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The $1.5 Billion Business Behind the Knock at Your Door
American Residential Services turned leaky pipes, failed furnaces and midnight air-conditioning calls into a national machine. Now the operator behind ARS/Rescue Rooter is pairing local technicians with centralized scale - and AI in the tool bag.
Hiller Plumbing, Heating, Cooling & Electrical
Hiller started with $500, one truck and a promise to leave the work area clean. Thirty-six years later, its real product is bigger than plumbing or HVAC: a repeatable system for making an anxious homeowner feel in control.
Visitt
Visitt is an AI-native commercial real estate property operations platform that consolidates work orders, preventive maintenance, inspections, tenant communications, compliance and finance into a single interface. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in New York, it serves owners, operators and onsite teams managing office, industrial, multifamily, retail and data-center portfolios. In January 2026 the company raised a $22M Series B led by Susquehanna Growth Equity, following a year in which it grew square footage under management by more than 900%.
Itay Oren
Itay Oren is the co-founder and CEO of Visitt, an AI-native property operations platform for commercial real estate. He started the company in 2017 after working in business development for real estate firms in Israel, where he saw first-hand how fragmented and outdated building operations software had become. Under Oren, Visitt has grown to more than 150 customers across 310-plus cities and 10,000 properties, positioning itself as an early mover in embedding AI directly into the day-to-day work of property teams. In January 2026 the company raised a $22 million Series B led by Susquehanna Growth Equity to build what Oren calls a single AI interface for CRE operations.
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.
Prefix
Prefix is a New York-based facility management platform for multi-site restaurant and retail operators. It acts as the connective layer between brands and local service technicians - coordinating on-demand and preventive repairs across HVAC, refrigeration, plumbing and electrical, and managing the full job lifecycle from request to invoice. With AI-powered vendor management and 24/7 support, Prefix says it delivers roughly 3x efficiency gains and 15%+ cost savings for the nearly 2,000 locations it serves.
Snapfix
Snapfix is a Dublin-founded, photo-first maintenance and operations platform that turns messy building management into a stream of simple photos, tags, messages, and red-yellow-green traffic lights. Built for hotels, facilities, universities, and manufacturing sites, it lets frontline teams raise a work order by snapping a photo or scanning a QR code, then track it to completion at a glance. Founded in 2019 by software engineer and property manager Paul McCarthy, Snapfix counts Hilton, Marriott, Radisson, OCS, and DHL among its users and has raised roughly $3.76M-$4.76M in funding on a mission to become the maintenance platform for the world.
Fleetio
Fleetio is a Birmingham, Alabama-based SaaS company that makes cloud and mobile software for managing fleets of vehicles, equipment, parts and drivers. Founded in 2011 by Tony Summerville, its platform helps organizations track maintenance and service history, run digital inspections, manage fuel and parts, automate work orders and connect telematics data so they spend less time wrestling with spreadsheets and more time on their core operations. Thousands of customers across more than 80 countries use Fleetio, which reached unicorn status with a $1.5B valuation after a $450M+ Series D in March 2025 and the acquisition of maintenance-authorization platform Auto Integrate.
Vendoroo
Vendoroo is an AI-powered property maintenance coordination platform that automates the full lifecycle of maintenance work orders for property managers. By combining AI triage, vendor management, and workflow automation, Vendoroo eliminates up to 95% of manual maintenance coordination tasks, enabling property managers to handle more units with less staff. Their platform includes a 24/7 AI virtual front desk, automated work order routing and vendor scheduling, and deep integrations with leading property management systems like Rent Manager and Rentvine.