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Handy
Connecting customers with household service professionals
- 1001+ employees
- B2C
- Marketplace
- Home improvement
- Flatiron District, New York, NY
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Company mission
To make booking household services faster and simpler by connecting customers with vetted, independent service providers such as cleaners and decorators.
6% employee growth in 12 months
Our take
In the past, independent providers of home services had a more direct connection to their customers, a relationship that is far less common in the 21st century. Nowadays, many people struggle to find quality, trustworthy tradesmen. Handy aims to reignite the relationship between independent services and their clients through direct communication channels and advanced search engines.
Handy provides a mobile application for on-demand home services such as cleaning, assembly and furniture delivery. The digital platform currently has over 10,000 professionals registered, with the startup booking over 100,000 jobs per month. After their first retail partnership with Wayfair.com, Handy now offers furniture as well as help moving or assembling these products.
The company was initially presented with competition in the on-demand services industry by companies such as Homejoy and Hassle, but neither have succeeded to scale with such success. With funding of over $100 million, Handy is focusing on continuing to optimize the services that they currently offer before expanding to provide additional services.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Benefits
- Competitive compensation and long-term incentives
- A fun HQ stocked with coffee, snacks, drinks
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage
- Daily catered lunch and dinner at HQ
- Volunteer opportunities
- Flexible vacation policy
- Frequent team outings, events, and retreats
- Free monthly credits for Handy services
- Enhanced paternity and maternity programs
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Nov 2015
$50m
SERIES C
Mar 2015
$15m
SERIES C
Total funding: $110.7m
This company has top investors
Leadership
Oisin Hanrahan
(CEO)They founded and directed the Clearwater Group, a residential company in Hungary. they then joined the Projects team at VC firm Accel Partners in 2011. Alongside this, they co-founded The Undergraduate Awards, which ran from 2008 to 2017. At present, they are also CEO of Angi, a home improvement and renovation startup.
Umang Dua
(COO)Studied Economics and Political Science at Oxford, and then received an MBA from Harvard Business School. Started out as a Business Analyst at McKinsey and then co-founded College Connect, an online platform for business school applicants, in 2008.