Investment coincides with the online lawn care company’s expansion into a total of 120 markets AUSTIN, TEXAS (Nov. 12, 2019) — LawnStarter, an on-demand platform for outdoor services, today announced it has secured a $10.5 million growth investment led by Edison Partners, a leading growth equity investor. The new funding […]
About LawnStarter LawnStarter is where outdoor work gets done. The company provides an online on-demand platform where consumers can schedule a customized set of outdoor services including lawn care, landscaping, tree care and pest control, delivered by insured and vetted professionals. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in downtown Austin, Texas, […]
AUSTIN, TX, August 16, 2018 – Austin, Texas-based LawnStarter, the technology platform that connects consumers to local lawn care professionals, recently released a new feature that allows consumers to tip their lawn care pro through the platform. The system is designed to give customers an optional way to reward pros […]
AUSTIN, TX, February 20, 2018– LawnStarter, a marketplace via desktop or mobile app for homeowners and lawn care providers, released a newly designed interface for the LawnStarter for Providers app on February 6, 2018. The update includes a complete visual redesign that’s easier and faster, improved self-help features, and a smart […]
At LawnStarter, we’re always looking for ways to make caring for your home easier and better. This spring, we’re excited to introduce a few more of those ways. GPS-Informed Predictive Matching Algorithm. No one likes sitting in traffic, and for lawn care pros, that’s time that could be spent making […]
Austin, Texas-based LawnStarter, the platform that makes lawn care easy, continues to grow with the addition this spring of two more markets: Baton Rouge, La., and Tallahassee, Fla. “With the arrival of LawnStarter in Baton Rouge and Tallahassee, lawn care customers in those areas will no longer have to put up […]
Lawn care providers are overwhelmingly optimistic about pulling in more green — as in money — in 2017. In LawnStarter’s annual survey of lawn care business owners, 91 percent of lawn care providers in the U.S. say they expect revenue to rise this year compared with last year. Six percent […]
Austin, TX-based LawnStarter has hired Zak Cocos as vice president of growth. The hiring of Cocos enhances LawnStarter’s focus on growing the company’s base of customers and lawn care providers in 2017. In this role, Cocos is responsible for expanding LawnStarter’s user base via technical and digital marketing tactics. Cocos […]
It’s Recommendapalooza time at LawnStarter! What, you say, is Recommendapalooza? We can assure you it’s not a loud and wild music festival. It’s actually our way of putting some extra cash in the pockets of our lawn care providers. Now through Oct. 31, 2016, a provider who’s part of the […]
In a recent Q&A with the Kiva.org blog, our own Ryan Farley, co-founder and chief operating officer, provided a virtual playbook for success in the lawn care industry. If you’re a lawn care entrepreneur or striving to be one, you should head over to the Kiva blog and check out Ryan’s words […]