{"id":1004833,"date":"2026-04-25T11:41:46","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T06:11:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1004833"},"modified":"2026-04-25T12:01:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T06:31:09","slug":"tech-investor-lachy-groom-in-talks-to-back-pronto-valuation-set-to-double-at-200-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/04\/25\/tech-investor-lachy-groom-in-talks-to-back-pronto-valuation-set-to-double-at-200-million\/","title":{"rendered":"Tech investor Lachy Groom in talks to back Pronto; valuation set to double at $200 million"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US-based tech investor Lachy Groom, who\u2019s known for his crypto and software bets, is in talks to back instant house-help startup Pronto with a $15-20 million cheque, people in the know told ET. <\/p>\n<p>The round will value Pronto at around $200 million, double the valuation following its last funding that closed this March. Pronto had raised $25 million at a $100 million valuation from Epiq Capital, General Catalyst and Bain Capital Ventures. <\/p>\n<p>The fresh capital raise comes at a time when the instant house help sector has been attracting risk capital on the back of rapid growth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US-based tech investor Lachy Groom, who\u2019s known for his crypto and software bets, is in talks to back instant house-help startup Pronto with a $15-20 million cheque, people in the know told ET. The round will value Pronto at around $200 million, double the valuation following its last funding that closed this March. Pronto had raised $25 million at a $100 million valuation from Epiq Capital, General Catalyst and Bain Capital Ventures. The fresh capital raise comes at a time when the instant house help sector has been attracting risk capital on the back of rapid growth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1004833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1004833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1004833"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1004833\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1004867,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1004833\/revisions\/1004867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1004833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1004833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1004833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}