Mumbai-based on-demand home services startup Snabbit raises $19 million

Snabbit, the Mumbai-based startup offering rapid home assistance through a quick-service app, has raised $19 million in a new funding round led by Lightspeed, with participation from existing backers Elevation Capital and Nexus Venture Partners. 

The Series B round comes just four months after the Snabbit secured $5.5 million in Series A funding, marking an aggressive ramp-up for the year-old startup as it looks to scale from a handful of neighborhoods to over 200 micro-markets within the next nine months.

Founded in 2024 by Aayush Agarwal, a former chief of staff at Zepto, Snabbit connects urban households with trained professionals for on-demand domestic help—ranging from general cleaning and dishwashing to laundry and ad hoc tasks.

Bookings are billed hourly, and workers typically arrive within 10 to 15 minutes of a request, enabled by the startup's hyperlocal deployment strategy and full-stack operating model.

Agarwal told The Economic Times that Snabbit is currently live in around 10 micro-markets across Mumbai and Bengaluru, including neighborhoods like Powai, Marol, Thane, Bellandur, and Sarjapura. The goal, he said, is a 20-fold expansion over the coming months.

"While ride-hailing transformed mobility and e-commerce reshaped fashion, regular home services remained largely undigitised. With Snabbit, we're solving for trust, quality, and speed — all at the tap of a button," Agarwal said.

Snabbit manages sourcing, training, and deployment of its workforce internally, with a backend that integrates digital identity verification through a partnership with Idfy. The startup's pricing model, which charges by the hour rather than by task, is meant to ensure consistency and accountability across service types.

As of now, more than 600 professionals work through the platform—a figure that Agarwal says is doubling every month. Many of these workers are women from informal job backgrounds who previously lacked formal work benefits.

Snabbit’s onboarding system includes Aadhaar-linked bank accounts and insurance, and some workers, Agarwal said, now earn up to Rs 40,000 a month through 12-hour shifts—about twice what they might have made through traditional channels.

Snabbit pitches itself not as a category-specific platform but as an everyday utility for urban homes needing timely, trustworthy assistance. 

“Snabbit is transforming home services in India by bringing speed, structure, and trust to a sector that has largely operated informally until now. Aayush and the team are building a platform for urban households, a completely new category that will cater to the needs of millions,” said Rahul Taneja, partner at Lightspeed.