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Sulekha is India’s leading digital mobile platform for expert services, matching 20+ million consumers with 50,000+ service professionals across 200 categories in about 40 cities.
Sulekha, with operations all across India, is funded by global investors including GIC (Singapore), Norwest Venture Partners (Palo Alto, US), Mitsui & Co (Tokyo, Japan) and SIW (Austin, US).
Sulekha is one of the largest services platforms in India that has evolved from a local business listings site to a technology-driven matchmaking platform from 2017 to now.
Sulekha focuses on expert services clustered around Home, Life and Self and where the user need is customized and involved. Using technology and domain intelligence, the platform seeks to understand the user need in detail and matches it to verified service professionals who are profiled. The service is free to use for end consumers and service professionals pay the platform for performance in the form of verified, matched service requests.
Sulekha helps service professionals and firms grow their business digitally by providing an affordable, actionable, accountable digital solution via their award-winning Sulekha Prime mobile app.
Sulekha, with operations all across India, is funded by global investors including GIC (Singapore), Norwest Venture Partners (Palo Alto, US), Mitsui & Co (Tokyo, Japan) and SIW (Austin, US).
Sulekha is one of the largest services platforms in India that has evolved from a local business listings site to a technology-driven matchmaking platform from 2017 to now.
Sulekha focuses on expert services clustered around Home, Life and Self and where the user need is customized and involved. Using technology and domain intelligence, the platform seeks to understand the user need in detail and matches it to verified service professionals who are profiled. The service is free to use for end consumers and service professionals pay the platform for performance in the form of verified, matched service requests.
Sulekha helps service professionals and firms grow their business digitally by providing an affordable, actionable, accountable digital solution via their award-winning Sulekha Prime mobile app.
Overview
Location
India, Tamil Nadu, Chennai
Employees
1001-5000
Total raised
$38M
Founded date
2007
Investors 2
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| Norwest Venture Partners | nvp.com |
Funding Rounds 2
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| Series C round | $28M |
Mentions in press and media 8
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| Apr 21, 2015 | GIC leads $28m Series C round in Indian classifieds Sulekha | Premium Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund GIC has led a $28.1 million Series C round India’s online listings website Sulekha.com New Media Pvt Ltd. Existing investor Norwest Venture Partner (NVP) also participated in this round. Continue re... |
| Apr 20, 2015 | Local services classifieds Sulekha raises over $28M in Series C led by Singapore’s GIC | Sulekha.com New Media Pvt Ltd, which runs a digital classifieds platform for local services, has raised over Rs 175 crore from ($28.1 million) in Series C round of funding led by Singapore's sovereign wealth fund GIC, a company spokesperson... |
| Apr 26, 2012 | Mitsui’s Private Equity Arm Opens India Office | (Mitsui Global Investment), the private equity arm of the Japanese conglomerate Mitsui & Co., Ltd, has opened an India office in Mumbai and set up MGI Group India Pvt Ltd, which will build a local team and invest across several sectors.... |
| May 6, 2008 | Sulekha merges Facebook and Craigslist in India | A merger between Facebook and Craigslist may seem like a pipe dream — but in India it’s already happening. The web community Sulekha has quickly grown to become India’s largest user-generated content site with 6 million users, a number set ... |
| Nov 1, 2006 | India Social Network Sulekha Raises $10 Million In VC Funding | VentureBeat has announced that Indian social network company, Sulekha.com, “has raised $10 million from a leading Silicon Valley venture firm, Norwest Venture Partners.” |
| Oct 31, 2006 | Indian social site Sulekha gets $10M from Norwest | Sulekha.com, one of India’s bigger social networking sites, has raised $10 million from a leading Silicon Valley venture firm, Norwest Venture Partners. Sulekha provides Indians with 1) a networking component, meaning blogs and groups, and ... |
| Local Services Classified Startup Sulekha Gets $28 Mn In Series C | Chennai-based local services classifieds company, Sulekha.com has raised $28 Mn in Series C round led by Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund GIC. The company had raised $10 Mn in Series A from NVP (Norwest Venture Partners) in 2006 and $6.5 M... |
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FAQ about Sulekha
When was Sulekha founded?
Sulekha was founded in 2007.
How much funding has Sulekha raised?
Sulekha has raised $38M in total across 2 funding rounds.
Who has invested in Sulekha?
Parsers VC lists 2 investors of Sulekha, among them Norwest Venture Partners.
What has the press written about Sulekha?
Parsers VC has collected 8 articles mentioning Sulekha, among them “GIC leads $28m Series C round in Indian classifieds Sulekha” (Apr 21, 2015) and “Local services classifieds Sulekha raises over $28M in Series C led by Singapore’s GIC” (Apr 20, 2015).
Is Sulekha still active?
Yes, Sulekha is active; its latest activity on Parsers VC dates from Dec 6, 2025.