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