When suburban homeowners need a tree cut down or their driveway repaved, the process often starts with a broad Google search for a business to call. But Teddy Fitzgibbons, a Charlotte homeowner himself, figured he didn’t have a problem that his neighbors hadn’t already solved.
So, Fitzgibbons founded StreetFair, a startup that helps neighbors find and coordinate home services. The app and website are free for homeowners to use, and allow businesses to increase efficiency by serving multiple customers in the same neighborhood.
Fitzgibbons came up with the idea for StreetFair on an autumn day after the leaves had fallen, when he saw four gutter cleaning businesses on the same street.
“If we had known that someone else had already gone out and found a gutter cleaner that they like and trust, we wouldn’t have gone and hired our own,” he said.
Since its launch in Charlotte in 2023, StreetFair has built out operations in about 1000 neighborhoods. The platform expanded to Raleigh in March 2025 and will soon be available across the Triangle.
“It’s been really cool to expand it into a new market that’s similar to Charlotte, where the product is so much better than it was when we started,” Fitzgibbons said.
StreetFair also operates in Dallas, Texas, and Fitzgibbons says he plans to expand to additional cities later this year.
How StreetFair works
In cities where StreetFair operates, homeowners have the option to “unlock” their neighborhood, and StreetFair will help get the word out to their neighbors with shareable links and mail advertising.
Homeowners sign up for StreetFair for free and “join” their neighborhood to browse potential services. On the marketplace, users can browse for about 70 types of home services, and the businesses are ranked by how many neighbors have used each service. Users can sift through reviews and ratings that their neighbors have left each business.
StreetFair also shows users upcoming services that their neighbors have booked, and then helps them join in on those services while the providers are in the neighborhood—sometimes for a group discount.
“Homeowners are going to talk about an amazing painting experience or an amazing tree trimmer they just hired, but with StreetFair, we digitize that reputation in the neighborhood,” Fitzgibbons said. “They get credit for every customer they service in that neighborhood, and we make it much easier for the next neighbor to see that.”
For businesses, the advantage of StreetFair is route density. Fitzgibbons said the largest costs for small businesses are gas and labor, and having multiple jobs in the same neighborhood helps the businesses cut down on those costs and reduce carbon emissions.
StreetFair has a portal that enables service providers to interact with potential customers. The businesses pay a small percentage of their profit to StreetFair once the service is completed. Fitzgibbons said this model differs from competitors that primarily sell leads (meaning they charge the business upfront for a homeowner’s contact information).
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Startup: StreetFair
Co-Founders: Teddy Fitzgibbons (CEO), Mike Kerr (CTO)
Founded: 2022
Team size: 8
Location: Charlotte
Website: www.streetfair.com
Funding: $6.8M
StreetFair also prohibits businesses from advertising, meaning the only businesses users come across will be those that their neighbors have used and recommended. Unlike on, say, a typical search engine, businesses cannot pay to be at the top of the list; they must develop trustworthy reputations.
When StreetFair moves into a new city, Fitzgibbons said, they start by finding local businesses online that already have great reviews. Once neighbors get on the app, they can add businesses they trust that aren’t on StreetFair yet, and Fitzgibbons’s team will perform research and vetting and get the business set up on the platform.
“We always say, if you’d recommend them to your neighbors, add them to StreetFair,” Fitzgibbons said.
