The UrbanYou Story

Transforming the way busy Australian’s book home services

Voted in the top 200 Businesses of Tomorrow for 2018

About Us

UrbanYou exists to help busy people, just like you and me, hire reliable home service providers. Convinced there was a better way to hire professional service people, co-founders Elke Keeley and Noga Edelstein wanted to disrupt the property maintenance industry in a big way. UrbanYou has gone on to become the leading marketplace for property maintenance across Australia.

What we do

UrbanYou allows you to book cleaners and gardeners in real time from a highly-curated network of quality service professionals.

Instead of spending hours researching, sifting through reviews and ringing around, we’ll match the perfect pro to your job in a matter of moments. With a seamless 60-second booking process, secure payments and a 100% satisfaction guarantee, UrbanYou is the easiest way to get help around the home.

Fun Facts

  • 20

    The Number of languages spoken at UrbanYou HQ

  • 2013

    When co-founders Elke Keeley and Noga Edelstein met while working at Yahoo!

  • 5500

    Hours per week spent cleaning by our UrbanYou Pros

UrbanYou Milestones

  • 2018

    UrbanYou rolls out a national expansion plan with launches in Perth, Brisbane, the Gold Coast and Adelaide. UrbanYou also acquired TidyMe in late 2018.

  • 2017

    UrbanYou was selected as one of 10 high growth female-led companies to participate in the prestigious Springboard Tech Program.

  • 2016

    UrbanYou acquires HomeHello, propelling the platform into a market leadership position. Crucial new executive hires and expansion into the Melbourne market saw 2016 be growth explosion for the business

  • 2015

    The first seed round of capital was raised to build out the technology in earnest, and the platform started to acquire organic users. UrbanOutsource went through a rebrand and reemerged as UrbanYou. UrbanYou went on to hit $1M in sales and consistently hitting 1,000 jobs per month.

  • 2014

    UrbanOutsource was built and sent to market offering cleaning, maintenance and gardening services for busy professionals.

  • 2013

    When co-founders Noga and Elke met while working at Yahoo! both women were convinced there was a better way to hire professional help. They both left their Senior Executive roles and set about changing the home services industry.

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