ABHIRAJ BHAL

Founder & CEO, Urban Company

Mr. Abhiraj Bhal (Abhiraj Singh Bhal) is the Co-founder and CEO
of UrbanClap (now renamed to Urban Company).

Abhiraj’s early few years were spent mainly in Mumbai where

he completed his schooling at Navy Children’s school and post
completing 8th standard, he moved to Visakhapatnam to
complete the later part. He holds a bachelors of technology
degree from IIT-K and an MBA from IIM Ahmedabad (Indian
Institute of Management Ahmedabad).After completing his
master’s, he started working with the Boston Consulting Group
(BCG) in Singapore as a consultant where he advised fortune 500
companies across India, Germany, and South East Asia.

Post working with BCG for over 3 years Abhiraj returned to India
and started a movie streaming venture called Cinema Box (a
service that helped one stream movies on their smartphones
while traveling through Wi-Fi) with Varun Khaitan, his
batchmate from IIT-Kanpur who was working with the Boston
Consulting Group, America. Varun and Abhiraj met Raghav
Chandra, a computer science graduate from the University of
California, Berkeley who had previously worked with companies
like Yelp and Twitter. Raghav Chandra at that time was working
on his auto-rickshaw aggregator start-up called Buggy. in

In the initial conversation, Abhiraj Bhal & Varun Khaitan

dismissed the idea of joining Raghav Chandra’s buggy.in and
Raghav Chandra felt the same about joining Abhiraj & Varun’s
venture Cinema box. Abhiraj Bhal, Varun, and Raghav soon
closed their start-ups and finalized home services as space they
would like to venture into. Seeing that the Indian home services
sector is fragmented and largely unorganized.
Initially, all 3 started looking for beauticians, plumbers,
photographers as they would then connect them to friends and
families. After which they started testing this idea with
employees of their friend’s companies and browsed FB groups
intending to find people looking for these services. They created
a website urbanclap.com in the year 2014 and made the
company made its first investment of 4000Rs on Facebook
advertising.

In the initial days, they bootstrapped the company till Accel

Partners and SAIF Partners invested 1.6 million $ in UrbanClap.
In early 2020 UrbanClap was renamed Urban Company as a step
towards their plans of global expansion.

Urban Company is a home services marketplace. Through the

platform, consumers can book On Demand services at home. It is
the largest home services platform in Asia, with a major
presence in India, Singapore, UAE, and Australia. Urban
Company provides services like appliance repairs, beauty
services, massage services, electricians, painting services,
carpenters, geyser repairs, pest control, and more.

Companies & individuals like Tiger global, VY capital, Ratan Tata,

Emeritus of Tata sons, Rohit Bansal, and Kunal Bahl have
invested in Urban Company.

Urban Company links professionally trained high-quality service

providers with consumers who seek these services with
professionalism from the comfort of their homes. Currently,
UrbanClap/Urban Company has over 60,000 professionals on its
platform, and it fulfils the requests of over 5,500 customers daily.

Urban Company provides a platform for skilled professionals to

connect with users who are looking for services. It enables
service providers to undergo intensive training before they list
their services on the platform. On-demand the platform’s
algorithm matches service providers and customer’s
requirements based on proximity, time, and date.

Abhiraj Bhal is the CEO & Co-founder at Urban Company

(formerly UrbanClap) along with Raghav Chandra and Varun
Khaitan. He has played a pivotal role in establishing a network of
over 25000 trained service professionals. Urban Company has
already served over 5 million customers across India, Dubai, and
Abu Dhabi. Abhiraj wants to replicate this resounding success in
India’s tier 2 cities as well as in international markets like
Sydney and Singapore. He oversees operations and service
provider onboarding at UrbanClap (now urban company).

Mr. Abhiraj Bhal UrbanClap CEO & Founder has won several
awards such as the Fortune 40 under 40, and Fortune 30 under
30, Entrepreneur award NTLF2020.