Habitro Labs : Ola for home automation providers

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The idea of Habitro Labs, Mrinal’s new startup, germinated when he wanted to get his home automated. After a few Google searches and some on-ground recces across Mumbai, he realised that the city had tens of hundreds of local manufacturers and suppliers of home automation systems. 

Habitro was incorporated about five months ago in Mumbai. Mrinal’s ex-colleague (name undisclosed), an IIM alumni and former Fleet Manager at Ola, joined him as Co-founder. A third co-founder (also an ex-Ola guy) will soon be on board as the startup’s technical lead, Mrinal reveals. “I’m from the operations side and understand the marketplace model well. Now, we need a tech lead to drive the app side of things,” he says.

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