Hometeam Ventures

Foyer is a company focused on facilitating homeownership for first-time buyers through an innovative savings account platform. The platform is designed to help users establish credible savings accounts specifically for home purchases, combining market savings accounts with potential state tax incentives and rewards for contributions. By streamlining the savings process, Foyer enables customers to accumulate funds more efficiently for their down payments, ultimately assisting them in achieving the goal of homeownership. Through its unique approach, Foyer aims to make the American dream of owning a home more accessible and attainable.

Parspec is a technology company that uses artificial intelligence to optimize the supply chain for the building and construction industry. Its platform provides information and online workflows to support the selection and sale of construction products, leveraging AI to generate product submittals instantly and enabling sales agents and distributors to author and manage submittals online.

Ecomedes is a San Francisco-based software company offering a cloud-based procurement and product-data platform for commercial real estate, design, and construction. The SaaS platform links manufacturers' offerings with buyers' project requirements, enabling discovery, collection, maintenance, comparison, documentation, and performance analysis of sustainable building products. It supports a catalog aligned with 35 product certifications and four building certifications to help project teams select products that meet sustainability goals. The solution serves manufacturers, designers, builders, owners, and other stakeholders, and creates a shared system of record for evaluating and selecting products, while helping users assess the economic and environmental impact of their projects. The company is based in San Francisco, with an additional office in Fort Myers, Florida.

BuildCasa facilitates homeowners selling unused portions of their property, offering up to $250,000 in cash for constructing new housing lots.

Arx City, founded in 2020 and based in Kirkland, Washington, is a company that integrates design, development, and finance to identify and deliver high-quality real estate projects. It has developed an underwriting and market intelligence platform that utilizes an AI-powered recommendation engine. This platform enables real estate developers and brokers to source and evaluate potential development projects tailored to specific strategies, schedules, and capital requirements. By leveraging advanced technology, Arx City aims to streamline the process of sourcing and conducting due diligence on optimal development opportunities.

AirWorks Solutions, LLC, established in 2017 and based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, specializes in providing innovative aerial mapping and surveying solutions for the construction industry. The company leverages AI-powered technology to automate the creation of maps and site plans from aerial data, addressing a significant data bottleneck in the pre-construction process. AirWorks' offerings include proprietary processing software, 3D modeling for Building Information Modeling (BIM) software, engineering support, and quality control services. Its solutions have been adopted by leading civil engineering companies, demonstrating its position as an industry leader in automated mapping. Originally spun out of MIT in 2018, AirWorks aims to serve as the foundational geospatial analytics platform for various industries.

Stake enables renters to receive cash back rewards for paying their rent. Stake is on a mission to make renting financially rewarding, build renters’ savings with no fees or debt accumulation, and empower today’s owners to create financially safe and secure rental communities. Stake reduces downtimes and marketing costs while boosting top-line revenue with retention and renewals. Its data-powered rewards lessen the overall cost of incentives and concessions by over 50% and increase leasing velocity by 2x.

Parspec is a technology company that uses artificial intelligence to optimize the supply chain for the building and construction industry. Its platform provides information and online workflows to support the selection and sale of construction products, leveraging AI to generate product submittals instantly and enabling sales agents and distributors to author and manage submittals online.

A platform making it easy for real estate professionals to find and use the more than $100b in annual real estate incentives; saving time and money on deals. Our current geographic coverage is New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Florida, Washington D.C. and Virginia. We are located at the Columbia Startup Lab, are currently in Lowenstein Sandler's VentureCrush FG as well as Shadow Ventures Incubator and have recently completed Accelerate 2020 with Bowery Capital and Silicon Valley Bank.

Stake enables renters to receive cash back rewards for paying their rent. Stake is on a mission to make renting financially rewarding, build renters’ savings with no fees or debt accumulation, and empower today’s owners to create financially safe and secure rental communities. Stake reduces downtimes and marketing costs while boosting top-line revenue with retention and renewals. Its data-powered rewards lessen the overall cost of incentives and concessions by over 50% and increase leasing velocity by 2x.

La Haus is an online residential platform founded in 2017 and headquartered in Medellín, Antioquia. The company provides a digital marketplace that assists individuals in locating their ideal homes. Its platform features a variety of property listings and offers recommendations from real estate specialists, all at no cost to users. By streamlining the home-search process, La Haus enables customers to explore multiple options efficiently while also helping them save money.

Hyperframe is a construction materials company based in San Francisco, founded in 2018. It develops a new class of building materials and a commercial metal wall framing system designed to dramatically raise construction productivity. The company utilizes an automated digital manufacturing platform that works with its HyperBIM software to align framing models with as-built conditions using point cloud data, enabling precise on-site installation for large towers and commercial structures. The system supports snap-together assembly that is significantly faster than traditional methods and aims to reduce scrap while improving schedule, quality, and safety; the products are said to deliver productivity improvements of ten to one hundred times.

Inbuild is a SaaS company focused on revolutionizing accounts payable in the construction industry. Its platform employs artificial intelligence and machine learning to automate financial management workflows by identifying incoming invoices from emails and extracting essential data. This solution streamlines the process of document routing to the appropriate team members for review, facilitating seamless integration of financial data into project budgets. As a result, construction businesses gain real-time visibility into their financial health, enhancing accuracy and efficiency while reducing the time spent on manual data entry. Inbuild's innovative approach aims to bridge the gap between traditional software and modern operational needs, providing a more intelligent accounts payable solution tailored for the construction sector.