![]() Instantly book top-quality, professional cleaners online or through the Handy app. Keep your home clean with Handy's most flexible option yet. Towards the middle of next year, you’ll see Handy start to look at those things.Purchase five 3-hour home cleanings for $455 and schedule whenever you need a cleaning. After that we’re going to look at new services in new cities. “For the next six months, we are going to continue to invest in the experience in our existing cities. “We will continue to increase our presence in each of our cities, offer more home services, and improve the platform to continue to deliver the experience that the hundreds of thousands of people using the platform have come to expect of us. “Our vision has been simple: to connect customers to professionals of virtually every home service with the tap of a button,” he says. The start-up’s app is available in more than 28 cities, and Hanrahan plans to use the funding to invest more in these cities before expanding to new cities and countries at the end of 2016. This November, Hanrahan sealed a $50 million funding deal for Handy. On the US West Coast we bought a company called Exec. “We haven’t launched a new city in the last few months, but we have made acquisitions. ![]() The cleaners and handymen want to be on the platform with the most customers.” The customer wants to be on the platform with the most cleaners and handymen. Having raised $111 million in venture capital funding, Handy has also been on the acquisition trail. We have nearly 60 engineers in product and design now.”Īmong the people the company has hired is Tumblr's former head of engineering Kenneth Little, who is Handy's new CTO. ![]() “As the team scaled, we brought in more engineers. Before the college term started back, they had brought in $2 million from Highland Capital and General Catalyst. The team raised $50,000 seed capital to get started as part of Highland Capital's summer Incubator. In a pre-Uber world, people who wanted to find flexible work struggled to do so in a stable way.” One of the first things we noticed is how incredibly strong the value proposition is for people on the selling side. “In the summer, between first and second year of business school, we started building out the idea. The political media start-up became the leading source of online election information across Europe in 2009. He moved back to Dublin and started MiCandidate with Web Summit founder Paddy Cosgrove. However, when the global financial crisis and property crash happened in late 2008/early 2009, it became more difficult. “I spent two years during college and three years after going back and forth, buying, building and renovating apartments.”īusiness continued to do well, with Hanrahan employing 35 people in Budapest at one stage. While the rest of his friends were partying, he spent his weekends as a TCD undergrad flying to Hungary to develop property, something they thought was madness. At the age of 19, he decided to become a property developer in eastern Europe, founding the Clearwater Group after scouring various cities on weekend breaks from Trinity College in Dublin, using money he had made from selling cardboard packaging to buy and renovate apartments.
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