Shef, the US-based homemade food marketplace that enables cooks to sell meals in their local communities, announced it has raised $8.8 million in seed funding from investors including Y Combinator, Craft Ventures, and M13, as well as founders and executives from Instacart, TaskRabbit, StubHub, AngelList, Lyft, Airbnb, and Yelp. Founded in 2018 by Alvin Salehi…
TaskRabbit, the leading online and mobile service that connects consumers with “Taskers” to handle everyday home improvement tasks and errands, announced that it has appointed Ania Smith, former Airbnb and UberEats leader, as the company’s chief executive officer. Smith is replacing Stacy Brown-Philpot, who joined TaskRabbit in 2013 and was named CEO in 2016. She…