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Quick facts
The 30-second version.
- What
- Real-time marketplace for local services. Verified pros dispatched in seconds. Provider-owned brand pages.
- Where
- Live in Srinagar, Jammu & Kashmir. Expanding across India by waitlist demand.
- Who
- Founded by Dr. Fayyaz Muhammad and Tabinda Noor. Made by Horfay Taqnia Private Limited (CIN U72900JK2022PTC013845), a DPIIT-recognised startup (DIPP202829).
- Funding
- Bootstrapped. No external funding raised.
- Patents
- IN 202511047332 (RushHour dispatch) · IN 202511047441 (Skill Verification Engine). Filed, not granted.
- Stack
- Next.js, NestJS, PostgreSQL, real-time SSE, Google ML Kit (on-device OCR + face detection) for native KYC.
Latest release · 24 Aug 2026
HelpRush turns its verified professionals into its distribution network
Srinagar
Every verified professional on the platform is being issued printed cards carrying a QR code to their own booking link. A customer who scans one books that professional directly; if they are unavailable, the job is dispatched to another verified professional of the same trade within seconds. Professionals earn ₹101 for each new customer introduced this way.
Releases
Everything we've announced.
24 May 2026
Forty professionals form the first HelpRush Assured cohort
Forty service professionals have re-cleared HelpRush's five-layer verification and committed to emergency and after-hours dispatch across Srinagar — the first batch of a migration from the company's original platform to its rebuilt one.
Read →20 Aug 2025
Directorate of Industries & Commerce, Kashmir recommends HelpRush as a PM Vishwakarma onboarding pathway
The Directorate of Industries & Commerce, Kashmir has recommended HelpRush as an onboarding pathway for beneficiaries of the PM Vishwakarma scheme. The recommendation is not a tender, contract or exclusive appointment.
Read →
Coverage
Where we've been written about.
Everything below is somebody else's page and links out to them. Where an item is a company-issued wire release rather than independent reporting, it says so.
1 May 2026
Video ↗Kashmir Life — HelpRush Founding Partners Ceremony
Long-form video from the ceremony at the HelpRush office, STPI Srinagar.
Jan 2025
Article ↗Ziraat Times — HelpRush: Kashmiri youngster builds a unique platform for skilled work solutions
Founder profile and origin of the platform.
Jan 2025
Profile ↗Inc42 — HelpRush — company profile
Indian startup database entry.
Jun 2024
Profile ↗Crunchbase — HelpRush — organisation profile
Jun 2024
Wire release ↗IssueWire — HelpRush launches in Srinagar, revolutionising on-demand services in Jammu & Kashmir
Company-issued launch release. Distributed by wire, not independent reporting.
For attribution
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“Local services in India is a software problem disguised as a labour problem. The only way to solve it is to make the pro the brand and let trust be enforced by code.”
“We launched in Srinagar — not Bangalore — because the hardest cities forge the better software. Real-time dispatch in the Kashmir Valley works anywhere in India.”
Brand assets
Logos, photography, founder headshot.
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