Name: Housekeep
Based: London
Website: www.housekeep.com
Having launched in January 2014, Housekeep has seen incredible growth - quadrupling the number of housekeepers on the platform, launching a housekeeper mobile application, and officially launching in a non-London postcode!
Just three months after launch, we raised $1m in funding from some of the UK’s most experienced consumer and technology investors, including VCs like Pentland Group (Reebok, Speedo), experienced entrepreneurs (founder of Streetcar, founder of Kabbee) and consumer experts (non-executive directors from BBC and Tesco).
There are 152 cleaning companies in our postcode alone, we’re certainly not the first to think of home cleaning! Housekeep’s founder, former angel and VC investor Avin Rabheru, started the business with the intention of making home cleaning easier for both customers and cleaners.
For cleaners, that means local, densely woven routes, which results in more time cleaning and less time travelling. For customers, that means the same housekeeper every time, and great customer service. In the last few months alone, the talented team has developed a high-tech database solution for the management of scheduling and communications. Just before Christmas 2014, Housekeep was given access to an exclusive mobile application to track their job information, and a customer login is currently in development, so watch this space!
So far, we seem to be getting something right! So much so that we’ve been featured in the Guardian (both editorially and in the Small Business Showcase), The Independent and The Times. We’ve also won a variety of awards, as featured on our website.
Lauren Hornbuckle is marketing manager of Housekeep
