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MTD Products

5965 Grafton Rd, Valley City, OH, 44280, United States

Overview

MTD Products is a leader in outdoor power equipment headquartered near Cleveland, Ohio. Their engineering expertise and state-of-the-art facilities around the world fuel MTD’s reputation for innovation and award-winning products. Their quality mowers, snow throwers, utility vehicles, and more can be found online and in residential and commercial markets everywhere.

Total investments
1
Lead investments
0
Investments · 12mo
0
Active investors
0

Sector focus

  • Consumer Goods
  • Manufacturing
  • Mechanical Engineering
  • Outdoors
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Investment portfolio

  • TaskEasy

    Participated · Series B · Apr 2016

    TaskEasy is a Salt Lake City-based provider of lawn mowing and snow removal services that allows customers to upload property lists to a client portal for one-time or recurring scheduling. Led by CEO Ken Davis, the company operates a marketplace of screened and insured lawn maintenance contractors. To date it has performed over one million tasks across all 50 states via a network of more than 5,000 small businesses. On 16/11/2017 TaskEasy secured $22M in a Series C round. The company said it will use the proceeds for growth and product development. The platform emphasizes scalability through its contractor network and client-portal scheduling tools. TaskEasy operates an automation platform that lets homeowners, property managers and real estate professionals buy and schedule exterior maintenance services and upload entire property lists to a client portal for recurring service. The company’s marketplace connects customers to a network of more than 5,000 screened and insured contractors. Its service has completed over 400,000 tasks across more than 4,800 cities in all 50 states. Led by CEO Ken Davis, TaskEasy offers services including lawn mowing, snow removal and pool cleaning. The company said it will use the new funding for growth and product development. TaskEasy is a Salt Lake City, Utah–based startup that provides on-demand, online ordering and delivery of exterior home services. Its platform connects customers with service providers for lawn care, snow clearing and holiday lighting installation using a collaborative economy model. The company employs a patent-pending formula, built from seed data across 403 statistical metropolitan areas, to establish fair market pricing nationwide. It has performed tens of thousands of tasks in more than 1,630 cities across all 50 states and has certified over 5,000 service providers. After closing a $7M Series A, TaskEasy intends to use the proceeds to refine its technology, including the ability to compute fair market values from Google Earth bird’s‑eye measurements of a customer’s home. Led by CEO Ken Davis, the company emphasizes fairness and quality between customers and service providers through automated pricing.

Team

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