Three More Co-Founders Of Housing Quit
The company had raised $90 million in 2014 led by SoftBank in the last round and is now focusing on acquisitions to accelerate growth.
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Former Business Head Of 99Acres Vineet Singh Invests In Housing
As part of Info Edge’s executive leadership team for a decade, Vineet built 99Acres and Naukri and he will now closely work with the Housing management team in a senior advisory role. Currently, Vineet is co-founder, CEO & MD of Buildczar, a marketplace for building materials and finishing products.
“I am a wounded soldier but, ready to march on and take more”- Housing’s Advitiya Sharma
“There was a lot of momentum in last one year. It was becoming a cool thing to be a founder however, startup should be more than that.”
Housing’s Co-Founder Advitiya Sharma Quits
After Rahul Yadav, Housing.com co-founder Advitiya Sharma has quit the company to pursue a new business. In his farewell email to employees, he wrote, “The toughest phase in our history…
Housing Adds A New Feature ‘Routing’ To Make It Easy For Home Seekers In A New City
‘Routing’ allows consumers to search for a home based on commute time or on-road distance from any specific establishment. Targeted for buy and sell category, this feature is currently live on the website and available for home seekers in Mumbai, Pune, Chennai, Hyderabad, Bangalore, Kolkata and Delhi-NCR.
Real Estate Platform, Housing Raises Rs 100 Crore From SoftBank
The new funds will help the company to drive its new strategy and growth plans. The company has established a focused strategy on buying and selling homes and is building scalable revenue streams, demand and supply and is also going deeper in the value chain towards facilitating and fulfilling transactions.
#IndianStartupData : Housing Recorded Revenue Of Rs 12 Crores; Loss At 22X, 279 Crores [FY14-15]
Housing spent close to 120 crores for the aggressive Lookup campaign. The company has now brought in Jason Kothari as the CEO, who is focusing more on revenue side of things and has also culled a few areas which weren’t core to Housing (followed by massive layoffs). Housing has raised $139.5M in total.
Housing Dissolves ‘Operation Committee’ Setup By Its Investors To Track Performance
Housing has decided to dissolve a committee setup by its investors, created to keep a track on management, finances and operations of the company. The development came after Jason Kothari was appointed as the new CEO.
Housing Lays Off More Employees, Restructures Business To Focus On Home Buying Market
The company says that the move was under taken due to the booming home-buying segment in India.Housing is also reportedly laying off employees to reduce its workforce; the exact number has not been declared by the company yet.
Housing Appoints Jason Kothari as Chief Executive Officer
Since August, Jason has played an instrumental role on a number of key initiatives, including establishing a strong senior management team for the company by hiring Chief Financial Officer Mani Rangarajan, General Counsel Nandini Mehta, and Chief Marketing Officer Nikhil Rungta
Housing Acquihires Plat & Big BHK; Strengthens Its Supply Side Portfolio
With these acqui-hires, Housing.com acquires quality talent from premier institutions such as IIT Delhi and BITS Pilani.Housing now has more than 2551 employees in over 50 cities across India. With Plat, Housing.com strengthens its technology know-how to better cater to the needs of the agent community.
Housing Acquires HomeBuy360 for $2 Million
Leveraging this unique platform, developers and agents can streamline the entire sales lifecycle, by tracking inventory, managing customer relations and in effect drive efficiencies in their sale operations. This acquisition will also fortify Housing.com’s Data Science Lab (DSL) with rich data on inventory and transactions in the real estate sector.
Housing Crosses 1mn Verified Property Listings Milestone
The company has collected data for over 100 crore square feet across the country in the three years since its inception. 50% of this data has been collected in the last 6 months. Housing employs an intricate property verification process that involves collecting nearly 90 fields of data, analysing data quality and processing of the data by its Data Science Lab.
Housing To Layoff As Many As 600 Employees In Three Months
The company is looking to impede cash burn and focus on building core technology. Housing is undertaking a massive restructuring and scrutinizing the performance of employees across departments. The Majority of layoffs will be due to the shutting down of non-core businesses, underperformance and overstaffing.
Housing COO Rishabh Gupta Becomes Interim CEO
Gupta’s appointment as CEO is as off immediately and comes a week after co-founder Rahul Yadav was ousted from the post. A former Flipkart employee, Gupta has apparently been running Housing for the past few months as the whole Rahul Yadav controversy unfolded. Harsh Chawla, the firm’s first angel investor, Abhishek Anand CFO and Rishabh Gupta will join the operating committee.
