Lavuro

Company overview
Headquarters: Argentina
Countries of Operations: Argentina
Women owned /led: At least 30% women in senior leadership positions
Year of founding: 2021
Number of FTEs : 5 to 20 FTEs
Legal status of the organization : For-profit
Company overview
Headquarters: Mexico
Countries of Operations: Mexico
Legal status of the organization : For-profit
Year of founding: 2018
Number of FTEs : 5 to 20 FTEs
Women owned / led: Founder
Care economy activities and business model
About the organization:
Lavuro is a trusted community marketplace in Argentina that combines artificial and human intelligence to provide cleaning and other domestic services. Customers post their tasks to be solved by "lavurantes," who generate extra income doing what they know best. Lavuro´s primary goal is to offer a product that resolves multiple issues in the range of the care economy so that their users have a multipurpose platform to find solutions to their care needs.
Activities in the care economy: Provision of affordable time and labour saving technology and products (e.g. product that makes washing, cooking more efficient)
Stage of growth: Small scale roll-out/Early stage
Type of services: Domestic services, Labour saving solutions
Number of customers (2020): 1K - less than 5K
Number of customers (2019): Less than 1K
Number of customers (2018): Less than 1K
Financials
Profitability status: Not profitable yet but planning to become profitable within 3 years
Revenue USD (2020): Less than 10K
Revenue USD (2019): Less than 10K
Revenue USD (2018): Less than 10K
Pathways to impact
Challenge addressed: Lack of affordable solutions to reduce amount of time spent on care and domestic work (Reduce), Limited redistribution of care and domestic work to other actors in the care economy (Redistribute)
Pathway to impact - 4 Rs: Reduce, Redistribute
Populations affected: Unpaid domestic workers, Paid domestic workers
Number of people served (2020): 5K- less than 25K
Number of people served (2019): Less than 1K
Number of people served (2018): Less than 1K