UrbanClap, a leading mobile services marketplace, has raised $10 million from its existing investors SAIF Partners and Accel Partners.

The company, which now serves Delhi-NCR, Bengaluru and Mumbai, will use the money to grow pan-India, strengthen its technology, and grow its 100-member team to over 500.

UrbanClap was started by Abhiraj Bhal (IIT Kanpur, IIM Ahmedabad and BCG), Varun Khaitan (IIT Kanpur and BCG) and Raghav Chandra (early Twitter engineer, University of California at Berkeley) in October 2014.

It offers hiring in more than 50 services across five major categories – home (electricians, plumbers, cleaners, interior designers), health (yoga, fitness trainers, nutritionists), events (planners, photographers, caterers), lessons (music, dance) and other personal services (salon at home, party make-up).

According to a press release, customers have to enter their needs on UrbanClap’s Android app or on its website.

Earlier this year, UrbanClap had raised a seed round of $1.6 million from SAIF Partners, Accel Partners, and Snapdeal founders Kunal Bahl and Rohit Bansal.

Abhiraj Singh Bhal, co-founder, was quoted in the release as saying that UrbanClap was now serving more than 1,500 customer requests each day. It had over 5,000 suppliers connected to its merchant app. “With the new funding, we plan to grow 10 times in every metro in the next quarter,” he said.

For standardised blue-collar services such as electricians or home cleaning, customers can directly book and pay for the service on the company’s app. For white-collar services that are part of a larger business, such as photographers, interior designers, or yoga instructors, UrbanClap tries to understand the customer’s requirement and helps in hiring the right professional. This, according to the release, is done through an automated match-making algorithm. UrbanClap does a background check and police verification for all its professionals, for which it has hired a retired police officer.

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