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HappyLocate Success Story
In this increasingly globalized world, migration has become a norm with regard to various factors, mainly for employment. Relocating to different places opens up a different world to an individual, however, one of the most troublesome parts about relocating is the tedious job of packing and shifting and it is difficult to find the best relocation services in India.
The team at HappyLocate consistently work to make the process of packing and relocating, simple, easy and smooth. HappyLocate is a packer and movers startup that works with India's finest 25+ Packers and Movers to make your move a cakewalk. Happy Locate packers and movers also offer corporate relocation services.
HappyLocate - Company Highlights
- Startup Name-HappyLocate
- Headquarter-Bengaluru
- Sector-Relocation and Transportation
- Co-founders-Ajay Tiwari, Sainadh Duvvuru
- Founded-2016
- Total Funding-INR 4.4 Crore (~$600,000)
- Parent Organization-HappyLocate Relocation Services Pvt Ltd.
- Website-HappyLocate
HappyLocate - About and How it Works
Bengaluru based Happylocate, is India’s first One-Stop Relocation Platform, conceptualized to reform the way India relocates. The company provides the best relocation services in Bangalore. Relocation has mostly been a nightmare and a tough experience to many where it adds to complications when users struggle to find the right vendors, face price uncertainty and ignorance on managing them.
Happy Locate is one of the top Bengaluru relocation companies is aimed towards delivering a memorable relocation experience to those who prefer a hassle-free relocation experience in its true sense. With over 25+ Packers and Movers already on board, HappyLocate assures a 98% damage-free relocation rate, dedicated move managers for each relocation, ensuring the best packaging standard and an experience that makes HappyLocate a service rated 4.8/5.0 on all the leading public platforms.
HappyLocate relocation services also extend to corporate relocation service through RELOSYS by HappyLocate; an AI-based tool that helps corporate execute relocations in a policy complaint and escalation-free manner. RELOSYS is a corporate exclusive offering that powers the employee relocation of some of the finest Indian enterprises including some of the top fashion, IT Companies and Beverage Companies.
One can book a service with HappyLocate in just four easy and simple steps.
Step 1: Visit www.HappyLocate.com
Step 2: Select Packers Movers Service, choose if it is “Between City” or “Within City” movement, Input origin and destination City and click “SUBMIT” or search for packers and movers near me and it will give you options.
Step 3: Choose amongst 3 options - Quick connect, Pre Move Survey OR Share Inventory.
Step 4: Choose Packers Movers listed as per the search criteria displayed AND Click “Connect”.
According to many happylocate reviews, users are also may book Hotels as well on HappyLocate.com within India. The happy locate packers and movers platform has over 16000 Hotels displayed on HappyLocate to choose from and has competitive rates with many premium, luxury and corporate budget hotels good for an initial short stay.
Relocation and Transportation Industry Details
Relocation, as an Industry is interesting & full of potential as you will easily find packers and movers startups that offer the best relocation services India. The following facts present the existing gap between the demand and supply side of the relocation industry. It is this gap that facilitates numerous opportunities for a company in this industry to grow and flourish.
80+ frauds related to the Relocation Industry are reported each day. That’s more than 29K+ frauds reported every year.
The Industry is full of seasonal and pretentious Packers and Movers and home shifting services who have a prominent position in the market. Just to give a picture, the most prominent mover of Industry does not own something more than 2% of the entire Market.
Relocation as an Industry is full of dissatisfied customers. The factor is so prominent that none of the national players today is ranked anything above 3.0/5.0.
Relocation as an Industry works like a perfectly competitive market but prices its services like a monopolistic competitive one. So the same service from two different vendors can vary drastically in terms of the cost on no apparently justified reasons. It is also easy to I've relocation services or the top packers and movers by simply searching for packers and movers near me.
HappyLocate - Founders and Team
Ajay Tiwari & Sainadh Duvvuru are the Happylocate founders as they established happylocate relocation services Pvt ltd together. They were connected via a common friend & both of them came together in early 2016 to work on the very foundation of HappyLocate Bangalore office.
Ajay Tiwari & Sainadh Duvvuru
Ajay Tiwari is the Co-Founder & CEO of HappyLocate. This Happylocate founder created benchmarks and worked as an entrepreneur in his 13 years of HR career with companies like Nokia, Vodafone, and Alcatel Lucent. His passion for creating value helped with the conceptualization of HappyLocate, to reform the way India relocates.
Sainadh Duvvuru is the Co-Founder & CBO of HappyLocate. He was an entrepreneur with 5+ years of experience in Operations, Sales & Marketing with BPCL and HDFC Bank. While this Happylocate founder is an IIM alumnus with a vision to create a scalable system, streamlined HappyLocate - helping people relocate better.
In terms of the work distribution, while Ajay takes care of investors, relocation & corporate sales, while Sainadh takes care of finances & internal operations.
HappyLocate has a small yet equipped team, while you can start Happylocate careers like relocation business and packers and movers. The average annual Happylocate salary for relocation services can reach up to Rs. 6.9 lakhs. Be it consumer sales, marketing communications or technology, HappyLocate has some of the best in the Industry talent and takes accountability for their area of work.
How was HappyLocate Started
Ajay, coming from an HR background, saw relocation as a big hassle for all his fresh hires/existing employees. As he decided to take his startup plunge, nothing more than relocation looked like the right idea to work on. Sainadh and Ajay were in touch with each other for some time before starting the company. As Sainadh himself relocated 5 times in his life, he instantly connected with the idea and took the plunge of starting relocation services in Bangalore.
First started out as HappyLocate Bangalore, the platform is now serviceable across 15,000+ PIN codes across India. Initially, when they launched. However after happylocate funding in January 2019 and also after positive happy locate packers and movers reviews, the company has expanded its corporate sales force in Hyderabad, Mumbai, Kolkata & Delhi.
HappyLocate - Name, Tagline and Logo
HappyLocate logo stands for the startup's vision which is to make relocation a happy process. While the HappyLocate packers and movers tagline is a "one-stop relocation platform" which shows that it aims to be a happy packers and movers company.
After spending a lot of time on working over the brand aesthetics, we finally decided to go with the most basic and initial versions of our branding.
HappyLocate - Business Model and Revenue Model
HappyLocate packers and movers conduct a pre-move survey to determine the quoted price. The purpose of a pre-move survey is to get the best estimate of the volume of the goods to be transported. It also helps to identify delicate & valuable articles, understand needs more closely to accurately project manpower and material requirements and therefore a right quote submission on that basis and this is what makes it one of the best Bengaluru relocation companies.
Corporate Relocation Services in Bangalore are HappyLocate's prime area of focus. Users of the startup's corporate relocation tool RELOSYS can have access to the tool through either a fixed per year cost or can access the same at “Pay-as-you-go” where corporates are required to pay only when they use the tool for their employee relocation.
All the payments are done in advance on HappyLocate.com through their secured online payment gateway only after a quote amount is generated and displayed in the Happylocate relocation services dashboard. They accept online payments through net banking, credit card, debit card or wallets associated with HappyLocate (HL).
HappyLocate - User Acquisition
Just within a year of its operation, HappyLocate has successfully acquired over a thousand users due to the sheer commitment and dedication with which the team at HappyLocate has worked. In order to spread its reach, HappyLocate has mainly relied on referrals, especially for corporate clients and have not spent much on conventional marketing techniques.
The interface of their website and the HappyLocate login is easy to use as you search for the particular relocation services is not difficult. The website also has a happylocate vendor login through which vendors and packers and movers can register.
It's our sheer commitment to the utmost service level commitment that helps us retain our existing users and bring new users to a system with the help of WOM.
HappyLocate - Startup Challenges
The biggest challenge of the relocation industry is the way it has been operated. The problem starts with the fact that even the best packers and movers in the market have not shown any visible effort towards enhancing their customer experience. The result is a substantial low rating which is now common with every home shifting services.
Another problem is the way how the market works. The best player in the market enjoys no more than 2% of the market share. The reason being, relocation industry is full of seasonal/pretentious/duplicate movers. For the people looking for the best relocation services, finding the right mover who can assure a hassle-free relocation is very tough. Hence, getting together trustworthy vendors in one place was a major challenge in the initial phase and according to happylocate reviews, the platform has now successfully overcome intense research and compliance mechanisms.
We cn today proudly say that we trust our vendors more than anything because all our vendors have wholeheartedly committed to us, on paper, a rigid packaging standard, a commitment of 98% damage-free relocation rate and a corporate grade relocation experience. Thanks to the commitment of our vendors and relocation managers, HappyLocate is today rated one of the highest on every public platform in the industry.
HappyLocate - Funding and Investors
On November 4, 2020, HappyLocate funding was estimated to be Rs. 4.4 crore in Pre-Series A round, and was led by Inflection Point Ventures (IPV) with participation from VM Ventures. It will use this Happylocate funding for scaling up its operations, technological upgradation, better market penetration and service expansion.
HappyLocate is a part of the prestigious Cowrks foundry & SLP accelerator programs. Additionally, HappyLocate has been incubated by Amrita TBI and is funded by a network of Angel Investors.
Unlike the experiences of a lot of others, our experience with Investors have been very positive and full of learning
HappyLocate - Advisors and Mentors
Some of the best Industry leaders are mentoring and assisting happy locate packers and movers. Currently, senior leaders of companies like Amazon and Wipro are mentoring the packers and movers startup.
HappyLocate - Awards
HappyLocate is one of the best packers and movers and its founders have been mentioned in IndiaToday, WASME - an organisation with consultative status to UN and other startup story blogs. HappyLocate is officially part of accelerator and incubation programs like Amrita TBI, Cowrks Foundry & SLP.
HappyLocate - Competitors
Some of those who could have been potential competitors are today HappyLocate's partners. This potential pool of competition which includes India's finest movers is already a part of HappyLocates' corporate relocation pool. All in all, there is no such relocation platform in India that takes care of the entire relocation cycle from end to end. The main Happylocate competitors are Migrera, Pikol and Shiftkarado.
There are though some great startups like Migrera, Pikol and Shiftkarado who are trying to transform the Industry their way. We respect them and always look forward to learning from their style of dealing with the problem.
HappyLocate - Growth
HappyLocate relocation services are being accepted overwhelmingly in the target market, with much more love and acceptance than they anticipated. It is one of the well-known Bengaluru relocation companies as it has to be among has served 10,000+ relocation requests to date (December 2020). It has a network of over 100 verified movers and 16,000 plus hotels across the country.
HappyLocate is currently one of the most preferred relocation partners of India. Currently, the HappyLocate reviews are overwhelmingly positive with a rating of 4.8/5.0 on almost all the public platforms, HappyLocate relocation services Pvt ltd is also a preferred relocation partner for some of India's finest enterprises including Coca-Cola, Nokia, ITC Infotech, OYO Rooms & ACKO Insurance. At present, the business has the best relocation services and has been growing at a capital annual growth rate.
Our stats, team and above all the way we are trying to solve the problem is being loved by Investors and perhaps that is what made us a preferred choice for our accelerators.
So if you are looking for packers and movers in Bangalore, Delhi, Hyderabad or Kolkata, do let check out their services!
HappyLocate - FAQs
Who Founded HappyLocate?
Ajay Tiwari & Sainadh Duvvuru are the HappyLocate Founders.
What is HappyLocate Funding to date?
HappyLocate is a part of the prestigious Cowrks foundry & SLP accelerator programs. Additionally, HappyLocate has been incubated by Amrita TBI and is funded by a network of Angel Investors.
What Does HappyLocate Do?
It is India’s first One-Stop Relocation Platform, conceptualized to reform the way India relocates. With over 25+ Packers and Movers already on board.
