FounderFuel LIVE: founder of Housekeep, Avin Rabheru, MBE
You’re invited to FounderFuel LIVE where we’ll be in conversation with founder of Housekeep, Avin Rabheru, MBE - talking about his journey from VC to household name
After years as a VC, Avin set out to find a market that “made sense” and launched Housekeep in 2014 to address the UK’s need for a trustworthy home services solution. Now having completed millions of jobs and covering the whole of the UK, Avin has plenty of stories to share about his 11 year journey, which includes receiving an MBE for services to entrepreneurship & digital innovation. In this AMA conversation, we’ll be talking about how he landed on the original idea, and the three leadership phases he has been on since - with each bringing different skill-demands, doubts and challenges along the way.
As always with our founder-only sessions, we’ll be keeping it real - exploring the highs, the lows and the lessons along the way. Join this session to hear the candid stories and ask your questions of Avin.
More about Avin
Avin Rabheru founded Housekeep in 2014 and they are now the UK market leader in the £40 billion house cleaning and tradespeople market. Housekeep has completed 1,500,000 jobs with an average rating of 4.9*, and has won 40+ business and technology awards. Avin is also an active angel investor and non-executive director, having invested in 50+ early-stage businesses. He was awarded an MBE for Services to Entrepreneurship & Digital Innovation in 2022. Prior to launching Housekeep, Avin was a private equity investor and strategy consultant, and prior to that, read Philosophy, Politics and Economics at Oxford University where he won the Harold Wilson prize.
More about FounderFuel LIVE
FounderFuel LIVE is all about fuel for life and leading as a founder: Being an entrepreneur is a rollercoaster ride - physically, emotionally, and cognitively - which is why 92% of founders say that resilience is the number one requirement. In these founder-only events we talk to leading experts, the world’s peak-performers, and sit down for deep and real conversations with inspiring founders - all to surface knowledge and inspiration that fuels you to thrive on the journey that is founderhood.
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The host of this episode will be Christina Richardson, who has made it her mission to fuel the humans behind the startups and scaleups through her work at UCL School of Management and Foundology.
Christina led the original research that lifted the lid on founder-health, starting debates in Westminster on the topic, then founded Foundology to do something about it. Now hundreds of founders all over the world are in the FounderFuel family, where they coach and support each other every month in group-coaching FounderCircles - learning from each other, problem-solving together and developing as scaling leaders. Prior to this, she co-founded two technology start-ups herself so knows first-hand what it is like on the roller-coaster. Her first technology business launched in 2012 and was acquired by Enterprise Nation in 2015; her second was a Cannes Lions Innovation award winner and used by brands like Samsung, Vodafone and Expedia.