Jabong founders invest in ‘Wassup’
Balachandar. R and Durga Das, who are co-founder of ‘Wassup’, today announced to have raised lead amount for the Pre Series A of USD 2mn from Arun Chandra Mohan and Praveen Sinha, the founders of Jabong. Wassup is an on-demand convenience brand which provides services like laundry, dry cleaning, shoes and bag refurbishments and is planning to expand to other categories such as home care, personal care, pet care etc. This is an application which has already started its work in three cities presently- Delhi, Chennai and Bangalore and soon they would be expanding their focus in Pune and Cochin markets.
This application aims at making the laundry market, which is estimated to have value of INR 200,000 crores annually out of which 95% is unorganized market, an organized market. Speaking on the occasion, Arun Chandra Mohan, Founder of Jabong.com said, “The idea is to make home services much more affordable and professionalized. We as an entrepreneur are passionate about supporting good people and good ideas. Wassup has good future prospects so we decided to support them by investing. Applications have become a powerful tool for customer services. Since last few years we have seen almost every necessity becoming handy through applications. It started with fashion and lifestyle, moved to food then to transport and so on, and now we have this application which would cater to another basic need of every household- laundry and other home services.”
Adding to it, Praveen Sinha, Founder of Jabong.com said, “From utility, cost and convenience point of view, this app would be a great success in the market since it provides every household a laundry service in affordable price. I don’t assume that most of our first costumers would initiate from application. Definitely the app is very easy to use but still for beginners, guidance is needed which is done on a call; you can place a call to customer service executive who will guide you on how app is convenient than a call.”
Balachandar.R, the co-founder of Wassup spoke about the key features of this application, “We have our own wallet which you can recharge and make use of it for acquiring services. We are working towards getting Paytm into the conversation for same. Unlike traditional system wherein you have no idea about where the clothes are or you cannot held the person responsible for any damage caused to your clothes, through Wassup’s tracking facility, you can actually track if it’s been washed or not and can held the team responsible for any damage caused.
Adding further, he said, “On top of that, we also have pick and drop services according to your convenience. The application has three time slots (8am to 12pm, 12pm to 4pm and 4pm to 8pm) choose anyone and our team will be there. Apart from all this, we also have Loyalty Card service which works as a plastic money when you do not have ready cash. And also, it is very important to note that we aren’t replacing the traditional ways of laundry, dry cleaning or shoe-repairing but taking them to an advance level by making them work with us under special training.”
The company has 30 pickup points called “Aggregating Hubs” where the garments can also be dropped off by the customer. Further, 30 Hubs will be added during the course of next 6 months. The brand vision is to be in 100 cities with a customer base of 1 Mn in the next 3 years.
The customer can reach out to order the service either through all India Toll free number 1800 3000 9969 or through the mobile app available for Android and iOS or log ontowww.wassupondemand.com.
