Adora Cheung

Adora Cheung
Occupation	Partner at Y Combinator
Known for	Homejoy

Adora Cheung is an American software developer. She was the co-founder and CEO of housecleaning business Homejoy. After Homejoy closed Cheung started working exclusively for Y Combinator as a partner.

Cheung grew up in a small town in South Carolina and earned a bachelor's degree in Computer Science from Clemson University. She received a masters degree in Economics from the University of Rochester. While working on her PhD, a friend asked for programming help with his startup, so she left her PhD program to help him. When that didn't follow through, she moved to Silicon Valley. Cheung worked at Slide.com as a group project manager, overlooking multiple projects such as FunWall, SuperPoke!, and SuperPoke! Pets.

Cheung and her brother joined Y Combinator after she left Slide, Inc. Together they brainstormed several startup ideas, including Pathjoy, a platform to connect customers with life coaches and therapists, but soon abandoned the idea. Instead Cheung started to focus Pathjoy on finding house cleaners instead of therapists. The idea came when Cheung was looking for a cleaning service for her brother's apartment, but all offerings were either from expensive cleaning agencies or untested cleaners from Craigslist, and she decided that there needed to be an easier, cheaper way to provide home cleaning services. To further reinforce the company's new direction, the name Pathjoy was changed to Homejoy.

Inspired by other companies that participate in a sharing economy, Cheung created Homejoy with her brother in 2012. The company was located in San Francisco and she worked as the chief executive officer. By 2013, the company raised $38 million from Google Ventures and Max Levchin towards their venture funding. By 2013, Homejoy was available in 31 cities.

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