Okboy
Company overview
Website:
www.okboy.app
Headquarters: Mexico
Countries of Operations: Mexico
Women owned /led: Founded by at least one woman
Year of founding: 2020
Number of FTEs
: 20 to 50 FTEs
Legal status of the organization
: For-profit
Company overview
Website: www.lavanderiapp.io
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:
Okboy is a Mexican multiservice platform to manage domestic services quickly, efficiently, and safely. They offer multiple services, including house cleaning, among other household facilities. Okboy helps reduce the time dedicated to domestic services and provides flexible times to clients and employees, who get fair payment and good working conditions.
Activities in the care economy:
Provision of technology & services that train/upskill domestic & care workers (e.g. technology that links employers to domestic/care workers), Provision of affordable time and labour saving technology and products (e.g. product that makes washing, cooking more efficient)
Okboy is a Mexican multiservice platform to manage domestic services quickly, efficiently, and safely. They offer multiple services, including house cleaning, among other household facilities. Okboy helps reduce the time dedicated to domestic services and provides flexible times to clients and employees, who get fair payment and good working conditions.
Stage of growth: Mass roll-out/Expansion
Type of services: Domestic services, Labour saving solutions
Number of customers (2020): Not available
Number of customers (2019): Not available
Number of customers (2018): Not available
Type of services: Domestic services, Labour saving solutions
Number of customers (2020): Not available
Number of customers (2019): Not available
Number of customers (2018): Not available
Financials
Revenue USD (2020): Not available
Revenue USD (2019): Not available
Revenue USD (2018): Not available
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): Not available
Number of people served (2019): Not available
Number of people served (2018): Not available