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A1 Garage Door Service
A1 Garage Door Service built a national home-services platform around the moment a 200-pound moving wall refuses to move. Its real product is not the spring or the opener - it is a repeatable system for turning household panic into a scheduled, trained and warrantied repair.
Alloy Roofing
Alloy Roofing is buying a national footprint without painting over the names on the trucks. Its wager is that local trust and centralized muscle can share the same roof.
Curb Home Services
Curb Home Services is assembling roofing, siding and solar contractors without sanding off their local identities. Its wager is that the best home-services platform will be almost invisible to the homeowner - and indispensable to the operator.
The Home Depot
The orange warehouse taught America to do it itself. Now Home Depot is building a second act around the pros, the supply chain and a deceptively ambitious idea: sell the whole project, not just the parts.
Winston Chi
Winston Chi is the co-founder and CEO of NOSO Labs, a Y Combinator (Summer 2025) startup building AI agents that help home-services field technicians diagnose problems, close sales, and handle paperwork. A two-time founder focused on vertical AI, he previously started Butter Technologies, a food-wholesale software platform acquired by GrubMarket in 2024. With NOSO he is aiming the same playbook at the trades, starting with HVAC.
Cheers
Cheers is a Y Combinator (S24) startup building a full-stack Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) platform for local service businesses. It helps HVAC, plumbing, roofing, solar and smart-home companies get recommended by AI assistants like ChatGPT and by Google, by auditing their AI visibility, fixing their web presence, and turning frontline employees into a review engine using NFC tap tools with per-employee attribution.
Why Everyone Is Building the HVAC Chatbot
Five AI-native startups and every major field-service platform are racing to build the same product: an AI assistant that sits in a technician's pocket and answers questions about the air conditioner in front of them. The technicians are a proxy. The real contest is whether a thin AI layer on an underserved dataset can survive once the platform that already owns the customer relationship copies the feature for free. HVAC is the smallest, clearest test of a question every vertical AI founder is asking: does depth beat distribution?
NOSO LABS
NOSO LABS builds AI agents for field-service technicians in home-services trades - starting with HVAC, plumbing, electrical, and pest control. Its agents automatically follow up on unsold estimates over text, sync notes to the CRM, and route complex jobs to a back-office dashboard, aiming to recover revenue that would otherwise slip through the cracks without adding headcount. Founded in 2025 by Winston Chi and Alex Xi, the San Francisco company is part of Y Combinator's Summer 2025 batch.
Ressl AI
Ressl AI (YC W26) is a San Francisco startup building a platform to train, evaluate and deploy autonomous AI agents that do real back-office work. It began by shipping AI agents that automate Salesforce administration, then moved into deploying AI 'employees' for trades and home-services businesses - answering leads, generating estimates, procuring parts and handling the admin that clogs up field-operations offices - all on top of a company's existing software with no migration.
Twine
Twine is an AI revenue engine for small service businesses. When a business misses a call, Twine instantly texts the caller back, figures out what they need, books the job on the calendar, and follows up - so plumbers, HVAC techs, salons and pest-control operators stop losing work to whoever picked up first. Founded in 2023 and backed by Y Combinator (S23), Twine unifies calls, texts, web forms and chat into one AI-run inbox.
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.
FieldPulse
FieldPulse is a Dallas-based software company that builds an all-in-one field service management (FSM) platform for residential and commercial trade businesses - HVAC, plumbing, electrical, garage door, appliance repair and more. Founded in 2015 by Gabriel (Gabe) Pinchev, the platform combines scheduling, dispatching, CRM, estimating, invoicing, payments, inventory and reporting into a single web and mobile app, and now layers AI-driven tools (Operator AI and Chat AI) that answer calls and web chats 24/7 to book jobs automatically. Backed by roughly $79 million in total funding - including a $50 million Series C in August 2025 - FieldPulse positions itself as a flexible, customizable alternative to enterprise-heavy rivals like ServiceTitan and simpler tools like Jobber and Housecall Pro.
Kiwi Services
Kiwi Services is a Carrollton, Texas-based home cleaning and restoration company founded in Dallas in 1987 by Angela Eideh. Built around an unusual $8-per-room, one-year carpet cleaning warranty, Kiwi has grown from a single carpet-cleaning route into a multi-city operation offering carpet, rug, upholstery, tile, wood-floor, air-duct and dryer-vent cleaning, plus water-damage restoration and mold remediation across Texas, Arizona, Georgia and beyond.
Probook
Probook is a New York-based startup building an AI operating system for home services businesses, centered on dispatch. Its software overlays existing tools like ServiceTitan to automatically match the right technician to each job, re-optimize the dispatch board in real time, and handle customer intake and messaging. Founded in 2024 by George Eliadis, Lewis Zhang and Ben Cervantez, the company raised $40 million from Andreessen Horowitz and Sequoia Capital and serves hundreds of HVAC, plumbing and electrical contractors across 35+ states.
Sera Systems
Sera Systems is a Dallas-based SaaS company that builds field service management (FSM) software for HVAC, plumbing, and electrical contractors. Founded in 2018 by longtime HVAC and plumbing contractor Billy Stevens, Sera combines scheduling, dispatching, invoicing, memberships, and financial reporting into one platform designed to raise contractors' operating margins. The company markets a measurable outcome: boosting customers' operating margins by more than 40% within six months. In May 2023 it closed an eight-figure Series B round funded entirely by home-service business owners.
Vigilante Plumbing, Heating and Air Conditioning
Vigilante Plumbing, Heating and Air Conditioning is a family-owned Brooklyn contractor that has served New York City since 1927. Now in its third and fourth generation under the Vigilante family, the company handles residential and commercial plumbing, heating, air conditioning, drain and sewer work, and fire-protection systems across the five boroughs, built on flat-rate pricing, licensed master plumbers, and background-checked technicians.
George Eliadis
George Eliadis is the co-founder and CEO of Probook, a New York based company building an AI operating system for home services businesses such as HVAC, plumbing, and electrical contractors. A 24-year-old Wharton graduate who spent six summers pressure washing homes in upstate New York with his father, he started Probook to fix the operational problems he lived through in the field. In June 2026 the company raised a $40 million round, combining a $34 million Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz and a $6 million seed led by Sequoia Capital, and it now serves hundreds of clients across more than 35 states.
Broccoli AI
Broccoli AI builds an AI-native operating system for home service businesses - plumbers, HVAC companies, and electricians. Its AI voice agents answer phones 24/7, book jobs in real time, follow up on leads, and flag emergencies, integrating directly with CRMs like ServiceTitan. Founded in 2021 by AJ Jain and Aditya Ketkar and part of Y Combinator's W22 batch, the company has grown to serve 800+ contractors and raised a $25M Series A led by Khosla 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.
XBuild
XBuild is a San Francisco-based AI-native estimating platform for the construction industry, founded by former Uber and Postmates executives Jahan Khanna and Rob Moran with civil engineer Sharuk Khanna. Its agentic, chat-based system turns measurement reports and site photos into standardized, editable, code-compliant estimates in minutes. After launching an insurance-focused estimating product in 2025, XBuild says it has run 15,000+ projects representing roughly $250M in construction value and saved contractors 40,000+ hours. In January 2026 the company raised a $19M Series A led by N47, with Rackhouse Ventures and Andreessen Horowitz, to expand from roofing into concrete, painting, HVAC, plumbing and other trades.
Matt Barber
Matt Barber is Chief Executive Officer of Sera Systems, a Dallas-based SaaS company building field service management software for HVAC, plumbing, and electrical contractors. He came up through operating roles at 4th & 1 Ventures, SHREDmill, and Local Favorite Restaurants before joining Sera, where he rose into the CEO seat following the company's Series B, a round financed largely by home services contractors themselves.
Arch
Arch is a San Francisco startup building AI marketing and revenue software for home-services contractors - the HVAC, plumbing, electrical, and drain businesses that keep American homes running. Founded in 2023 by Phil Krinner and Sacha Schmitz, Arch plugs into ServiceTitan and public property data to find homeowners likely to need work, catch customers about to churn, and auto-generate email and direct-mail campaigns. The company began by tackling the grunt work of heat-pump sizing and quoting, and has since broadened into an 'autonomous revenue engine' aimed at helping small contractors grow without a marketing department. It raised $6.2M in seed funding in February 2024 from Coatue, Floodgate, Gigascale Capital, ReGen Ventures, and MCJ Collective.
Field Complete
Field Complete is an Atlanta-based software company that builds a field service management platform for home-service and trade businesses - HVAC, plumbing, electrical, appliance repair, landscaping, painting, property maintenance and more. Founded by contractors-turned-founders, the product lets small crews schedule and dispatch jobs, estimate and invoice on-site, collect payments, and - unusually - sub-contract portions of a work order to other companies while keeping full visibility. It launched with a free tier and paid plans, and integrates with QuickBooks and Stripe. The company has since begun operating under the brand Mr Task.
Anjali Sardana
Anjali Sardana is the 24-year-old founder and CEO of Pronto, a Bengaluru-based instant home-services startup that brings household help - sweeping, mopping, dishwashing, laundry - to a customer's door in about ten minutes. A Georgetown biology graduate and former investor at Bain Capital and 8VC, she launched Pronto in 2025 and scaled it from roughly 1,000 daily bookings to more than 25,000 within a year, reaching a $200 million valuation with backing from Epiq Capital, General Catalyst, Bain Capital Ventures and Lachy Groom. Her stated mission is less about speed than dignity: giving India's invisible domestic workforce a formal identity, real pay, and standing.
Phil Krinner
Phil Krinner is the co-founder and CEO of Arch, a San Francisco company building AI revenue software for home services contractors, starting with HVAC and heat pumps. A Stanford GSB graduate and former McKinsey strategy consultant who once built large-scale solar plants and installed panels himself, Krinner started Arch after asking 15 contractors to quote a heat pump for his apartment and finding that not one could tell him whether it would save money. Arch uses public home data and AI to help contractors find the right homes, size systems in minutes, and run hyper-personalized campaigns. The company raised a $6.2M seed round in 2024 led by Coatue with Floodgate, Gigascale, ReGen and MCJ.
Roofr
Roofr is an all-in-one sales and operations platform built for roofing contractors. Founded by a third-generation roofer, it turns satellite imagery into accurate roof measurement reports in hours, then layers on instant estimates, branded proposals, a purpose-built CRM, material ordering, invoicing, and payments - so roofers can run the whole job, from first knock to final invoice, in one place. More than 12,000 roofing companies use it.
Michael Beaudoin
Michael Beaudoin is the CEO of Housecall Pro, the Denver-based vertical SaaS platform that helps plumbers, electricians, HVAC techs, cleaners and other home-service pros run their businesses from a phone. He joined the company as a board member in 2015 and stepped into the chief executive role in 2020, bringing two decades of experience leading and investing in consumer and home-services companies including HomeAdvisor, Einstein Bros. Bagels, and Waldo Photos, which he co-founded. Under his leadership Housecall Pro has scaled to serve tens of thousands of service businesses and roughly 1,400 employees, raising a $116.5M total war chest including a $65M Series D.
Nick Ornitz
Nick Ornitz is the co-founder and CEO of Topline Pro, a New York-based company building generative-AI software for home service professionals - roofers, painters, landscapers, cleaners and electricians. He started the company with Shannon Kay after the two met at Harvard Business School and dropped out to build it, pivoting from an earlier video-consult idea called ProPhone after Y Combinator. Topline Pro now positions itself as a full-time AI team that runs the marketing, sales and operations of a trade business in the background, and has driven more than $655 million in booked work for customers across all 50 states. Ornitz raised a $27M Series B led by Northzone in 2025, bringing total funding to $44M, and was named to the Forbes 30 Under 30 Enterprise Technology list in 2023.
Topline Pro
Topline Pro is a New York-based software company that builds an AI-powered platform for home service businesses - landscapers, roofers, painters, plumbers and other trades. It bundles a custom website, local SEO, review collection, social posting, lead follow-up, online booking, CRM, and invoicing into a single subscription, run by AI agents that handle marketing, sales, and operations so owners can stay in the field. Founded in 2020 by Nick Ornitz and Shannon Kay (Y Combinator W21), the company has helped pros book more than $655 million in work and raised a $27M Series B in 2025.
Pronto
Pronto is a Bengaluru-based on-demand and subscription house-help platform that dispatches trained, background-verified cleaning professionals to urban homes in roughly 10 minutes. Founded in 2025 by Anjali Sardana, it applies a quick-commerce playbook to India's largely informal domestic-work market - transparent per-visit pricing, instant or scheduled booking, and structured shifts that give workers (about 99% of them women) predictable income. The company scaled from roughly 1,000 daily bookings to 24,000-25,000 in about a year and was valued at $200M in April 2026.