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Grofers

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Industry
  
Internet

Website
  
grofers.com

Founded
  
December 2013

Number of employees
  
2,000

Area served
  
India

Customer service
  
011 3355 2400

Headquarters
  
Gurgaon

Type of business
  
Private

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Services
  
E-commerce (Online shopping)

Founders
  
Albinder Dhindsa, Saurabh Kumar

Profiles

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Grofers is an Indian on-demand online grocery delivery service. It was founded in December 2013 and is based in Gurgaon. As of 2016, the company has raised about $165.5 million from investors including SoftBank and Sequoia Capital. In early 2016, Grofers reduced its workforce by ten percent and reduced its operations from 26 cities to 17 cities.

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It started with the concept of hyper local delivery. Now it has adopted a new modas operende, self delivery merchants. The company has seen some ups and downs but now they are on rising path.

The company has a blog and social media handle on both Twitter and Facebook.

The name Grofers is a portmanteau of "grocery gophers". Customers of the company use a mobile application to order groceries online. Grofers employees then secure the items from local stores and deliver the items to the consumer.

Albinder dhindsa co founder grofers


References

Grofers Wikipedia