Home Service Platform Jobox Raises $42M

Jobox, a company that provides marketplace infrastructure for home service professionals, has raised $42 million in a Series B funding round.

Now, the company is planning to expand, founder and CEO Shay Bloch wrote in a blog post Tuesday (April 12).

“Our platform is ready to scale and help thousands of pros and hundreds of companies around the U.S. provide home services that consumers want,” he wrote. “We’re using our round of funding to expand to new markets and professions, and to make our platform and app even more powerful.”

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Jobox, which has offices in Florida and Palo Alto, California, offers professionals such as locksmiths, carpet cleaners, and plumbers a mobile-based operating system that lets them manage their businesses from their homes. The platform also includes a marketplace infrastructure that lets them search for jobs that match their schedule, skills, and location.

“Consumers are looking for these home service professionals where they are not: on the internet,” said Bloch, who founded the company in 2018.

“Most skilled trade pros still work with pen and paper, but consumers turn to Google and online websites to find them. And sometimes, these websites don’t know how to connect the right pro to their customers.”

He adds that most skilled trade professionals have to pay steep fees for leads that may not always yield jobs.

“It’s a significant cost for their business, and something we wanted to stay away from. We made it so that they would only pay if they actually made money,” Bloch wrote.

In addition, Jobox says it also created a solution for companies that routinely get queries from customers looking for professionals. According to Bloch, the platform vets these professionals, allowing companies to recommend them “without having to risk their brand image.”