New York-based Handybook has purchased competitor Exec in an all-stock deal worth less than $10 million in order to establish a west coast presence for on-demand home improvement and cleaning. Handybook raised $10 million in funding last fall. Seed-funded Exec had started as an “Uber for TaskRabbit” where users could hire errand-runners from their phones, but later focused on cleaning.
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