| Date | Title | Description |
| 22.08.2025 | Keychain Secures $30 Million to Propel AI-Powered CPG Manufacturing Revolution | Keychain, a New York-based innovator, just secured $30 million in Series B funding. Wellington Management spearheaded the round, with BoxGroup and Lightspeed participating. This infusion propels its AI-powered manufacturing platform. Keycha... |
| 19.08.2025 | Manufacturing supply chain startup Keychain raises $30 million in round led by Wellington Management, BoxGroup | Synopsis
Existing investors, including Lightspeed, participated in the funding round of the platform that connects consumer packaged goods companies with suppliers of packaging material and other raw materials. With this, the New York-based... |
| 19.08.2025 | Keychain raises $30M and launches AI operating system for CPG manufacturers | Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now
The next time you shop at a grocery store, you might want to thank this AI startup ... |
| 04.11.2024 | From Handy to Keychain: Angi of CPG tackles biggest pain points in CPG manufacturing | For a sector that deploys cutting edge tech in everything from logistics to pathogen control, the food industry is still stuck in the dark ages when it comes to finding co-manufacturers, says the founder of Keychain, a rapidly growing start... |
| 20.09.2024 | He Founded a Company That Was Acquired By Angie and Now He Is Disrupting CPG. Here Are This CEO's Strategies for Innovating and Scaling. From building the home services platform company Handy to revol... | In this episode of The Founder CEO, I interviewed Oisin Hanrahan, co-founder and CEO of Keychain, about the journey from being a founder to becoming a public company CEO. Oisin shared personal stories and insights about how his upbringing a... |
| 02.07.2024 | LG OFFERS STAR-SPANGLED SAVINGS ON HOME APPLIANCES AND ENTERTAINMENT PRODUCTS THIS INDEPENDENCE DAY | Save Big on Kitchen and Laundry Appliances, TVs, Soundbars, and More
ENGLEWOOD CLIFFS, N.J., July 2, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- This Independence Day, take advantage of some of the biggest deals of the summer with America's most reliable line of ... |
| 04.03.2024 | Hyperlocal Services Market Booming Poised for Explosive Growth with 14.4% CAGR, Surpass $5.9 Trillion by 2031 | U.S. was the most prominent market in North America, and is projected to reach $ 2460.1 billion by 2031, growing at a CAGR of 13.5% during the forecast period.
The Pet Food and Medicines segment is estimated to witness the fastest growth, r... |
| 15.09.2022 | I'm always hunting for new side hustles to help me retire at 50 as a millionaire, and I've found 4 that cost nothing to start | The author, Jen Glantz, working at home. Jen Glantz
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| 29.01.2020 | Google Nest begins testing HVAC alerts, partners with Handy for booking service calls | Google’s Nest is testing a new feature that will alert you to potential HVAC issues and even help you book an HVAC professional to fix it, thanks to a partnership with Handy. The company says the HVAC alerts are only available in select cit... |
| 03.01.2019 | Political ‘fixer’ Bradley Tusk seeks $70M for Tusk Ventures’ sophomore fund | Longtime political operative Bradley Tusk got his start in Silicon Valley in 2011, when a little-known founder of a transportation startup requested his help surmounting regulatory barriers. That founder, Travis Kalanick, couldn’t afford Tu... |
| 05.05.2018 | How did Thumbtack win the on-demand services market? | Earlier today, the services marketplace Thumbtack held a small conference for 300 of its best gig economy workers at an event space in San Francisco.
For the nearly ten-year-old company the event was designed to introduce some new features ... |
| 03.11.2017 | Tusk Ventures has closed its debut fund with $36 million | Bradley Tusk, a former political operative who helps companies launch political-style campaigns, runs several businesses. One of them, Tusk Ventures, has been working with startups for a couple of years and until recently, accepted its paym... |
| 16.05.2017 | Handy and Managed by Q want to make the gig economy a force for good | Handy CEO Oisin Hanrahan, and Managed by Q CEO Dan Teran joined TechCrunch Disrupt in New York on Tuesday to discuss the evolution and shortcomings of the so-called “gig economy.”
Both startups help customers book quality cleaning and maint... |
| 01.05.2017 | Angie’s List will merge with HomeAdvisor after finally accepting IAC’s acquisition offer | After two years of wooing, Angie’s List has finally agreed to be acquired by IAC. After the deal closes, Angie’s List will combined with HomeAdvisor, IAC’s home services marketplace, into a new public company called ANGI Homeservices.
The m... |
| 04.04.2017 | Tusk Ventures quietly held a first close on $25 million for its debut fund | Bradley Tusk is a former political operative who currently runs a consultancy that helps Fortune 500 companies launch political-style campaigns, as well as a separate outfit, Tusk Ventures, that that focuses on helping startups do the same.... |
| 18.02.2017 | 5 Clever Ways to Outsource Your Work and Save Time | While modern technology has certainly provided people with many benefits, toys, and creature comforts, it has also sped up the pace of their lives, which can be pretty unbearable at times. It is especially difficult if you are trying to bal... |
| 12.02.2017 | Political strategist Bradley Tusk on his fast rise in Silicon Valley | Bradley Tusk has long been known in political circles. He was once deputy governor of Illinois, working for the now-incarcerated former governor Rod Blagojevich. He also worked for Michael Bloomberg during one of his tenures as mayor of New... |
| 29.08.2016 | 10 Startups to Watch in the On-Demand Economy | Believe it or not, there's more to the sharing economy than Airbnb, Uber, Lyft, and your local communal workspace. It's an entire ecosystem full of innovators, spanning the gamut of industries from healthcare to errands and beyond! And thes... |
| 21.07.2016 | Meet Tech Startups’ Political Mastermind | Startups like Uber, Airbnb and FanDuel are increasingly engaged in high-profile battles with regulators and lawmakers, fighting over everything from worker classification rules to gambling laws. Among those helping young companies navigate ... |
| 21.07.2016 | Storing your crap is now as easy as ordering a pizza | More On: apps
Millennials miss cheap luxuries as prices skyrocket How I lost $650,000 of crypto in seconds Woman reveals plan to catch date lying about height: Genius or evil? Grocery apps try to shed NYC delivery hubs' 'crackhouse' reputat... |
| 21.07.2016 | Storing your crap is now as easy as ordering a pizza | More On: apps
JPMorgan to launch digital bank Chase in Britain next week Apple, Google block Alexei Navalny's app in act of 'political censorship' Pawp online vet platform gives you a $3,000 emergency fund for your pet Andreessen Horowitz C... |
| 02.07.2016 | M&A roundup - week ending 7/2/16 | Workday bought Zaption; Recruit Holdings purchased Simply Hired; Buddy Platform acquired Zentri
Buddy Platform, a platform for collecting and processing Internet of Things data, acquired Zentri, an Internet of Things connected product platf... |
| 29.06.2016 | Move Loot, a YC-backed furniture resale marketplace, shuts down, sells customer list to Handy | There’s some closure (literally and figuratively) for Move Loot, the furniture resale marketplace that we wrote earlier this month was up for sale. The startup — backed by nearly $22 million in funding from a list of top investors that incl... |
| 03.06.2016 | How does Handy make money? | The platform takes a booking fee from payments made to professional home cleaners and handymen
Overlapping with companies like TaskRabbit and (the now defunct) Homejoy, Handy is another company in the rising gig economy, connecting people w... |
| 26.05.2016 | Video: Handy CEO Oisin Hanrahan at Splash Spring | At Vator Splash Spring, Oisin Hanrahan (Founder & CEO, Handy) discusses the on-demand revolution
At our Vator Splash Spring event earlier this month, Oisin Hanrahan, founder and CEO of Handy, sat down with Vator CEO and founder Bambi Fr... |
| 12.05.2016 | See how Vator Splash Spring played out on Twitter | Thank you to all of those who attended Vator Splash Spring and made it great!
Vator held its Splash Spring event on Thursday, and it couldn't have gone better. Not only were the panelists, and all of our presenting companies great, but so w... |
| 12.05.2016 | Handy: "Everybody should have access to benefits" | Company that matches painters, plumbers, and cleaners with jobs wants them to remain contractors
Lyft earlier this week re-settled a lawsuit in California for $27 million—double the original amount—in order to make sure its drivers remain i... |
| 11.05.2016 | A snapshot of the sharing economy at Splash | From plumbers to parking spaces, we're shining a spotlight on startups putting idle assets to work
With just one more day until Splash Spring 2016 (register here!), we thought it would be revealing to share a snapshot of one of the best-rep... |
| 02.05.2016 | Meet the Entrepreneur Who Sold His Tech Startup to GM for $1 Billion | This story first appeared on Entrepreneur.
When Dan Kan was a senior in college, he applied for about 35 jobs, most of them in finance. By the time he graduated in 2009 from Claremont McKenna college, Kan had been rejected from all but two ... |
| 26.04.2016 | TaskEasy raises $12M for on-demand lawn mowing | Instead of being everything for everyone, TaskEasy wants to mow lawns and remove snow, period
Editor's Note: Our annual Vator Splash Spring 2016 conference is around the corner on May 12, 2016 at the historic Scottish Rite Center in Oakland... |
| 13.04.2016 | Q&A with Handy CEO and Founder Oisin Hanrahan | Hanrahan will be discussing the on-demand revolution in a fireside chat at Vator Splash Spring
Editor's Note: Our annual Vator Splash Spring 2016 conference is around the corner on May 12, 2016 at the historic Scottish Rite Center in Oaklan... |
| 08.04.2016 | Crediyo - Vator Splash Health Class of 2016 | Check out Leonard Hinton's presentation on stage and the judges' feedback
Vator Splash Health 2016 cohort Crediyo, Crediyo leverages big data and analytics to lower consumer out of pocket medical expenses. We work directly with patients to ... |
| 07.04.2016 | Vator Splash LA 2016 Honorable Mention - Bloom Technologies | Check out Eric Dy's presentation on stage and the judges' feedback
Vator Splash Health 2016 cohort Bloom Technologies, won the Honorable Mention. Here's the video of Eric Dy, Bloom Technologies Founder and CEO, giving the winning presentati... |
| 06.04.2016 | Lighthouse - Vator Splash Health 2016 Winner | Check out Dave Vockell's winning presentation on stage and the judges' feedback
Vator Splash Health 2016 cohort Lighthouse, took home the gold. Here's the video of Dave Vockell, Lighthouse Founder and CEO, giving the winning presentation.
L... |
| 05.04.2016 | DocDelta - Vator Splash Health Class of 2016 | Check out John Dymond's presentation on stage and the judges' feedback
Vator Splash Health 2016 cohort DocDelta, a talent engine for healthcare. They help hospitals make millions of dollars in additional revenue by helping them to hire the ... |
| 04.04.2016 | Transcript: Protecting yourself as the founder; Ryan Howard | At Vator Splash Health 2016, Ryan Howard (Chairman & Founder, Practice Fusion)
At Vator Splash Health 2016, Ryan Howard (Chairman & Founder, Practice Fusion) talked about 'Protecting yourself as the founder'. Here's a transcript as ... |
| 01.04.2016 | Lab Sensor Solutions - Vator Splash Health Class of 2016 | Check out Jarie Bolander's presentation on stage and the judges' feedback
Vator Splash Health 2016 cohort Lab Sensor Solutions specializes in IoT Sensors for the Healthcare industry. They increases patient safety while helping customers mee... |
| 31.03.2016 | Video: "Are you in Kaiser’s line of sight?" | At Vator Splash Health 2016, Kaiser Permanente's Nico Arcino and Missy Krasner
At Vator Splash Health 2016, Nico Arcino (Sr. Director Digital Health, Kaiser Permanente) and Missy Krasner (Managing Director, Healthcare & Life Sciences, B... |
| 30.03.2016 | Video: on the future of healthtech with Lynne Chou | At Vator Splash Health 2016, Fireside chat w/ Cory Johnson and Lynne Chou, Kleiner Perkins
At Vator Splash Health 2016, Lynne Chou (Partner, Kleiner Perkins) with Cory Johnson (Anchor, Bloomberg West TV) discussed The Future of Healthcare. ... |
| 29.03.2016 | Who's financing the digital health ecosystem? | At Vator Splash Health 2016, KPMG's Mark Ginestro moderated panel on healthtech investing trends
At Vator Splash Health 2016, Mark Ginestro (Principal, KPMG) moderated the panel: Who's Financing the Digital Health Ecosystem with panelists: ... |
| 28.03.2016 | Transcript: Helmy Eltoukhy at Vator Splash Health | Splash Talk Helmy Eltoukhy (Founder & CEO, Guardant Health)
At Vator Splash Health 2016,Helmy Eltoukhy (Founder & CEO, Guardant Health) tackled cancer with technology together with Bambi Francisco Roizen. Here's a transcript as well... |
| 25.03.2016 | Fireside: Reinventing Healthcare Insurance with Ali Diab | Ezra Roizen discussed with Ali Diab on re-inventing health insurance at Vator Splash Health 2016
At Vator Splash Health 2016, Ali Diab (Founder & CEO, Collective Health) and Ezra Roizen (Managing Director, Vator Investment Club) discuss... |
| 24.03.2016 | Video: Breakout Labs' Julia Moore on funding 'science' | At Vator Splash Health 2016
At Vator Splash Health 2016, Julia Moore (Portfolio Director, Thiel Foundation's Breakout Labs) shares Funding the 'science' behind Health Care - See more at: https://events.vator.tv/splash-health-...
Thanks to o... |
| 24.03.2016 | Pokitdok, Box, Validic, Human API: New data on health | At Vator Splash Health 2016, Subtraction Capital leads discussion on uncovering new data
At Vator Splash Health 2016, Paul Willard (Partner, Subtraction Capital) moderated the panel: Uncovering new data from APIs and the platforms with pane... |
| 24.03.2016 | Glooko, Propeller Health, Enlitic on telemedicine trends | At Vator Splash Health 2016, Vator's Roman Arzhintar leads talk on patient-engagement
At Vator Splash Health 2016, Roman Arzhintar (Managing Director, Vator Investment Club) moderated the panel: "Telemedicine and Patient-Engagement&quo... |
| 21.03.2016 | Innovators in patient-centered healthcare | At Vator Splash Health 2016
At Vator Splash Health 2016, Stephanie Lee (Senior Technology Reporter) moderated the panel: Innovators in patient-centered healthcare with panelists: Jason Oberfest (Founder & CEO, Mango Health), Vic Gundotr... |
| 18.03.2016 | Transcript: Vijay Pande at Splash Health 2016 | Splash Talk Vijay Pande (General Partner, Andreessen Horowitz)
At Vator Splash Health 2016, Vijay Pande (General Partner, Andreesen Horowitz) shared his presentation: "When software eats bio." Here's a transcript as well as the vi... |
| 17.03.2016 | Video: Vijay Pande of Andreessen Horowitz at Splash Health | VC Partner talks about the convergence of technology and biology
At Vator Splash Health 2016, Vijay Pande, Partner at Andreessen Horrowitz gave (what was rated the most popular presentation at Splash Health) a talk about how healthcare tech... |
| 16.03.2016 | Video: Practice Fusion's Ryan Howard at Splash Health 2016 | Founder shares insightful lessons about protecting ourselves as founders
At Vator Splash Health 2016, Ryan Howard, Founder & Chairman of Practice Fusion, shared from his experience on how to be protected as a founder.
Thanks to our main... |
| 15.03.2016 | Video: Guardant Health CEO Helmy Eltoukhy at Splash Health | Tackling cancer with technology
At Vator Splash Health 2016, Helmy Eltoukhy, Founder & CEO of Guardant Health, sat down with Bambi Francisco to tackle cancer with technology.
Thanks to our main sponsors KPMG, Javelin Venture Partners, S... |
| 28.02.2016 | How Smart Founders Can Take Advantage Of The Platform Shift | Brian Feinstein Contributor
Brian Feinstein is a partner at BVP, where he focuses on consumer Internet and enterprise software investments, and helps oversee BVP's efforts in Brazil and Russia.
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Ten Questions E... |
| 24.01.2016 | We Found Every 'Uber for X' Startup in Boston — It's a Long List | Whether we like it or not, Uber has become synonymous with the gig economy and any kind of business that uses an online platform to deliver on-demand services. We call it “Uber for X” because it’s all about applying all or some of the compa... |
| 19.01.2016 | With Google, Facebook And Nextdoor, What’s Next For Lead Generation? | Sam Madden Contributor
Sam Madden is a co-founder of PocketSuite.
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With Google, Facebook And Nextdoor, What’s Next For Lead Generation?
Can Entrepreneurs Succeed In Today’s On-Demand World?
A number of lead-gen... |
| 04.11.2015 | With $50M Funding, Handy Focuses on Existing Markets | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
For New York-based Handy, which offers on-demand cleaning and other home contract services, density has been key to its growth.
The company thinks of that density in two ways:... |
| 02.11.2015 | On-demand home service Handy raises $50M in round led by Fidelity | On-demand home service provider Handy has raised $50 million for its series C round of funding, led by Fidelity Management and Research Company. The company said that this new investment will help solidify its position as a market leader in... |
| 02.11.2015 | Handy Raises $50M Led By Fidelity, Reportedly At $500M Valuation, To Clean Up In Home Services | There has been consolidation, collapse and other troubles among some on-demand home services startups, but others seem to be cleaning up in their wake. Handy — a platform for on-demand housekeeping and other services like furniture delivery... |
| 02.11.2015 | Daily funding roundup - November 2, 2015 | Handy raised $50M; Clearsky Data scored $27M; Confer secured $17M
Twigly, a Gurgaon, India-based curated food marketplace, raised $200,000 in seed funding. Backers included Tracxn Labs and angels Amit Gupta, Aloke Bajpai, Ashish Kumar, and ... |
| 02.11.2015 | Handy Raises $50M in Series C Funding | Handy, a NYC-based home service booking platform, raised $50m in Series C funding.
The round was led by Fidelity Investments, which joined existing investors TPG Ventures, General Catalyst, Highland Capital and Revolution Growth.
The compan... |
| 28.10.2015 | Смерть стартапа: Почему провалился Homejoy — один из крупнейших сервисов по уборке дома Статьи редакции | Homejoy — сервис по заказу уборки квартир, закрывший пять инвестиционных раундов на общую сумму более чем в $40 млн. Летом 2015 года стартап вынужден был закрыться — по словам руководства компании, это произошло из-за ужесточения требований... |
| 26.09.2015 | Can Entrepreneurs Succeed In Today’s On-Demand World? | Sam Madden Contributor
Sam Madden is a co-founder of PocketSuite.
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Can Entrepreneurs Succeed In Today’s On-Demand World?
Our Marketplace Obsession And Bubble
Intuit recently released an eye-opening new survey r... |
| 16.09.2015 | Quality Ought to Come Before Growth When On Demand Workers Have a Key | The panel on growth at the 2015 On Demand Conference in New York City. Umang Dua (Handy) is second from the left, speaking, and Dan Teran (Managed By Q) is at the far right. (Photo: Brady Dale for Observer)
Anyone that hires a worker or tea... |
| 28.08.2015 | Our Marketplace Obsession And Bubble | Sam Madden Contributor
Sam Madden is a co-founder of PocketSuite.
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Can Entrepreneurs Succeed In Today’s On-Demand World?
Our Marketplace Obsession And Bubble
Service marketplaces have recently become Silicon Va... |
| 25.08.2015 | “Desksourcing” Is A New Labor Market Concept In The Mobile-First World | Spencer Lazar Contributor
Spencer Lazar is a partner at General Catalyst.
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Netflix and the creation of global monoculture
Opportunities In The Risk Business Abound As Insurance Is Ready For Disruption
I’ve alwa... |
| 19.08.2015 | The 5 Hottest Series B Startups from 2014 | Mattermark ranked the five fastest-growing Series B startups from last year, and most of them are living up to the hype in 2015.
Series B is typically the third round of funding that a startup raises, after seed and Series A. The size of a ... |
| 10.08.2015 | LockedOut: An Uber For Locksmiths | By now, it’s clear that we will see “Uber for [x]” companies until there is indeed an Uber for everything. Here is the latest one: LockedOut — an Uber for locksmiths.
The locksmith experience is pretty much on-demand already, but LockedOut ... |
| 13.06.2015 | In the Future, Employees Won’t Exist | Tad Milbourn Contributor
Tad Milbourn is CEO and co-founder of Tiempo.
Contract work is becoming the new normal. Consider Uber: The ride-sharing startup has 160,000 contractors, but just 2,000 employees. That’s an astonishing ratio of 80 to... |
| 27.05.2015 | Airbnb Hopes To Have Almost A Million Stays A Night By Summer | Over 500k people are staying in an Airbnb tonight. And the company hopes to have nearly 800k staying in one by this summer. CEO Brian Chesky gave these numbers at Code today, revealing his wide-eyed plan for the housing yield-management sta... |
| 20.05.2015 | Handy In Talks To Acquire Homejoy As Home Service Startups Consolidate | As more startups rush into the business of providing on-demand services for our every consumer need, we’re also seeing an inevitable move to some consolidation. In the latest development, Handy — the on-demand cleaning, plumbing and other h... |
| 19.05.2015 | Handy Expands Its Vacation Rental Cleaning Service | Collaborative consumption is reworking all sorts of established societal norms and regulatory processes. It’s also generating new business opportunities for startups that sit outside the immediate category. To wit: on-demand cleaning startu... |
| 15.05.2015 | Aliada, A Housekeeping Service With A Social Justice Slant, Raises $800,000 | Aliada, a housekeeping booking service based in Mexico City, is offering a new, socially responsible model for one of the most maligned segments of the on-demand economy.
The company’s vision has managed to attract attention from some of Me... |
| 05.05.2015 | Elance-oDesk Rebrands As Upwork, Debuts Slack-Like Chat Platform | A new chapter starts today for Elance-oDesk, a platform where 4 million businesses connect with 10 million knowledge worker freelancers to fill contract jobs. More than a year after the two competitors merged to form one freelancer powerhou... |
| 19.04.2015 | Online Jobs Marketplace Freelancer.com Moves Into Home And Local Services | Make way for one more company trying to carve out a business in local and home services. Following in the footsteps of Amazon and Google in their race after the likes of Angie’s List, TaskRabbit, Thumbtack and Handy, Freelancer.com is launc... |
| 08.04.2015 | Sydney startup Whizz brings sparkle to the home cleaning industry | The number of on-demand services available in Australia is steadily increasing and the latest startup to launch in this area is Whizz.
Founded by former SkyFii director Mark Bernberg, Julian Tobias and Adam Abrams, Whizz allows users to boo... |
| 03.04.2015 | Funding roundup - week ending 4/3/15 | DroneDeploy, Fitbit, HyTrust, Noom, SalesLoft, Thrasos, Monkimun, ReadyPulse, GoFormz, Scutify, FLYR
Seed stage
Monkimun, an educational technology company, raised $1 million in seed funding from investors including 500 Startups, Incuvest, ... |
| 30.03.2015 | Handy sweeps up $15M to grow its home maintenance platform, hires Tumblr VP as new CTO | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
On-demand house cleaning service Handy just raise... |
| 30.03.2015 | Funding Daily: Today’s tech funding news, in one place | Here’s a list of today’s tech funding stories, updated as the day unfolds. Tip us here if you have a deal to share. German auction site Auctionata raises $45M
Berlin-based Auctionata today announced a $45 million raise led by Hearst Venture... |
| 30.03.2015 | Funding Daily: Today’s tech funding news, in one place | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Here’s a list of today’s tech funding stories, up... |
| 30.03.2015 | Handy sweeps up $15M to grow its home maintenance platform, hires Tumblr VP as new CTO | On-demand house cleaning service Handy just raised another $15 million in funding and hired a new chief technology officer to grow its platform.
Handy is the next evolution of Angie’s List-like services: a single destination where you can b... |
| 11.03.2015 | MassChallenge UK is Open for Applications! | This article was originally posted on the Tech City UK website.
MassChallenge, the world’s largest startup accelerator competition, is officially accepting applications until April 1 for its first programme in London.
Between 60-80 select... |
| 16.01.2015 | The Magic Of Marketplace Expansion Playbooks | Mike Townsend Contributor
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| 31.12.2014 | Ten Ways The World Changed In 2014 | David Hirsch Contributor
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| 11.12.2014 | Handy launches on Android and updates iOS app so you can stalk your cleaning service in real-time | Handy, a mobile app that offers consumers cleaning services on-demand, is launching on Android today and issuing an erie update to its iOS version — real-time tracking of service professionals.
At 15 minutes prior to your booked appointment... |
| 03.12.2014 | Uber, Fooda, Drizy, Others Team Up to Select One Great Chicago Company for the Ultimate Office Happy Hour | Five Chicago startups are teaming up for Happy Hour Delivered, a promotion aimed at giving one Chicago business the ultimate happy hour experience. Drizly, Instacart, Fooda, Uber and Handy will be providing food, drink, transportation, and ... |
| 19.11.2014 | Funding Daily: Today’s tech funding news, from office management to mobile messaging | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Here’s a list of today’s tech funding stories, up... |
| 19.11.2014 | Funding Daily: Today’s tech funding news, from office management to mobile messaging | Here’s a list of today’s tech funding stories, updated as the day unfolds. Tip us here if you have a deal to share. Presentation innovator Prezi raises $75M
If San Francisco-based Prezi, the cloud-based tool that is attempting to reinvent p... |
| 18.11.2014 | Funding Daily: Today’s tech funding news, in one place | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Here’s a list of today’s tech funding stories, up... |
| 18.11.2014 | HBS-Spun Alfred Raises $2M to Bring Its Personal Butler Service to Boston & Beyond | Harvard Business School-spun Alfred announced Tuesday it's raised $2 million to help more busy Boston and New York City professionals master their to-do list.
The round was led by Spark Capital, and joined by SV Angel and CrunchFund. With t... |
| 18.11.2014 | Dispatch Has Raised $3M to Uberfy Everything | A new Boston startup, Dispatch, and investors including Oracle’s former president, are placing a bet that the “Uberification” of the economy is just getting started.
Dispatch has just raised a $3.1 million seed round for its technology that... |
| 18.11.2014 | Alfred raises $2M & launches in NYC to glue all your on-demand services together | New York is overrun with on-demand startups.
Before San Francisco even wakes up, I can Wunwun my morning coffee, Postmates a fresh juice, Uber or Lyft a car to work, schedule lunch with Seamless, clean my apartment with Handy, get a desk ma... |
| 30.10.2014 | Homejoy Officially Moves Beyond Cleaning With Launch Of Handyman Services In The Bay Area | In its first big move beyond home cleaning, Homejoy is adding carpet cleaning and general handyman services to its offerings in the Bay Area.
Co-founder and CEO Adora Cheung (pictured above with her brother and co-founder Aaron) has been hi... |
| 25.10.2014 | Sharing economy series: 5 metrics management teams focus on | As marketplaces within the sharing economy continue to emerge all over the globe — Bridj and Kinnek are a couple of the most recent — their management teams will find themselves consistently challenged by a handful of key performance indica... |
| 14.10.2014 | Handy Hits $1 Million A Week In Bookings As Cleaning Economy Consolidates | The market for online and mobile cleaning and home repair booking services is taking off and Handy is set to announce some big numbers.
Two years after its launch, Handy has hit over $1 million in bookings per week. “We’ve gone from about $... |
| 22.09.2014 | Handy Acquires London-Based Home Services Startup Mopp To Quickly Grow Its UK Business | A few months ago, on-demand home services startup Handy opened up its first international office and launched services in London. In an effort to quickly grow its business there, today the company is announcing it’s acquired local competito... |
| 16.09.2014 | Handybook Rebrands As Handy In An Effort To Become Amazon For Home Services | What’s in a name? As it turns out, a lot.
That’s the thinking behind Handybook’s decision to rebrand itself simply as “Handy.” The two-year old company, which provides on-demand home services via a web and mobile app, wants to become the de... |
| 16.09.2014 | Handybook rebrands as Handy to help build consumer trust | Remember when your best friend turned 18 and decided that their name wasn’t really representative of who they are as a person, so they changed it to Mercedes? It looks like two-year-old home service app Handybook is going through that. In a... |
| - | IAC exploring spinoff of home improvement marketplace Angi | IAC is weighing a spinoff of its 85% stake in home improvement services platform Angi.
The company said there’s no specific timeline for when the Angi spinoff would take place, but a transaction would likely occur by the end of IAC’s second... |
