{"id":44779,"date":"2016-09-16T00:20:14","date_gmt":"2016-09-15T23:20:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.startups.co.uk\/young-guns\/?p=44779"},"modified":"2016-09-15T10:43:04","modified_gmt":"2016-09-15T09:43:04","slug":"avin-rabheru-housekeep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.startups.co.uk\/young-guns\/avin-rabheru-housekeep\/","title":{"rendered":"Avin Rabheru: Housekeep"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Avin Rabheru, 33<br>\n<\/strong><strong>Company: <\/strong>Housekeep<br>\n<strong>Web: <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.housekeep.com\">www.housekeep.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Three-time <a href=\"https:\/\/staging.startups.co.uk\/startups-100\/2016\/26-housekeep\/\">Startups 100-featured<\/a> and a <a href=\"https:\/\/staging.startups.co.uk\/startups-awards\/peoples-champion-finalist-housekeep-2\/\">finalist in the Startups Awards<\/a>&rsquo; Service Business of the Year and Venture Funded Business of the Year categories, Housekeep should be a name familiar to Startups&rsquo; readers.<\/p>\n<p>Founded in 2014 by former venture capitalist Avin Rabheru, Housekeep is the company in the process of digitally disrupting the UK&rsquo;s &pound;4bn home cleaning market. Its real-time scheduling and communication system allows customers to book, edit, reschedule and pay for cleaners online, with updates automatically syncing to the cleaner&rsquo;s mobile app. But it&rsquo;s not just homeowners who benefit from the business model; Housekeep says it is &ldquo;obsessed with helping both sides of the market&rdquo;, enabling its cleaners to manage their working life through the bespoke app with router technology that increases their hours and reduces travel costs &ndash; so far, it claims this has saved &pound;260,000.<\/p>\n<p>Housekeep has seen extraordinary growth since launch, from a &ldquo;handful of customers and two cleaners&rdquo; to more than 10,000 customer accounts and over 1,000 cleaners. With a huge potential customer base of 600,000 25-44 year old time-poor Londoners &ndash; 2.5 million across the UK &ndash; and already expanding its remit to include commercial cleaning, the start-up estimates it could be on the verge of making a serious mark in a UK market worth &pound;10bn.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Avin Rabheru, 33 Company: Housekeep Web: www.housekeep.com Three-time Startups 100-featured and a finalist in the Startups Awards&rsquo; Service Business of the Year and Venture Funded Business of the Year categories, Housekeep should be a name familiar to Startups&rsquo; readers. 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