About

Raghav Chandra is a co-founder of Urban Company, Asia's largest home services platform. With over 11 years of relevant experience, he has expertise in tech, data, design, and product development. Raghav is a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley, where he obtained a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science and Engineering. Before co-founding Urban Company, Raghav worked at Twitter as a software engineer, where he led and maintained a full-scale mature production geo infrastructure. He designed and architected the new set of production Geo Services, including reverse geocoder, geocoder, IP index, hydrator service, and real-time location service as online services. He also created web tools as an interface to visualize and modify internal geo data. Raghav also founded Buggi, a dynamic peer-to-peer auto-rickshaw ride-sharing platform that aims to provide auto-at-your-doorstep service by acting as the coordinator and scheduler. He learned the importance of problem-first thinking, profitability, demand-supply balance, and the significance of teams from his experience in building Buggi. At Urban Company, Raghav's mission is to empower millions of professionals worldwide to deliver services at home like never experienced before. The company works closely with individual service professionals (ISPs), transforming them into micro-entrepreneurs who act as its "de-facto franchisees." Urban Company helps ISPs with market access, branding, credit, insurance, training, product procurement, payments, and a host of other services while driving either all or upwards of 80% of their business. Raghav is currently looking for engineers, product managers, designers, and data scientists to join Urban Company. He is passionate about solving the experience by providing platforms to service professionals, including customer access and brand, financing and insurance, tech-led standardization, training and certification, and product procurement. Raghav believes that this will help service professionals become more organized and multiply their earnings.