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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.
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.