Samba
Samba is a mobile marketplace that connects users with local professionals across beauty, health, home, food, legal, and housing services. The platform uses Samba AI to interpret natural-language requests and match users based on skill and proximity first, with language and cultural background as optional filters. All communication, hiring, and payments occur within the app, and housing listings are capped so landlords cannot request more than two months' rent.
- Commerce & Shopping
- Artificial Intelligence
- Software Only
- Property Technology
- AI Agents
Funding
Founders
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Product
Problem
Finding reliable local professionals often requires navigating language barriers, especially for immigrant communities. Many marketplace platforms do not account for language and cultural preferences, forcing users to translate their needs or settle for providers with whom they cannot easily communicate.
Solution
Samba is a mobile marketplace that lets users hire professionals across beauty, health, home, food, legal, and housing categories. The platform uses Samba AI to interpret user requests in natural, everyday language and match them with nearby providers based on skill and proximity first, with language and cultural background as optional filters. All communication, hiring, applications, and payments are handled exclusively within the app, eliminating the need for direct calls or texts before engagement. Housing listings are included with a hard rule: landlords cannot request more than two months' rent. The service is currently live in Massachusetts and New Jersey.
Target Audience
Primary users are individuals seeking local service professionals—such as plumbers, trainers, lawyers, or chefs—who want to communicate in their own language, as well as housing seekers and landlords in Massachusetts and New Jersey.
Features
- AI-powered request parsing that understands user phrasing and matches based on skill, proximity, and optional language or background preferences
- Multilingual support for English, Portuguese, Spanish, Chinese, and Haitian Creole
- Identity-verified professional profiles with in-app chat before hiring, preventing direct contact outside the platform
- Unified marketplace covering beauty, health, home, food, legal, and housing services in one application
- Housing marketplace with a strict policy prohibiting landlords from asking more than two months' rent
- In-app hiring, application, and payment workflow that keeps all transactions on the platform