JOBOX.ai is a technology company.
JOBOX.ai has raised $44.0M across 2 funding rounds.
Key people at JOBOX.ai.
JOBOX.ai has raised $44.0M in total across 2 funding rounds.
Key people at JOBOX.ai.
Jobox.ai is a technology company that builds AI-powered infrastructure for the home services industry, providing a mobile app and APIs to connect home service marketplaces with vetted skilled trades professionals like plumbers and electricians.[1][2][3] It serves both pros (for business management) and demand partners (marketplaces or brands), solving fragmented workflows in a traditionally pen-and-paper sector by automating job matching, dispatching, payments, invoicing, and scheduling using proprietary algorithms and millions of data points.[1][2][4] This creates efficient matching—dispatching jobs in under a minute—while letting pros focus on work and marketplaces handle customer relationships without operational overhead; the company has raised $56.17M, serves thousands of pros nationwide, and was acquired by Talus in January 2024, signaling strong growth momentum in fintech for on-demand services.[5][6]
Jobox.ai was founded on June 15, 2016, by Kaushik Pendhurthi, Moshe Levy, and Shay Bloch, starting in San Francisco before expanding to offices in Palo Alto, California; Fort Lauderdale, Florida; and Manhattan, New York.[1] The idea emerged from modernizing skilled trades, a profession reliant on phone calls and paper, with an initial mobile-first app for pros to manage jobs on-the-go—a first in the industry.[1][3] Pivotal moments included shifting focus in 2018 to AI-driven marketplace infrastructure, enabling APIs for partners to integrate quickly (under two weeks) and creating intelligent job matching beyond basic assignments.[2][3] Early traction came from digitizing workflows for thousands of pros, backed by top VCs, evolving from a pro-only tool to a B2B backbone for home services.[5]
Jobox.ai rides the gig economy shift toward flexible, on-demand work for the 3% of the US workforce in skilled trades, amid rising customer expectations for quick, reliable home services via apps and marketplaces.[2][5] Timing aligns with AI automation in legacy industries and fintech disruption (e.g., faster payments, credit access), addressing pain points like pro shortages and inefficient dispatching in a $600B+ home services market.[1][3] Market forces favoring it include post-pandemic demand for local services, tech adoption by pros (thousands now integral to Jobox), and partnerships with demand generators, positioning it as infrastructure backbone—much like Stripe for payments or Twilio for comms.[3][6] It influences the ecosystem by enabling brands to launch marketplaces rapidly, improving pro livelihoods, and reducing consumer friction, while competitors like Buck.ai focus narrower on dispatch.[6]
Post-2024 Talus acquisition, Jobox.ai is poised to accelerate as fintech infrastructure, expanding AI matching, payments, and APIs to more marketplaces amid gig work's evolution and AI advancements in labor markets.[6] Trends like workforce flexibility, regulatory pushes for pro protections, and AR/VR for remote job previews will shape it, potentially growing influence via international scaling from its US base. As the backbone connecting fragmented home services, Jobox.ai exemplifies how AI modernizes blue-collar work, delivering efficiency that powers the next wave of on-demand economies.[2][3]
JOBOX.ai has raised $44.0M in total across 2 funding rounds.
JOBOX.ai's investors include Amicus Capital, Baroda Ventures, B Capital Group, Bow Capital, Composite Ventures, Fin Capital, General Catalyst, Idealab, LGF, Ponte Partners, Resolute Ventures, SignalFire.
JOBOX.ai has raised $44.0M across 2 funding rounds. Most recently, it raised $42.0M Series B in April 2022.
