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| Type | Private |
|---|---|
| Industry | Home services |
| Founded | 2024 |
| Founder | Aayush Agarwal |
| Headquarters | Bengaluru, India |
Area served | India |
| Products | Mobile application (iOS, Android) |
| Website | snabbit |
Snabbit is an Indian on-demand home services company based in Bengaluru. Founded in 2024, it operates a mobile application that connects urban households with workers for tasks such as cleaning, dishwashing, laundry, and basic kitchen preparation. The company uses a hyperlocal model in which workers are stationed near residential clusters, which it says allows a worker to reach a customer within about ten minutes of a booking.[1] As of July 2026 it operated in ten cities.[2]
Background
[edit]Snabbit was founded in 2024 by Aayush Agarwal, who had previously worked as chief of staff at the quick commerce company Zepto.[1][3] Agarwal has said he started the company after personally struggling to find reliable domestic help.[4]
The company began operating in Mumbai and stayed in a single micro-market for its first year before expanding,[4] and later moved its headquarters to Bengaluru.[5] It initially tested a subscription model but switched to on-demand hourly bookings within the first month of operation.[1]
Business model
[edit]Snabbit charges customers by the hour. As of mid-2025, the average value of a booking was between ₹250 and ₹270.[4]
Rather than operating as a marketplace, the company directly sources, screens, trains, and manages its workers, whom it calls "experts". Workers undergo Aadhaar-based identity verification and background checks before they are onboarded.[4] The company's stated target is to have a worker arrive within about ten minutes of a booking.[1] Workers are assigned to neighbourhood catchments with a walking radius of roughly 200 to 400 metres,[6] and cover a median walking distance of about 300 metres between jobs.[4] In some areas the company has supplied e-bikes through a partnership with the mobility firm Yulu, extending that range to about 800 metres.[4]
Workforce
[edit]Snabbit's workforce consists entirely of women, which the company attributes to customer preference and worker-safety considerations.[1] According to TechCrunch, workers on 12-hour shifts earned upward of ₹40,000 a month as of 2025, while those working about four hours a day earned over ₹10,000, compared with the roughly ₹9,000 a month that the International Domestic Workers Federation estimates informal domestic workers typically earn in urban India.[4] Workers can choose between performance-linked pay and structures with steadier earnings,[6] and the company provides benefits including personal accident cover and health insurance for workers and their families.[7]
In March 2026, Snabbit introduced Kavach, a safety feature that uses audio monitoring to detect signs of distress during a booking and can escalate an alert to a response team. The company said audio data is encrypted and deleted within 48 hours unless it is required for a verified incident.[7]
In March 2026, Scroll.in reported that workers on Snabbit and rival platforms were largely satisfied with their pay but described long hours, inadequate breaks, and difficulty taking time off when ill.[8] Writing in The Week, Meera Rajeev questioned whether the sector's wages could be sustained, since they depend on continued venture funding.[9]
Operations and growth
[edit]As of late 2025, Snabbit operated in Mumbai, Bengaluru, Gurugram, Noida, and Pune, covering about 40 micro-markets.[10] Daily bookings rose from around 1,000 in May 2025 to more than 10,000 by October 2025,[10] and the company reported more than 830,000 orders per month by February 2026.[11] By July 2026, Agence France-Presse reported that Snabbit operated in ten cities, with about 20,000 registered workers averaging 60,000 jobs a day.[2]
In January 2026, Snabbit hired the founders and part of the team of Pync, a competing startup that had shut down.[12] By early 2026 the company said it was prioritising unit economics over faster geographic expansion.[11] According to TechCrunch, its loss per order had fallen by about half, and its customer-acquisition costs by about 65%, by the time of its April 2026 funding round.[13]
Snabbit has raised about $112 million in venture funding since 2024, from investors including Nexus Venture Partners, Elevation Capital, Lightspeed Venture Partners, and Bertelsmann India Investments.[3][4][10] In April 2026 it closed a $56 million Series D round led by Susquehanna Venture Capital, Mirae Asset Venture Investments, and Bertelsmann, which valued the company at about $350 million.[13]
Competition
[edit]Snabbit competes with Urban Company's Insta Help service and with Pronto.[14] According to The Economic Times, the three platforms together crossed two million monthly orders in early 2026.[14] Inc42 reported in March 2026 that Snabbit remained loss-making, that Urban Company's Insta Help had yet to break even, and that average order values across the category were roughly ₹120 to ₹170 per booking.[11]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c d e "Can Snabbit Replicate Zepto's Playbook To Organise Daily Domestic Helpers?". Inc42. 25 September 2025.
- ^ a b Srivastava, Abhaya; Kumar, Aishwarya (22 July 2026). "India's domestic workers go online as instant services boom". Agence France-Presse – via The Jakarta Post.
- ^ a b "Quick Service Platform Snabbit Nets $5.5 Mn To Fuel Market Expansion". Inc42. 21 January 2025.
- ^ a b c d e f g h "Lightspeed backs Indian home services startup Snabbit as the next big consumer trend". TechCrunch. 28 May 2025.
- ^ "Post-Diwali Glow: Urban Company, Snabbit Cash In On Festive Frenzy For Quick Services". Inc42. 27 October 2025.
- ^ a b Ganguly, Payal (5 June 2026). "What help-on-demand apps can do better to retain workers amidst price wars". Forbes India.
- ^ a b "Snabbit rolls out Kavach, a safety system for women home-service workers". Business Standard. 9 March 2026.
- ^ "Pronto, Snabbit, Insta Help: Why domestic gig workers in India are unhappy despite the better pay". Scroll.in. 10 March 2026.
- ^ Rajeev, Meera (4 May 2026). "Tech vs living wages: Who pays the price when you order home services through apps like Pronto, Snabbit?". The Week.
- ^ a b c "India's Snabbit valuation doubled to $180M in 5 months on its quick house-help bet". TechCrunch. 29 October 2025.
- ^ a b c "Snabbit Says The Discount Game Is Almost Over; The Hard Part Comes Next". Inc42. 14 March 2026.
- ^ "Pync To Shut Down, Founders To Join Rival Snabbit". Inc42. 15 January 2026.
- ^ a b "India's Snabbit closes $56M round as investor interest heats up in on-demand home services". TechCrunch. 27 April 2026.
- ^ a b "House-help apps top 2 million monthly orders amid profitability questions". The Economic Times. 2026.
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