{"id":1007255,"date":"2026-05-07T11:12:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T05:42:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1007255"},"modified":"2026-05-08T09:29:39","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T03:59:39","slug":"instant-house-help-startup-pronto-bags-20-million-as-valuation-doubles-to-200-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/05\/07\/instant-house-help-startup-pronto-bags-20-million-as-valuation-doubles-to-200-million\/","title":{"rendered":"Instant house-help startup Pronto bags $20 million as valuation doubles to $200 million"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pronto has raised $20 million (Rs 189 crore) from US-based technology investor Lachy Groom, known for his bets in crypto and software firms, doubling the instant house help startup\u2019s valuation to $200 million from March, founder Anjali Sardana told ET. <\/p>\n<p>In April, Pronto\u2019s monthly orders surged 40% sequentially, with average order value between Rs 130-140 range due to lesser discounting amid a supply-demand constraint, she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pronto has raised $20 million (Rs 189 crore) from US-based technology investor Lachy Groom, known for his bets in crypto and software firms, doubling the instant house help startup\u2019s valuation to $200 million from March, founder Anjali Sardana told ET. In April, Pronto\u2019s monthly orders surged 40% sequentially, with average order value between Rs 130-140 range due to lesser discounting amid a supply-demand constraint, she said.<\/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-1007255","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\/1007255","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=1007255"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1007255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1007259,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1007255\/revisions\/1007259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1007255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1007255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1007255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}