Lachy Groom to help India startup Pronto at a $200M valuation, sources explain

In Short

Pronto, an Indian instantaneous apartment-encourage startup, is finalizing a funding spherical led by tech investor Lachy Groom that will perhaps per chance fee the rapid-rising firm at about $200 million after funding, TechCrunch has realized.

The deal is expected to usher in about $20 million in contemporary capital and would ticket a arresting leap from the $100 million valuation at which the firm raised $25 million in a Series B spherical led by Epiq Capital in early March, doubling its valuation in a topic of weeks, two folks aware of the topic acknowledged.

Bengaluru-basically based mostly mostly Pronto finished about 500,000 orders final month and is currently handling spherical 24,000–25,000 orders day-to-day, up from about 18,000 day-to-day bookings in March and roughly 1,000 final year.

Founded in 2025, Pronto connects households with on-search details from home encourage for products and services equivalent to cleansing and chores, promising rapid turnaround cases by a managed community of workers.

In March, Pronto founder Anjali Sardana advised TechCrunch the startup had expanded from one metropolis to 10 — along with Delhi NCR, Bengaluru, and Mumbai — and from 5 to bigger than 150 micromarkets. Nonetheless, great of its exercise remains concentrated in a handful of markets, with the National Capital Map accounting for roughly half of complete bookings.

The startup has over 4,500 active consultants on its platform, spherical ninety nine% of whom are ladies, Sardana acknowledged final month, adding that search details from persevered to outpace onboarding of contemporary workers as bookings grew about 20% week over week.

Earlier than this funding, Pronto had raised about $40 million in complete. Its investors encompass Epiq Capital, Glade Brook Capital, General Catalyst and Bain Capital Ventures.

Pronto and Groom did not acknowledge to requests for observation.

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