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Didn’t Homejoy Shut Down?

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1121 points alokedesai | 1 comments | 28 Oct 15 19:51 UTC | HN request time: 0.223s | source
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TaylorGood ◴[28 Oct 15 21:08 UTC] No.10467427[source]▶
Digging into trademarks, incorporations and S-1's is a weird little obsession of mine..

That said, my initial findings are that Flymaids is directly related to Homejoy. Under Privacy link of Flymaids it states "In the European Union, we are Fly Maids Europe Limited, a company incorporated in England and Wales (registration number 8883585) with its registered office address at 14 Whittonditch Road, Ramsbury, Marlborough, Wiltshire, United Kingdom, SN8 2PY."

If you lookup the registration number at Wales Companies House, it shows owner as "HOMEJOY EUROPE LIMITED"

https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/08883585

FWIW, they changed their registered address on 8/7/15, ten days short of their announcing to cease operations: http://bit.ly/1kbHtyJ

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1. ascorbic ◴[28 Oct 15 21:29 UTC] No.10467566[source]▶
That's a residential address, but seems to be being used as a registered office for the UK branches of a few US tech companies. e.g. Hired.com, Canvas.