Redbeacon, the winner of Business Insider's Startup 2010 competition, has been acquired by
Home Depot.Redbeacon is an online, bidding-based marketplace for household services. Need your gutters cleaned or your lawn mowed? Hop on Redbeacon, write what you need, and service providers will bid on the price. The acquisition amount isn't clear, but hopefully it was enough to pay off Venrock and Mayfield Fund who put $7.4 million into Redbeacon's series A.Redbeacon was founded by ex-Googlers Aaron Lee, Ethan Anderson and Yaron Binur and it is operating in San Francisco, New York Seattle, Chicago, Los Angeles, Washington DC, Atlanta, and Houston.Please follow SAI on Twitter and Facebook.Join the conversation about this story »See Also:Samsung: Sorry, We Don't Want To Buy RIMHere's A Trick I Learned At The Homeless Shelter For Surviving Bed BugsThe 30,000-lb Massive Ordnance Penetrator Bomb Works So Well It Earned A Rare Honor
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