Handybook, a US-based spin out from Harvard University’s Innovation Lab to help people book household services, has raised $2m in its seed round from angel investors and venture capital firms General Catalyst Partners and Highland Capital Partners.
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Harvard’s Handybook reads $2m
Oct 19, 2012 •
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