Home services marketplace Housejoy has acquired fitness startup Orobind for an undisclosed amount. Housejoy will strengthen its fitness offering with this acquisition by onboarding over 1,000 of Orobind’s customers in Bangalore. Orobind also claimed to have 135 personal trainers on its platform. The entire Orobind team will be moving to Housejoy. Orobind’s previous fund raises: Orobind was founded by Satya Vyas and Shubhanshu Srivastava in December 2014. In March 2015, it raised angel funding of $200,000 from an angel group led by Harpreet Singh Grover and Zishaan Hayath, while stating that it did not have expansion plans last year and would focus on Bangalore where it was based. In August 2015, it raised a pre-series A round of funding from existing investors Harpreet Singh Grover and Zishaan Hayath, along with a set of new investors, to launch a new service called Orobind Access. In October, the company expanded to Hyderabad. Housejoy’s developments: - Earlier this month, Housejoy acquired Bangalore based dry cleaning and laundry company MyWash Technologies for an undisclosed amount to scale its laundry services from 1,000 to 10,000 per day over the next year. Housejoy currently offers laundry services in Bangalore, Delhi, Mumbai, Hyderabad and Chennai. - In December, Housejoy raised Rs 150 crore (~$22.4 million) in a series B round of funding led by Amazon, with participation from new investors Vertex Ventures, Ru-Net Technology Partners and Qualcomm and existing investor Matrix Partners. In June, the company had raised $4 million in a Series A round of funding…
