issues in the real estate sector. Their mission, as the proudly claim, is to provide – 'Maximum Housing experience to the customers'. Their pre-possession discussion forum, helps a buyer connect with the builder for a smooth journey to pre-possession.

What makes the startup standout from its competition (Housing.com, Nestaway, Zimba etc.) is that, it is a horizontal platform which offers its customers services across multiple category of services for apartments, right from electrical preconfigured kits, to pest control and project centric apartment designs with themes. Further, they also provide possession updates and advisory services for a smarter house possession.

The three brains behind the project, Rohit Dewan, Vikas Bagga and Pankaj Dewan are all professionals with good experience in real estate domain and technology besides the marketing and sales sector. Rohit Dewan, is a veteran with more than 20 years of global IT Project delivery experience with TCS, Vikas Bagga, on the other hand is a marketing veteran instrumental in launching the famous Woodland brand. Further, Pankaj has a strong strategy and management background having worked with world’s largest software companies SAP and Oracle.

In what seems to be like a dream run, Houzmax got its first order within a few days of its launch. The order was an online order of approx 2.2 lacs for its rPK wardrobe kits and the entire payment was made online. Not only was the first order delivered with the best quality but it also went on to create immense value to the customer with the apartment renting out in within 25 days for approx 32,000/ a month.

E-Media Solutions based out of Noida, is Houzmax's digital platform development partner and has been instrumental in helping the startup launch the website and add more functionality on demand which has helped the Delhi based startup considerably

The startup's immediate plans include launching the service in Gurgaon region shortly and ramping up the product and services categories by adding more housing financial products like apartment insurance besides getting builder participation on its platform.

Services Marketplace Startup Aarigo Is Different In A Way That Its 'Open'

In this fast-paced life, we're seldom able to focus on all the dimensions of our life and keep everyone happy. Most of the times, while we're able to take care of our personal life and relationships, it's our own home, health and beauty that takes the beating. Working on the principle of 'YOU is also important', is Aarigo, a Mumbai based startup.

Claiming to be India's first open market place for service, Aarigo helps by connecting all types of local service providers to service seekers. For example, if your toilet tap needs a quick fix, or you need an urgent beauty parlour appointment for a party, they're your go-to people. The customers are provided with the options of professional service provider on the basis of various parameters such as price, quality and reviews.

The process involved is quite simple. A customer seeking a particular service is simply required to browse that particular service over the Aarigo website. On search, a list of trusted service providers in their locality will be displayed on their computer screen. They can then choose the best service provider on the basis of his/her price, quality and service.

Taking inspiration from big tech giants such as Apple Inc., Facebook and Microsoft etc., about how they have continuously managed to evolve and improve their products, customer support, and technology, inspite of being market leaders, the Aarigo team aims to serve the customer with the best quality possible.

Encouraging people to move away from Yellow pages and random Google searches for services providers, Aarigo.com not only helps customers in saving time, and energy but also their hard earned money.

According to the startup, the USP of their services is that they are regularly updated and work in real-time. Aarigo is a person's one stop shop for his multiple local services needs. Currently, a customer can book every type of hyper local service providers within a minute, using Aarigo. There is no other company currently in the market providing all these features.

[caption id="attachment_102518" align="alignleft" width="383"] (L-R) Sushant Darekar & Amit Baravkar[/caption]

Aarigo is the result of the vision of two brilliant minds, Sushant Darekar, CEO & Co Founder and Amit Baravkar, CTO & Co Founder. Sushant is an MBA graduate from Wales University (UK), having worked for 3 years in London in an MNC. He currently looks after overall strategy planning and overall product development, and other areas.

Amit, however, is a B. Tech (Biotechnology & Genetic Engineering), BBA (Corporate secretaryship), M.Tech (Systems Management), Master of Business Laws. Since the year 2012 he has been engaged in various businesses. He currently looks after technological development and needs of the Aarigo.com website.

With more than 200 service providers and 5000 unique visitors within two months of the launch, the path ahead for Aarigo.com looks quite bright. They have also successfully processed orders and transaction of worth more than 50k within such a short period of time.

Currently bootstrapped, the startup is looking forward to raising funds and is in talks with various angles and early stage investor for the same.

Services Marketplace Startup Aarigo Is Different In A Way That Its 'Open'

In this fast-paced life, we're seldom able to focus on all the dimensions of our life and keep everyone happy. Most of the times, while we're able to take care of our personal life and relationships, it's our own home, health and beauty that takes the beating. Working on the principle of 'YOU is also important', is Aarigo, a Mumbai based startup.

Claiming to be India's first open market place for service, Aarigo helps by connecting all types of local service providers to service seekers. For example, if your toilet tap needs a quick fix, or you need an urgent beauty parlour appointment for a party, they're your go-to people. The customers are provided with the options of professional service provider on the basis of various parameters such as price, quality and reviews.

The process involved is quite simple. A customer seeking a particular service is simply required to browse that particular service over the Aarigo website. On search, a list of trusted service providers in their locality will be displayed on their computer screen. They can then choose the best service provider on the basis of his/her price, quality and service.

Taking inspiration from big tech giants such as Apple Inc., Facebook and Microsoft etc., about how they have continuously managed to evolve and improve their products, customer support, and technology, inspite of being market leaders, the Aarigo team aims to serve the customer with the best quality possible.

Encouraging people to move away from Yellow pages and random Google searches for services providers, Aarigo.com not only helps customers in saving time, and energy but also their hard earned money.

According to the startup, the USP of their services is that they are regularly updated and work in real-time. Aarigo is a person's one stop shop for his multiple local services needs. Currently, a customer can book every type of hyper local service providers within a minute, using Aarigo. There is no other company currently in the market providing all these features.

[caption id="attachment_102518" align="alignleft" width="383"] (L-R) Sushant Darekar & Amit Baravkar[/caption]

Aarigo is the result of the vision of two brilliant minds, Sushant Darekar, CEO & Co Founder and Amit Baravkar, CTO & Co Founder. Sushant is an MBA graduate from Wales University (UK), having worked for 3 years in London in an MNC. He currently looks after overall strategy planning and overall product development, and other areas.

Amit, however, is a B. Tech (Biotechnology & Genetic Engineering), BBA (Corporate secretaryship), M.Tech (Systems Management), Master of Business Laws. Since the year 2012 he has been engaged in various businesses. He currently looks after technological development and needs of the Aarigo.com website.

With more than 200 service providers and 5000 unique visitors within two months of the launch, the path ahead for Aarigo.com looks quite bright. They have also successfully processed orders and transaction of worth more than 50k within such a short period of time.

Currently bootstrapped, the startup is looking forward to raising funds and is in talks with various angles and early stage investor for the same.

This Tech Startup Is Offering Doorstep Servicemen By Leveraging Aadhaar Id Platform

[caption id="attachment_101766" align="aligncenter" width="700"] Team HELPI - The one standing tall in the HELPI t-shirt is co-founder Piyush. The one in the center in the grey t-shirt is co-founder Vineet. The one sitting in the green shirt on the right is co-founder Sari. [/caption]

Are you super annoyed with that leaking tap in your bathroom that doesn't let you sleep at night and your plumber,whom you finally found after much hard work, is taking forever to fix? Well, this is the case with most of us when it comes to odd jobs such as cleaning, plumbing, carpentry and electrician services.

In our super busy lives, where we hardly get any time to catch our breath, it seems as another job altogether when we have to find a carpenter, plumber or an electrician to do some odd jobs around the house. While finding these services providers is like playing a super tough game of finding the treasure, following up with them once the service is booked is actually when the real chase begins. This is where the startups like HELPI, comes in.

The platform provides a time-based pricing model in which all the blue-collared professionals who are onboard with the startup come with a mobile application that acts as a timer and job manager for them while on the job. Their rates start at a nominal INR 149 for the first hour, including the visiting charges, and after that they charge INR 25 on completion of every 10 minutes. The startup believes that such a model will help in providing the much-desired seamless experience to the customers.

The Gurgaon-based startup currently has an Android app, using which the users can order services in just 3 simple clicks. In order to help those without an Android phone, HELPI also has a toll-free line

1800 212 4357

which can be used to make the bookings. The startup's services are currently only available in Gurgaon, but they have a plan of rolling it out in Delhi soon.

HELPI is quite different from all the traditional models currently available in the market wherein you either have to select a bunch of job packages, or the worker will first come to your home and give you a quote which you may or may not like, but are left with very little choice.

Unlike similar companies like UrbanClap, HouseJoy or Zimmber, HelpI does not work with middlemen or service providers. It has skilled and Aadhaar-verified individuals, who are hand-picked by the startup to offer these services. By doing all this, HELPI aims to eradicate the everyday hassles of search, unending, irritating coordination over phone calls and negotiations for its users.



Headquartered in Gurgaon, the innovative startup has been co-founded by three college friends and IIT Bombay graduates, Piyush Peshwani, Sariputra Waghdhare and Vineet Bansal. Peshwani is currently handling the Strategy, Sales and Marketing, Training, HR department at HELPI. Waghdhare is responsible for Technology and Products and Bansal looks after Process and Operations, Finance and Accounts, Investor Relations at HELPI.

The company's whose vision is to overcome the demand-side and supply-side challenges that exist during engagements between white-collared and blue-collared professionals, has already received seed funding from a group of Angel Investors based out of the United States and planning to raise the next round of funding shortly.

The platform also has a very innovative feedback mechanism at play. If the users are really happy with the HELPI services, the platform encourages them to drop a note at feedback@helpi.in and to send a SELFIE with the blue-collared worker after a job well done. They call this activity 'SELFIE with HELPI' (see pic below), and also put it up on their facebook page at - facebook.com/HELPIPlatform.

[caption id="attachment_101768" align="aligncenter" width="700"] SELFIE with HELPI -
HELPI delighted customer in Gurgaon with Electrician[/caption]