Sulekha is India’s leading digital mobile platform for expert services, matching 20+ million consumers with 50,000+ service professionals across 200 categories in about 40 cities.
Sulekha, with operations all across India, is funded by global investors including GIC (Singapore), Norwest Venture Partners (Palo Alto, US), Mitsui & Co (Tokyo, Japan) and SIW (Austin, US).
Sulekha is one of the largest services platforms in India that has evolved from a local business listings site to a technology-driven matchmaking platform from 2017 to now.
Sulekha focuses on expert services clustered around Home, Life and Self and where the user need is customized and involved. Using technology and domain intelligence, the platform seeks to understand the user need in detail and matches it to verified service professionals who are profiled. The service is free to use for end consumers and service professionals pay the platform for performance in the form of verified, matched service requests.
Sulekha helps service professionals and firms grow their business digitally by providing an affordable, actionable, accountable digital solution via their award-winning Sulekha Prime mobile app.
Sulekha, with operations all across India, is funded by global investors including GIC (Singapore), Norwest Venture Partners (Palo Alto, US), Mitsui & Co (Tokyo, Japan) and SIW (Austin, US).
Sulekha is one of the largest services platforms in India that has evolved from a local business listings site to a technology-driven matchmaking platform from 2017 to now.
Sulekha focuses on expert services clustered around Home, Life and Self and where the user need is customized and involved. Using technology and domain intelligence, the platform seeks to understand the user need in detail and matches it to verified service professionals who are profiled. The service is free to use for end consumers and service professionals pay the platform for performance in the form of verified, matched service requests.
Sulekha helps service professionals and firms grow their business digitally by providing an affordable, actionable, accountable digital solution via their award-winning Sulekha Prime mobile app.
Location: India, Tamil Nadu, Chennai
Employees: 1001-5000
Total raised: $38M
Founded date: 2007
Investors 2
| Date | Name | Website |
| 06.12.2025 | Manhattan ... | mvp.vc |
| - | Norwest Ve... | nvp.com |
Funding Rounds 2
| Date | Series | Amount | Investors |
| 31.10.2006 | - | $10M | - |
| - | Series C | $28M | - |
Mentions in press and media 8
| Date | Title | Description |
| 24.04.2015 | Funding roundup - week ending 4/24/15 | Freshdesk, Oscar, Color Genomics, Gravie, Full Measure Education, Sulekha, Music Messenger, Onfleet Seed stage Digital wallet CoinTent raised a $1 million seed round from Foundry Group, QueensBridge Venture Partners, Mark Pincus, Donna Dubi... |
| 21.04.2015 | GIC leads $28m Series C round in Indian classifieds Sulekha | Premium Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund GIC has led a $28.1 million Series C round India’s online listings website Sulekha.com New Media Pvt Ltd. Existing investor Norwest Venture Partner (NVP) also participated in this round. Continue re... |
| 20.04.2015 | Local services classifieds Sulekha raises over $28M in Series C led by Singapore’s GIC | Sulekha.com New Media Pvt Ltd, which runs a digital classifieds platform for local services, has raised over Rs 175 crore from ($28.1 million) in Series C round of funding led by Singapore's sovereign wealth fund GIC, a company spokesperson... |
| 26.04.2012 | Mitsui’s Private Equity Arm Opens India Office | (Mitsui Global Investment), the private equity arm of the Japanese conglomerate Mitsui & Co., Ltd, has opened an India office in Mumbai and set up MGI Group India Pvt Ltd, which will build a local team and invest across several sectors.... |
| 06.05.2008 | Sulekha merges Facebook and Craigslist in India | A merger between Facebook and Craigslist may seem like a pipe dream — but in India it’s already happening. The web community Sulekha has quickly grown to become India’s largest user-generated content site with 6 million users, a number set ... |
| 01.11.2006 | India Social Network Sulekha Raises $10 Million In VC Funding | VentureBeat has announced that Indian social network company, Sulekha.com, “has raised $10 million from a leading Silicon Valley venture firm, Norwest Venture Partners.” |
| 31.10.2006 | Indian social site Sulekha gets $10M from Norwest | Sulekha.com, one of India’s bigger social networking sites, has raised $10 million from a leading Silicon Valley venture firm, Norwest Venture Partners. Sulekha provides Indians with 1) a networking component, meaning blogs and groups, and ... |
| - | Local Services Classified Startup Sulekha Gets $28 Mn In Series C | Chennai-based local services classifieds company, Sulekha.com has raised $28 Mn in Series C round led by Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund GIC. The company had raised $10 Mn in Series A from NVP (Norwest Venture Partners) in 2006 and $6.5 M... |