RET Ventures

Founded in 2017, RET Ventures is a venture capital firm focused on real estate technology. It invests in innovative startups operating within the multifamily and single-family rental industries. The firm connects these companies with its strategic network of property owners, providing early access to effective tech solutions while helping entrepreneurs scale their businesses.

Jaymie Fung Bingham

Associate

John Helm

Managing Director

Julia Lambert

Associate

James Pearson

Analyst

Aaron Ru

Principal

Past deals in Rental

Tour24

Series B in 2024
Tour24 is a platform that develops, owns, and operates an app-based solution for self-guided touring of multifamily properties. It provides a mobile app that enables prospective renters to tour apartments without a leasing agent, allowing property managers to offer curated self-guided tours and interactive audio-visual experiences. The platform partners with multifamily owners, operators, and prop-tech providers to streamline leasing operations, reduce office traffic, and centralize tour workflows. By enabling tenants to access tours at their own pace, Tour24 aims to save time and costs for property managers while helping renters find a home more independently, ultimately supporting faster leasing.

SuiteSpot

Series A in 2024
SuiteSpot is a real estate technology company that offers a centralized platform aimed at enhancing the management and operation of multifamily rental properties. By automating workflows and optimizing maintenance processes, SuiteSpot facilitates improved communication and operational efficiency for property owners and operators. The platform focuses on digitizing and tracking manual maintenance tasks, which helps streamline unit turnovers and enhances overall visibility into operations. Ultimately, SuiteSpot aims to deliver measurable improvements in Net Operating Income and resident satisfaction, making it a valuable tool for those in the multifamily real estate sector.

Kasa Living

Series C in 2023
Kasa Living is a real estate platform that partners with owners of multifamily and boutique hospitality properties to convert underutilized real estate into professionally managed rentals and hotels. The platform provides online booking for apartments and boutique accommodations, hotel check-in, and property management services aimed at business and leisure travelers. It operates with a network across numerous states in the United States from its base in San Francisco, offering home-like, affordable stays by transforming suitable properties into professionally managed, guest-ready units.

Markerr

Series B in 2023
Markerr provides a data analytics platform for commercial real estate decision making, combining real-time data and data science to support accurate and efficient investment choices. The platform delivers transparent rent estimates, market and property-level data, economic indicators, and population and migration trends across the United States, enabling investors to identify submarkets with growth potential and forecast rental rates. Markerr serves the world's largest investors, owners, and operators of commercial real estate, helping them gain competitive insight and make informed decisions based on location-driven analytics. The company is backed by notable investors, including RET Ventures.

Stake

Series A in 2022
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.

Azibo

Series A in 2022
Founded in 2018, Azibo is a financial services platform dedicated to streamlining rental property management. It offers solutions for rent collection, banking, lending, and insurance, aiming to improve efficiency and reduce administrative burden for small real estate owners.

Turno, formerly TurnoverBnB

Series A in 2021
Turno is an operator of an online platform intended to allow hosts to find local cleaners for their short-term rental cleaning. The company's software allows users to connect with their existing reservation calendars to automatically schedule their cleaners, enabling users to hire and pay housekeepers conveniently.

Markerr

Series A in 2021
Markerr provides a data analytics platform for commercial real estate decision making, combining real-time data and data science to support accurate and efficient investment choices. The platform delivers transparent rent estimates, market and property-level data, economic indicators, and population and migration trends across the United States, enabling investors to identify submarkets with growth potential and forecast rental rates. Markerr serves the world's largest investors, owners, and operators of commercial real estate, helping them gain competitive insight and make informed decisions based on location-driven analytics. The company is backed by notable investors, including RET Ventures.

Kasa Living

Series B in 2020
Kasa Living is a real estate platform that partners with owners of multifamily and boutique hospitality properties to convert underutilized real estate into professionally managed rentals and hotels. The platform provides online booking for apartments and boutique accommodations, hotel check-in, and property management services aimed at business and leisure travelers. It operates with a network across numerous states in the United States from its base in San Francisco, offering home-like, affordable stays by transforming suitable properties into professionally managed, guest-ready units.

Fernish

Series A in 2020
Fernish is a furniture rental startup based in Los Angeles, California, founded in 2017 by Michael Barlow and Lucas Dickey. The company provides furniture and decor rental services through a subscription model, catering to consumers with a mobile lifestyle. Fernish aims to redefine the furniture rental market by positioning itself as a lifestyle brand. It offers a flexible marketplace where customers can rent entire rooms or individual pieces, with the option to swap items as desired. Additionally, Fernish features a rent-to-own program, allowing subscribers to apply their rental payments toward the purchase of furniture at the end of their subscription period. This approach enables customers to enjoy quality furnishings while adapting to their changing needs.

Kasa Living

Series A in 2019
Kasa Living is a real estate platform that partners with owners of multifamily and boutique hospitality properties to convert underutilized real estate into professionally managed rentals and hotels. The platform provides online booking for apartments and boutique accommodations, hotel check-in, and property management services aimed at business and leisure travelers. It operates with a network across numerous states in the United States from its base in San Francisco, offering home-like, affordable stays by transforming suitable properties into professionally managed, guest-ready units.

Fernish

Venture Round in 2019
Fernish is a furniture rental startup based in Los Angeles, California, founded in 2017 by Michael Barlow and Lucas Dickey. The company provides furniture and decor rental services through a subscription model, catering to consumers with a mobile lifestyle. Fernish aims to redefine the furniture rental market by positioning itself as a lifestyle brand. It offers a flexible marketplace where customers can rent entire rooms or individual pieces, with the option to swap items as desired. Additionally, Fernish features a rent-to-own program, allowing subscribers to apply their rental payments toward the purchase of furniture at the end of their subscription period. This approach enables customers to enjoy quality furnishings while adapting to their changing needs.
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