US-based home renovation management platform Dispatch has raised $12m in a series A round co-led by home services provider ServiceMaster and venture capital firm GrandBanks Capital.
The round included insurance firms Assurant and Liberty Mutual, the latter through its Liberty Mutual Strategic Ventures unit, as well as Salesforce Ventures and Recruit Strategic Partners, subsidiaries of enterprise software producer Salesforce and human resources firm Recruit.
VC firms Promus Ventures and Huff Capital and entrepreneur Ray Lane also participated in the round, which follows a $3.1m seed round in 2014 that was co-led by Promus and GrandBanks and backed by Salesforce Ventures, Launch Capital, Kima Ventures, Ray Lane and Mark Goldstein.
Dispatch has built a software platform that can manage home renovation services such as installations, maintenance jobs and repairs from start to finish, acting as a conduit between home service businesses and customers.
Users can book appointments, monitor their jobs’ status in real time and facilitate payments through the platform, which Dispatch said has 20,000 service providers signed up to its system.
ServiceMaster invested In the company as part of a partnership agreement that will involve it using Dispatch’s software platform for its home warranty and pest control services.