Tag: Household

Retail spending at a low.

To cement its position as the dominant marketplace for on-demand household services, Sydney-based startup UrbanYou has acquired HomeHello, its rival in the domestic cleaning space.   According to UrbanYou co-founder and ex-Yahoo executive, Noga Edelstein, the acquisition was possible due to the “phenomenal” growth of her company over the past 12 months, including an expansion […]

Networking with influential door-openers, eager to help female-led startups, helped the brains behind UrbanYou – an on-demand platform for household services – fast-track business growth, with their most recent feat being a $1m capital raise within the space of two weeks. To date, UrbanYou has facilitated over 20,000 services, totaling $3 million, for its 5000 […]

The incidence of “female breadwinner” households is slowly rising with women out-earning their male partners in nearly a quarter of long-term relationships.