A year after graduating from college, most people are still figuring things out.But Anjali Sardana moved fast.In less than twelve months, she built Pronto into a company valued at around $100 million.
A year after graduating from college, most people are still figuring things out.
But Anjali Sardana moved fast.
In less than twelve months, she built Pronto into a company valued at around $100 million. The home services company that started as a single hub in Gurugram is now operating across multiple cities, with tens of thousands of daily bookings.
But this didn’t come out of nowhere.
Sardana graduated from Georgetown University in 2024 with a perfect GPA and top academic honours, including being ranked the number one graduating student in her biology cohort.
On paper, she was a science student. In reality, she had already spent years inside the world of finance and investing.
She worked closely with Georgetown’s investment office, helping analyse a multi-billion dollar endowment. That meant evaluating global funds, studying markets and building financial models well before she graduated.
She also interned at Morgan Stanley in New York and later joined 8VC, before moving into private equity at Bain Capital.
So when she decided to start up, she wasn’t guessing. She already understood how investors think and what scale looks like.
In early 2025, Sardana launched Pronto.
The problem she picked was hiding in plain sight. India’s domestic services market is huge but still largely unorganised. Finding reliable help often depends on contacts, availability and luck.
Pronto tried to bring order to that chaos.
The app allows users to book trained workers for everyday tasks like cleaning, dishwashing and laundry. Workers are recruited, verified and trained, then assigned structured shifts.
The hook is speed. In many cases, services are delivered within 10 minutes through a network of local hubs.
The company began with a single hub in Gurugram, handling about 170 bookings a day.
Within months, that number exploded.
By early 2026, Pronto was clocking over 18,000 daily bookings and had expanded to cities like Delhi NCR, Bengaluru, Mumbai, Hyderabad and Chennai.
That kind of scale is rare in a sector that has resisted formalisation for years.
A large part of its workforce includes women trained as service professionals, adding a structured income layer to a largely informal job market.
Investors moved quickly once the numbers became clear.
In March 2026, Pronto raised $25 million in a round led by Epiq Capital, with participation from Glade Brook Capital, General Catalyst and Bain Capital Ventures.
This pushed its valuation to around $100 million within a year of launch.
Earlier, the company had already raised $11 million in 2025 to build its model and expand operations.
lot of startup stories focus only on the idea. This one is also about preparation.
Sardana had already seen how capital moves, how companies scale and how investors make decisions. She had worked on both venture and private equity sides, which is unusual for someone straight out of college.
That shows in how quickly Pronto moved from idea to execution to scale.
Pronto is part of a larger shift. Startups are trying to organise India’s informal sectors using technology, structured shifts and verified workers.
But execution is everything in this space. Many have tried. Few have scaled this fast.
For Sardana, the goal is simple. Make household help reliable and create stable earning opportunities at the same time.
And if the first year is any indication, she has figured out how to move much faster than most.- EndsPublished By: Roshni Published On: Apr 3, 2026 17:12 IST
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