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Is UrbanClap-Urban Company an Indian company?

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Updated on09/09/26

Yes, UrbanClap, now rebranded as Urban Company, was founded in India, is headquartered in India, and recently went public on Indian stock exchanges, making it about as clearly an Indian startup as a company can get by every conventional measure.

The Core Facts

  • Founded in November 2014 in Delhi by three Indian entrepreneurs: Abhiraj Singh Bhal, Varun Khaitan, and Raghav Chandra

  • Headquartered in Gurugram, Haryana, India

  • Bhal is an engineer from IIT Kanpur with an MBA from IIM Ahmedabad, and previously worked at Boston Consulting Group before co-founding the company alongside Khaitan and Chandra

  • The company started with a focused mission: connecting people with home service professionals, plumbers, electricians, beauty experts, and appliance repair technicians, in a market that was largely unorganized and offline at the time

  • The founders identified a genuine gap in India specifically, where both customers struggled to find reliable services and service professionals were often stuck relying on middlemen and contractors to find work

From UrbanClap to Urban Company

  • The company operated under the name UrbanClap from its 2014 launch until January 2020

  • It rebranded to Urban Company to reflect a broader ambition: becoming a horizontal gig economy marketplacewith a global footprint, rather than a name tied narrowly to its original service categories

  • The legal entity behind it is registered as Urban Company Limited, formerly UrbanClap Technologies India Limited

  • The rebrand coincided with early international expansion, extending services beyond India into Australia, Singapore, and the UAE

Where It Operates Today

While its roots and headquarters remain firmly in India, Urban Company has expanded internationally over the years, currently serving customers in India, the UAE, and Singapore, having previously operated in Australia as well. It works with a large network of trained home service professionals, tens of thousands strong, across major Indian cities including Delhi NCR, Mumbai, Bengaluru, and Hyderabad, alongside its international markets. This footprint reflects a pattern common among successful Indian startups: build and prove the model domestically first, then extend outward once the core business is stable.

Conclusion

Urban Company, known earlier as UrbanClap, is unambiguously an Indian company, founded by Indian entrepreneurs, headquartered in India, and now trading on Indian stock exchanges. Its international expansion doesn't change its origin or base of operations, it remains an Indian company with a growing global presence rather than a foreign company operating in India.

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Answered on12/31/20
Yes Urban Company (erstwhile UrbanClap) is an Indian company.

It was started by 3 Indians in the year 2014-

Abhiraj Bhal

Raghav Chandra

& Varun khatian

Urban Company operates in various Indian cities and is slowly expanding to global markets like Abu Dhabi, Singapore, Australia and more.


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