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About
Handy connected households to pre-screened cleaners and tradespeople at a fixed, upfront price, the same booking pattern Uber used for taxis and Airbnb for rooms. It was founded in 2012 in the Boston area by Oisin Hanrahan and Umang Dua, who left Harvard Business School to build it, and later moved to New York. ANGI Homeservices agreed to acquire the company in October 2018, for total consideration of about US$165.5M, and the brand has run inside Angi since. David Albert brought it to TechTO in November 2014, when the company was about two years old, to talk about marketplace liquidity — the unglamorous, unscalable work of manufacturing enough supply and demand at the same time in the same place to make a marketplace function.
Backers
Acquired by ANGI Homeservices in October 2018 and operated within Angi since. Its earlier venture investors are no longer the ownership story.
Quick answers
What was Handy?
An on-demand home services marketplace that let people book a vetted cleaner, plumber, handyman or electrician at a fixed price, founded in 2012 in the Boston area.
What happened to Handy?
ANGI Homeservices acquired it in October 2018 for total consideration of about US$165.5M. The brand has operated within Angi since.
What did Handy's TechTO talk cover?
David Albert spoke in November 2014 on marketplace liquidity — the deliberately unscalable work needed to kickstart supply and demand at the same time so a two-sided marketplace can function at all.