Zimmber, a hyperlocal home solutions company, has raised pre Series A funding worth $2 million from IDG ventures and Omidyar Networks, with participation from Ram Shriram, founding board member of Google through Sherpalo Ventures, TV Mohandas Pai, Chairman of Manipal Global Education and ex-Member of Board of Directors of Infosys through Aarin Capital. The company will use the funds to add more service categories, develop its technology and expand to Tier I, II and III cities (37 new cities) by early 2016. It also recently appointed Siddhartha Srivastava as its chief product officer. Previous funding and Dhulai acquisition: Last month, Zimmber had raised funding worth $400,000 from investors including Naveen Tiwari, Mohit Saxena and Amit Gupta (all cofounders of InMobi), Piyush Shah, the chief product officer at InMobi and Manish Dugar. At the time, the company had said that it would use the funds to expand to Delhi, Kolkata, Chennai and other Tier II and III cities. Zimmber had also acqui-hired Mumbai based laundry service Dhulai. The acquisition, Zimmber claimed, would help Zimmber streamline its supply side. In January this year, Zimmber had raised an undisclosed amount in funding from Praveen Sinha, the India head of Jabong, and an unnamed senior executive from Godrej Group. Zimmber currently operates in Delhi, Mumbai, Thane, Navi Mumbai, Pune and Gurgaon. Zimmber was founded by Anubha Goel, Gaurav Shrivastava and Amit Kumar. The company provides services like home painting, electrical, AC, plumbing, carpentry, home cleaning, mason, upholstery cleaning and carpet cleaning and claims to…
