VIDEO - Urban Company’s next stop: beauty, durables

After having raised $225 million in funding in June, home service marketplace Urban Company is on a major expansion drive. “We continue to add service partners at the 3,000 to 4,000 per month rate… The number of service partners on the platform is going to double in the next 14 to 15 months,” Varun Khaitan, co-founder, Urban Company tells Fortune India in an exclusive interaction. At present, the seven-year-old company has close to 40,000 service professionals across its operations in India, U.A.E., Saudi Arabia, Singapore, and Australia. “We are expanding to 50 cities very soon (from 30 cities currently), and over time it will go to 100 cities in India,” adds Khaitan.

Category wise, the company’s business has two large arms: beauty and home repairs.