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Casa Wants to Be the Uncle Kevin in Your Pocket
Two founders talked to hundreds of homeowners, decided the real product was a trusted person to ask, and shipped it as an app. This is the case for turning a family handyman into software.
The $2 Billion Home-Repair Machine Hiding Behind Your Broken Dishwasher
Frontdoor built a recurring-revenue business around the moment an air conditioner, water heater or refrigerator quits. Now it is using video experts, a contractor network and a $585 million acquisition to stretch beyond the traditional home warranty.
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.
Stellar
Stellar is a Dallas-based, technology-driven marketplace that connects property managers and homeowners with vetted local tradespeople to get home maintenance and repairs done right. Founded in 2016 as IFM Restoration and rebranded to Stellar in 2022, the company pairs software, AI and a network of thousands of contractors to resolve maintenance at scale, initially for the single-family rental industry and increasingly for homeowners across the U.S. Sun Belt. It serves major single-family rental operators and books repair appointments for homeowners across 30-plus markets.
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.
Matt Wetrich
Matt Wetrich is the CEO of Stellar, a Dallas-based technology marketplace connecting large property owners with vetted tradespeople across single-family rental homes. He arrived as VP of Operations in May 2023, was handed the CEO seat during a liquidity crisis, and within 24 hours cut 70% of the company. Before Stellar he scaled Veho's US operations 15x, incubated Uber Eats' advertising and alcohol businesses, and started his career in investment banking at Bank of America Merrill Lynch.