Handy (company)

Handy is an online two-sided market place for residential cleanings and other home services. Founded in 2012, it operates in United States, United Kingdom, and Canada.

History

Handy was founded in June 2012 as Handybook by Oisin Hanrahan, Umang Dua, Weina Scott (computer science grad from Harvard in 2011), and Ignacio Leonhardt (graduate of Duke and the London School of Economics) following a novel approach that has been compared to Uber. Hanrahan and Dua were roommates studying at Harvard Business School at the time. Handybook name was chosen as it was a place to book handyman and cleaning services.

In October 2012 Handybook raised 2 million dollars in seed financing from General Catalyst and Highland Capital.

The following year in October 2013, Handybook raised further 10 million dollars from existing investors and David Tisch. The same month Handybook acquired Exec to help build its West Coast presence.

Handybook raised 30 million dollars in a B round in June 2014.

In September 2014, Handybook changed its name to Handy. A week after the rebrand, Handy acquired a London incumbent Mopp at an undisclosed valuation.

Company

A company is an association or collection of individuals, whether natural persons, legal persons, or a mixture of both. Company members share a common purpose and unite in order to focus their various talents and organize their collectively available skills or resources to achieve specific, declared goals. Companies take various forms such as:

A company or association of persons can be created at law as legal person so that the company in itself can accept Limited liability for civil responsibility and taxation incurred as members perform (or fail) to discharge their duty within the publicly declared "birth certificate" or published policy.

Because companies are legal persons, they also may associate and register themselves as companies – often known as a corporate group. When the company closes it may need a "death certificate" to avoid further legal obligations.

Company (Heroes)

The Company refers to a fictional covert international organization in the NBC drama Heroes. Its primary purpose is to identify, monitor and study those individuals with genetically-derived special abilities. The Company played a central role in the plot of Volume Two, during the second season of the series. It is a very notable organization in the series and is connected to several of the characters.

Founders

In season two, Kaito Nakamura revealed that there were twelve founders of the Company, and a photo of the twelve is later seen (listed below under "Group photo"); it did not include Adam Monroe, an immortal human with the ability of rapid cellular regeneration, who is described as the one who "brought them all together." The Company began sometime between January 1977 and February 14, 1977. Monroe was locked away for thirty years on November 2, 1977, concluding that he only spent about 10 to 11 months with the Company. In the first season of the show, Daniel Linderman heads the Company until his demise. He is substituted in the second season by Bob Bishop, who is implied to be the Company's financial source. However, when Sylar kills him in the beginning of Season 3, Angela Petrelli takes over. Several of the founders have children who are posthumans and who are main characters within the series.

Company (disambiguation)

A company is a group of more than one persons to carry out an enterprise and so a form of business organization.

Company may also refer to:

In titles and proper names: