Monday, October 7, 2019

PreFix Finds Funding To Help Homeowners With Home Maintenance

Austin-based PreFix, a startup which offers a service which helps homeowners tackle the hassle and cost of home maintenance, has raised a round of funding, the company said last week. Size of the funding was not announced. According to PreFix, the round was led by Chicago Ventures, and also included Brand Foundry Ventures, Brian Spaly (Founder, Bonobos and Trunk Club), Paul Hedrick (Founder/CEO, Tecovas), Brett Hurt (Founder/CEO, Bazaarvoice and data.world) and Firebrand Ventures. As part of the funding, Chicago Ventures' Rob Chesney has joined the company's board of directors. PreFix offers up a service which assigns a "home manager" that helps homeowners coordinate home repairs, handling finding contractors for home repairs and hunting down the lowest cost contractors; the company also provides a yearly "preventative maintenance service" on a home for its clients.