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TaylorGood ◴[] 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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JoblessWonder ◴[] No.10467453[source]
As I mentioned in another post, they don't seem to be actually registered in Deleware and there are typos related to find/replace (support@flymaids.com.com) so I'm not sure we can discount the chance someone just cut/pasted that from the original Homejoy privacy page. Homejoy's privacy page doesn't load and the wayback machine was blocked via robots.txt so we have no good way of checking that I can think of.

Also, nice to meet someone else obsessed with investigating incorporation documents. :)

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1. ivank ◴[] No.10469593[source]
In case anyone really wants to go digging, homejoy was archived and the WARCs are available in these collections (ctrl-f homejoy):

https://archive.org/download/archiveteam_archivebot_go_20150...

https://archive.org/download/archiveteam_archivebot_go_20150...

https://archive.org/download/archiveteam_archivebot_go_20150...