Upfront
Non Equity Assistance in 2024
Upfront is a New York-based fintech company founded by real estate veterans Mukund Venkatakrishnan and Pierre Calzadilla. It serves the unique financial needs of the real estate industry, offering a platform that streamlines operations for brokerages, boosts agent productivity, and drives revenue growth through features like automated commission disbursements and expense tracking.
ReLease
Pre Seed Round in 2024
ReLease develops a software-enabled insurance platform designed to provide tenants with flexible leasing terms through insurance-backed financial guarantee programs. These programs offer tenants flexible terms for standard leases, giving them the ability to terminate or adjust leases early without penalty while covering outstanding lease obligations and fees for lessors. The ReLease platform distributes coverage by partnering with property owners and operators to embed coverage into their leasing processes.
RocketPlan
Non Equity Assistance in 2024
RocketPlan Technologies specializes in project management software tailored for property restoration contractors. Their platform streamlines the restoration process by offering features such as initial damage assessment, crew dispatch, real-time reporting, time and equipment tracking, and payroll management. This enables insurance companies and restoration businesses to reduce costs, save time, and enhance profitability.
SHARE
Non Equity Assistance in 2024
SHARE builds and scales game-changing technology companies. The expertise in real estate and technology to redefine the way real estate investing is done. investing in rental real estate professionally and personally for decades. The group of entrepreneurs has expertise in both technology and real estate investing. They also provide home rentals that are professionally managed, renovated, and tenanted.
REITIUM
Non Equity Assistance in 2024
REITIUM is a real estate marketplace that democratizes access to property investment, allowing individuals to become real estate investors with as little as $100. Targeting a diverse audience, including millennials, seniors, and residents of developing countries, the platform aims to unlock the potential of approximately $3 trillion in untapped capital. Utilizing blockchain technology, REITIUM simplifies the investment process by eliminating traditional barriers, enabling users to securely invest in global real estate assets. Users can easily create an account, fund their wallets, browse available properties, and enjoy the benefits of fractional ownership, which includes sharing in rental income and property appreciation. This innovative approach allows investors to grow their wealth and provides the flexibility to sell their investments at any time.
Stelor
Non Equity Assistance in 2024
Stelor is a technology company that specializes in providing condominium managers and boards with a comprehensive capital replacement management platform. This platform offers data analysis tools, reporting, and predictive forecasting capabilities, enabling users to maintain accurate budgets, avoid special assessments, and optimize reserve fund fees.
Bidmii
Non Equity Assistance in 2024
Bidmii is an online platform designed to simplify the process of hiring contractors for home improvement projects. It connects homeowners with reliable and qualified contractors, facilitating seamless project management from bidding to payment. The platform allows users to create project listings, enabling contractors to submit bids that homeowners can compare to select the most suitable option. By providing features such as fair market pricing and payment security, Bidmii enhances transparency and trust in the home services marketplace, ultimately saving time and money for both homeowners and contractors.
VoiceFlip
Non Equity Assistance in 2024
VoiceFlip offers a unified SaaS solution enabling online merchants to sell products via Google Assistant, Alexa, Siri, and Cortana. It simplifies voice integration for merchants by providing a single implementation across all digital assistants and devices.
Unlock Technologies specializes in providing homeowners with innovative solutions to access their home equity without the burdens of traditional loans or mortgages. The company's primary offering, Home Equity Agreements, allows homeowners to receive cash in exchange for a share of the future value of their property. This financial product eliminates the need for monthly payments or interest, as repayment occurs when the homeowner sells their property or the agreement reaches its predetermined term. By facilitating these transactions, Unlock enables individuals to address various financial needs, such as paying off debts or financing home improvements and education. Through this approach, the company seeks to empower homeowners to unlock the value of their properties in a more flexible and accessible manner.
Finclude is a company that has developed a pan-European credit scoring system aimed at enabling businesses to evaluate consumers' creditworthiness based on their transactional behavior, irrespective of their credit history. The platform aggregates and interprets transactional data from various banks, allowing for a comprehensive assessment of an individual's affordability and creditworthiness. This innovative approach assists customers in making informed credit decisions by providing a clearer view of potential borrowers' financial behaviors and capabilities. Finclude's solution addresses the limitations of traditional credit scoring methods, thereby expanding access to credit for a broader range of individuals.
Dwellwell Analytics
Venture Round in 2023
Dwellwell Analytics delivers a technology-driven proptech platform that integrates sensor networks and analytics to support residential property maintenance. Its system monitors critical building systems—HVAC, plumbing, and electrical—through a network of sensors and provides whole-home analysis and alerts to property managers. This enables proactive and predictive maintenance across portfolios of single-family rentals and multi-family buildings, allowing operators to address small issues before they escalate, improve uptime, reduce repair costs, and optimize overall property performance.
Work & Mother
Venture Round in 2023
Work & Mother provides lactation suites in commercial buildings and a supportive app for working mothers. These suites offer hospital-grade equipment, cleaning services, refrigeration, and additional resources via the app, helping employers meet legal obligations and promoting workplace wellbeing.
Rockport
Venture Round in 2023
Rockport is a software company specializing in Commercial Real Estate (CRE) lending management solutions. Its primary product is a Software as a Service (SaaS) platform designed for loan origination and asset management. The system provides tools for organizing and analyzing client information, including integrated modeling, real-time reporting, and data visualization. It offers features such as a centralized repository for deal documents, ad hoc reporting, Excel integrations, customizable chart of accounts, robust security protocols, user-defined fields for workflow integration, and comprehensive audit trails to ensure compliance. These capabilities enable commercial real estate lenders to manage their lending and asset management processes more efficiently.
Flock Homes
Venture Round in 2023
Flock Homes converts individual rental properties into fully-passive, diversified shares in a pool of houses. Flock helps rental property owners retire from being landlords. The company offers low-cost, tax-advantaged, hassle-free way to get and keep all the benefits of owning rental properties without any of the burdens. The company was founded in 2020 and is headquartered in Denver, Colorado.
Fortress
Venture Round in 2023
Fortress is a core property management software. We provide real-time transparency into property performance with a user-friendly interface. Fortress revolutionizes property management with its real-time data & KPIs. Experience a new level of success managing leads, applications, renewals, move-ins/move-outs, final account statements, delinquency notices, lease expirations, tenant screenings, work orders and more. Learn more about Fortress by visiting www.FortressTech.io.
APM Help
Seed Round in 2023
APM Help is a specialized consulting firm dedicated to serving the property management industry. The company focuses on providing expert support for users of AppFolio and Propertyware, offering on-demand consulting, daily bank reconciliations, and full-time bookkeeping services. By enhancing the accuracy and efficiency of financial operations, APM Help enables property managers to streamline their processes, allowing them to concentrate on other critical areas of their business. Through its tailored services, APM Help aims to improve overall financial management for its clients.
Tongo
Venture Round in 2023
Tongo is a financial services company that provides real estate agents with quick access to their commission income through an innovative online platform. By utilizing factoring, Tongo enables its clients to receive payment for confirmed reservations almost instantly, allowing them to manage their cash flow effectively. This service is particularly beneficial for agents who need to cover everyday expenses or handle unexpected financial emergencies while under contract. Through its streamlined approach, Tongo addresses the common challenges faced by commission-based workers, ensuring they have timely access to the funds they need.
BlueStreak
Venture Round in 2023
BlueStreak offers commercial Internet of Things framework. It is at the epicenter of data from sensors, devices, networks, and software, which work together to offer useful, actionable data and automate important operations in retail, hotel, entertainment, health, fitness, real estate, and other commercial places.
Plus Platform
Seed Round in 2023
Plus Platform develops an asset management and trading platform for the mortgage market, standardizing and maintaining data continuity across the life of a loan and providing permitted access to loan data, information, and files. The platform enables investors to connect with vendors in a standardized format and supports portfolio management and smoother transactions through a modern architecture and Smart Loan technology, enhancing data quality, transparency, and efficiency for market participants.
Prisidio
Venture Round in 2023
Prisidio is a life organizer that offers a secure platform for storing, managing, and sharing important documents and information. The company provides a private and secure cloud digital vault, designed to help users take control of their vital information in an increasingly complex digital landscape. With a user-friendly interface and a mobile app, Prisidio enables individuals to organize their affairs for various purposes, including retirement planning, business ventures, estate management, and preparation for unforeseen life events. The emphasis on security ensures that users can confidently manage their personal information while easily sharing it with trusted individuals when necessary.
Real Grader
Venture Round in 2023
RealGrader is a platform that helps professionals enhance their digital identity across Google, social media, and professional networking sites. It offers services such as INSTACARD, profile setup optimization, and managed social media marketing. With over 70,000 users and 5,500 monthly paying subscribers, RealGrader aims to empower professionals to become influencers in their respective fields by improving their online presence.
HighNote
Seed Round in 2023
HighNote is a new tool designed for agents that beautifully markets their brand and helps people get more business. They build tools because they can't find the correct ones. With hard-won industry knowledge, as sales and marketing professionals, as business owners and managers, and from personally engaging with field personnel.
Leni
Pre Seed Round in 2023
Leni is an AI-powered reporting and portfolio intelligence system for real estate asset owners and operators. We streamline data aggregation to provide transparent reporting and actionable insights via proprietary AI models. This helps real estate teams make data-driven decisions and attain portfolio targets.
We are the first in the sector to launch a patent-pending universal data model that paves the way for vertical AI agents and unique industry-specific models to be built and run across the industry.
Courted
Seed Round in 2022
Courted is a professional network for residential real estate helping agents connect with one another to grow their business through data-driven marketing and referral generation. With Courted, agents can stay informed about data and trends, find mentorship, power cross-market referrals, and connect with other agents in an automated way.
B-Line
Pre Seed Round in 2022
B-Line is a mobility survey platform that assists environmental consultants and organizations in collecting occupant mobility data to enhance the health of building occupants and support green building certifications. By utilizing mobile devices, B-Line passively gathers users’ mobility patterns, providing real-time transportation reports that include trip details such as time, duration, distance, purpose, and mode, along with assessments of environmental and health impacts. This data enables real estate developers and property managers to better understand how individuals navigate their environments without the need for costly automated traffic counters or self-reported travel surveys. Additionally, B-Line integrates with existing building controls to optimize asset management, access control, energy management, and occupant experience across various sectors, including commercial, hospitality, and healthcare.
HonestDoor
Seed Round in 2022
HonestDoor Inc. is a Canadian company based in Edmonton that operates a real estate website aimed at facilitating the buying and selling of properties. Incorporated in 2017, the company utilizes advanced big data and predictive analytics to provide users with estimated values of homes. Its platform enhances transparency in the real estate market by offering a range of data, including selling prices, neighborhood growth rates, annual property taxes, permit information, and transaction histories. Additionally, HonestDoor employs a machine learning valuation model that delivers daily updated price estimates for properties. This comprehensive approach enables buyers and sellers to engage in real estate transactions with confidence, minimizing the risks of overpricing or underpricing.
Roomvu
Convertible Note in 2021
Roomvu is a company that specializes in automated video marketing solutions tailored for real estate professionals. The platform leverages artificial intelligence to create, publish, and post unique videos on realtors' social media channels, integrating trending topics with individual brand identities to generate leads. Roomvu also offers eye-catching video ads specifically designed for Facebook Ads, helping agents reach potential clients they might otherwise miss. The company's services include automated social media marketing, email marketing, CRM integration, and digital ads, all aimed at enhancing real estate professionals' online presence and lead capture capabilities. Roomvu has been featured in prominent publications such as Inman News, TechCrunch, Forbes, and Yahoo News, and is backed by the National Association of Realtors’ Second Century Ventures.
Super Home Inc. offers a subscription-based service designed to assist homeowners with care and repair for their properties. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, the company serves members in Washington, DC, and Maryland. Super provides coverage for repairs and replacements of appliances and home systems that experience breakdowns. Users can conveniently access services through various devices, including desktop and mobile platforms. Additionally, Super's maintenance schedule helps homeowners understand their property's needs, ensuring they receive timely assistance without incurring high costs.
Parkbench
Funding Round in 2020
Parkbench operates a network of hyper-local neighborhood websites that offer resources to community members. Its platform enables users to find and post local events, deals, news, and real estate information about their neighborhoods, fostering stronger relationships between locals and professionals.
Clik.ai
Funding Round in 2020
Clik.ai is an AI-powered automated underwriting platform specifically designed for commercial real estate brokers and lenders. The company offers a cloud-based software solution that streamlines deal valuations and transaction due diligence, significantly increasing efficiency by enabling users to operate at five times the speed. Through its machine learning-based document extraction technology, Clik.ai automates the mortgage valuation process, allowing brokers and lenders to originate and underwrite loans more quickly and effectively. This innovative platform serves as a comprehensive tool for professionals in the real estate industry, enhancing their operational capabilities and improving overall workflow.
Local Logic
Funding Round in 2020
Local Logic is a location intelligence platform based in Montreal, Quebec, that focuses on digitizing the built environment to make location data understandable and actionable for various stakeholders, including consumers, investors, developers, and governments. The platform harnesses artificial intelligence, geospatial data, and user-generated information to offer insights into lifestyle and location characteristics. With proprietary insights derived from over 75 billion data points, Local Logic provides predictive and precise analytics that inform decision-making in the real estate sector, which impacts the vast real estate market in the US and Canada. The company's services cater to commercial real estate, urban planning, and other location-based industries, assisting major developers and investors in shaping sustainable and equitable urban environments.
Setter
Funding Round in 2020
Setter Inc. is a Toronto-based company founded in 2016 that specializes in connecting homeowners with personal home managers through its application. The platform enables users to easily book a variety of home maintenance and repair services, including window cleaning, landscaping, furnace installation, and countertop replacement. By providing personalized recommendations and managing all aspects of home improvement, Setter aims to simplify the process of maintaining and enhancing residential properties. As of November 2020, Setter operates as a subsidiary of Thumbtack, Inc., further expanding its reach in the professional services market.
HonestDoor
Funding Round in 2020
HonestDoor Inc. is a Canadian company based in Edmonton that operates a real estate website aimed at facilitating the buying and selling of properties. Incorporated in 2017, the company utilizes advanced big data and predictive analytics to provide users with estimated values of homes. Its platform enhances transparency in the real estate market by offering a range of data, including selling prices, neighborhood growth rates, annual property taxes, permit information, and transaction histories. Additionally, HonestDoor employs a machine learning valuation model that delivers daily updated price estimates for properties. This comprehensive approach enables buyers and sellers to engage in real estate transactions with confidence, minimizing the risks of overpricing or underpricing.
letus (previously RentMoola)
Funding Round in 2020
letus is the leading online payment platform that empowers customers to take control of their finances through a simple, integrated and secure solution powered by a world-class ecosystem of partners. With flexible rent options, credit reporting, and 360-degree payment methods, letus is innovating the rental industry by providing tenants with choices on how they pay rent and ensuring that landlords get paid on time and in full, regardless of payment method, all reconciled on one digital dashboard. We empower renters to better balance their pay checks and work towards their goal of Home-Ownership, while landlords secure increased returns through predictable and scalable on-time revenue streams.
Keyliving
Funding Round in 2020
Keyliving is the operator and owner of a co-equity homeownership platform designed to assist clients in affordably purchasing homes. The company's platform makes condo ownership accessible and provides monthly liquidity without a long-term commitment, a land transfer tax, or a personal mortgage, giving users the chance to accumulate equity and ownership while enjoying the freedom of renting.
Energy-Producing Retail Realty
Funding Round in 2020
Energy-Producing Retail Realty focuses on deploying clean and renewable energy technologies on commercial buildings through the acquisition, development, and management of energy-producing retail real estate, while providing distributed energy services that align the interests of property owners, tenants, and lenders. The company accelerates cleantech deployment on existing buildings, enabling commercial real estate owners to leverage energy technologies without upfront capital and to access discounted clean energy without ownership obligations.
Kangaroo, established in 2018 with headquarters in New York, specializes in affordable, user-friendly home security systems. The company offers app-enabled, self-contained alarm devices that promptly notify users and authorities of potential intrusions, ensuring home safety and privacy. Kangaroo's commitment extends to robust data security measures, aiming to make homes safer worldwide.
Leasera
Funding Round in 2020
Leasera is a cloud-based property management platform that integrates long-term rental services with on-demand offerings and lifestyle benefits, such as ride-sharing and hotel accommodations. The platform enhances the efficiency of property management by automating various rental processes, thereby improving operational metrics for property owners while increasing tenant retention. Renters benefit from a user-friendly system that provides direct access to essential documents, rent payment options, and a range of services tailored to support their lifestyle. By fostering a high-value ecosystem that connects property managers, renters, and service partners, Leasera aims to create a seamless experience that promotes loyalty and enhances overall satisfaction in the rental market.
Dealius
Funding Round in 2020
Dealius is a technology company that develops a brokerage management platform specifically tailored for commercial real estate firms. By collaborating with brokers, owners, managers, and administrators, Dealius aims to automate and streamline the transaction process and broker management. Its platform offers features that track lease renewals, receivables, and production, while also setting production goals and managing listings and deal flow. This enables users to customize their workflows, enhancing efficiency in the evolving real estate industry where technology plays an increasingly vital role.
CartoFront
Funding Round in 2020
CartoFront, Inc., founded in 2015 and based in Evanston, Illinois, operates a real estate technology platform that facilitates brokerage into real estate investment and lending. The company specializes in identifying large real estate opportunities related to disasters, such as providing flood insurance. Additionally, CartoFront has developed an industry-changing search engine for residential and commercial real estate opportunities. Their software simplifies the process of obtaining flood insurance for realtors by using API-based technology, making it efficient and profitable for insurance providers to offer property and casualty insurance to homeowners. This includes risk scoring and educational resources on flood risks and insurance.
Transactly
Funding Round in 2020
Transactly is a real estate technology platform founded in 2018 and based in St. Charles, Missouri. It focuses on organizing and coordinating the closing process of real estate transactions across the United States. As the first tech-enabled transaction coordinator service, Transactly provides customers with a dedicated coordinator backed by a comprehensive support team. The platform aims to streamline real estate transactions for home buyers and sellers, enhancing transparency and efficiency. By managing the various tasks involved in the transaction process, Transactly enables real estate professionals, such as brokers and agents, to improve their service offerings and increase their revenue potential.
Ylopo
Funding Round in 2020
Ylopo is a real estate marketing platform that offers a comprehensive solution designed to facilitate the home buying process for mortgage lenders and consumers. By integrating advanced machine learning and data mining technologies, Ylopo's platform predicts and recommends properties tailored to the preferences of potential buyers. This innovative approach allows lead generators to streamline their search efforts, ultimately saving time and enhancing efficiency. Ylopo's team consists of skilled entrepreneurs, digital marketers, and technologists dedicated to creating an exceptional consumer home search experience, fostering meaningful relationships between clients and their customers in the real estate market.
Modus
Funding Round in 2020
Modus is a home closing technology company that enhances the real estate transaction experience for both clients and agents. With a combined 65 years of experience, Modus utilizes innovative technology to streamline the home closing process. The platform offers personalized task lists and electronic deposits, allowing clients to delegate manual data entry and minimize delays associated with home closings. This approach prioritizes security, clarity, and an improved client experience, ensuring a seamless transition throughout the entire closing process.
PunchListUSA
Funding Round in 2020
PunchListUSA is the first online real estate platform digitizing national home inspection data to create instant repair estimates and online service orders for homeowners, brokers, and institutional investors. The platform is powered by proprietary technology and property data to deliver home repair, renovation and lifecycle services at scale through innovative products, process automation and direct integration with industry partners. Exclusive inspection data access will power end-to-end home lifecycle services and product offerings to homeowners through the PunchListUSA marketplace in its next phase of growth.
Uxtrata
Funding Round in 2019
Uxtrata is a technology company that specializes in providing a SaaS-based platform for strata and rental property managers. The company's solutions enable users to efficiently scan, create, organize, store, manage, and distribute essential documents, thereby streamlining operations and reducing costs. Uxtrata's comprehensive approach covers the entire real estate industry, focusing on enhancing the capabilities of body corporate and strata management-related businesses through data-driven technology. By leveraging innovative tools, Uxtrata helps property managers elevate their operational efficiency and improve service delivery.
UbiPark
Funding Round in 2019
UbiPark is a developer of a digital platform that enhances the parking experience for motorists by simplifying the search for available parking spaces. The company's application offers features such as functional navigation, car park access, and payment processing, enabling users to efficiently locate and navigate to parking spots while avoiding common parking challenges. By providing tailored white-label parking solutions, UbiPark aims to contribute to smarter mobility and reduce traffic congestion, empowering individuals to travel more efficiently.
Sorted
Funding Round in 2019
A unified platform for real estate practitioners, landlords and householders to work together.
Pam Wayfindingis a cloud-based smart navigation platform designed to simplify wayfinding. The company's platform offers powerful customer experiences, seamlessly connecting visitors with events and brands in real-time, enabling users to get a personalized journey using dynamic routing, transport, and parking to create a more pleasurable, productive, and profitable precinct.
Twofold Spaces
Seed Round in 2019
Twofold Spaces is a manufacturer specializing in configurable furniture solutions designed to optimize limited workspaces in both office and home environments. Founded to address the challenges posed by increasingly crowded living and working conditions, the company provides mobile, flexible designs that cater to the evolving needs of the modern workforce, particularly in the context of the post-Covid landscape. Its products aim to enhance the functionality and safety of spaces, allowing for seamless adaptation to varying work scenarios. Based in Portland, Oregon, Twofold Spaces focuses on delivering solutions that enable companies and individuals to utilize their available areas effectively, supporting the shift towards hybrid work models.
Coeo Space
Funding Round in 2019
Coeo Space, LLC, founded in 2019 and based in Warrendale, Pennsylvania, offers move-in ready workspaces tailored for a diverse clientele including entrepreneurs, freelancers, startups, artists, small businesses, and large corporations. The company specializes in providing co-working spaces, sublease spaces, and landlord spec suits. Coeo Space utilizes an open data technology platform with scientific algorithms to quickly match users with suitable workspaces based on criteria such as team size, monthly budget, and property amenities. With a presence in over 188 US markets, the company is recognized for its innovative approach and is part of the National Association of Realtors' REach Commercial Accelerator Program.
CRE Simple
Funding Round in 2019
CRE Simple, Inc. is a financial services company based in San Francisco, California, that specializes in providing a cloud-based lending platform designed to streamline access to capital for commercial real estate transactions. Incorporated in 2016, the company offers its OneSource platform, which serves as an intelligent collaboration and workflow solution that connects various participants in the commercial real estate finance ecosystem. By leveraging advanced data services and artificial intelligence, CRE Simple enhances the borrowing experience, delivering speed, transparency, and certainty while simplifying a traditionally complex and error-prone process. The platform integrates seamlessly with brokerage, tenant, and capital partners, offering a next-generation capital solution tailored for the commercial real estate market.
LulaFit
Venture Round in 2019
LulaFit is a national leader in modern wellness amenity services, technology, and management. It partners with leading organizations and real estate communities to create cultures and spaces that support physical, social, and mental well-being, with the result of increased retention, higher engagement, and healthier, happier people.
Trove
Funding Round in 2019
Trove offers the amenities of a hotel while offering the comforts of home.Theri services include consulting on location, consulting on design, procurement and setup, ffe inventory management, professional photography, listing development, guest screening, noise management, branding and signage, financial reporting, and housekeeping.
Biproxi
Seed Round in 2019
Founded in 2018, Biproxi operates an online marketplace for commercial real estate transactions. Its platform connects brokers, buyers, and tenants, facilitating the discovery of listings, offer submission, and deal closure.
RateMyAgent
Venture Round in 2019
RateMyAgent is an online marketing platform for real estate agents that provides a real estate review, ratings, and statistics service. It offers recommendations, rankings, and reviews for agents and supplies data on residential property sales. The platform supports activities across sales, leasing, and mortgage broking and operates in the United States, Australia, and New Zealand, with a key revenue focus in Australia. Revenue is generated from subscriptions and promotional services.
Staging & Design Network
Funding Round in 2019
Staging & Design Network is an innovative online marketplace tailored for the home staging and interior design community. It has established the first shared rental pool for home furnishings, addressing the critical need for sufficient inventory in real estate staging, which can enhance home sale prices by up to 18% and significantly reduce time on the market. The platform allows members to store their unused furniture, generating rental and sales income while enabling efficient inventory tracking and automated accounting. In addition to facilitating revenue sharing among members, the network offers professional design assistance, a service directory, rental insurance, and white glove delivery and setup. This comprehensive approach not only enhances the profitability of home stagers, interior designers, builders, and realtors but also positions Staging & Design Network to capitalize on a substantial market opportunity estimated at $140 billion.
Amarki
Funding Round in 2019
Amarki is an automated marketing platform specifically designed for real estate professionals. It aims to optimize marketing efforts by consolidating various systems into a single, user-friendly interface. The platform significantly reduces marketing time while enhancing the quality and compliance of promotional materials. Amarki's solution enables real estate agents to efficiently track, monitor, create, and distribute marketing campaigns, ultimately increasing agent productivity and reducing overall costs.
Curbio
Funding Round in 2019
Curbio Inc. is a home renovation service provider based in Potomac, Maryland. Founded in 2017, the company specializes in pre-sale home renovations designed to assist real estate agents and homeowners in preparing properties for sale. Curbio leverages technology to enhance the home improvement process, offering features such as virtual estimates and automated communication, which streamline project management. By partnering with real estate agents, Curbio delivers a hassle-free experience aimed at ensuring homes are market-ready and sold quickly. The company employs a unique pay-at-closing model, allowing homeowners to manage costs effectively while preparing their homes for listing. Originally established as MaxSalePrice, Inc., Curbio rebranded in October 2018 to better reflect its focus on the real estate market.
Kleard
Funding Round in 2019
Kleard is a safety and productivity app that provides real-time verification for open houses and showings.
Consortia
Funding Round in 2019
Consortia is a company that specializes in enhancing the real estate referral process through innovative technology. It has developed a blockchain platform that tracks real estate referrals comprehensively, ensuring transparency and accountability from initiation to completion. The platform utilizes a blockchain title token to monitor all relationships related to a property, which includes features such as geolocation. This technology allows stakeholders to verify property scores based on privately shared documentation and information provided by property owners, as well as to catch referrals before any funds are disbursed. By streamlining these processes, Consortia aims to improve efficiency and reduce risks in real estate transactions.
REConsortia
Funding Round in 2019
REConsortia is the sole NFT and training solution run by an investment banker, real estate broker, and mortgage loan originator who is registered with the SEC. To safeguard the sector, they concentrate on SEC regulations, RESPA, and good-funds laws. a crowdsourced referral network that fosters professionalism, increases openness, and improves the client experience.
Kleard
Funding Round in 2019
Kleard is a Seattle-based company that offers a real estate application designed to enhance safety and efficiency for agents during showings and open houses. Founded in 2017 by Jonathan Martis, the app provides a fully integrated cloud-based solution that allows agents to verify visitors in real-time. By quickly confirming a buyer's contact information and linking it to their mobile device, Kleard enables agents to track visitor attendance, ensuring a safety layer is in place. This feature not only enhances security but also promotes agent productivity through an effective lead follow-up system.
Goby
Venture Round in 2019
Goby Inc. is a Chicago-based company that specializes in cloud-based enterprise data management, focusing on accounts payable automation and environmental, social, and governance (ESG) solutions. Founded in 2008, Goby’s platform streamlines the collection of invoices from online accounts, applying real-time data validations to minimize errors. The company also provides strategic sustainability consulting, sustainability reporting, energy management, and services for utility bill auditing, analysis, and tariff optimization. Goby's comprehensive platform aids organizations in establishing, monitoring, and communicating their ESG initiatives, ultimately supporting sustainable growth while mitigating enterprise risk.
Elmspring Accelerator
Acquisition in 2018
Elmspring Accelerator partners with start-ups offering innovative solutions in the Real Estate industry, particularly in brokerage, housing, mapping, leasing, property management, and construction/design. The three-month program, located at 1871, provides seed funding, mentorship, office space, marketing support, and industry connections. Ideal candidates are early-stage companies with disruptive technologies and a strong leadership team. Applications are accepted annually for scheduled sessions.
Glide Labs, Inc. specializes in developing software solutions for real estate disclosure forms, enabling users to efficiently prepare essential documents such as the TDS, SPQ, and AVID through a user-friendly online interface. Founded in 2017 and based in San Francisco, California, Glide employs advanced wizard technology to gather information from clients, facilitating the generation of documents, triggering of workflows, and updates to various systems. The company's software streamlines transaction coordination for real estate professionals by automating paperwork, monitoring status, and integrating with service providers. This approach offers a guided, TurboTax-style experience for both real estate agents and consumers, significantly reducing the risks associated with traditional PDF and paper-based methods while enhancing the overall convenience and efficiency of real estate transactions.
BoxBrownie.com
Funding Round in 2018
BoxBrownie.com is an online platform that specializes in digital image editing services, catering to a diverse clientele that includes real estate agents, developers, photographers, and online retailers. Based on the Sunshine Coast in Australia, BoxBrownie.com boasts a global team of experts who ensure a guaranteed 24-hour turnaround for their services. The company offers a variety of photo enhancement options, such as transforming external property images from day to dusk, adding virtual furniture to enhance interior spaces, redrawing floor plans, and removing unwanted elements from photos. These capabilities enable businesses, particularly in real estate, to elevate their property marketing presentations while maintaining competitive pricing. Additionally, BoxBrownie.com provides CGI rendering services that help showcase conceptual product ideas and create visually appealing images for online retail.
Hurdlr
Funding Round in 2018
Hurdlr develops software that tracks mileage, expenses, income streams, and tax deductions in real time, helping self-employed professionals manage finances and tax obligations. The platform automatically records business activity, generates insights and reports, and consolidates income streams in one place, enabling users to track expenses and deductions while monitoring taxes owed and when to pay. It can send tax filing and reporting information to a CPA. The company was founded in 2011 and is based in Bethesda, Maryland.
Connect Now
Funding Round in 2018
Connect Now is a Boston-based technology company established in 2015. It specializes in developing and operating real-time lead routing platforms for the real estate industry. The company's flagship product, Connect Now, intelligently distributes leads from brokerages and web providers to agents in real time via its mobile application. This platform facilitates immediate, personalized conversations between agents and consumers, enhancing lead qualification and follow-up processes. Connect Now also offers sales engagement technology that sits between lead generators and customer relationship management systems (CRMs), helping brokerages maximize the value of their inbound leads.
RealKey
Funding Round in 2018
RealKey, Inc. is a technology company based in San Francisco, California, that specializes in digital mortgage technologies. Founded in 2015, RealKey has developed a platform that enhances the mortgage processing experience for both bank and non-bank mortgage loan originators (MLOs). By addressing inefficiencies in traditional systems, the RealKey Digital Mortgage Platform streamlines the collection and review of documents, facilitating secure communication among all parties involved. The platform employs AI algorithms to accommodate various loan types and organize essential information for underwriters, allowing for cleaner approvals with reduced effort. This innovation significantly shortens the loan processing cycle by approximately 50%, enabling MLOs to close more loans efficiently, which is particularly vital amid increased interest rates and a challenging lending environment. RealKey's software integrates smoothly with existing point-of-sale and loan origination systems, creating a comprehensive digital mortgage processing experience for lenders, brokers, and their clients.
Quigler
Funding Round in 2018
Founded in 2015, Quigler is a SaaS platform that streamlines real estate transactions by providing consumers with transparency, accountability, and real-time communication from their agents. Its compliance checklist tool helps agents manage tasks efficiently while ensuring consumers are informed throughout the process.
ActivePipe Group
Funding Round in 2018
ActivePipe Group is a developer of a cloud-based email marketing platform specifically designed for real estate agents and brokers. The platform leverages artificial intelligence to enhance marketing automation and data analytics, enabling users to maintain communication with potential clients more effectively. By automating the outreach process, ActivePipe helps agents eliminate cold calls and engage in more meaningful conversations, ultimately facilitating more successful transactions. Its predictive capabilities identify clients most likely to enter into a transaction and alert agents to potential opportunities within their database, streamlining the sales process and improving overall efficiency in client interactions.
Zavvie
Funding Round in 2018
Zavvie is a real estate technology company that provides a marketplace platform for brokerages to offer a range of buying and selling options while keeping agents at the center of every transaction. The platform enables brokerages to create a core service, unlock listings, and generate revenue by hosting an integrated set of tools for buyers, sellers, and agents. It uses artificial intelligence to support mortgage companies, brokerages, real estate agents, and loan officers with services such as a cash offer program, bridge financing, and an options marketplace. By consolidating these capabilities, Zavvie helps brokers improve listing conversion, attract new sellers, and expand market share through a more streamlined homebuying and selling process.
Trusted Mail
Funding Round in 2017
Trusted Mail Inc., established in 2017 and headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, specializes in developing software for secure email communication. Its core product employs facial-biometrics technology to sign and decrypt emails, ensuring enhanced security through dual-factor authentication: users must first authenticate via facial recognition before sending an email, and recipients require either possession of a private key or successful facial-biometric verification to access the content.
Centriq Technology
Funding Round in 2017
Centriq Technology is a provider of a home management platform that aggregates manufacturers’ manuals, parts, maintenance schedules, troubleshooting guides, spec sheets, and how-to videos for appliances, building systems, and electronics, accessible to homeowners via a smartphone and also offered to professionals such as realtors, contractors, and insurers. The platform enables cataloging and retrieval of product information, maintenance alerts, and digital receipts, and supports locating and ordering spare parts. Founded in 2015, Centriq is headquartered in Mill Valley, California.
HouseCanary
Funding Round in 2017
HouseCanary, Inc. is a technology company that operates an online data platform focused on providing home valuations, forecasts, and market analytics specifically for the residential real estate sector. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, with additional offices in San Antonio, Texas, and Boulder, Colorado, HouseCanary's platform offers a range of services including mortgage leads, valuation reports, and a specialized tool for appraisers to generate necessary documentation and analyses at property sites. By leveraging extensive historical data and proprietary analytics, the company delivers actionable insights to its users, which include Fortune 100 banks, homebuilders, and real estate professionals. Additionally, HouseCanary provides an Analytics API that allows users to integrate detailed market data into their enterprise systems and workflows, thereby enhancing decision-making in buying and selling properties.
Adwerx
Funding Round in 2017
Adwerx, Inc. is a digital advertising automation platform based in Durham, North Carolina, that specializes in localized advertising services for real estate, mortgage, insurance, and wealth management sectors. Founded in 2013, the company offers personalized and hyper-targeted marketing solutions that are scalable for businesses of all sizes, from individual agents to large enterprises. Adwerx's platform simplifies online advertising by providing tools that help clients identify potential customers and effectively promote listings, whether new or existing. As a trusted partner to thousands of firms, Adwerx empowers its clients to reach new audiences and nurture relationships, helping them stay competitive in their respective markets.
Relola
Funding Round in 2017
Relola, Inc., founded in 2014 and headquartered in Emeryville, California, specializes in location-based enterprise solutions that empower organizations to effectively manage and disseminate organic content generated by their networks. This innovative platform enables users to capture and share information in real-time, regardless of location, enhancing visibility across various enterprise initiatives. Relola's technology has garnered recognition, including being named a technology innovator by the National Association of Realtors® REach accelerator and selection for Oracle's Global Scale-up Accelerator. The company serves a diverse clientele, including both for-profit and non-profit organizations such as Streetlight Data, Arthrex, and the James Beard Foundation. Relola provides white-labeled collaboration tools that integrate seamlessly into existing websites and applications, offering engaging content visualization and access to extensive data resources. With a dedicated team experienced in scaling businesses, Relola continues to develop solutions that boost online engagement and support a range of projects across multiple industries.
Proof
Funding Round in 2017
Proof operates as a technology company specializing in secure digital transactions. It provides an identity-assured transaction management platform that verifies the identities of individuals engaging in online business dealings. By confirming identities and securing transactions, Proof helps protect both businesses and their customers from fraudulent activities, fostering trust in digital environments.
Occly
Funding Round in 2017
Occly LLC designs and manufactures wearable personal safety devices for individual and commercial use. Their flagship product, Occly, is equipped with a panic button, four cameras offering near-360° coverage, sirens, microphone, LED lighting, wireless capabilities, and automatic alarm sensors. When activated, it triggers audible and visual alerts while recording images and audio, transmitting real-time data to a 24/7 emergency response center. Occly's trained staff assesses emergencies, assists users, and dispatches local authorities as needed. Founded in 2015, the company is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.
Immoviewer
Funding Round in 2017
Immoviewer is a software company that provides a virtual reality‑powered platform for real estate professionals. Its solution automatically generates 360° virtual tours, video content, and floor plans from a property listing feed, allowing agents to create interactive, high‑quality tours in minutes. The platform is designed to be affordable, scalable, and easy to use, and it protects residents’ privacy in rental properties. Immoviewer’s tools help agents attract buyers and sellers by offering immersive experiences that streamline the property‑marketing process. The company was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Wilmington, Delaware.
RealScout
Funding Round in 2016
RealScout is a real estate technology company that develops and operates a web and mobile platform enabling real estate agents and their clients to collaborate on home searches. Its platform provides listing alerts and data-driven search capabilities to help users identify suitable properties, while BrokerIQ adds brokerage-level insights drawn from collaborative search activity. The company serves real estate professionals and brokerages across the United States, delivering real-time market insights, buyer data tools, and opportunities for marketing effectiveness and client retention.
VA Loan Captain
Funding Round in 2016
VA Loan Captain is a service-disabled veteran-owned business based in New Jersey. It operates VALoanCaptain.com, a platform offering housing assistance, benefits information, education resources, and services tailored for current and former military personnel. The company partners with veteran-focused non-profits but is not affiliated with the VA or any government agency.
HomeDiary
Funding Round in 2016
HomeDiary enables homeowners to visualize their homes in 3D, manage inventory, document maintenance, track improvements, and plan future projects. It also offers real estate agents a tool to maintain client relationships by providing relevant, up-to-date information about clients' properties.
FLIPT
Funding Round in 2016
FLIPT is a technology company that operates an artificial intelligence platform designed to facilitate connections between home sellers and local real estate professionals. By leveraging housing and social data, FLIPT enhances the transparency and efficiency of the real estate selling process. The platform allows real estate agents to engage with investors in their area, helping them to discover deals and share insights that can attract potential clients. Additionally, FLIPT assists investors in closing property transactions, thereby streamlining the overall home selling experience.
Zenergyst
Funding Round in 2016
Zenergyst is a company that specializes in mobile real estate and mortgage management solutions. It has developed a comprehensive platform aimed at streamlining online real estate transactions through effective workflow and sales process management. By integrating broker management with real estate transaction systems, Zenergyst enables real estate businesses to efficiently handle their mortgage and real estate workflows, thereby enhancing operational effectiveness and simplifying the transaction process for users.
Sindeo
Funding Round in 2016
Sindeo, Inc. is an online marketplace that facilitates connections between borrowers and lenders, focusing on residential home loans in states including Arizona, California, Colorado, the District of Columbia, Oregon, and Texas. Established in 2013 and based in San Francisco, California, Sindeo aims to modernize the mortgage industry by offering a user-friendly platform that provides tools, information, and support for home buyers and those seeking refinancing. The company distinguishes itself with a transparent process and a low-cost structure, employing unbiased mortgage advisors to guide clients through their mortgage journey. Formerly known as MoneyPark, Inc., Sindeo rebranded in January 2015 to reflect its commitment to transforming the mortgage experience.
BoostUp operates a social saving platform that enables consumers to save towards significant purchases such as cars, homes, weddings, or trips. Users can set daily savings plans and receive contributions from family, friends, and businesses. The platform also offers exclusive purchase offers from partner brands.
Loop & Tie
Funding Round in 2015
Loop & Tie operates a gift management platform that enhances business engagement through personalized gifting solutions. Instead of sending identical gifts to all recipients, companies can select from a diverse collection of gift options tailored to their budget, allowing recipients to choose what they prefer via a branded online interface. This platform streamlines the gifting process and provides valuable engagement insights through an analytics dashboard that tracks recipient selections, thank you notes, and budget metrics. Additionally, businesses can customize gift collections with their own products and experiences, benefiting from Loop & Tie's capabilities in logistics and fulfillment for on-demand storage and shipping. Overall, Loop & Tie aids companies in fostering lasting relationships with customers while optimizing their gifting strategies.
Guard Llama
Funding Round in 2015
Guard Llama is a Chicago-based company founded in 2013 that specializes in personal security solutions for students. The company has developed a GPS-based wireless handheld remote designed to enhance safety by allowing users to quickly alert authorities in emergencies. When activated, the remote communicates with a mobile application on the user's smartphone, transmitting GPS location, a security profile, and relevant personal information to a 24/7 dispatch center that is UL Listed and Federally Certified. This system aims to provide a rapid response in critical situations, ensuring that help is dispatched promptly.
AssetAvenue
Series A in 2015
AssetAvenue, Inc. is a financial services company that operates an online lending platform specifically tailored for real estate investments. Established in 2013 and headquartered in Los Angeles, California, the company connects borrowers and brokers seeking funding with a diverse range of accredited and institutional investors. Its platform offers various fixed income loan options, including bridge loans, cash-out refinancing, discounted payoffs, and special situations, catering to multiple property types such as office, retail, multifamily, industrial, and hospitality. AssetAvenue aims to provide faster and more flexible funding solutions compared to traditional banks, leveraging proprietary data models to enhance transparency and efficiency in the lending process.
August Home
Series B in 2015
August Home Inc. is a technology company that specializes in developing smart home access products, primarily through its flagship offering, the August Smart Lock. Founded in 2012 by designer Yves Behar and technology expert Jason Johnson, the company is headquartered in San Francisco, California. August Home's products utilize encrypted locking technology, allowing users to replace traditional keys with smartphones. This innovation enables homeowners to create virtual keys for various individuals such as house cleaners, dog walkers, and guests, and to manage access durations remotely via smartphones and computers. The company also features August Pro, a division focused on supporting professional smart home installers. August Home operates as a subsidiary of ASSA ABLOY AB, further enhancing its capabilities in the smart home market.
NotaryCam
Debt Financing in 2015
NotaryCam, Inc. is a technology-driven company that offers an electronic notary service, allowing users to legally notarize documents online through a network of Virginia-based notaries. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in Laguna Beach, California, NotaryCam has developed a remote electronic conferencing platform that facilitates real-time collaboration among multiple parties for reviewing, signing, notarizing, recording, and storing transactions from any location globally. The company also provides a Remote Identity Proofing Service, which issues trusted digital identities and secure email addresses for health care providers and consumers. Operating under two patents, NotaryCam aims to modernize the notary process, addressing a substantial market that encompasses approximately 1 billion transactions annually in the United States. As of December 2020, NotaryCam operates as a subsidiary of Stewart Information Services Corporation.
Pro.com is a full-service remodeling general contractor operating in Seattle, Portland, the San Francisco Bay Area, Denver, and Phoenix. The company focuses on enhancing the residential construction experience by combining the expertise of its construction professionals with advanced technology. Pro.com offers a smart pricing software that utilizes a comprehensive database and algorithms to generate accurate, detailed quotes with fixed pricing. This platform also provides mobile-friendly estimates and project management tools, allowing both Pro.com staff and homeowners to monitor project progress. By connecting homeowners with service professionals, Pro.com facilitates the booking and scheduling of home improvement services, ensuring a streamlined process for managing home renovation projects.
Goby Inc. is a Chicago-based company that specializes in cloud-based enterprise data management, focusing on accounts payable automation and environmental, social, and governance (ESG) solutions. Founded in 2008, Goby’s platform streamlines the collection of invoices from online accounts, applying real-time data validations to minimize errors. The company also provides strategic sustainability consulting, sustainability reporting, energy management, and services for utility bill auditing, analysis, and tariff optimization. Goby's comprehensive platform aids organizations in establishing, monitoring, and communicating their ESG initiatives, ultimately supporting sustainable growth while mitigating enterprise risk.
Reach150
Seed Round in 2014
Reach150 Social, Inc. operates an online platform designed to enhance referral management for businesses reliant on relationships. The platform provides a systematic approach for customers to gather and promote recommendations, facilitating brand building and reputation management. Key features include tools for collecting online validations of work, administrative insights into recommendation activity, and capabilities for nurturing relationships through targeted communications. Reach150 enables users to create and manage their professional networks, integrate with social networks, and run promotional campaigns, all aimed at converting visitors into actionable leads. Based in East Palo Alto, California, Reach150 aims to empower businesses by leveraging the trust associated with personal referrals, ultimately helping them to grow and maintain their client base. As of March 2017, Reach150 operates as a subsidiary of SmartZip Analytics, Inc.
SmartZip Analytics is a prominent provider of predictive marketing solutions tailored for the real estate and mortgage lending sectors. The company utilizes innovative predictive analytics and automated marketing tools to transform big data into actionable insights for real estate professionals. Its flagship offering, SmartTargeting, empowers agents by identifying and targeting homeowners most likely to sell in specific neighborhoods across the United States. By focusing on home intelligence and optimizing marketing strategies, SmartZip enhances brand awareness, improves credibility, and facilitates effective lead follow-up for its clients. As a rapidly expanding startup, SmartZip has built a strong team and a comprehensive marketing platform that positions it as a leader in the industry.
WeVideo
Funding Round in 2014
WeVideo, Inc. is a cloud-based video editing platform based in Mountain View, California, with additional locations in Oslo, Norway, and Timi?oara, Romania. Founded in 2011, the company offers a collaborative video editing service that caters to various users, including businesses, educational institutions, nonprofits, and individuals. Its platform allows users to create and share high-quality videos easily, utilizing tools for adding titles, transitions, effects, and music. Accessible from any device through a web browser, the WeVideo editor is designed to be user-friendly for beginners while offering advanced features for experienced editors. The platform ensures secure cloud storage for user content and provides full creative control over final video products. Users can collaborate in real-time, enhancing social video creation and storytelling capabilities. Finished videos can be shared directly on the WeVideo platform or published to various video-sharing sites and social media.
SendHub
Funding Round in 2014
SendHub is a cloud-based communications platform that offers a phone system tailored for the mobile world, eliminating the need for hardware and providing instant setup. Users can obtain a local or toll-free phone number in any area code and use it across various devices, including web browsers, iPhones, Androids, feature phones, and through an API. The service allows businesses to add lines for their entire team at no additional cost, offering transparency and detailed analytics on telecommunication activities. Key features include auto attendant, call transfer, company directory, contact sharing, voicemail transcription, text marketing, group texting, and free internal communication tools.
SmartZip
Venture Round in 2014
SmartZip Analytics is a prominent provider of predictive marketing solutions tailored for the real estate and mortgage lending sectors. The company utilizes innovative predictive analytics and automated marketing tools to transform big data into actionable insights for real estate professionals. Its flagship offering, SmartTargeting, empowers agents by identifying and targeting homeowners most likely to sell in specific neighborhoods across the United States. By focusing on home intelligence and optimizing marketing strategies, SmartZip enhances brand awareness, improves credibility, and facilitates effective lead follow-up for its clients. As a rapidly expanding startup, SmartZip has built a strong team and a comprehensive marketing platform that positions it as a leader in the industry.