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Handy HQ made housework a checkout item. Trust was harder.
A cleaner, a flat-pack wardrobe, a television waiting for a wall: Handy turned household chores into bookable transactions. Its history shows how much work hides behind a very short booking form.
Vishwas Prabhakara
Vishwas Prabhakara is the co-founder and CEO of Honey Homes, a membership service that gives homeowners a dedicated, salaried handyperson for recurring maintenance and repairs. A Carnegie Mellon and Harvard Business School graduate, he spent 15-plus years in Silicon Valley product and operations roles - including ESPN, Digg, Yelp Reservations, and a stint as COO of the fintech Digit - before starting Honey Homes in 2021 with his wife Avantika and two other co-founders. The company operates across the San Francisco Bay Area, Los Angeles, Dallas-Fort Worth and beyond, and has raised more than $21 million from investors including Khosla Ventures, Pear VC and Era Ventures.
Honey Homes
Honey Homes is a membership service that gives busy homeowners one dedicated, fully-employed handyman to handle repairs, upkeep, and small projects, all coordinated through a mobile app. Founded in 2021 in the San Francisco Bay Area, the company pairs each member with a consistent, background-checked handyman for their neighborhood and manages proactive home maintenance, on-demand fixes, and trusted vendor referrals under a single subscription.