{"id":985657,"date":"2026-01-16T09:11:27","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T03:41:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=985657"},"modified":"2026-01-16T10:28:18","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T04:58:18","slug":"house-help-startup-pync-shuts-down-amid-fierce-competition-founders-to-join-snabbit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/16\/house-help-startup-pync-shuts-down-amid-fierce-competition-founders-to-join-snabbit\/","title":{"rendered":"House-help startup Pync shuts down amid fierce competition; founders to join Snabbit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In what could be an early sign of consolidation in the fast-growing instant house-help segment, Bengaluru-based Pync, backed by Accel and General Catalyst, is shutting down operations, people familiar with the matter told ET. <\/p>\n<p>The company\u2019s three founders\u2014Harsh Prateek, Mayank Sahu and Dev Priyam\u2014are set to join rival Snabbit in senior roles across operations and business functions, one of the people said. Around 20\u201325 Pync employees are also expected to join Snabbit over the coming months.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In what could be an early sign of consolidation in the fast-growing instant house-help segment, Bengaluru-based Pync, backed by Accel and General Catalyst, is shutting down operations, people familiar with the matter told ET. The company\u2019s three founders\u2014Harsh Prateek, Mayank Sahu and Dev Priyam\u2014are set to join rival Snabbit in senior roles across operations and business functions, one of the people said. Around 20\u201325 Pync employees are also expected to join Snabbit over the coming months.<\/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-985657","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\/985657","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=985657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/985657\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=985657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=985657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=985657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}