A couple of years ago, SmartClean co-founders Lav Agarwal, Abhishek Mishra and Stella Aw realised the absence of technologies adaptation in the cleaning market. Thus, in 2017, this exceptional venture was conceptualised to allow information-driven cleaning operations for elevated productivity, enhanced service good quality, and transparency.
Headquartered in Singapore, it has expanded to Dubai, India, Indonesia and Malyasia therefore far. “We provide a game-changing approach to facility cleaning, with real-time monitoring of the facilities via an array of sensors,” says Agarwal.
Using machine mastering and AI technologies, SmartClean evaluates and prices cleanliness, in order to alert cleaners of concerns, so these can be resolved speedily and effectively with out delay. Cleaning managers advantage by the information collected as it offers them with useful insights to program day-to-do operations, enabling predictive cleaning.
The move from standard ‘analogue’ house management to a digital strategy implies a substantial transformation, says Agarwal. The exact same is correct for the cleaning market which is gradually adapting to emerging desires and technologies. “We have designed multiple solutions catering to current and post-Covid commercial buildings,” he says. SmartClean is today the selected companion of multinational IFM (Integrated Facilities Management) providers such as JLL and Sodexo as a portfolio supplying and has a verified organization case with JTC and several other facilities management and cleaning providers benefiting several stakeholders in the ecosystem.
In India, the cleaning market is hugely unstructured with no clear cleaning requirements, says Agarwal. “More than 10 million people are involved in cleaning operations with a total market size of $10 billion.” To resolve this, it has introduced options which have eased the course of action of auditing the cleaning operations and are becoming extensively utilised to capture any cleaning concerns and logs digitally. “Our solutions have proven to decrease workman hours by over 60%, giving room to reduce the workforce, to a positive return on investment (RoI),” he informs.
SmartClean has raised a pre-seed round with CapitaLand’s accelerator programme ‘AIRmaker’ in June 2017, followed by a seed round of S$950,000 in Jan 2018. This year, the organization raised Pre-A round of S$3.7 million. Currently, it is open for a Series A round on $10 million and a smaller sized pre-Series A round just before that.
SmartClean is currently producing a robust effect across Singapore, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, and Dubai and is all set to expand its organization across APAC and Australia by bringing about a comprehensive digital revolution and disrupt the face of the cleaning market with its information-driven options. It is seeking at launching a SaaS platform Matrix that will let it to turn into a one particular-cease cleaning management platform for industrial genuine estate (CRE) properties. “Next in the pipeline is a range of sensing solutions to cover property-wide cleanliness monitoring.
A ‘lite’ version of these sensors will follow which would cost a fraction of the current cost and would cater to low labour cost markets to achieve an easier RoI for the customers,” says Agarwal.
In the finish, SmartClean aims to bring a gradual transform by attracting younger and technically certified workers into the market, whilst also making options that will assure a greener tomorrow.