myBestHelper

myBestHelper is the #musthave digital service for all modern families in need of child or elder care - access to trusted help made fast and easy.

  • Stage Full Product Ready
  • Industry Consumer Products
  • Location Vancouver, BC, Canada
  • Currency CAD
  • Founded August 2011
  • Employees 5
  • Website mybesthelper.com

Company Summary

"There has to be a better way" for families to find and manage child and elder care, so we built it. We are reinventing an industry that represents $223B market opportunity in Canada/US, using new generation mobile/web tools to make it more efficient, affordable and pleasant for customers and suppliers. Launched 03/2013, has traction, early revenue and conversion funnel metrics. Scaling to 10 US cities. Experienced team. Invoke Labs alumnus.

Team

  • Co-Founder CEO

    Alexandra T. Greenhill, MD is a nationally recognized physician leader and mother of three who from personal and professional experience, has a deep understanding of the in-house help market (in both child and elder care) and hiring, as well as over a decade of extensive health IT and social media project implementation, most recently as the Associate CEO, BC Medical Association where she oversaw a $107.8M Health IT implementation.

  • Co-Founder COO

    Mr. Attwell has been involved in startup ventures and has extensive experience working with online media companies (and kids media in particular). He was previously Director of Development for Stockgroup Media, Inc where he developed the content licensing group from inception to $20m in annual sales. Owner Profiles Global, a provider of on-line behavioural assessments to clients in the US and Canada. Ivey MBA.

  • Before being Tech Lead @myBestHelper, Marcin was co-Founder CEO of Pomocni.pl (@Niania.pl) - the largest "find a nanny" marketplace in Poland, venture backed and when sold, generating over 500K euro in annual revenue. Strong IT background, T-Shaped, full stack. Studied @Warsaw University of Technology.

Advisors

Previous Investors

  • Investor
    Qaid Damji
    Investor
    Unconfirmed
    Bill Singleton
    Investor
    Unconfirmed
  • Investor
    Karen Bakker
    Investor
    Unconfirmed
    Karen Breeck
    Investor
    Unconfirmed
  • Mike Holloway
    Investor
    Unconfirmed

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