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F r o m W i k i p e d i a , t h e f r e e e n c y c l o p e d i a
( R e d i r e c t e d f r o m T a s k R a b b i t )
American online task marketplace
TaskRabbit founder Leah Busque at TechCrunch Disrupt (2012)
TaskRabbit, Inc. d/b/a TaskRabbit operates an online marketplace that matches freelance labor with local demand, allowing people to find help with tasks including personal assistance, furniture assembly, moving, delivery, and handyman work.[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] The company was founded in 2008 by Leah Busque and was acquired by an affiliate of IKEA in 2017.
More than 200,000 independent workers use the TaskRabbit platform.[6]
History
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The company was founded as RunMyErrand in Boston in 2008, during the Great Recession , by Leah Busque , a former software engineer for IBM .[3] [7] She got the idea to start the company when she needed dog food but didn’t have time to get it herself.[8] [9]
In 2009, the company received funding from Facebook 's startup incubator, fbFund, and Tim Ferriss became an advisor.[10] [8]
The firm raised $1.8 million in seed money from angel investors .[11]
In April 2010, the name of the company was changed from RunMyErrand to TaskRabbit.[12]
In June 2010, the company moved its headquarters to San Francisco .[13]
In May 2011, TaskRabbit raised a $5 million Series A financing round from Shasta Ventures , First Round Capital , Baseline Ventures , Floodgate Fund , Collaborative Fund, 500 Startups , and Lisa Gansky .[14] [11] [2]
In July 2011, TaskRabbit launched a mobile app for iOS .[15] [16] [17] [18] At that time, the company had 1,500 active taskers.[13]
In October 2011, Eric Grosse, the co-founder and former president of Hotwire.com , was named CEO .[19] [20] At that time, the company had operations in Boston , the San Francisco Bay Area , New York City ; Chicago ; Los Angeles ; and Orange County, California .[21] [22]
In December 2011, Taskrabbit received an additional $17.8 million in a Series B round of funding from existing investors as well as Lightspeed Venture Partners , Allen & Company , and The Tornante Company . It also engaged Michael Eisner as an advisor.[11] [23] [24] At the time, the firm had 35 employees and generated $4 million in business each month.[2] [25]
In June 2012, Busque reassumed the role of CEO, with Gross staying on with the company's board of directors, advising on strategy and operations.[26]
In July 2012, the company raised $13 million in funding, bringing its total funding to $37.5 million.[27]
In January 2013, the company hired Stacy Brown-Philpot, formerly of Google , as the company's first COO.[28] [29]
In March 2013, "Taskrabbit Business" was launched. It allowed businesses to hire temporary workers from the Taskrabbit users, with a 26% commission.[30]
In November 2013, the company launched in London , its first international market.[31] Because of declines both in bids and in completed and accepted tasks in the U.S., the company chose to test a new system in London whereby Taskers set their own rates and schedules, and when a new job was posted that matched their profile, the platform would send them an alert. The first to respond got the job.[9] [5] [32] In London, the results were positive: almost all the company's metrics improved, and the average amount of money that individual Taskers on the platform were taking home increased.[5]
In June and July 2014, TaskRabbit began implementing this new format in all markets.[33] The new format was met with significant backlash from the Tasker community.[34] [35] Taskrabbit incorporated some of the feedback into an updated version of its app that launched in January 2015.[34] In 2014, Taskrabbit received 4,000 applications to be a tasker; it received 15,000 applications in 2015.[5]
In April 2016, Stacy Brown-Philpot was promoted from chief operating officer to CEO and founder and former CEO Leah Busque became executive chairwoman.[36] [37] [38] [39]
By January 2017, the company had 55,000 active taskers.[40]
In September 2017, the company was acquired by an affiliate of IKEA .[41] [42] [43] [44] [45]
In February 2018, TaskRabbit began operations in Birmingham , Bristol , and Manchester .[46]
In March 2018, IKEA launched a furniture assembly service from Taskrabbit in the U.S.[47] [48] [49] [50]
In April 2018, the company was affected by a data breach . At that time it had 1.5 million users and 60,000 taskers.[51] [52] [53] [54]
In September 2018, Taskrabbit expanded to Toronto , Vancouver , Montreal , and other Canadian cities.[55] [56]
In December 2018, the company launched operations in Brighton , Cardiff , Coventry , Liverpool , Warrington , Oxford , and Reading .[57] [58]
In September 2019, TaskRabbit launched service in Paris and followed it with a rollout to other French cities.[59] [60]
In October 2019, the company launched in Germany, with operations in Berlin , Bochum , Cologne , Dortmund , Duisburg , Düsseldorf , Essen , Gelsenkirchen , Krefeld , Monchengladbach , Oberhausen , Wuppertal and the Rhine-Ruhr metropolitan region .[61]
In January 2020, Taskrabbit launched service in 39 cities in Spain.[62]
In August 2020, Brown-Philpot resigned as CEO.[63] Taskrabbit named Ania Smith, formerly of Walmart , Expedia , Airbnb , and UberEats , its new CEO.[64] [65] [66] [67]
In November 2020, the company launched service in Portugal , with operations in Lisbon , Porto , Braga , Coimbra , and Faro .[68]
In March 2021, Taskrabbit launched in Italy in Rome and Milan .[69]
In May 2022, TaskRabbit launched a global brand refresh, introducing an all lower-case wordmark with two different "a" characters. The company also removed the image of the "rabbit" from its logo and updated its default brand colors.[70] [71] [72]
In May 2022, TaskRabbit announced that it would close its physical offices, including its San Francisco, California headquarters, and transition to becoming a distributed company , with all employees engaging in remote work .[73] [74]
In July 2022, Taskrabbit launched service in Monaco .[75]
In popular culture
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References
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^ Taylor, Colleen (January 14, 2013). "Taskrabbit Nabs Ex-Googler Stacy Brown-Philpot For COO Spot" . TechCrunch .
^ Taylor, Colleen (March 23, 2013). "Taskrabbit Debuts Tools For Hiring Ongoing Temp Work As It Hones Focus On Business Users" . TechCrunch .
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^ Taylor, Kate (September 28, 2017). "Ikea has acquired TaskRabbit — and it could fix the most annoying thing about the furniture giant" . Business Insider .
^ "IKEA Group signs agreement to acquire TaskRabbit" (Press release). PR Newswire . September 28, 2017.
^ Butler, Sarah (September 28, 2017). "Ikea enters gig economy by buying freelance labour firm TaskRabbit" . The Guardian .
^ Tan, Emily (February 20, 2018). "Ikea's Taskrabbit to launch in Birmingham, Bristol and Manchester" . Campaign .
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^ Angulo, Ingrid (March 13, 2018). "Ikea rolls out nationwide assembly services with TaskRabbit" . CNBC .
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^ "À Toulouse, cette entreprise monte les meubles Ikea pour vous" [In Toulouse, this company assembles Ikea furniture for you]. La Dépêche du Midi (in French). May 4, 2021.
^ "TaskRabbit Launches in France Amidst High Demand for Outsourcing Tasks" (Press release). PR Newswire . September 26, 2019.
^ "TaskRabbit Announces Launch into Germany" (Press release). PR Newswire . October 22, 2019.
^ Belen, Rodrigo (November 10, 2020). "Ikea trae a España su plataforma digital de "manitas" " [Ikea brings its digital “handyman” platform to Spain]. ABC (in Spanish).
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