Urban Company IPO: Check IPO Date, Lot Size, Price & Details

Company Overview

Urban Company (“the Company”) is a leading tech-driven, full-stack online marketplace for home and beauty services. As of June 2025, it operates across 51 cities, including 47 in India and 4 international markets—Singapore, the UAE, and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Its service portfolio spans home improvement, beauty, and wellness, built on the pillars of quality, reliability, and standardisation. Recently, the Company has also expanded into on-demand home assistance through its “InstaHelp” offering in select Indian cities.

Business Segments

• India Consumer Services: Offers a comprehensive suite of home, beauty, and wellness services, structured into standardised units with defined pricing and consumables. The Company also supplies tools and consumables to service professionals through partner and exclusive brands.
• Native: A dedicated brand for home solutions, marketing products such as water purifiers and electronic door locks in India and overseas.
• International Business: Provides home and beauty services in Singapore, the UAE, and Saudi Arabia, with the Saudi operations transitioned into a joint venture effective January 2025.

Technology and Operations

The Company leverages machine learning (ML) models to forecast demand, allocate resources, and optimise professional utilisation, which management identifies as a core differentiator enabling scalability and operational efficiency.

Training and Professional Development

Urban Company invests significantly in skill-building through over 240 training centres across 17 cities, supported by 300+ trainers across 17 categories, ensuring high service quality and continuous professional growth.

Scale and Market Opportunity

As of Q1 FY26, the platform had 54,347 active service professionals, with app ratings of 4.79/5 across Play Store and App Store. Over 60% of professionals deliver 30+ services monthly, with average net earnings of ₹26,407, while the top 5% executed more than 49,000 orders. According to RedSeer, India’s home services market was valued at $60 billion in FY25 and is projected to reach $100 billion by FY30, growing at a CAGR of 10–11%, offering substantial growth potential for the Company.

IPO Details

Objective of the Issue

The company plans to deploy the Net Proceeds over the next three fiscal years for the following key objectives:

• New Technology and Cloud Infrastructure: A total of ₹190 crore is allocated, with ₹42 crore planned for FY2026, and ₹74 crore for each of FY2027 and FY2028.
• Office Lease Payments: An amount of ₹75 crore is earmarked to be spent as ₹17 crore in FY2026, and ₹29 crore in each of FY2027 and FY2028.
• Marketing Activities: ₹90 crore will be utilized, with ₹20 crore deployed in FY2026, followed by ₹35 crore in each of FY2027 and FY2028.
• General Corporate Purposes: A portion of the proceeds, not exceeding 25% of the Gross Proceeds, will be used for general corporate purposes. The exact amount will be finalised and detailed in the Prospectus.

Key Strengths

• Benefits from Network Effects
  The Company’s multi-category, hyperlocal home services marketplace capitalises on network effects by operating at a hyperlocal level to minimise travel distances for service professionals and ensure expedited fulfilment times for consumers. Each city is segmented into micro markets, determined by the density of consumer demand. For high-frequency service categories, the Company designs smaller micro markets to address sufficient demand within compact areas, whereas high-value, low-frequency categories, such as painting, are served by significantly larger micro markets.
• Establishing a Brand Trusted by Customers
  The Company has built a trusted brand by emphasising trust, reliability, quality, and convenience, ensuring timely delivery and quality in the consumer’s service journey. This focus has driven improvements in average consumer ratings for service professionals, with a slight dip in Fiscal 2025 due to increased rating flexibility. According to the Redseer Report, “Urban Company” was India’s top-searched online home services full-stack platform brand on Google Trends from January 2024 to March 2025. As of June 30, 2025, the platform has served 14.59 million unique consumers since inception, with 6.81 million—46.67% of the total—onboarded between July 1, 2022, and June 30, 2025.
• Robust Technology Channel
  Urban Company operates a fully integrated technology stack that powers service fulfilment, drives consumer growth, and empowers service professionals. Its tech-enabled micro-market model efficiently matches demand with supply by factoring in variables such as location, time, availability, and skill levels. This unified platform enhances scalability, ensures optimal resource allocation, and delivers consistent, high-quality service across categories and geographies—providing the Company with a strong competitive edge.

Risks

• Sustained Losses and Cash Flow Challenges
  Urban Company has reported net losses and negative operating cash flows in prior years. While revenue grew by ~40% in FY25 versus FY24, profitability remains a concern. Despite improvements in operating cash flows (₹54.6 crore in FY25 vs. negative ₹85.6 crore in FY24), continued investments in technology, brand building, service expansion, and talent acquisition may delay sustained profitability.
  The Company’s ability to consistently generate positive operating cash flows and achieve margin expansion will be critical to long-term viability. Failure to do so could adversely impact its financial health and reputation.
• Consumer Satisfaction and Service Quality
  Urban Company’s growth and long-term success are closely tied to its ability to consistently deliver high-quality consumer experiences. This depends on service range, fulfilment rates, efficient professional allocation, after-sales support, competitive pricing, and platform usability. Routine consumer complaints highlight the operational risks inherent to a service marketplace, even when issues are not directly attributable to the Company.
  The Company has implemented a structured grievance redressal mechanism, supported by a bot-based helpline and internal resolution teams. In FY25, it achieved resolution rates above 99% across consumer queries. However, delays in handling backlogs or complex cases, alongside potential lapses in consumer satisfaction, could adversely impact the Company’s reputation, retention rates, and overall financial performance.
• Intense Market Competition from the Local market
  Urban Company operates in a highly competitive and fragmented home services market, facing pressure from both offline providers (local vendors, salon chains, OEM repair services) and online platforms. With India’s online penetration still low, offline players leverage local relationships, flexible pricing, and brand familiarity to attract consumers, particularly price-sensitive segments.
  At the same time, online entrants offering aggressive incentives to service professionals increase churn risk, while established niche platforms create barriers to deeper penetration. Sustaining growth will require continued differentiation in service quality, pricing, brand recognition, and consumer-professional experience. Failure to compete effectively could adversely impact revenues, profitability, and market share.

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KPI Comparison with Industry Peers

Note: There are no listed companies in India that are comparable in all aspects of business and services.

Conclusion

Urban Company is a new-age, tech-driven full-stack service marketplace operating in the large and under-penetrated home-services sector, which is expected to grow at roughly a 10% CAGR over the coming years. Demand is partly discretionary and sensitive to macro conditions, and the business faces intense competition from a large, fragmented, unorganised market as well as newer online entrants. In response, the company is building brand equity and scaling a machine-learning-driven micro-market fulfilment model to improve unit economics and service quality; it already shows visible operating traction and improving margins.

Given the combination of sizeable market opportunity and strong brand recognition, we recommend subscribing to the IPO for listing gains with a modest, tactical allocation, while monitoring execution on cash-flow conversion, margin expansion and consumer experience post-listing.