Puls (company)


Puls is a San Francisco based startup founded by Eyal Ronen and Itai Hirsch in 2015.

Overview

The company provides in-home services like demonstrations, installation, setup, integration, support, and repairs of all household appliances. The user books an appointment, and a technician visits the user’s location within an hour to try and fix it.

History

Started in 2015, the company was initially launched as CellSavers. The company was focused on repairing mobile phones and tablets. In 2017, the company was renamed Puls and started to offer broader solutions. Puls launched a new service, installation of HDTV antennas in 2018.
In August 2018, following a $50m C round investment, Puls announced expansion to additional home services or supporting "Everything with an 'ON' Switch". In September 2018, Puls was selected by Linkedin as one of the top 25 US startups, at the 11th place. In 2019, TV-maker TCL announced it had partnered with Puls to provide a 5,000-person installation support team.

Offered Services

Partners

partnered with Puls to provide home-based Genius-Bar type repairs and demonstrations to the customers.
In January 2018 Antop announced a partnership with Puls for HDTV antenna installation service.

Finance

San Francisco-based Puls has raised a total of $93 million to date. Announced in August 2018, the company raised $50m from Temasek Holdings as the lead investor. In August 2017, the startup raised about $25 million series B round led by Red Dot Capital Partners along with Samsung Next, Maverick Ventures and Kreos Capital, as well as existing investors Sequoia Capital and Carmel Ventures, who previously invested $15 million Series A round in August 2016. Prior to that, it had raised $3 million in a seed round from Sequoia Capital in December 2015.