No funeral homes posted their prices online and some wouldn’t even give quotes over the phone. Later that year they founded Parting, now based in San Francisco, which lists services, prices and contact info for 15,000 of the nation’s 28,000 funeral homes. Chang: We found out that the funeral industry was a highly fragmented $20 billion market and 85% of funeral homes were owned by individuals. We wanted to build technology for the funeral homes so they could provide better service and transparency. Also if you’re not a customer, on your page it will say, these are the other funeral homes in your area.

Source: Forbes February 24, 2017 15:36 UTC