Your sink leaks. Your carpet emits a suspicious odor. Your new Ikea bookcase won’t assemble itself. Two well-funded startups hope you’ll skip the old-fashioned call altogether and instead use a ...

Homejoy, a San Francisco house-cleaning and repairs company that epitomizes the new breed of on-demand tech startups, appears to be struggling and is now for sale. Bigger rival Handy of New York is in ...

If I were ranking startups based on how much I value their services, Homejoy would place pretty darn near the top — every month or so, one of their cleaners comes by my apartment and in two or three ...

Home cleaning services are a decidedly real-world, offline business. Cleaning floors and toilets would not be the first thing you think of when you think tech startup. But Y Combinator startup Homejoy ...

When Homejoy raised its $38 million round of funding last December, the company did so with a plan to move beyond just offering cleaning services to its customers. It’s starting to make good on that ...

Homejoy, the dead cleaning startup that shuttered its doors in August, has apparently awoken from the grave to email its customers about a new partner: Fly Maids. But, it turns out Fly Maids just ...

The Y Combinator startup that connects cleaners to clients has been spreading to new cities quickly, and marks a milestone with simultaneous launches in Saint Louis and Orlando, Fla. Donna Tam covers ...

Homejoy, the service for booking a domestic cleaner in a click of a button, has launched in London today. First available in the US and Canada and fresh off the back of a $38 million round of funding ...

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San Francisco-based Homejoy today announced the close of a $38 million funding round, led by Google Ventures, Redpoint Ventures and PayPal cofounder Max Levchin. It brings their total funds raised to ...

San Francisco-based cleaning service Homejoy launches in Baltimore today. Try it here. A Y Combinator grad, the startup, which allows users to book a house cleaning at $20 per hour through its website ...

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