Arunabh
Founder & CEO
UClean
Arunabh is the Founder & CEO of UClean which is Asia's largest laundry and dry-cleaning chain working on the franchise model. Today, UClean boasts of a network comprising 300+ franchises across 95 cities of Indian subcontinent. With 1 Mn+ customers spread across 2000+ pin codes of the country, UClean is rightfully credited with ushering in the laundry revolution in the entire Indian subcontinent.
An IIT Mumbai graduate, Arunabh carries solid amount of experience in the franchising and startup space and is widely regarded as a scale-up specialist. In his previous entrepreneurial venture, Arunabh had the opportunity to very closely look at the retail space in South East Asia. He was fortunate enough to witness how the largely unorganized laundry space in the region was getting organized and this became the inspiration behind eventually starting UClean in India. A huge believer in microentrepreneurship, Arunabh has leveraged the power of franchising to introduce UClean across multiple neighbourhoods of the country.
Apart from UClean, Arunabh also works as an advisor to multiple brands and mentors them on their expansion and scaleup, primarily through the franchise route. Arunabh has been recognized by Entrepreneur magazine as 35 under 35 most promising entrepreneurs of India and he also serves on the prestigious CII Retail Panel as well as on the board of Technology Business Incubator Foundation (TBIF) for the IITs.