Taeco Aether is a small, independent product company in Mumbai. We build the apps people lean on in the years between leaving home and feeling at home: a campus, a city, a first flat.
Each product followed the same person a little further from home: a campus canteen, a campus feed, a first flat in Mumbai. The current stop gets all of our attention.
Order ahead on campus
Where the name and the mango come from. A campus food pickup app: order ahead from the eateries on campus and collect without the queue. It taught us how a student actually spends a day, and that the ordinary problems are the ones worth solving.
Your campus, unfiltered
An anonymous, location-based community feed for college students. Post, vote and talk with the people around you without a profile attached to your name. It taught us how carefully identity, privacy and safety have to be handled when the users are young and the stakes are real.
Flatmates who actually fit your life
A flatmate and flat-finding platform built for Mumbai. Verified identities, matching on how you actually live, in-app chat, and no brokerage for the person moving in. Live across 27+ neighbourhoods, from Andheri to Chembur.
The next stop is open.
We will build it with the people who join now. See open roles.
Every product we have made serves one person at one moment: the student who moved into a hostel, the first-year who wants to know what the campus is really saying, the 23-year-old with a job offer and nowhere to live in Andheri.
That person keeps moving. So the company has to be the thing that lasts, and the products are the stops along the way. Taeco is the name we started with. Aether is the layer above all of it: the entity that owns the products, holds the responsibility, and keeps the standard the same from one stop to the next.
We are independent and we are small on purpose. One city done properly beats ten done poorly. Free stays free where it matters. And we build from here: we are from Mumbai, our office is in Mumbai, and the problems we pick are the ones we have lived.
A small team, a real problem, and a city you can go stand in. Everyone ships. Everyone talks to users. Nobody hides behind process.
“We built Dwelo because we lived the problem: matched on budget and location, moved in, and found out three weeks later that we kept completely different hours. Nobody’s fault. A completely preventable mismatch.”
Taeco Aether exists so that the next thing we build starts from the same place: the person moving in, not the person extracting value from them along the way. If that sounds like how you want to work, write to me.
Ronish Katariya
Founder, Taeco Aether Private Limited
ronish@taeco.in